snuyanzin commented on code in PR #832: URL: https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/832#discussion_r2916288905
########## docs/content/posts/2026-03-01-community-update.md: ########## @@ -0,0 +1,148 @@ +--- +authors: +- davidrad: null + name: David Radley +date: "2026-03-01T08:00:00Z" +excerpt: Flink Community update for March 2026 +title: Flink Community update for March 2026 +aliases: +- /news/2026/03/01/community-update.html +--- + +<!-- TOC --> + * [Developer/Technical Updates](#developertechnical-updates) + * [Key Themes](#key-themes) + * [What happened last month](#what-happened-last-month) + * [User-Facing Updates](#user-facing-updates) + * [Kubernetes Operator 1.14.0 Release](#kubernetes-operator-1140-release) + * [Apache Flink Connector Parent 2.0.0 Release](#apache-flink-connector-parent-200-release) + * [Apache Flink Connector AWS 6.0 Release](#apache-flink-connector-aws-60-release) + * [Apache Flink Agents 0.2.0 released](#apache-flink-agents-020-released) + * [Blogs](#blogs) + * [Governance and Community](#governance-and-community) + * [FLIP Activity](#flip-activity) + * [Accepted - being implemented](#accepted---being-implemented) + * [Being discussed](#being-discussed) + * [Apache Flink Dev List activity](#apache-flink-dev-list-activity) + * [For more information](#for-more-information) +<!-- TOC --> + +Previous Blog: [Flink community update February 2026](https://flink.apache.org/2026/02/01/flink-community-update-february26/) + +A strong February; there was a lot of commit activity with 320 open PRs in the main repository (600+ across all Flink projects) and 4 new releases. + +## Developer/Technical Updates + +### Key Themes + +1. Additional Serviceability + - [[FLINK-38977] Expose exceptions for applications](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-38977) + - [[hotfix] Log watermark alignment duration (and all other stages)](https://github.com/apache/flink/commit/f6fffd7d33f617acc69f405deecf050ef710d439) + - [[hotfix] Log unexpected non-terminal task state](https://github.com/apache/flink/commit/79e79fcd26eeaabb956198ce2c6293cc221a9f5e) +2. Improvements to watermarks + - [[FLINK-37399] Buffer watermarks for watermark alignment](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-37399) + - [[FLINK-37399] Add SamplingWatermarkRingBuffer](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-37399) + - [[FLINK-39167] Initialize source output before emitting final watermark](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-39167) +3. Improved recovery with checkpoints + - [[hotfix] Try to get last checkpoint on recovery regardless of checkpointing interval](https://github.com/apache/flink/commit/c0ada39aafa23e58e6c80883bdb740a89d02c1ff) + - [[hotfix] Move checkpointing configuration code to CheckpointCoordinatorConfiguration](https://github.com/apache/flink/commit/b2b044dc66814498f0cdfb4e9249f446e2c6fce9) + - [[FLINK-38939] Pause Sources until the first checkpoint barrier is received](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-38939) +4. Enhancements around splits + - [[FLINK-39073] Improve logging of invalid split transitions](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-39073) + - [[FLINK-39073] Defer alignment check for idle splits](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-39073) +5. Table planner enhancements + - [[FLINK-37924] Introduce Built-in Function to Access field or element in the Variant](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-37924) + - [[FLINK-35661] Fix MiniBatchGroupAggFunction silently dropping records](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-35661) + - [[FLINK-38913] ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException while unparsing ExtendedSqlRowTypeNameSpec](https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-38913) Review Comment: to be more precise this is not a planner change, rather parser -- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
