You're right Chesnay, I did a git fetch and I didn't remember that it doesn't update the tag list.. After a git fetch --tags --all I was able to find the tags. It would be nice to add this info into the "build from source" documentation [1]: the page states "This page covers how to build Flink 1.7.2 from sources." but this is not true, unless you move to the right tag. If you follow the listed commands you don't know which version you are building.
Thanks also for the ML pointer. In this case it could be the case to move flink-ml to another repo (IMHO). [1] https://ci.apache.org/projects/flink/flink-docs-release-1.7/flinkDev/building.html Best, Flavio