Just for info the Cassandra client version 4 driver does not leak guava anymore, but represents a considerable API change so maybe worth to explore that as an alternative to 'modernize' the connector.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:54 PM Aljoscha Krettek <aljos...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi Thomas! > > On 09.04.20 11:35, Thms Hmm wrote: > > Hey, > > are there any plans to upgrade the version of the Cassandra driver to a > > newer one? > > There is this Jira issue, along with a PR: > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-8424. But no-one has worked > on it for a while. There were some difficulties in getting it to work > even with that "minor" update. I'd be very happy if someone with more > Cassandra experience would pick up this issue. > > > Also the shading makes it not possible to easily exchange the driver. Is > > that correct? > > Yes, the shading makes it impossible to exchange the driver, I'd say. > > Best, > Aljoscha