+1 for the proposal and release manager candidate. And I’m looking forward to the support with ongoing Flink 2.2 version.
Best, Leonard > 2025 10月 31 15:22，Yanquan Lv <[email protected]> 写道： > > Hi devs, > > As Flink CDC 3.5 was released recently, it's a good time to kick off the > upcoming Flink CDC 3.6 release cycle. > > For a long time, we have received significant feedback from community users > regarding the need to upgrade Flink/Debezium version dependencies. We plan > to gradually address these requests in the upcoming releases. Moreover, as > the framework's capabilities continue to enhance, we will devote more > effort to providing more robust connectors. > > In this version, we will focus on the following development tasks: > > 1. Upgrade the Flink dependency to version 2.2 and integrate new > features from the higher Flink version. This involves adding FLIP-27 > API-based implementations to the current TiDB and Vitess connectors, which > are currently implemented using the SourceFunction interface. > 2. Add synchronized schema evolution support to the PostgreSQL Pipeline > connector and introduce a new Kafka Pipeline Source connector, which has > been frequently reported by users. > 3. Add support for LanceDB/Milvus pipeline connectors and explore > YAML-based configuration for RAG scenarios. > > For developers who are interested in participating and contributing new > features in this release cycle, please feel free to create a task that > targets cdc-3.6.0 to trace your planning features [1]. > > I'm happy to volunteer as a release manager and of course open to work > together with someone on this. > To ensure that we can complete the above plan, we plan to complete the > development of Flink CDC 3.6 in 2026-02-28. > > > Best, > Yanquan > > [1] > https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20component%20%3D%20%22Flink%20CDC%22
