Thanks Yuxin for driving this!

I am willing to help release this. :)

Best regards,

Weijie


Yuxin Tan <tanyuxinw...@gmail.com> 于2023年11月6日周一 15:45写道:

> 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
>

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