Hi all, I would like to discuss creating a new 1.16 patch release (1.16.3). The last 1.16 release is over five months old, and since then, 50 tickets have been closed [1], of which 10 are blocker/critical [2]. Some of them are quite important, such as FLINK-32296 [3], FLINK-32548 [4] and FLINK-33010[5].
In addition to this, FLINK-33149 [6] is important to bump snappy-java to 1.1.10.4. Although FLINK-33149 is unresolved, it was done in 1.16.3. I am not aware of any unresolved blockers and there are no in-progress tickets [7]. Please let me know if there are any issues you'd like to be included in this release but still not merged. Since 1.18.0 has been released, I'd suggest that we vote to make 1.16.3 the final bugix release of 1.16, looking forward to any feedback from you. Background info could be found at [8], and thanks Jing for the information. If the community agrees to create this new patch release, I could volunteer as the release manager. Since there will be another flink-1.17.2 release request during the same time, I will work with Yun and Yu since many issues will be fixed in both releases. [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-32231?jql=project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.16.3%20%20and%20resolution%20%20!%3D%20%20Unresolved%20order%20by%20priority%20DESC [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-32231?jql=project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.16.3%20and%20resolution%20%20!%3D%20Unresolved%20%20and%20priority%20in%20(Blocker%2C%20Critical)%20ORDER%20by%20priority%20%20DESC [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-32296 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-32548 [5] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-33010 [6] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-33149 [7] https://issues.apache.org/jira/projects/FLINK/versions/12353259 [8] https://lists.apache.org/thread/szq23kr3rlkm80rw7k9n95js5vqpsnbv Best, Rui
