[DISCUSS] Apache Samza 1.8.0 RC0

[Ajo Thomas]

Hi All,

Since the last Samza 1.7.0 release earlier this year, we have added a few
major features and improvements to the master which warrants a major 1.8.0
release.

Within LinkedIn, some of these features have already been tested as part of
our test suites and are in use in many of our production jobs. We wanted to
kick off the discussion in the open source forum to keep the momentum
flowing.

Below is a list of key features that we intend to include in the upcoming
release:
- SEP-31: Pipeline Drain

- SAMZA-2757: Make Samza Compatible with Java 11

Here is the complete list of the features, bug-fixes, upgrades: JIRA Link


Thanks
Ajo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Welcome Ajo Thomas as Samza Committer

[Yi Pan]

Welcome and congrats, Ajo!

- Yi

On Wed, Dec 14, 2022 at 3:42 PM Xinyu Liu  wrote:

> Hi, All,
>
> I am glad to announce that Ajo Thomas has officially accepted our
> invitation and become an Apache Samza Committer now.
>
> Ajo has made contributions to improve both Samza user experience and
> operability greatly. He added the partial update functionality to Samza
> Table API to allow field-level updates to stores. He developed the
> “Pipeline Drain” feature for cleaning up intermediate data and state before
> introducing backward incompatible changes. He is also actively working on
> the next release of Samza 1.8.
>
> Considering his contributions, the Samza PMC trusts Ajo with the
> responsibilities of a Samza Committer.
>
> Please join me to give him a warm welcome!
>
> Xinyu Liu
> on behalf of the Apache Samza PMC
>