Hi everyone, The feature freeze of 1.18 has started now. That means that no new features or improvements should now be merged into the master branch unless you ask the release managers first, which has already been done for PRs, or pending on CI to pass. Bug fixes and documentation PRs can still be merged.
- Cutting release branch Currently we have several CI instability issues, and will try to close them in the coming week. We are planning to cut the release branch on next Tuesday (Aug 1), and we'll make another announcement in the dev mailing list then. - Cross-team testing The release testing will start right after we cut the release branch, which is expected to come in the next week. As a prerequisite of it, please complete the documentation of your new feature and mark the related JIRA issue in the 1.18 release wiki page [1] before we start testing, which would be quite helpful for other developers to validate your features. - Release syncs We'll switch to weekly release sync starting from next Tuesday, so the next release sync will be on Aug 1, 2023. Feel free to join us [2]! - Deprecation works for 2.0 As discussed in another thread [3], we will not give extra extensions to deprecation works considering the overhead and potential side effects to the timeline of 1.18. We can accept tiny changes that only add annotations and JavaDocs, but please let us know before you are going to do that. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.18+Release [2] https://us04web.zoom.us/j/79158702091?pwd=8CXPqxMzbabWkma5b0qFXI1IcLbxBh.1 [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/zbzgyc9ds1sx7931z6cv5hkfmng580d6 Best regards, Jing, Konstantin, Sergey and Qingsheng