Hi, Another update: things are looking mostly good! There is only one release blocker remaining [1] as of the time of this writing. Unfortunately, tomorrow is a public holiday in Germany so I might not get around to creating a first RC, sorry for that!
Regarding, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11501 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11501>, I decided not to include it on the release-1.8 branch because I had some concerns about adding shaded-guava to flink-core as a dependency. I started a thread about this [2]. I’ll create a first RC as soon as the blockers are resolved and I find the time. Best, Aljoscha [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772> [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d74081ac65c19db790f421f28a70db2a8e0f0c804f08fd0344274515@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d74081ac65c19db790f421f28a70db2a8e0f0c804f08fd0344274515@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E> > On 2. Mar 2019, at 04:47, Thomas Weise <t...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Aljoscha, > > Thanks for driving the release. > > I think it is a good idea for others to take a look at the blog post and > make sure we capture all goodies worth mentioning. > > I would also like to ask to cherry pick the following into the release > branch: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11501 > <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11501> > > Thanks, > Thomas > > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 7:43 AM Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org > <mailto:aljos...@apache.org>> wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> We are now about a week after cutting the release-1.8 branch and things >> are looking quite good! The community has worked hard on fixing bugs and >> test instabilities. There are now only two issues that are marked as >> “blocker” in our Jira: [1]. The first of which is about updating the >> release notes, for which there is an open PR [2], the second one is a bug >> in TraversableSerializer but Dawid has already found the solution [3]. >> >> There is also already a PR for updating our Downloads page for Flink 1.8 >> [4]. This change is a bit bigger than usual because it also restructures >> the Download page, feel free to have a look in there. >> >> Lastly, the release blog post is also available as a PR [5] and the >> community is working on finalising that one. >> >> Please comment here if you think there are any issues that should be >> considered blockers for Flink 1.8.0. I’ll get the release process rolling >> as soon as those last blockers are out of the way. >> >> Best, >> Aljoscha >> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772 < >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772>> >> [2] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876 >> <https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876> < >> https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876 >> <https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876>> >> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420> < >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420 >> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420>> >> [4] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180 >> <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180> < >> https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180 >> <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180>> >> [5] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/179 >> <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/179>