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 <aljos...@apache.org> 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
