Hi folks, We have added a number of major features and changes to master since
1.6, that warrants a major 1.7 release. Within LinkedIn, some of these features have already been tested as part of our test suites and are currently used in many of our production jobs. We plan to continue our testing in the coming weeks to validate the stability prior to release. We wanted to kick off the discussion in the open source forum to keep the momentum flowing. Here is a selected list of major features that are part of the new release: - SEP-28: Samza State Backend Interface and Checkpointing Improvements (#1514) - SEP-29: Blob Store as backend for Samza State backup and restore (#1501) - SEP-30: Adding partial update api to Table API (#1560) You can find a concrete list of the features, bug-fixes, upgrades here https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20SAMZA%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.7