Github user fhueske commented on the pull request: https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/1829#issuecomment-200804264 @uce, API stability is not an issue. The method was `private` before and part of the accessible API. IMO, the question is rather whether we want to add new features in a bugfix release.
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