+1
> On Aug 2, 2017, at 3:16 PM, Till Rohrmann <trohrm...@apache.org> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:12 AM, Stefan Richter <s.rich...@data-artisans.com>
> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> Am 28.07.2017 um 16:03 schrieb Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org>:
>>
>> Seems like no one raised a concern so far about dropping the savepoint
>> format compatibility for 1.1 in 1.4.
>>
>> Leaving this thread open for some more days, but from the sentiment, it
>> seems like we should go ahead?
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Stephan Ewen <se...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi users!
>>>
>>> Flink currently maintains backwards compatibility for savepoint formats,
>>> which means that savepoints taken with Flink version 1.1.x and 1.2.x can be
>>> resumed in Flink 1.3.x
>>>
>>> We are discussing how many versions back to support. The proposition is
>>> the following:
>>>
>>> * Suggestion: Flink 1.4.0 will be able to resume savepoints taken with
>>> version 1.3.x and 1.2.x, but not savepoints from version 1.1.x and 1.0.x*
>>>
>>>
>>> The reason for that is that there is a lot of code mapping between the
>>> completely different legacy format (1.1.x, not re-scalable) and the
>>> key-group-oriented format (1.2.x onwards, re-scalable). It would greatly
>>> help the development of state and checkpointing features to drop that old
>>> code.
>>>
>>> Please let us know if you have concerns about that.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Stephan
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
