Hi, dev The feature freeze of 2.1 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 no blocker issues(beside tickets that used for release-testing). We are planning to cut the release branch on next Wednesday (June 25) if no new test instabilities, 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 2.1 release wiki page [1] before we start testing, which would be quite helpful for other developers to validate your features. [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/2.1+Release Best, Ron
