Hi everyone, With Flink 1.15 released last week, we're starting with the next release cycle for what will become Flink 1.16. As previously discussed [1] Chesnay, Godfrey, Xingbo and myself have volunteered as release managers. We're aiming to cut the release branch on the 25th of July. If needed, we can delay this with a maximum of 2 weeks. We're aiming for a release of Flink 1.16 mid September 2022.
As we've done before, we would like to have a rough overview of new features or major improvements that are planned and will likely be included in this release. Please provide your FLIP, or (umbrella) Jira ticket in the wiki page which you can find at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.16+Release. Starting Tuesday the 17th of May we will start again with bi-weekly release sync. This is scheduled for 9am CEST / 3pm China Standard Time / 7am UTC. This meeting is to perform the following: * Have a look at the Flink 1.16 progress from the wiki page (please update this before the meeting). * Discuss any blocker ticket that might occur who can help resolve this. * Discuss build instability tickets that need to be followed-up. * If there's a (new) contributor to get a PR reviewed or committed, we can see who can help out unblocking the contributor. One of the lessons learned during the Flink 1.15 release cycle was that cross-team testing was done fairly late in the process, which delayed the release. It would be good to make sure that these efforts are done as quickly as possible. This also applies to documentation: please make sure that your feature is documented (either in regular documentation, the JavaDocs, inside the repo in markdown or multiple). Don't start working on your next contribution if the documentation hasn't been made available yet. Please let us know what you think. Best regards, Chesnay, Godfrey, Xingbo and Martijn [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/ghfb5xdjy7tv0zqlrxvh3hcsc740w4ml
