[ANNOUNCE] Update on Flink 1.8 Release Progress

[Aljoscha Krettek-2]

Hi Everyone,

We are now about a week after cutting the release-1.8 branch and things are looking quite good! The community has worked hard on fixing bugs and test instabilities. There are now only two issues that are marked as “blocker” in our Jira: [1]. The first of which is about updating the release notes, for which there is an open PR [2], the second one is a bug in TraversableSerializer but Dawid has already found the solution [3].

There is also already a PR for updating our Downloads page for Flink 1.8 [4]. This change is a bit bigger than usual because it also restructures the Download page, feel free to have a look in there.

Lastly, the release blog post is also available as a PR [5] and the community is working on finalising that one.

Please comment here if you think there are any issues that should be considered blockers for Flink 1.8.0. I’ll get the release process rolling as soon as those last blockers are out of the way.

Best,
Aljoscha

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772>
[2] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876 <https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876>
[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420>
[4] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180 <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180>
[5] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/179

[Thomas Weise]

Hi Aljoscha,

Thanks for driving the release.

I think it is a good idea for others to take a look at the blog post and
make sure we capture all goodies worth mentioning.

I would also like to ask to cherry pick the following into the release
branch:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11501

Thanks,
Thomas


On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 7:43 AM Aljoscha Krettek <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> We are now about a week after cutting the release-1.8 branch and things
> are looking quite good! The community has worked hard on fixing bugs and
> test instabilities. There are now only two issues that are marked as
> “blocker” in our Jira: [1]. The first of which is about updating the
> release notes, for which there is an open PR [2], the second one is a bug
> in TraversableSerializer but Dawid has already found the solution [3].
>
> There is also already a PR for updating our Downloads page for Flink 1.8
> [4]. This change is a bit bigger than usual because it also restructures
> the Download page, feel free to have a look in there.
>
> Lastly, the release blog post is also available as a PR [5] and the
> community is working on finalising that one.
>
> Please comment here if you think there are any issues that should be
> considered blockers for Flink 1.8.0. I’ll get the release process rolling
> as soon as those last blockers are out of the way.
>
> Best,
> Aljoscha
>
> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772 <
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772>
> [2] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876 <
> https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876>
> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420 <
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420>
> [4] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180 <
> https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180>
> [5] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/179

[Aljoscha Krettek-2]

Hi,

Another update: things are looking mostly good! There is only one release blocker remaining [1] as of the time of this writing. Unfortunately, tomorrow is a public holiday in Germany so I might not get around to creating a first RC, sorry for that!

Regarding, https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11501 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11501>, I decided not to include it on the release-1.8 branch because I had some concerns about adding shaded-guava to flink-core as a dependency. I started a thread about this [2].

I’ll create a first RC as soon as the blockers are resolved and I find the time.

Best,
Aljoscha

[1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772>
[2] https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d74081ac65c19db790f421f28a70db2a8e0f0c804f08fd0344274515@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E <https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d74081ac65c19db790f421f28a70db2a8e0f0c804f08fd0344274515@%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E>

> On 2. Mar 2019, at 04:47, Thomas Weise <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi Aljoscha,
>
> Thanks for driving the release.
>
> I think it is a good idea for others to take a look at the blog post and
> make sure we capture all goodies worth mentioning.
>
> I would also like to ask to cherry pick the following into the release
> branch:
>
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11501 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11501>
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 7:43 AM Aljoscha Krettek <[hidden email] <mailto:[hidden email]>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>
>> We are now about a week after cutting the release-1.8 branch and things
>> are looking quite good! The community has worked hard on fixing bugs and
>> test instabilities. There are now only two issues that are marked as
>> “blocker” in our Jira: [1]. The first of which is about updating the
>> release notes, for which there is an open PR [2], the second one is a bug
>> in TraversableSerializer but Dawid has already found the solution [3].
>>
>> There is also already a PR for updating our Downloads page for Flink 1.8
>> [4]. This change is a bit bigger than usual because it also restructures
>> the Download page, feel free to have a look in there.
>>
>> Lastly, the release blog post is also available as a PR [5] and the
>> community is working on finalising that one.
>>
>> Please comment here if you think there are any issues that should be
>> considered blockers for Flink 1.8.0. I’ll get the release process rolling
>> as soon as those last blockers are out of the way.
>>
>> Best,
>> Aljoscha
>>
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772 <
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12334772>>
>> [2] https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876 <https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876> <
>> https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876 <https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/7876>>
>> [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420> <
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-11420>>
>> [4] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180 <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180> <
>> https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180 <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/180>>
>> [5] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/179 <https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/179>