Announcing Apache Flink 1.1.0

August 4, 2016 -

Important: The Maven artifacts published with version 1.1.0 on Maven central have a Hadoop dependency issue. It is highly recommended to use 1.1.1 or 1.1.1-hadoop1 as the Flink version. The Apache Flink community is pleased to announce the availability of Flink 1.1.0. This release is the first major release in the 1.X.X series of releases, which maintains API compatibility with 1.0.0. This means that your applications written against stable APIs of Flink 1. ...

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Flink 1.1.1 Released

August 4, 2016 -

Today, the Flink community released Flink version 1.1.1. The Maven artifacts published on Maven central for 1.1.0 had a Hadoop dependency issue: No Hadoop 1 specific version (with version 1.1.0-hadoop1) was deployed and 1.1.0 artifacts have a dependency on Hadoop 1 instead of Hadoop 2. This was fixed with this release and we highly recommend all users to use this version of Flink by bumping your Flink dependencies to version 1. ...

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Stream Processing for Everyone with SQL and Apache Flink

May 24, 2016 -

The capabilities of open source systems for distributed stream processing have evolved significantly over the last years. Initially, the first systems in the field (notably Apache Storm) provided low latency processing, but were limited to at-least-once guarantees, processing-time semantics, and rather low-level APIs. Since then, several new systems emerged and pushed the state of the art of open source stream processing in several dimensions. Today, users of Apache Flink or Apache Beam can use fluent Scala and Java APIs to implement stream processing jobs that operate in event-time with exactly-once semantics at high throughput and low latency. ...

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Flink 1.0.3 Released

May 11, 2016 -

Today, the Flink community released Flink version 1.0.3, the third bugfix release of the 1.0 series. We recommend all users updating to this release by bumping the version of your Flink dependencies to 1.0.3 and updating the binaries on the server. You can find the binaries on the updated Downloads page. Fixed Issues # Bug # [FLINK-3790] [streaming] Use proper hadoop config in rolling sink [FLINK-3840] Remove Testing Files in RocksDB Backend [FLINK-3835] [optimizer] Add input id to JSON plan to resolve ambiguous input names [hotfix] OptionSerializer. ...

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Flink 1.0.2 Released

April 22, 2016 -

Today, the Flink community released Flink version 1.0.2, the second bugfix release of the 1.0 series. We recommend all users updating to this release by bumping the version of your Flink dependencies to 1.0.2 and updating the binaries on the server. You can find the binaries on the updated Downloads page. Fixed Issues # Bug # [FLINK-3657] [dataSet] Change access of DataSetUtils.countElements() to ‘public’ [FLINK-3762] [core] Enable Kryo reference tracking [FLINK-3732] [core] Fix potential null deference in ExecutionConfig#equals() [FLINK-3760] Fix StateDescriptor. ...

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Flink Forward 2016 Call for Submissions Is Now Open

April 14, 2016 -

We are happy to announce that the call for submissions for Flink Forward 2016 is now open! The conference will take place September 12-14, 2016 in Berlin, Germany, bringing together the open source stream processing community. Most Apache Flink committers will attend the conference, making it the ideal venue to learn more about the project and its roadmap and connect with the community. The conference welcomes submissions on everything Flink-related, including experiences with using Flink, products based on Flink, technical talks on extending Flink, as well as connecting Flink with other open source or proprietary software. ...

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Introducing Complex Event Processing (CEP) with Apache Flink

April 6, 2016 -

With the ubiquity of sensor networks and smart devices continuously collecting more and more data, we face the challenge to analyze an ever growing stream of data in near real-time. Being able to react quickly to changing trends or to deliver up to date business intelligence can be a decisive factor for a company’s success or failure. A key problem in real time processing is the detection of event patterns in data streams. ...

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Flink 1.0.1 Released

April 6, 2016 -

Today, the Flink community released Flink version 1.0.1, the first bugfix release of the 1.0 series. We recommend all users updating to this release by bumping the version of your Flink dependencies to 1.0.1 and updating the binaries on the server. You can find the binaries on the updated Downloads page. Fixed Issues # Bug [FLINK-3179] - Combiner is not injected if Reduce or GroupReduce input is explicitly partitioned [FLINK-3472] - JDBCInputFormat. ...

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Announcing Apache Flink 1.0.0

March 8, 2016 -

The Apache Flink community is pleased to announce the availability of the 1.0.0 release. The community put significant effort into improving and extending Apache Flink since the last release, focusing on improving the experience of writing and executing data stream processing pipelines in production. Flink version 1.0.0 marks the beginning of the 1.X.X series of releases, which will maintain backwards compatibility with 1.0.0. This means that applications written against stable APIs of Flink 1. ...

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Flink 0.10.2 Released

February 11, 2016 -

Today, the Flink community released Flink version 0.10.2, the second bugfix release of the 0.10 series. We recommend all users updating to this release by bumping the version of your Flink dependencies to 0.10.2 and updating the binaries on the server. Issues fixed # FLINK-3242: Adjust StateBackendITCase for 0.10 signatures of state backends FLINK-3236: Flink user code classloader as parent classloader from Flink core classes FLINK-2962: Cluster startup script refers to unused variable FLINK-3151: Downgrade to Netty version 4. ...

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