[ANNOUNCE] Weekly Community Update 2020/07

[Konstantin Knauf-3]

Dear community,

happy to share this week's community digest with the release of Flink 1.10,
a proposal for better changelog support in Flink SQL, a documentation style
guide, the Flink Forward San Francisco schedule and a bit more.

Flink Development
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* [releases] Apache Flink 1.10 has been released! [1] Read all about it in
Marta's release blog post [2]. With the release of Flink 1.10 (technically
already Flink 1.9.2), the maintenance of the "official" Flink Docker images
[3] has moved to the Apache Flink project. [4]

* [releases] Moreover, you can now also find apache-flink on PyPi [5]
  * https://pypi.org/project/apache-flink/1.9.2/#files
  * https://pypi.org/project/apache-flink/1.10.0/#files

* [releases] Chesnay published a third release candidate for flink-shaded
10.0. on Wednesday. Only +1s so far. [6]

* [sql] Jark has published FLIP-105, which proposes to support changelog
streams in Flink SQL. In essence, this means being able to interpret
changelogs (Debezium, compacted topics, ...) as a dynamic table in update
mode. Afterwards, the resulting continuously updating table could be
directly used in a (temporal table) joins and aggregations. [7]

* [sql] Dawid has started a discussion on moving around packages in the
Table API in order to greatly simplify the required imports for users of
the Table API. [8]

* [cep] Shuai Xu proposes to support notFollowedBy() as the last part of a
pattern, if an additional "within" time interval is given. He is waiting
for feedback on his design document. [9]

* [development process] The documentation style guide [10] has finally been
merged. Thanks to Marta, Robert, Aljoscha and others for driving this.

* [connectors] Dawid proposes to drop the ElasticSearch 2.x and 5.x
connector. There is a consensus to drop 2.x, but some uncertainty about the
current usage of 5.x connector. Please get involved in that thread if you
are using ElasticSearch 5.x sink right now. [11]

[1]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Flink-1-10-0-released-tp37564.html
[2] https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/02/11/release-1.10.0.html
[3] https://hub.docker.com/_/flink
[4]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/RESULT-VOTE-Integrate-Flink-Docker-image-publication-into-Flink-release-process-tp37096.html
[5]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Flink-Python-API-PyFlink-1-9-2-released-tp37597.html
[6]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-flink-shaded-10-0-release-candidate-3-tp37567.html
[7]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-FLIP-105-Support-to-Interpret-and-Emit-Changelog-in-Flink-SQL-tp37665.html
[8]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-TABLE-Issue-with-package-structure-in-the-Table-API-tp37623.html
[9]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Support-notFollowedBy-with-interval-as-the-last-part-of-a-Pattern-tp37513.html
[10] https://flink.apache.org/contributing/docs-style.html
[11]
http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Drop-connectors-for-Elasticsearch-2-x-and-5-x-tp37471.html

Notable Bugs
==========

Not today.

Events, Blog Posts, Misc
===================

* Andrew Torson of Salesforce has published a blog post on application log
analysis with *Apache Flink at Salesforce*.[12]

* The conference program for Flink Forward San Francisco is live now
including speakers from *AWS, Bird, Cloudera, Lyft, Netflix, Splunk, Uber,
Yelp, Alibaba, Ververica *and others! Use "FFSF20-MailingList" to get a 50%
discount on your conference pass. [13]

* Upcoming Meetups
   * On February 19th, Apache Flink Meetup London, "Monitoring and
Analysing Communication & Trade Events as Graphs", hosted by *Christos
Hadjinikolis* [14]

[12]
https://engineering.salesforce.com/application-log-intelligence-performance-insights-at-salesforce-using-flink-92955f30573f
[13] https://www.flink-forward.org/sf-2020/conference-program
[14] https://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-London-Meetup/events/268400545/

Cheers,

Konstantin (@snntrable)

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