Hi everyone, (Since feature freeze and release sync are on the same day, we merged the announcement and sync summary together)
*- Feature freeze* The feature freeze of 1.19 has started now. That means that no new features or improvements should now be merged into the master branch unless you ask the release managers first, which has already been done for PRs, or pending on CI to pass. Bug fixes and documentation PRs can still be merged. *- Cutting release branch* Currently we have three blocker issues[1][2][3], and will try to close them this Friday. We are planning to cut the release branch on next Monday (Feb 6th) if no new test instabilities, and we'll make another announcement in the dev mailing list then. *- Cross-team testing* Release testing is expected to start next week as soon as we cut the release branch. As a prerequisite, please Before we start testing, please make sure 1. Whether the feature needs a cross-team testing 2. If yes, please the documentation completed There's an umbrella ticket[4] for tracking the 1.19 testing, RM will create all tickets for completed features listed on the 1.19 wiki page[5] and assign to the feature's Responsible Contributor, also contributors are encouraged to create tickets following the steps in the umbrella ticket if there are other ones that need to be cross-team tested. *- Release notes* All new features and behavior changes require authors to fill out the 'Release Note' column in the JIRA(click the Edit button and pull the page to the center), especially since 1.19 involves a lot of deprecation, which is important for users and will be part of the release announcement. - *Sync meeting* (https://meet.google.com/vcx-arzs-trv) We've already switched to weekly release sync, so the next release sync will be on Feb 6th, 2024. Feel free to join us! [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-34148 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-34007 [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-34259 [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-34285 [5] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.19+Release Best, Yun, Jing, Martijn and Lincoln
