Ververica Platform 2.6.1

Release Date: 2021-12-17

Changelog

Apache Flink®

This release adds support for the latest patch releases of Apache Flink®, 1.12.7, 1.13.5 and 1.14.2. These releases upgrade the used version of Log4j to 2.16.0 in order to fix the recently discovered critical vulnerabilities.

Please check out the Apache Flink® release announcement for additional details.

• For Stream Edition the following Apache Flink® Docker images are available. Please check Ververica Platform Docker Images for all available Apache Flink® images and additional tags.

  • 1.12.7-stream1-scala_2.11-java8
  • 1.12.7-stream1-scala_2.11-java11
  • 1.12.7-stream1-scala_2.12-java8
  • 1.12.7-stream1-scala_2.12-java11
  • 1.13.5-stream1-scala_2.11-java8
  • 1.13.5-stream1-scala_2.11-java11
  • 1.13.5-stream1-scala_2.12-java8
  • 1.13.5-stream1-scala_2.12-java11
  • 1.14.2-stream1-scala_2.11-java8
  • 1.14.2-stream1-scala_2.11-java11
  • 1.14.2-stream1-scala_2.12-java8
  • 1.14.2-stream1-scala_2.12-java11

• For Spring Edition the following / archives are available

  • flink-1.12.7-spring1-scala_2.11.tgz
  • flink-1.12.7-spring1-scala_2.12.tgz
  • flink-1.13.5-spring1-scala_2.11.tgz
  • flink-1.13.5-spring1-scala_2.12.tgz
  • flink-1.14.2-spring1-scala_2.11.tgz
  • flink-1.14.2-spring1-scala_2.12.tgz

Vulnerability Fixes

• The following Log4j-related vulnerabilities have been fixed in the 1.12.7, 1.13.5 and 1.14.2 releases:
  • CVE-2021-44228
  • CVE-2021-45046

Vulnerability Fixes (outside of Apache Flink®)

• Log4j was upgraded to 2.16.0, fixing the related vulnerabilities:
  • CVE-2021-44228
  • CVE-2021-45046
• Logback was upgraded to 1.2.8

Improvements

Rest API

• For PUT operations to create or update Deployments, added a new optional boolean parameter applyDefaults that toggles whether defaults will be applied to the provided payload. If unspecified, defaults will be applied in case a new Deployment is created, but will not be applied in case an existing Deployment is updated.

Upgrade

We recommend upgrading via Helm using the following commands:

$ helm repo add ververica https://charts.ververica.com
$ helm repo update
$ helm upgrade [RELEASE] ververica/ververica-platform --version 5.2.1 --values custom-values.yaml