[ANNOUNCE] Weekly community update #44

[Till Rohrmann <tr...@apache.org>]

Dear community,

this is the weekly community update thread #44. Please post any news and
updates you want to share with the community to this thread.

# Flink 1.5.5 and 1.6.2 have been released

The Flink community is proud to announce the two bugfix release Flink 1.5.5
[1] and Flink 1.6.2 [2] have been released.

# Integrate Flink SQL with Hive ecosystem

Xuefu proposed to integrate Flink more tightly with the Hive ecosystem. The
discussion has been concluded with a resulting design document. If you want
to learn more about these efforts please check out the ML thread [3] or the
corresponding JIRA issue [4].

# News on API changes with Scala 2.12

The community is dedicated to add Scala 2.12 support with the next upcoming
major release 1.7. Aljoscha laid out the required changes from an API
perspective when upgrading to Scala 2.12 [5].

# Changing our web technology stack

Fabian kicked off a discussion about Flink's web technology stack [6]. He
noted that the stack is quite dusty and proposed to change technologies to
React or Angular 2-7. If you have an opinion on this topic or want to help
with this effort, then please join the discussion.

# Feature freeze for 1.7

The community works hard towards the Flink 1.7 feature freeze. Currently,
the community tries to finish the last set of features (Scala 2.12 support,
state evolution and fixing local recovery). It looks promising to finish
these threads by middle of this week.

[1]
http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Flink-1-5-5-released-tp24158.html
[2]
http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Flink-1-6-2-released-tp24159.html
[3]
http://apache-flink-user-mailing-list-archive.2336050.n4.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Integrate-Flink-SQL-well-with-Hive-ecosystem-tp23721.html
[4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-10556
[5]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/75d12228e4a1125f17cd31ff5e7e9b95509978613f2a88ebad55e042@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
[6]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/68416f3dc8c18433f427bb1f1b1a3c482aebbcdeee0f4e8a2540d147@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E

Cheers,
Till