Hi all, Thank you so much Yuepeng, Chanhae & Rui for offering to help bring 2.4 to release! I will reach out to figure out timezones and when might be a good time slot for regular sync meetings and will let the mailing list know so any can participate.
Following discussion about feature freeze windows, I would propose then that we aim for a feature freeze of October 20th 2026 with a release date of November 20th 2026. I will pop this in the wiki page for 2.4. Kind regards, Mika > On 27. Aug 2026, at 14:01, Mika Naylor <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all! > > I would like to start a discussion on the next Flink release: 2.4. > > Release Managers > ------------------ > > After discussing with David Anderson who was a RM for the last release, I > would like to propose another release cycle where we have a team of > committers from different backgrounds. > > To that end I would like to volunteer as a RM for this round, with the caveat > that I am not a committer or PMC member, but would love to drive whichever > bits of the process (like the feature collection wiki, blocker triage, > release notes, coordination, testing and verification) I can contribute to. > With that in mind, if any committers and/or PMC members would be interested > in joining the release time this cycle, please let me know! > > Timeline > -------- > > Flink 2.3 was released on June 25th, so I would propose a feature freeze > around September 30th with a release date around the end of October. Does > this sound reasonable? Rui Fan mentioned a 1 month freeze window is maybe too > narrow for ongoing flips during the 2.3 discussion, would 1.5-2 make more > sense? > > Feature Collection > ------------------ > > I've set up a wiki page [1] for collecting new features for 2.4. Once > everything is finalized, we can then set up the jira board, meetings and sync > points to give everyone an overview. > > Kind regards, > Mika > > [1] > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/spaces/FLINK/pages/449286596/2.4+Release
