Dear community, I know it has been quite some time but here is the weekly community update thread #22. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.
# Release 1.5 After a lot of work and good amount of testing, the community has finally released Apache Flink 1.5.0. The new release contains a lot of new features like a reworked deployment model, support for broadcast state, SQL CLI, full resource elasticity, faster recovery and an enhanced network stack to support higher throughput and lower latencies and many more [1]. # New committers In the past weeks the Flink community could gain a couple of new committers. The community is proud that Xingcan Cui, Nico Kruber and Shuyi Chen are helping to stack up the committer ranks. # On going discussions ## Enable GitBox integration for Flink's repository In order to give the community a bit more tooling around it's Github mirror, the community decided to activate the GitBox integration [2]. That way, PR management and reviewing will hopefully be facilitated. ## Improving Flink's timer management An effort to improve Flink's timer management has been started [3]. The goal is to make Flink timers scalable and asynchronously checkpointable. ## Adding Elastic Filter for record deduplication The community started a discussion about adding an approximative deduplication operator based on filters (e.g. Bloom, Cuckoo, etc.) [4]. Having an approximate filter would allow to speed up certain operations. # Flink Forward Berlin 2018 call for presentations The call for presentations for Flink Forward Berlin 2018 [5] closes on June 4, 11:59 PM CEST. So if you have an interesting topic to share with the community, then please submit a proposal. [1] http://flink.apache.org/news/2018/05/25/release-1.5.0.html [2] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Enable-GitBox-integration-2-td22404.html [3] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/PROPOSAL-Improving-Flink-s-timer-management-for-large-state-td22491.html [4] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/PROPOSAL-Introduce-Elastic-Bloom-Filter-For-Flink-td22430.html [5] https://flink-forward.org/call-for-presentations-submit-talk/ Cheers, Till
