Dear community, this is the weekly community update thread #29. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.
# Feature freeze Flink 1.6 The Flink community has cut off the release branch for Flink 1.6 [1]. From now on, the community will concentrate on fixing the last remaining release blockers before Flink 1.6 will be released. # Flink 1.5.1 released The Flink community has released the first bug fix release 1.5.1 [2] containing more than 60 fixes and improvements. # Improve record serialization Zhijiang kicked off a discussion about improving the way Flink serializes records into multiple result subpartitions [3]. His proposal aims at reducing redundant serialization overhead by sharing buffers across multiple subpartitions. Please join the discussion if you want to learn more. [1] https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=flink.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/release-1.6 [2] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Flink-1-5-1-released-td23300.html [3] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Improve-broadcast-serialization-td23295.html Cheers, Till
