Github user StephanEwen commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/2767
If you cannot exclude the netty dependency, you could try to shade it away:
https://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-shade-plugin/
We do this all the time for conflicting dependencies.
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