Dear Flink devs, I would like to initiate a discussion about upgrading the Flink External connector Flink bump version to Flink 1.20. Apache Flink 1.20 is expected to be the last 1.x release and a Flink long-term support (LTS) version[1], For new users and those planning to upgrade to the Flink version, this will be their preferred version to use. Since we only promise compatibility with last 2 minor Flink versions[2], The minimum version we need to rely on is Flink 1.19, however, most of our current external connectors have not been upgraded to this version yet. I would like to create a parent jira to track the support tasks for Flink 1.20 like FLINK-35131[3], including Kafka's bump plan[4], Elasticsearch's bump plan[5], and so on. For connectors that currently rely on Flink 1.16, considering that their iterations are not frequent, I tend to provide multiple versions during the release, such as the 1.18, 1.19, and 1.20 release packages, to reduce the number of releases. I'm looking forward to receiving some feedback and opinions from the community, Due to the potentially large workload here, I'd greatly appreciate any volunteers for RM.
The following is a list of Flink versions that external connector currently depends on directly: Flink1.16: flink-connector-hbase/flink-connector-rabbitmq Flink1.17: flink-connector-kudu Flink1.18: flink-connector-pulsar/flink-connector-jdbc/flink-connector-mongodb/flink-connector-elasticsearch/flink-connector-cassandra/flink-connector-opensearch/flink-connector-hive Flink1.19: flink-connector-kafka/flink-connector-aws/flink-connector-prometheus/flink-connector-gcp-pubsub [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-458%3A+Long-Term+Support+for+the+Final+Release+of+Apache+Flink+1.x+Line [2]https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/Externalized+Connector+development [3]https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-35131 [4]discuss thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread/rl7prqop7wfn2o8j2j9fd96dgr1bjjnx [5]discuss thread: https://lists.apache.org/thread/w7h59ddh8ky2fc65wlj6k3gxgshg4js5
