Thanks Max. That would help a lot. Manually creating the build with 1.6 will work for us in short term with development, but to go to production it has to be an official release ( due to some regulations at my company)
Thanks, Jins On 10/31/18 3:15 AM, Maximilian Michels wrote: > Hi Jins, > > As Thomas mentioned, the Flink Runner has already been prepared for > Flink 1.6, you just have to change the Flink version in the Gradle > build file. > > Of course this is not convenient because you can't fetch this version > via Maven Central. So we're planning to release both versions: > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/BEAM-5419 > > Thanks, > Max > > On 31.10.18 06:28, Jins George wrote: >> Thank you Thomas. Idea of providing different build targets for >> runners is great, as it enables users to pick from a list of runner >> versions. >> >> Thanks >> >> Jins George >> >> On 10/30/18 12:36 PM, Thomas Weise wrote: >>> There has not been any decision to move to 1.6.x for the next >>> release yet. >>> >>> There has been related general discussion about upgrading runners >>> recently [1] >>> >>> Overall we need to consider the support for newer Flink versions >>> that users find (the Flink version in distributions and what users >>> typically have in their deployment stacks). These upgrades are not >>> automatic/cheap/fast, so there is a balance to strike. >>> >>> The good news is that with Beam 2.8.0 you should be able to make a >>> build for 1.6.x with just a version number change [2] (Other compile >>> differences have been cleaned up.) >>> >>> [1] >>> https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/0588ed783767991aa36b00b8529bbd29b3a8958ee6e82fca83ac2938@%3Cdev.beam.apache.org%3E >>> [2] >>> https://github.com/apache/beam/blob/v2.8.0/runners/flink/build.gradle#L49 >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:50 AM Lukasz Cwik <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> +dev <mailto:[email protected]> >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:30 AM Jins George >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Community, >>> >>> Noticed that the Beam 2.8 release comes with flink 1.5.x >>> dependency. >>> Are there any plans to upgrade flink to 1.6.x in next beam >>> release. ( >>> I am looking for the better k8s support in Flink 1.6) >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> Jins George >>>
