Hi everyone! I would suggest to fork a 0.8 release branch very soon, to not stall the development of features that go into 0.9. The new Akka based coordination and the network stack extensions are required for many new features which are in the pipeline.
How about we merge the below listed pull requests into the master, and then branch the 0.8 release branch off and bump the master version to 0.9-SNAPSHOT. After we have forked the release branch, Marton (as release manager) would create release candidates and collect status of the tests and patches. We can fix bugs on the release branch and cherry-pick the patches to the 0.9-SNAPSHOT branch. ---------------------------------------------- Important Pull Requests to merge: ---------------------------------------------- [FLINK-1287] LocalizableSplitAssigner prefers splits with less degrees of freedom Fixed java quickstart example [FLINK-998] Close TCP connections after destroying logical channels [FLINK-1302] Make JDBCInputFormat implement the NonParallelInput interface [FLINK-1305] [FLINK-1304] Test for HadoopInputWrapper and NullWritable support Upgraded HBase addon to HBase 0.98.x and new Tuple APIs + fix of ExecutionEnvironment (this is partially merged, there are a few POM entries missing for Hadoop 1 support) ---------------------------------------------- Optional Pull Requests to merge: ---------------------------------------------- Add support for Subclasses, Interfaces, Abstract Classes as POJOs [FLINK-1245] Introduce TypeHints for Java API operators enable CSV Reader to ignore invalid lines like an empty line at the end and comments - FLINK-1208 Please veto the important pull requests (if they should not go in) and +1 or -1 the optional ones, as you deem fitting. Greetings, Stephan
