Dear community, this is the weekly community update thread #49. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.
# Flink 1.7.0 has been released The community has release Flink 1.7.0 [1]. # Flink intro slide set Fabian has refined the slide set for an intro talk about Apache Flink [2]. # External shuffle service The discussion about making Flink's shuffle service pluggable is accelerating [3]. Please chime in if you have suggestions. # Making flink-table Scala-free Timo started a design discussion on how to make flink-table less dependent on Scala [4]. See the corresponding Flip [5] for more information. # Refactor source interface The discussion about Flink's new source interface is very lively. Don't forget to follow the discussion if you don't want to be left behind [6]. # Call for presentations for Flink Forward San Francisco 2019 has been extended The call for presentation for Flink Forward San Francisco 2019 has been extended to December 7, 11:59 PT. Even if there is not much time left, try to submit your proposal! # Support interactive programming in Flink Table API The discussion about interactive programming with Flink's Table API has been progressed [7]. Take a look to stay up to date. # Flink SQL DDL design The Flink SQL DDL design is converging and it should not take much longer until the community can agree on a final design [8]. [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/845b5859dc3ad8f32a3af1e48dcc33fc2a4edcb09b9998cf55a6b20d@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6a4a7381968ae76ce9ee93858885874965bda9b37c2803bfe4ab7505@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ssTu8QE8RnF31zal4JHM1VaVENow-PweUtXSRr68nGg/edit?usp=sharing [4] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c3b2f72520aff8e87b60030b7850c24ecbebf2e692c421d04543e8f9@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [5] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-28%3A+Long-term+goal+of+making+flink-table+Scala-free [6] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/992274ff9f1519f1ef7c9400c91346bea34c53e1b7adc5918d8faa43@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [7] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/8a93d331f69ed9aa2c30dbc7793a3e8803155aa08fdaec71681aa92a@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [8] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/9e8eaa74b391ac21ca7268475e1179e7965ecd6389b8f5bbf9e7d6e2@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E Cheers, Till
