Great initiative, highly appreciated, Till!
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 7:06 PM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote: > Dear community, > > I've noticed that Flink has grown quite a bit in the past. As a > consequence it can be quite challenging to stay up to date. Especially for > community members who don't follow Flink's MLs on a daily basis. > > In order to keep a bigger part of the community in the loop, I wanted to > try out a weekly update letter where I update the community with what > happened from my perspective. Since I also don't know everything I want to > encourage others to post updates about things they deem important and > relevant for the community to this thread. > > # Weekly update #12: > > ## Flink 1.5 release: > - The Flink community is still working on the Flink 1.5 release. Hopefully > Flink 1.5 can be released in the next weeks. > - The main work concentrated last week on stabilizing Flip-6 and adding > more automated tests [1]. The Flink community appreciates every helping > hand with adding more end to end tests. > - Consequently, the committed changes mainly consisted of bug fixes and > test hardening. > - By the end of this week, we hope to have a RC ready which can be used > for easier release testing. Given the big changes (network stack and > Flip-6), the RC will most likely still contain some rough edges. In order > to smooth them out, it would be good if we run Flink 1.5 in as many > different scenarios as possible. > > ## Flink 1.3.3. has been released > - Flink 1.3.3 containing an important fix for properly handling > checkpoints in case of a DFS problem has been released. We highly recommend > that all users running Flink 1.3.2 upgrade swiftly to Flink 1.3.3. > > ## Misc: > - Shuyi opened a discussion about improving Flink's security [2]. If you > are interested and want to help with the next steps please engage in the > discussion. > > PS: Don't worry that you've missed the first 11 weekly community updates. > It's just this week's number. > > [1] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3. > nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Flink-1-5-release-testing-effort-td21646.html > [2] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284. > n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Flink-security-improvements-td21068.html > > Cheers, > Till >
