[ANNOUNCE] Apache Flink Stateful Functions 2.2.0 released

[Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai]

The Apache Flink community is very happy to announce the release of Apache Flink Stateful Functions 2.2.0.

Stateful Functions is an API that simplifies the building of distributed stateful applications with a runtime built for serverless architectures.
It's based on functions with persistent state that can interact dynamically with strong consistency guarantees.

Please check out the release blog post for an overview of the release:
https://flink.apache.org/news/2020/09/28/release-statefun-2.2.0.html

The release is available for download at:
https://flink.apache.org/downloads.html

Maven artifacts for Stateful Functions can be found at:
https://search.maven.org/search?q=g:org.apache.flink%20statefun

Python SDK for Stateful Functions published to the PyPI index can be found at:
https://pypi.org/project/apache-flink-statefun/

Official Docker image for building Stateful Functions applications is currently being published to Docker Hub. Progress for creating the Docker Hub repository can be tracked at:
https://github.com/docker-library/official-images/pull/7749

In the meantime, before the official Docker images are available,
Ververica has volunteered to make Stateful Function's images available for the community via their public registry:
https://hub.docker.com/r/ververica/flink-statefun

The full release notes are available in Jira:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12315522&version=12348350

We would like to thank all contributors of the Apache Flink community who made this release possible!

Cheers,
Gordon