Hi Martin and Flink Community, Looking forward to this release since it includes fixes relevant to us. Also currently no flink-connector-kafka is compatible with Flink 2.2 which makes this release more important. Happy to help if anything is a blocker—could someone please share which tests are currently failing and marked as release blockers?
Regards Mukul Gupta -----Original Message----- From: Martijn Visser <[email protected]> Sent: 09 March 2026 14:15 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Release flink-connector-kafka v5.0.0 Hi all, Overall I'm +1 for shipping a new release, but the weekly tests for the Kafka connector haven't run successfully for a long time. It will be good to first make sure that all (still supported) versions can successfully run their tests, to make sure that this is running stable. Best regards, Martijn On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 6:37 PM David Radley <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > From: Bowen Li <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, 7 March 2026 at 22:18 > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [DISCUSS] Release flink-connector-kafka v5.0.0 > > +1 > > besides, due to the limitation of current pyflink and doc structure > between flink and each connector repo, kafka connector version in > /flink-python and /docs need to be updated to the upcoming release > version, in order to pick up changes since the last kafka connector > release > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 7:07 PM Rahul Bhattacharya > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi Can you remove from the mailing list > > > > Thanks And Regards > > Rahul > > > > > > On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 8:18 AM Ferenc Csaky <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hello devs, > > > > > > I'd like to start a conversation to release a new Kafka connector > > > major version. > > > The last Kafka connector release happened right after Flink 2.0 > > > came > out, > > > and > > > since then we shipped a bunch of fixes and improvements, one of > > > them > > being > > > the > > > Kafka client major version upgrade from 3.x to 4.x [1]. > > > > > > Based on this I suggest to release flink-connector-kafka v5.0.0, > compiled > > > with > > > Flink 2.1, and 2.2. > > > > > > I am happy to volunteer as release manager. > > > > > > Best, > > > Ferenc > > > > > > [1] > > > https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F > > > issues.apache.org%2Fjira%2Fprojects%2FFLINK%2Fversions%2F12356170& > > > data=05%7C02%7Cmukul.gupta%40ericsson.com%7C601e3fdab2e145c9494b08 > > > de7db81e56%7C92e84cebfbfd47abbe52080c6b87953f%7C0%7C0%7C6390864268 > > > 89858801%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwL > > > jAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C > > > %7C%7C&sdata=yoVP5%2B%2FRJUKszxYTUPcqhAO0fyDnBWBDx3Hps1lICeo%3D&re > > > served=0 > > > > > > > > -- > Best, > Bowen > > Unless otherwise stated above: > > IBM United Kingdom Limited > Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 Registered office: > Building C, IBM Hursley Office, Hursley Park Road, Winchester, > Hampshire SO21 2JN >
