+1 I'm happy to support a fast follow up release. On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 3:35 PM Dennis-Mircea Ciupitu < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Gyula, > > +1 for reverting the runtime config feature and proceeding immediately with > a 1.16.1 patch release. > > Thank you, > Dennis > > > On Thu, Sep 17, 2026 at 4:11 PM Gyula Fóra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hey all! > > > > After some more rigorous testing on real environments we have found > > some critical issues with the runtime config observe feature > > (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-35746) that causes some > > major problems in combination with application health checks. > > Ultimately it causes deployment errors, redeploys healthy applications > > with configs that fail subsequently in many cases, inconsistencies > > during the observation etc. > > > > Turns out that we have overlooked some complexity in the > > implementation and the more we look at it the more issues we find. > > Given these problems I think the best course of action is to revert > > this feature on both main and release-1.16. > > > > I would suggest proceeding immediately with a 1.16.1 patch release to > > resolve this issue. I am going to prepare the RC ASAP, only including > > the revert and 1-2 select more critical fixes that landed on main in > > the meantime. > > > > Cheers > > Gyula > > >
