Hi devs,
Here's a summary of today's release sync.
## About work items
- Java supports
- Java 21 will be supported in 2.0
- Java 17 will be made default in 2.0
- Supports for Java 8 will be dropped in 2.0
- Martijn will start a FLIP discussion on deprecating support for
Java 11. It will not be directly removed in 2.0
- We will not continue with the REST API and Metrics work items in 2.0
- We are still collecting new features for this release cycle. Please
reachout to the release managers.
## About the Preview Release
- *All breaking changes should be completed in the preview release
(end-of-Sep.)*
- There are a lot of internal usages of Source/SinkFunction and
legacy TableSource/SinkFunction, which cannot be all migrated before the
preview release. We will first move the public APIs to internal
interfaces,
then migrate the internal usges gradually.
- In future, we will update the depreciation process to require
migrating of internal usages in advance.
- *We have created a new version "2.0-preview" on Jira.*
- FixVersion of tickets targeting the preview release, or with code
changes merged into the master branch between the 1.20.0 and 2.0-preview,
should be set to 2.0-preview.
- We will soon move existing tickets from "2.0.0" to this version.
- We'll check for all deprecated APIs before the preview release,
making sure all deprecated APis are either removed or we know why they are
not removed.
Best,
Xintong
