Dear Flink Community, here's the latest update from the bi-weekly. Short summary: still a lot of stuff is going on, the feature freeze has been pushed by two weeks to the >>>16th of August<<< and we are working on the release communication. Good stuff: the test and blockers are looking very good.
Get all the updates on the release page. [1] *Feature freeze:* Initially because of issues with FLIP-147 we have been considering moving the feature freeze, when we did a general update it became obvious that a lot of teams/efforts would benefit from more time. So we did what has to be done and moved it by two weeks. *On-going efforts:* What also became obvious, the pure list of links to Jira Issues doesn't provide a clear overview on the progress of the efforts. Often the linked issues have a subset of other issues, that also went into other releases. Some of the subtasks are optional. We, as a community, need to improve that going forward. For now I introduced a traffic light style state for each row in the feature list as a quick fix. I will make sure this will be updated before the next bi-weekly. The update has shown that ~20 of 36 planned features have a positive state. 6 are rather looking bad. *Test instabilities:* The tests became more stable recently, which is a really, really good thing. Thanks for all the efforts that went into this. *Highlight features:* We are working on the release communication in general. So we are collecting the highlights of this release and did a quick brainstorming which brought us to this list: ML, Table API, Log based checkpoints... If there's something worth mentioning please add it on the release page. What can you do to make 1.14. a good release: * Get an realistic state of the ongoing efforts and update the page * Start testing the "done" features * Think of the things that go beyond the implementation: documentation and release/feature evangelism. Sincerely, your release managers Xintong, Dawid & Joe - [1] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.14+Release
