I looked through the release notes: Entries that shouldn't be included:
* [FLINK-9983] - Savepoints should count as checkpoints when recovering o duplicate of FLINK-1035 * [FLINK-10714] - java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException when creating a heap backend snapshot o closed as "Not a problem" * [FLINK-10191] - WindowCheckpointingITCase.testAggregatingSlidingProcessingTimeWindow o closed as "Cannot reproduce" * [FLINK-10668] - Streaming File Sink E2E test fails because not all legitimate exceptions are excluded o duplicate of FLINK-10678 * [FLINK-10622] - Add end-to-end test for temporal table joins o closed as "Wont fix" * [FLINK-9764] - Failure in LocalRecoveryRocksDBFullITCase o closed as "Cannot reproduce" * [FLINK-9587] - ContinuousFileMonitoringFunction crashes on short living files o closed as "Not a problem" * [FLINK-10349] - Unify stopActor utils o closed as "Wont do" * [FLINK-7470] - Acquire RM leadership before registering with Mesos o duplicate of FLINK-9936 Wrong categorization: * [FLINK-10010] - Deprecate unused BaseAlignedWindowAssigner related components o => Improvement * [FLINK-10142] - Reduce synchronization overhead for credit notifications o => Improvement * [FLINK-10389] - TaskManagerServicesConfiguration ctor contains self assignment o wondering if removing an unused variables is considered a bug-fix * [FLINK-10412] - toString field in AbstractID should be transient to avoid been serialized o => Improvement * [FLINK-10513] - Replace TaskManagerActions#notifyFinalState with #updateTaskExecutionState o => Improvement * [FLINK-10678] - Add a switch to run_test to configure if logs should be checked for errors/excepions o => Improvement * [FLINK-10803] - Add documentation about S3 support by the StreamingFileSink o => Improvement * [FLINK-5005] - Remove Scala 2.10 support; add Scala 2.12 support o => Feature (or change FLINK-7811 from subtask to feature; FLINK-5005 is quite weird in that sense anyway) * [FLINK-7551] - Add VERSION to the REST urls. o => Feature * [FLINK-9697] - Provide connector for modern Kafka o => Feature * [FLINK-10050] - Support 'allowedLateness' in CoGroupedStreams o => Feature * [FLINK-10073] - Allow setting a restart strategy in SQL Client o => Feature * [FLINK-10310] - Cassandra Sink - Handling failing requests o => Feature * [FLINK-10371] - Allow to enable SSL mutual authentication on REST endpoints by configuration o => Feature Naming issues: * [FLINK-10172] - Inconsistentcy in ExpressionParser and ExpressionDsl for order by asc/desc o typo "Inconsistentc * [FLINK-10309] - Cancel flink job occurs java.net.ConnectException o name could be improved * [FLINK-9126] - Creation of the CassandraPojoInputFormat class to output data into a Custom Cassandra Annotated Pojo o rename to "Add CassandraPojoInputForma * [FLINK-10056] - Add testRequestNextInputSplit o name provides little value * [FLINK-10355] - The order of the column should start from 1. o name provides no value On 20.11.2018 15:30, Till Rohrmann wrote:
Hi everyone, Please review and vote on the release candidate #2 for the version 1.7.0, as follows: [ ] +1, Approve the release [ ] -1, Do not approve the release (please provide specific comments) The complete staging area is available for your review, which includes: * JIRA release notes [1], * the official Apache source release and binary convenience releases to be deployed to dist.apache.org [2], which are signed with the key with fingerprint 1F302569A96CFFD5 [3], * all artifacts to be deployed to the Maven Central Repository [4], * source code tag "release-1.7.0-rc2" [5], Please use this document for coordinating testing efforts: [6] The vote will be open for at least 72 hours. It is adopted by majority approval, with at least 3 PMC affirmative votes. Thanks, Till [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12315522&version=12343585 [2] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/flink/flink-1.7.0-rc2/ [3] https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/flink/KEYS [4] https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheflink-1194 [5] https://github.com/apache/flink/tree/release-1.7.0-rc2 [6] https://docs.google.com/document/d/18SqvSFQLru0JDkCBZ5356yNmcZgYBEn1ydqg5VFEpiw/edit?usp=sharing Pro-tip: you can create a settings.xml file with these contents: <settings> <activeProfiles> <activeProfile>flink-1.7.0</activeProfile> </activeProfiles> <profiles> <profile> <id>flink-1.7.0</id> <repositories> <repository> <id>flink-1.7.0</id> <url> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheflink-1194/ </url> </repository> <repository> <id>archetype</id> <url> https://repository.apache.org/content/repositories/orgapacheflink-1194/ </url> </repository> </repositories> </profile> </profiles> </settings> And reference that in you maven commands via --settings path/to/settings.xml. This is useful for creating a quickstart based on the staged release and for building against the staged jars.