Hi Xintong,

yes, I'm on it.

Best,

Arvid

On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 1:01 PM Xintong Song <tonysong...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Arvid,
>
> Thanks for the announcement.
>
> I think we'd better also update the 1.12 release notes[1] and 1.12.1
> release blog post[2].
> Would you have time to help prepare the warning messages?
>
> Thank you~
>
> Xintong Song
>
>
> [1]
>
> https://github.com/apache/flink/blob/master/docs/release-notes/flink-1.12.md
>
> [2]
>
> https://github.com/apache/flink-web/blob/asf-site/_posts/2021-01-19-release-1.12.1.md
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 7:40 PM Arvid Heise <ar...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> > Dear users,
> >
> > Unfortunately, the bug in the unaligned checkpoint that we fixed in
> 1.12.1
> > still occurs under certain circumstances, such that we recommend to not
> use
> > unaligned checkpoints in production until 1.12.2. While the normal
> > processing is not affected by this bug, a recovery with corrupted
> > checkpoints will not succeed.
> >
> > If you have used unaligned checkpoints, you can change back to aligned
> > checkpoint when starting from an uncorrupted unaligned checkpoint. There
> is
> > no easy way to check if a checkpoint is corrupted or not, however, the
> rare
> > corruption happens most likely when you have short checkpointing
> intervals
> > (<1s), high backpressure, and the previous checkpoint was declined for
> some
> > reason. So to be safe, before switching back, make sure that the last
> > handful of checkpoints all succeeded.
> >
> > We have already prepared a fix that we will merge into the release branch
> > today, but the discussion on when to release 1.12.2 has not started yet.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Arvid
> >
>


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