Is the intention to bump the Flink major version and only support Java 17+?
If so, can Scala not be upgraded at the same time?

Thanks,
Thomas


On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 4:53 PM Martijn Visser <martijnvis...@apache.org>
wrote:

> Scala 2.12.7 doesn't compile on Java 17, see
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-25000.
>
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 3:11 PM Jing Ge <j...@ververica.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks Tamir for the information. According to the latest comment of the
> > task FLINK-24998, this bug should be gone while using the latest JDK 17.
> I
> > was wondering whether it means that there are no more issues to stop us
> > releasing a major Flink version to support Java 17? Did I miss something?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Jing
> >
> > On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 8:18 AM Tamir Sagi <tamir.s...@niceactimize.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> More details about the JDK bug here
> >> https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8277529
> >>
> >> Related Jira ticket
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-24998
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >> *From:* Jing Ge via user <user@flink.apache.org>
> >> *Sent:* Monday, April 24, 2023 11:15 PM
> >> *To:* Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org>
> >> *Cc:* Piotr Nowojski <pnowoj...@apache.org>; Alexis Sarda-Espinosa <
> >> sarda.espin...@gmail.com>; Martijn Visser <martijnvis...@apache.org>;
> >> d...@flink.apache.org <d...@flink.apache.org>; user <
> user@flink.apache.org>
> >> *Subject:* Re: [Discussion] - Release major Flink version to support JDK
> >> 17 (LTS)
> >>
> >>
> >> *EXTERNAL EMAIL*
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks Chesnay for working on this. Would you like to share more info
> >> about the JDK bug?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Jing
> >>
> >> On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 11:39 AM Chesnay Schepler <ches...@apache.org>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> As it turns out Kryo isn't a blocker; we ran into a JDK bug.
> >>
> >> On 31/03/2023 08:57, Chesnay Schepler wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/kryo/wiki/Migration-to-v5#migration-guide
> >>
> >> Kroy themselves state that v5 likely can't read v2 data.
> >>
> >> However, both versions can be on the classpath without classpath as v5
> >> offers a versioned artifact that includes the version in the package.
> >>
> >> It probably wouldn't be difficult to migrate a savepoint to Kryo v5,
> >> purely from a read/write perspective.
> >>
> >> The bigger question is how we expose this new Kryo version in the API.
> If
> >> we stick to the versioned jar we need to either duplicate all current
> >> Kryo-related APIs or find a better way to integrate other serialization
> >> stacks.
> >> On 30/03/2023 17:50, Piotr Nowojski wrote:
> >>
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> > 1. The Flink community agrees that we upgrade Kryo to a later version,
> >> which means breaking all checkpoint/savepoint compatibility and
> releasing a
> >> Flink 2.0 with Java 17 support added and Java 8 and Flink Scala API
> support
> >> dropped. This is probably the quickest way, but would still mean that we
> >> expose Kryo in the Flink APIs, which is the main reason why we haven't
> been
> >> able to upgrade Kryo at all.
> >>
> >> This sounds pretty bad to me.
> >>
> >> Has anyone looked into what it would take to provide a smooth migration
> >> from Kryo2 -> Kryo5?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Piotrek
> >>
> >> czw., 30 mar 2023 o 16:54 Alexis Sarda-Espinosa <
> sarda.espin...@gmail.com>
> >> napisał(a):
> >>
> >> Hi Martijn,
> >>
> >> just to be sure, if all state-related classes use a POJO serializer,
> Kryo
> >> will never come into play, right? Given FLINK-16686 [1], I wonder how
> many
> >> users actually have jobs with Kryo and RocksDB, but even if there aren't
> >> many, that still leaves those who don't use RocksDB for
> >> checkpoints/savepoints.
> >>
> >> If Kryo were to stay in the Flink APIs in v1.X, is it impossible to let
> >> users choose between v2/v5 jars by separating them like log4j2 jars?
> >>
> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-16686
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> Alexis.
> >>
> >> Am Do., 30. März 2023 um 14:26 Uhr schrieb Martijn Visser <
> >> martijnvis...@apache.org>:
> >>
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I also saw a thread on this topic from Clayton Wohl [1] on this topic,
> >> which I'm including in this discussion thread to avoid that it gets
> lost.
> >>
> >> From my perspective, there's two main ways to get to Java 17:
> >>
> >> 1. The Flink community agrees that we upgrade Kryo to a later version,
> >> which means breaking all checkpoint/savepoint compatibility and
> releasing a
> >> Flink 2.0 with Java 17 support added and Java 8 and Flink Scala API
> support
> >> dropped. This is probably the quickest way, but would still mean that we
> >> expose Kryo in the Flink APIs, which is the main reason why we haven't
> been
> >> able to upgrade Kryo at all.
