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# 2023 Changelog

### ClickHouse release v22.3.17.13-lts (fcc4de7e805) FIXME as compared to v22.3.16.1190-lts (bb4e0934e5a)

#### Improvement
* Backported in [#45138](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/issues/45138): Allow to use String type instead of Binary in Arrow/Parquet/ORC formats. This PR introduces 3 new settings for it: `output_format_arrow_string_as_string`, `output_format_parquet_string_as_string`, `output_format_orc_string_as_string`. Default value for all settings is `false`. [#37327](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/37327) ([Kruglov Pavel](https://github.com/Avogar)).

#### NOT FOR CHANGELOG / INSIGNIFICANT

* Improve release scripts [#45074](https://github.com/ClickHouse/ClickHouse/pull/45074) ([Mikhail f. Shiryaev](https://github.com/Felixoid)).

