Github user tzulitai commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/4522
Ok, so it seems like Java serialization of the Kinesis classes was removed
only starting from 1.3.x.
That means unless we do some classloading trick, we can't really upgrade
the Kinesis consumer dependencies until 1.2 savepoint compatibility is no
longer supported.
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