[ANNOUNCE] Weekly Community Update 2020/21

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

Dear community,

happy to share this week's community update!

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

* [releases]  Zhijiang has published a first release candidate for Apache
Flink 1.11.0. This is a "preview-only" release candidate to facilitate
current testing efforts. There will not be a vote on this RC. [1]

* [releases] Gordon proposes to release Apache Flink Stateful Function
2.1.0 soon. This would mean a faster release cycle compared to the main
project, which seems to make sense given the early state of the project.
The proposal received a lot positive feedback and the feature freeze date
was set for this Wednesday (27th of May). [2]

* [deployment] Klou proposes to remove support for shipping nested JARs
during job submission, a so far hidden feature of Apache Flink from the
early days of the project. [3]

* [security] Weike Dong proposes to exclude "unsafe ports", i.e. ports
considered to be unsafe by major browsers, as candidates for the Flink REST
API, if no port was specified explicitly. [4]

* [development process] Robert has started a thread to clarify the
semantics and usage of JIRA fields in the Apache Flink project. If you are
unsure about some fields, check out this thread and join the conversation.
[5]

[1]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Flink-1-11-0-release-candidate-1-tp41840.html
[2]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Releasing-Stateful-Functions-2-1-0-soon-tp41734.html
[3]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Remove-dependency-shipping-through-nested-jars-during-job-submission-tp41711.html
[4]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Shall-we-avoid-binding-unsafe-ports-during-random-port-selection-tp41821.html
[5]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Semantics-of-our-JIRA-fields-tp41786p41806.html

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

* [FLINK-17189] [1.10.1] HiveCatalog does not support processing time
columns. [6]
* [FLINK-17800] [1.10.1] There might be a state loss issue when using the
Rocksdb with optimizeForPointLookup. The community is still investigating
the bug report. [7]

[6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-17189
[7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-17800

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

* Ankit Jhalaria of GoDaddy has published a blog post about their
Flink-based streaming data platform on the Ververica Blog [8].
* If you have not heard about Lyft's streaming platform before, here is
another great talk by Sherin Thomas and blog on InfoQ [9].

[8]
https://www.ververica.com/blog/how-godaddy-uses-flink-to-run-real-time-streaming-pipelines
[9] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/ml-streaming-lyft/

Cheers,

Konstantin

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Konstantin Knauf

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