Dear community,
this is the weekly community update thread #29. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.
# Feature freeze Flink 1.6
The Flink community has cut off the release branch for Flink 1.6 [1]. From now on, the community will concentrate on fixing the last remaining release blockers before Flink 1.6 will be released.
# Flink 1.5.1 released
The Flink community has released the first bug fix release 1.5.1 [2] containing more than 60 fixes and improvements.
# Improve record serialization
Zhijiang kicked off a discussion about improving the way Flink serializes records into multiple result subpartitions [3]. His proposal aims at reducing redundant serialization overhead by sharing buffers across multiple subpartitions. Please join the discussion if you want to learn more.
Cheers,
Till
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