[ANNOUNCE] Weekly community update #39

[Till Rohrmann]

Dear community,

this is the weekly community update thread #39. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.

# Flink 1.6.1 and Flink 1.5.4 released

The community has released new bug fix releases: Flink 1.6.1 and Flink 1.5.4 [1, 2].

# Open source review process contd

The Flink community continues to discuss how to improve PR reviews and to help our contributors. The discussion is now spread across three threads [3, 4, 5] for those of you interested in following.

# Continuous Flink benchmarks

Piotr and Nico are running already for quite some time continuous benchmarks for Flink to see how performance is affected by new commits [6]. The web-ui of the benchmark suite can be accessed here [7].

[1] https://flink.apache.org/news/2018/09/20/release-1.6.1.html

[2] https://flink.apache.org/news/2018/09/20/release-1.5.4.html

[3] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Contributing-1-Pull-Request-Template-tp24266.html

[4] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Contributing-2-Review-Steps-tp24268.html

[5] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Contributing-3-Review-Tooling-tp24269.html

[6] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Codespeed-deployment-for-Flink-tp24274.html

[7] http://codespeed.dak8s.net:8000/

Cheers,

Till