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
>>>

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