[ANNOUNCE] Weekly Community Update 2020/22

[Konstantin Knauf <kn...@apache.org>]

Dear community,

happy to share this week's community update with an update on the upcoming
Apache Flink releases: Flink 1.11 and Flink Stateful Functions 2.1. With
the community focused on release testing  the dev@ mailing list remains
relatively quiet.

Flink Development
==============

* [releases] Release Testing for Flink 1.11 is progressing. To follow the
testing efforts check out the Flink 1.11 burndown board [1] in the Flink
Jira. Stephan proposes to backport FLIP-126 to Flink 1.11 (after the
feature freeze) as it is an isolated change and to avoid breaking the newly
added source interface again in the next release. [2]

* [releases] Apache Flink-shaded 11.0 was released. Flink 1.11 will depend
on it. [3]

* [releases] Gordon just published the first release candidate for Apache
Flink Stateful Functions 2.1. [4]

* [savepoints] I started a small discussion about documenting (breaking)
backwards compatibility of Apache Flink's savepoint format. [5]

[1]
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/RapidBoard.jspa?rapidView=364&projectKey=FLINK

[2]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Backpoint-FLIP-126-watermarks-integration-with-FLIP-27-tp41897p41999.html
[3]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Flink-shaded-11-0-released-tp42056.html
[4]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Apache-Flink-Stateful-Functions-2-1-0-release-candidate-1-tp42061.html
[5]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Document-Backwards-Compatibility-of-Savepoints-tp41903.html

Notable Bugs
==========

* Flink 1.10.1 seemed to have reintroduced an issue with Kerberos-secured
MapR environments. [6]

[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-18045

Events, Blog Posts, Misc
===================

* Ververica has added a second training to Flink Forward Global (Oct 20)
shifting the two conference days back by day. The new dates are 19th/20th
Oct for training, and 21st/22nd Oct for conference/talks. [7]
Pre-registration is already opened. [8]

[7] https://twitter.com/FlinkForward/status/1265281578676166658
[8] https://www.flink-forward.org/global-2020

Cheers,

Konstantin

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Konstantin Knauf

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https://github.com/knaufk