Hi Guowei,

Flink 1.12.7 is already released. Request is for 1.12.8 release with log4j 
2.17.1. You meant 1.12.8 here?

Regards,
Suchithra

-----Original Message-----
From: Guowei Ma <[email protected]> 
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2022 11:26 AM
To: dev <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Request for Flink 1.12.8 release

Hi Suchithra

I don't think there is a plan to release 1.12.7 for this. But I think you could 
build it from the source.[1]

[1]
https://github.com/apache/flink/tree/release-1.12#building-apache-flink-from-source

Best,
Guowei


On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 7:11 PM V N, Suchithra (Nokia - IN/Bangalore) < 
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We are using Apache Flink 1.12 version. Due to log4j security
> vulnerabilities(CVE-2021-44228) we have upgraded to Flink 1.12.7 which 
> contains the fix for CVE-2021-44228(Critical) and CVE-2021-45046(Critical).
> Later two more vulnerabilities are reported CVE-2021-45105(Moderate) 
> and
> CVE-2021-44832(Moderate) which is fixed with Apache log4j 2.17.1 and 
> we were expecting patch release(Flink 1.12.8) with it.
>
> As per the community, it supports current and previous minor versions 
> (1.13, 1.14) with bug fixes.
>
> Flink community officially only supports current and previous minor 
> versions [1] (1.13, 1.14) with bug fixes. Personally I wouldn't expect 
> there will be another patch release for 1.12.
>
> If you really need an extra release for the unsupported version, the 
> most straightforward approach would be manually building the Flink 
> distribution from sources [2] with the patches you need.
>
> [1] 
> https://flink.apache.org/downloads.html#update-policy-for-old-releases
> [2]
>
> https://github.com/apache/flink/tree/release-1.12#building-apache-flin
> k-from-source
>
> Apache Flink 1.12.7 release with critical fix was really helpful. As 
> per the below ticket log4j 2.17.1 code changes are committed.
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-25472
> Since these are security fixes It will be helpful if Flink 1.12.8 will 
> be released. Could you please let us know if it is possible to plan 
> this release?
>
> Regards,
> Suchithra
>
>
>
>
>

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