Hi Amir, Usually, the plan is to release minor version support for Flink connectors after the Flink minor version is released. See Martijn's post on that issue in the 1.18.0 RC0 ML thread [1] for further context.
Best, Matthias [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread/687qrtq3894ycw69dvvr4sdjdqxngsj6