rmoff commented on code in PR #825: URL: https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/825#discussion_r2792496905
########## docs/content/posts/2026-02-01-community-update.md: ########## @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +--- +authors: +- davidrad: null + name: David Radley +date: "2026-02-02T08:00:00Z" +excerpt: Flink Community update for February 2026 +title: Flink Community Update - February'26 +aliases: +- /news/2026/02/02/community-update.html +--- + +# Flink Community update for February 2026 + +<!-- TOC --> +* [Flink Community update for February 2026](#flink-community-update-for-february-2026) + * [Bringing us up to date - a brief summary of what has happened in Flink since 2020 up to end of 2025.](#bringing-us-up-to-date---a-brief-summary-of-what-has-happened-in-flink-since-2020-up-to-end-of-2025) + * [January 2026 overview](#january-2026-overview) + * [Flink related Blogs](#flink-related-blogs) + * [Summary of Apache Flink Dev List (covering January 2026)](#summary-of-apache-flink-dev-list-covering-january-2026) + * [Key Themes](#key-themes) + * [Community Announcements](#community-announcements) + * [New Committers](#new-committers) + * [New PMC Member](#new-pmc-member) + * [FLIP Activity](#flip-activity) + * [Accepted - being implemented](#accepted---being-implemented) + * [Being discussed](#being-discussed) + * [Kubernetes Operator 1.14.0 Release](#kubernetes-operator-1140-release) + * [For more information](#for-more-information) +<!-- TOC --> + +Previous Blog : +[https://flink.apache.org/2020/09/04/flink-community-update-august20/](https://flink.apache.org/2020/09/04/flink-community-update-august20/) + +After a [gap](https://flink.apache.org/2020/09/04/flink-community-update-august20/), the Community update is back for February 2026! The intention going forward is that we will look to produce a monthly blog, that will +highlight what has occurred in the community over the previous month. This will include new PMC and committers, any interesting blogs, new releases, active FLIPs and +a view of the themes in the dev list from the previous month. +<p> + +## Bringing us up to date - a brief summary of what has happened in Flink since 2020 up to end of 2025. +Since 2020, the Flink community has been very busy. Here is a flavour of what has improved. + +* Flink Kubernetes (k8s) Operator + * Enterprise ready. + * Autoscaling - tuning jobs to meet the utilization target set by the user. + * k8s experience. +* Flink 2.0 + * Process Table Functions (PTFs) - bringing datastream flexibility to SQL. + * Disaggregated state. + * Deprecation of older APIs, leaving the strategic ones. +* Materialized tables + * Bringing a consistent developer experience to batch and streaming. + +<p> + +In the last few years the Flink PR backlog got to around 1200. We introduced the stale bot last year, and it came down to around 200. +Interestingly, in the last month or so the backlog has been creeping up again and is over 250. +<p> + +## January 2026 overview +As usual this update will summarise what has happened in the previous month (January). + +* The previous month has seen the connector parent v2 being released, the long awaited connector parent brought up to date and flink v2 ready. Review Comment: add link to connector parent -- 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. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: [email protected]
