[ANNOUNCE] Weekly community update #27

[Till Rohrmann]

Dear community,

this is the weekly community update thread #27. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.

# Feature freeze and release date for Flink 1.6

The community is currently discussing the feature freeze and, thus, also the release date for Flink 1.6 [1] which will happen soon. Join the discussion to learn more and voice your opinion.

# DynamoDB connector

The community currently discusses the possibility to extend the existing FlinkKinesisConsumer to also consume date from DynamoDB [2]. If you have ideas or experience with DynamoDB then please join the thread.

[1] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Feature-freeze-for-Flink-1-6-td23010.html

[2] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Consuming-data-from-dynamoDB-streams-to-flink-td22963.html

Cheers,

Till