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Piotr Nowojski closed FLINK-29807.
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Resolution: Fixed
Merged to master as 1e131d2a777..32cc0143753
> Drop TypeSerializerConfigSnapshot and savepoint support from Flink versions <
> 1.8.0
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> Key: FLINK-29807
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-29807
> Project: Flink
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Runtime / Checkpointing
> Reporter: Piotr Nowojski
> Assignee: Piotr Nowojski
> Priority: Major
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Fix For: 1.17.0
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> The motivation behind this move is two fold. One reason is that it
> complicates our code base unnecessarily and creates confusion on how to
> actually implement custom serializers. The immediate reason is that I wanted
> to clean up Flink's configuration stack a bit and refactor the
> ExecutionConfig class FLINK-29379. This refactor would keep the API
> compatibility of the ExecutionConfig, but it would break savepoint
> compatibility with snapshots written with some of the old serializers, which
> had ExecutionConfig as a field and were serialized in the snapshot. This
> issue has been resolved by the introduction of TypeSerializerSnapshot in
> Flink 1.7 FLINK-9377, where serializers are no longer part of the snapshot.
> TypeSerializerConfigSnapshot has been deprecated and no longer used by
> built-in serializers since Flink 1.8 FLINK-9376 and FLINK-11323. Users were
> encouraged to migrate to TypeSerializerSnapshot since then with their own
> custom serializers. That has been plenty of time for the migration.
> This proposal would have the following impact for the users:
> 1. we would drop support for recovery from savepoints taken with Flink <
> 1.7.0 for all built in types serializers
> 2. we would drop support for recovery from savepoints taken with Flink <
> 1.8.0 for built in kryo serializers
> 3. we would drop support for recovery from savepoints taken with Flink < 1.17
> for custom serializers using deprecated TypeSerializerConfigSnapshot
> 1. and 2. would have a simple migration path. Users migrating from those old
> savepoints would have to first start his job using a Flink version from the
> [1.8, 1.16] range, and take a new savepoint that would be compatible with
> Flink 1.17.
> 3. This is a bit more problematic, because users would have to first migrate
> their own custom serializers to use TypeSerializerSnapshot (using a Flink
> version from the [1.8, 1.16]), take a savepoint, and only then migrate to
> Flink 1.17. However users had already 4 years to migrate, which in my opinion
> has been plenty of time to do so.
> *As discussed and vote is currently in progress:*
> https://lists.apache.org/thread/x5d0p08pf2wx47njogsgqct0k5rpfrl4
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