[ANNOUNCE] Weekly community update #30

[Till Rohrmann]

Dear community,

this is the weekly community update thread #30. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.

# First RC for Flink 1.6.0

The community is published the first release candidate for Flink 1.6.0 [1]. Please help the community by trying the RC out and reporting potential problems with it.

# First RC for Flink 1.5.2

The community is published the first release candidate for Flink 1.5.2 [2]. This minor release contains several bug fixes which you can find here [3]. The community highly appreciates if you could try this RC out.

# Program for Flink Forward Berlin 2018 

The program for Flink Forward Berlin 2018 has been announced [4]. As every year, Flink Forward Berlin is a great opportunity for the community to meet each other in person, learn new things about Flink and its use cases and to discuss the project's future direction.

[1] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-1-6-0-release-candidate-1-tp23440.html

[2] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/VOTE-Release-1-5-2-release-candidate-1-tp23446.html

[3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=12315522&version=12343588

[4] https://berlin-2018.flink-forward.org/conference-program

Cheers,

Till