Hey Mika, Thanks for organizing, and a big thanks to Yuepeng, Chanhae, and Sumin for stepping up as Release Managers!
Just to clarify, I won't be serving as a full Release Manager this cycle due to limited bandwidth, but I'm happy and fully available to help with Committer/PMC duties when you guys need support. I'll also try to join the sync meetings whenever my schedule allows. Best, Rui On Tue, Sep 1, 2026 at 9:54 AM Mika Naylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > Thank you to Yuepeng, Chanhae, Rui and Sumin for volunteering to help with > 2.4! > > We will start having regular release sync meetings for 2.4 on Fridays at > 15:30 (UTC+2)/21:30 (UTC+8)/22:30 (UTC+9). > As during the 2.3 release, we will use Google Meet [1]. > > Kind regards, > Mika > > [1]: https://meet.google.com/pzy-haeg-auf > > > > 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 > >
