Dear community, this is the weekly community update thread #45. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.
# First release candidate for Flink 1.7.0 The community has published the first release candidate for Flink 1.7.0 [0]. Please help the community by giving the RC some exposure and report any problems you might encounter. # External shuffle service Zhijiang started a proposal to add support for an external shuffle service to Flink [1]. Please join the discussion to learn more. # Flink operators for Kubernetes Anand from Lyft shared his work on a Flink Kubernetes operator with the community. If you want to learn more visit this document [2]. # Flink SQL DDL Design Shuyi kicked off a discussion about adding support for SQL DDL to Flink [3]. Chime in if you want to voice your opinion. # Enhancing flink scheduler by implementing blacklist mechanism Yingjie proposed to add a blacklisting mechanism to Flink [4]. It will allow to black list unreliable TaskManagers which won't be used for further scheduling. That way, the job execution will be more reliable. # Flip-23: Model serving Boris published his work on the model serving [5] library on Github [6]. Check it out! # Flink web UI based on Angular 7 Yadong shared a web UI used at Alibaba with the community [7]. It is a rework of the existing web UI based on Angular 7. # Flip-27: Refactor source interface Aljoscha started discussing the design of the new source interface [8]. # Enhance Table API functionality Xiaowei and Jincheng started discussing potential improvements to Flink's Table API and streaming SQL [9, 10]. If you want to learn more about the Table API and streaming SQL's future, then join this discussion. [0] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5383a813b21b67655f1982a48a5d131b213596c20343954f9ef53209@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [1] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a64497d24b839a4c84dc29ddcf8bf43a34f13984ffa79a9bd64e858c@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_AITTq0fay-NwUIqNfqN0pum-erOmS_4kYZnlMxw6_o/edit?usp=gmail#heading=h.ge413lh374xj [3] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cb696438e9bf7ff2a44953c438135db3b68ff7f96cff59847df0867d@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [4] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/c0a2057f8171e75734c15a3a45ca5177fce1e04a19b9a02ba064706c@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [5] https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/FLIP-23+-+Model+Serving [6] https://github.com/FlinkML/flink-modelServer [7] https://github.com/vthinkxie/flink-runtime-web [8] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/70484d6aa4b8e7121181ed8d5857a94bfb7d5a76334b9c8fcc59700c@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [9] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/a75f5d0a938333503a0f1881f800d37ba0ec662b44624d4be9c6fdd9@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E [10] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/881b34fe79991870c099132b4723dde882cffcfff8e9a1f5bbe92bee@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E Cheers, Till