> >> 2. There's a contributor who makes a contribution that bumps Kryo, but
> >> either a) automagically reads in all old checkpoints/savepoints in using
> >> Kryo v2 and writes them to new snapshots using Kryo v5 (like is
> mentioned
> >> in the Kryo migration guide [2][3] or b) provides an offline tool that
> >> allows users that are interested in migrating their snapshots manually
> >> before starting from a newer version. That potentially could prevent the
> >> need to introduce a new Flink major version. In both scenarios, ideally
> the
> >> contributor would also help with avoiding the exposure of Kryo so that
> we
> >> will be in a better shape in the future.
> >>
> >> It would be good to get the opinion of the community for either of these
> >> two options, or potentially for another one that I haven't mentioned.
> If it
> >> appears that there's an overall agreement on the direction, I would
> propose
> >> that a FLIP gets created which describes the entire process.
> >>
> >> Looking forward to the thoughts of others, including the Users
> (therefore
> >> including the User ML).
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Martijn
> >>
> >> [1]  https://lists.apache.org/thread/qcw8wy9dv8szxx9bh49nz7jnth22p1v2
> >> [2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/gv49jfkhmbshxdvzzozh017ntkst3sgq
> >> [3] https://github.com/EsotericSoftware/kryo/wiki/Migration-to-v5
> >>
> >> On Sun, Mar 19, 2023 at 8:16 AM Tamir Sagi <tamir.s...@niceactimize.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> I agree, there are several options to mitigate the migration from v2 to
> >> v5.
> >> yet, Oracle roadmap is to end JDK 11 support in September this year.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: ConradJam <jam.gz...@gmail.com>
> >> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2023 4:36 AM
> >> To: d...@flink.apache.org <d...@flink.apache.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [Discussion] - Release major Flink version to support JDK
> 17
> >> (LTS)
> >>
> >> EXTERNAL EMAIL
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for your start this discuss
> >>
> >>
> >> I have been tracking this problem for a long time, until I saw a
> >> conversation in ISSUSE a few days ago and learned that the Kryo version
> >> problem will affect the JDK17 compilation of snapshots [1] FLINK-24998 ,
> >>
> >> As @cherry said it ruined our whole effort towards JDK17
> >>
> >> I am in favor of providing an external tool to migrate from Kryo old
> >> version checkpoint to the new Kryo new checkpoint at one time (Maybe
> this
> >> tool start in flink 2.0 ?), does this tool currently have any plans or
> >> ideas worth discuss
> >>
> >>
> >> I think it should not be difficult to be compatible with JDK11 and
> JDK17.
> >> We should indeed abandon JDK8 in 2.0.0. It is also mentioned in the doc
> >> that it is marked as Deprecated [2]
> >>
> >>
> >> Here I add that we need to pay attention to the version of Scala and the
> >> version of JDK17
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] FLINK-24998  IGSEGV in Kryo / C2 CompilerThread on Java 17
> >> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-24998
> >>
> >> [2] FLINK-30501 Update Flink build instruction to deprecate Java 8
> instead
> >> of requiring Java 11  https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-30501
> >>
> >> Tamir Sagi <tamir.s...@niceactimize.com> 于2023年3月16日周四 00:54写道:
> >>
> >> > Hey dev community,
> >> >
> >> > I'm writing this email to kick off a discussion following this epic:
> >> > FLINK-15736<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-15736>.
> >> >
> >> > We are moving towards JDK 17 (LTS) , the only blocker now is Flink
> which
> >> > currently remains on JDK 11 (LTS). Flink does not support JDK 17 yet,
> >> with
> >> > no timeline,  the reason, based on the aforementioned ticket is the
> >> > following tickets
> >> >
> >> >   1.  FLINK-24998 - SIGSEGV in Kryo / C2 CompilerThread on Java 17<
> >> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-24998>.
> >> >   2.  FLINK-3154 - Update Kryo version from 2.24.0 to latest Kryo LTS
> >> > version<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-3154>
> >> >
> >> > My question is whether it is possible to release a major version
> (Flink
> >> > 2.0.0) using the latest Kryo version for those who don't need to
> restore
> >> > old savepoints/checkpoints in newer format.
> >> >
> >> >   1.  Leverage JDK 17 features within JVM
> >> >   2.  Moving from the old format to the newer one will be handled only
> >> > once - a mitigation can be achieved by a conversion tool or external
> >> > serializers, both can be provided later on.
> >> >
> >> > I'd like to emphasize that the next JDK LTS (21) will be released this
> >> > September.  furthermore, Flink already supports JDK 12-15, which is
> very
> >> > close to JDK 17 (LTS) - that was released in September 2021.  JDK 11
> >> will
> >> > become a legacy soon, as more frameworks moving towards JDK 17 and are
> >> less
> >> > likely to support JDK 11 in the near future. (For example, Spring
> Boot 3
> >> > requires JDK 17 already).
> >> >
> >> > Thank you for your consideration of my request.
> >> >
> >> > Tamir.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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