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########## File path: _posts/2020-05-06-community-update.md ########## @@ -0,0 +1,205 @@ +--- +layout: post +title: "Flink Community Update - May'20" +date: 2020-05-06T08:00:00.000Z +categories: news +authors: +- morsapaes: + name: "Marta Paes" + twitter: "morsapaes" + +excerpt: Can you smell it? It’s release month! This time around, we’re warming up for Flink 1.11 and peeping back to the past month in the Flink community — with the release of Stateful Functions 2.0, a new self-paced Flink training and some efforts to improve the Flink documentation experience. +--- + +Can you smell it? It’s release month! It took a while, but now that we’re [all caught up with the past](https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/04/01/community-update.html), the Community Update is here to stay. This time around, we’re warming up for Flink 1.11 and peeping back to the month of April in the Flink community — with the release of Stateful Functions 2.0, a new self-paced Flink training and some efforts to improve the Flink documentation experience. + +Last month also marked the debut of Flink Forward Virtual Conference 2020: what did you think? If you missed it altogether or just want to recap some of the sessions, the [videos](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDX4T_cnKjD0ngnBSU-bYGfgVv17MiwA7) and [slides](https://www.slideshare.net/FlinkForward) are now available! + +{% toc %} + +# The Past Month in Flink + +## Flink Stateful Functions 2.0 is out! + +In the beginning of April, the Flink community announced the [release of Stateful Functions 2.0](https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/04/07/release-statefun-2.0.0.html) — the first as part of the Apache Flink project. From this release, you can use Flink as the base of a (stateful) serverless platform with out-of-the-box consistent and scalable state, and efficient messaging between functions. You can even run your stateful functions on platforms like AWS Lambda, as Gordon ([@tzulitai](https://twitter.com/tzulitai)) demonstrated in [his Flink Forward talk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuSylBadNSo&list=PLDX4T_cnKjD0ngnBSU-bYGfgVv17MiwA7&index=27&t=8s). + +<div style="line-height:60%;"> + <br> +</div> + +<center> +<img src="{{ site.baseurl }}/img/blog/2020-05-06-community-update/2020-05-06-community-update_2.png" width="550px" alt="Stateful Functions"/> +</center> + +<div style="line-height:60%;"> + <br> +</div> + +It’s been encouraging to see so many questions about Stateful Functions popping up on the Mailing List and Stack Overflow! If you’d like to get involved, we’re always [looking for new contributors](https://github.com/apache/flink-statefun#contributing) — especially around SDKs for other languages like Go, Javascript and Rust. + +<hr> + +## Warming up for Flink 1.11 + +The final preparations for the release of Flink 1.11 are well underway and there’s a lot of new features and improvements to look out for: + +* On the **usability** side, you can expect a big focus on smoothing data ingestion with contributions like support for changelog streams in the Table API/SQL ([FLIP-105](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-105%3A+Support+to+Interpret+and+Emit+Changelog+in+Flink+SQL)), easy streaming data ingestion into Apache Hive ([FLIP-115](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-115%3A+Filesystem+connector+in+Table)) or support for Pandas DataFrames in PyFlink ([FLIP-120](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-120%3A+Support+conversion+between+PyFlink+Table+and+Pandas+DataFrame)). + +* On the **operational** side, the much anticipated new Source API ([FLIP-27](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-27%3A+Refactor+Source+Interface)) will unify batch and streaming sources, and improve out-of-the-box event-time behavior; while unaligned checkpoints ([FLIP-76](https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-76%3A+Unaligned+Checkpoints)) and some changes to network memory management will allow to speed up checkpointing under backpressure. + +Throw into the mix improvements around type systems, the WebUI, metrics reporting, supported formats and...we can't wait! To get an overview of the ongoing developments, have a look at [this thread](http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Development-progress-of-Apache-Flink-1-11-tp40718.html). We encourage the community to get involved in testing once a RC (Release Candidate) is out. Keep an eye on the [@dev mailing list](https://flink.apache.org/community.html#mailing-lists) for updates! + +<hr> + +## Flink Minor Releases + +### Flink 1.9.3 + +The community released Flink 1.9.3, covering some outstanding bugs from Flink 1.9! You can find more in the [announcement blogpost]((https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/04/24/release-1.9.3.html)). + +### Flink 1.10.1 + +Also in the pipeline is the release of Flink 1.10.1, already in the [RC voting](http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-1-10-1-release-candidate-2-td41019.html) phase. So, you can expect Flink 1.10.1 to be released soon! + +<hr> + +## New Committers and PMC Members + +The Apache Flink community has welcomed **3 PMC Members** and **2 new Committers** since the last update. Congratulations! + +### New PMC Members + +<div class="row"> + <div class="col-lg-3"> + <div class="text-center"> + <img class="img-circle" src="https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/6242259?s=400&u=6e39f4fdbabc8ce4ccde9125166f791957d3ae80&v=4"; width="90" height="90"> + <p><a href="https://twitter.com/dwysakowicz";>Dawid Wysakowicz</a></p> + </div> + </div> + <div class="col-lg-3"> + <div class="text-center"> + <img class="img-circle" src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/4971479?s=400&u=49d4f217e26186606ab13a17a23a038b62b86682&v=4"; width="90" height="90"> + <p><a href="https://twitter.com/HequnC";>Hequn Chen</a></p> + </div> + </div> + <div class="col-lg-3"> + <div class="text-center"> + <img class="img-circle" src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/12387855?s=400&u=37edbfccb6908541f359433f420f9f1bc25bc714&v=4"; width="90" height="90"> + <p>Zhijiang Wang</p> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +### New Committers + +<div class="row"> + <div class="col-lg-3"> + <div class="text-center"> + <img class="img-circle" src="https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/11538663?s=400&u=f4643f1981e2a8f8a1962c34511b0d32a31d9502&v=4"; width="90" height="90"> + <p><a href="https://twitter.com/snntrable";>Konstantin Knauf</a></p> + </div> + </div> + <div class="col-lg-3"> + <div class="text-center"> + <img class="img-circle" src="https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/1891970?s=400&u=b7718355ceb1f4a8d1e554c3ae7221e2f32cc8e0&v=4"; width="90" height="90"> + <p><a href="https://twitter.com/sjwiesman";>Seth Wiesman</a></p> + </div> + </div> +</div> + +<hr> + +# The Bigger Picture + +## A new self-paced Apache Flink training + +<div style="line-height:60%;"> + <br> +</div> + +This week, the Flink website received the contribution of a self-paced training course curated by David ([@alpinegizmo](https://twitter.com/alpinegizmo)). The new materials guide you through the very basics of Flink and the DataStream API, and round off every concepts section with hands-on exercises to help you better assimilate what you learned. Review comment: I used an attributive noun on purpose here and personally prefer that. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
