I would like to give you a brief update of the Flink 1.16 release sync meating of 2022-09-06.
*We have cut release-1.16 branch yesterday(5th of September 2022). It is expected that we will prepare rc0 for further testing in a few days* *We're almost done with x-team testing[1]. The remaining test issues are also expected to be finished in the next two days.* *Currently, there are 4 blocker issues which are being worked on. Many thanks to these contributors and reviewers. - FLINK-29120 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-29120>, FLINK-28975 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-28975>, FLINK-28941 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-28941>, FLINK-29196 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-29196> *We have finished the license check and only found a license problem* *We still have some critical test stabilities[2] need to be resolved* For more information about Flink release 1.16, you can refer to https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.16+Release The next Flink release sync will be on Tuesday the 13th of September at 9am CEST/ 3pm China Standard Time / 7am UTC. The link could be found on the following page https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/FLINK/1.16+Release#id-1.16Release-Syncmeeting . On behalf of all the release managers, best regards, Xingbo [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-28896 [2] https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20FLINK%20AND%20issuetype%20%3D%20Bug%20AND%20status%20in%20(Open%2C%20%22In%20Progress%22%2C%20Reopened)%20AND%20priority%20in%20(Blocker%2C%20Critical)%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%201.16.0%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC%2C%20priority%20DESC
