I should also add, I couldn't agree more with this sentence in the release article: "state access/updates and messaging need to be integrated."
This is something we strictly enforce in our Flink case, where we do not refer to anything external for storage, use Flink as our DB. -- [image: MotaWord] Oytun Tez M O T A W O R D | CTO & Co-Founder oy...@motaword.com <https://www.motaword.com/blog> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:26 PM Oytun Tez <oy...@motaword.com> wrote: > Great news! Thank you all. > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 12:23 PM Marta Paes Moreira <ma...@ververica.com> > wrote: > >> Thank you for managing the release, Gordon — you did a tremendous job! >> And to everyone else who worked on pushing it through. >> >> Really excited about the new use cases that StateFun 2.0 unlocks for >> Flink users and beyond! >> >> >> Marta >> >> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 4:47 PM Hequn Cheng <he...@apache.org> wrote: >> >>> Thanks a lot for the release and your great job, Gordon! >>> Also thanks to everyone who made this release possible! >>> >>> Best, >>> Hequn >>> >>> On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 8:58 PM Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai <tzuli...@apache.org> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> The Apache Flink community is very happy to announce the release of >>>> Apache Flink Stateful Functions 2.0.0. >>>> >>>> Stateful Functions is an API that simplifies building distributed >>>> stateful applications. >>>> It's based on functions with persistent state that can interact >>>> dynamically with strong consistency guarantees. >>>> >>>> Please check out the release blog post for an overview of the release: >>>> https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/04/07/release-statefun-2.0.0.html >>>> >>>> The release is available for download at: >>>> https://flink.apache.org/downloads.html >>>> >>>> Maven artifacts for Stateful Functions can be found at: >>>> https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.apache.flink%20statefun >>>> >>>> Python SDK for Stateful Functions published to the PyPI index can be >>>> found at: >>>> https://pypi.org/project/apache-flink-statefun/ >>>> >>>> Official Docker image for building Stateful Functions applications is >>>> currently being published to Docker Hub. >>>> Dockerfiles for this release can be found at: >>>> https://github.com/apache/flink-statefun-docker/tree/master/2.0.0 >>>> Progress for creating the Docker Hub repository can be tracked at: >>>> https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/7749 >>>> >>>> The full release notes are available in Jira: >>>> >>>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12315522&version=12346878 >>>> >>>> We would like to thank all contributors of the Apache Flink community >>>> who made this release possible! >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> Gordon >>>> >>> -- > -- > > [image: MotaWord] > Oytun Tez > M O T A W O R D | CTO & Co-Founder > oy...@motaword.com > > <https://www.motaword.com/blog> >