Hi, all, I would like to discuss creating a new 16.2 patch release for flink-shaded[1].
In our ARM environment, we recently encountered a critical bug (FLINK-33417[2]) while using flink-shaded 16.1 in flink 1.17. The issue has been discussed in the discussion[3]. Fortunately, we could resolve this bug by updating the netty version. To address this issue comprehensively, we need to release a new minor version for flink-shaded. As a result, Flink 1.17 should update its dependent flink-shaded version accordingly. However, there is no need for Flink 1.18+ to update the flink-shaded version since these newer versions already depend on flink-shaded 17.0+ and have updated their netty version, thereby eliminating the existence of this bug. Considering the low probability of this issue occurring, I do not recommend considering it as a blocker for the Flink 1.17 release. Furthermore, the external connector has been decoupled from flink-shaded in FLINK-33190[4], and the compatibility of the newer netty version 4.1.91 has been verified in the new Flink 1.18+(which is dependent on flink-shaded 17.0 and it is dependent on netty 4.1.91). Hence, we believe this update will not cause any compatibility issues. If there are no objections, we would greatly appreciate it if a committer could volunteer as the release manager. Thank you. [1] https://github.com/apache/flink-shaded [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-33417 [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread/y1c8545bcsx2836d9pgfdzj65knvw7kb [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-33190 Best, Yuxin
