Hi Konstantin, Happy holidays and thanks a lot for your great job on the updates continuously. With the updates, it is easier for us to catch up with what's going on in the community, which I think is quite helpful.
I'm wondering if I can do some help and cover this during your vocation. :) Best, Hequn On Sun, Dec 15, 2019 at 11:36 PM Konstantin Knauf <konstan...@ververica.com> wrote: > Dear community, > > happy to share this week's brief community digest with updates on Flink > 1.8.3 and Flink 1.10, a discussion on how to facilitate easier Flink/Hive > setups, a couple of blog posts and a bit more. > > *Personal Note:* Thank you for reading these updates since I started them > early this year. I will take a three week Christmas break and will be back > with a Holiday season community update on the 12th of January. > > Flink Development > ============== > > * [releases] Apache Flink 1.8.3 was released on Wednesday. [1,2] > > * [releases] The feature freeze for Apache Flink took place on Monday. The > community is now working on testing, bug fixes and improving the > documentation in order to create a first release candidate soon. [3] > > * [development process] Seth has revived the discussion on a past PR by > Marta, which added a documentation style guide to the contributor guide. > Please check it [4] out, if you are contributing documentation to Apache > Flink. [5] > > * [security] Following a recent report to the Flink PMC of "exploiting" > the Flink Web UI for remote code execution, Robert has started a discussion > on how to improve the tooling/documentation to make users aware of this > possibility and recommend securing this interface in production setups. [6] > > * [sql] Bowen has started a discussion on how to simplify the Flink-Hive > setup for new users as currently users need to add some additional > dependencies to the classpath manually. The discussion seems to conclude > towards providing a single additional hive-uber jar, which contains all the > required dependencies. [7] > > [1] https://flink.apache.org/news/2019/12/11/release-1.8.3.html > [2] > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Apache-Flink-1-8-3-released-tp35868.html > [3] > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Feature-freeze-for-Apache-Flink-1-10-0-release-tp35139.html > [4] https://github.com/apache/flink-web/pull/240 > [5] > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Flink-Docs-Style-Guide-Review-tp35758.html > [6] > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Improve-documentation-tooling-around-security-of-Flink-tp35898.html > [7] > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-have-separate-Flink-distributions-with-built-in-Hive-dependencies-tp35918.html > > Notable Bugs > ========== > > [FLINK-15152] [1.9.1] When a "stop" action on a job fails, because not all > tasks are in "RUNNING" state the job is not checkpointing afterwards. [8] > > [8] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-15152 > > Events, Blog Posts, Misc > =================== > > * Zhu Zhu is now an Apache Flink Comitter. Congratulations! [9] > > * Gerred Dillon has published a blog post on the Apache Flink blog on how > to run Flink on Kubernetes with a KUDO Flink operator. [10] > > * In this blog post Apache Flink PMC Sun Jincheng outlines the reasons and > motivation for his and his colleague's work to provide a world-class Python > support for Apache Flink's Table API. [11] > > * Upcoming Meetups > * On December 17th there will be the second Apache Flink meetup in > Seoul. [12] *Dongwon* has shared a detailed agenda in last weeks > community update. [13] > * On December 18th Alexander Fedulov will talk about Stateful Stream > Processing with Apache Flink at the Java Professionals Meetup in Minsk. [14] > > [9] > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Zhu-Zhu-becomes-a-Flink-committer-tp35944.html > [10] https://flink.apache.org/news/2019/12/09/flink-kubernetes-kudo.html > [11] > https://developpaper.com/why-will-apache-flink-1-9-0-support-the-python-api/ > [12] https://www.meetup.com/Seoul-Apache-Flink-Meetup/events/266824815/ > [13] > http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Weekly-Community-Update-2019-48-td35423.html > [14] https://www.meetup.com/Apache-Flink-Meetup-Minsk/events/267134296/ > > Cheers, > > Konstantin (@snntrable) > > -- > > Konstantin Knauf | Solutions Architect > > +49 160 91394525 > > > Follow us @VervericaData Ververica <https://www.ververica.com/> > > > -- > > Join Flink Forward <https://flink-forward.org/> - The Apache Flink > Conference > > Stream Processing | Event Driven | Real Time > > -- > > Ververica GmbH | Invalidenstrasse 115, 10115 Berlin, Germany > > -- > Ververica GmbH > Registered at Amtsgericht Charlottenburg: HRB 158244 B > Managing Directors: Timothy Alexander Steinert, Yip Park Tung Jason, Ji > (Tony) Cheng >