[ANNOUNCE] Weekly community update #41

[Till Rohrmann]

Dear community,

this is the weekly community update thread #41. Please post any news and updates you want to share with the community to this thread.

# Feature freeze for Flink 1.7

The community has decided to freeze the feature development for Flink 1.7.0 on the 22nd of October [1].

# Flink operators for Kubernetes

Anand sent out a note that Lyft is building a K8s Operator for Flink [2]. If the community is interested, they would be willing to open source it.

# Scala 2.12 support requires breaking the API 

Aljoscha, who works on enabling Scala 2.12 for Flink, found out that bumping the Scala version requires breaking API changes [3]. The community is currently discussing how to proceed, especially wrt the upcoming release.

# Flink web dashboard improvement proposal

Fabian started a discussion about improving Flink's web dashboard to display more cluster information [4]. He also attached a quick mock how things could look like.

[1] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE-Feature-freeze-for-Flink-1-7-22nd-of-October-tp24477.html

[2] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/Flink-operators-for-Kubernetes-tp24440.html

[3] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Breaking-the-Scala-API-for-Scala-2-12-Support-tp24464.html

[4] http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Flink-Cluster-Overview-Dashboard-Improvement-Proposal-tp24531.html

Cheers,

Till