Spring Edition¶
Apache Flink® Releases¶
From Apache Flink® 1.8 onwards every released major or minor version of our distribution of Apache Flink® is supported for three years from its initial release date.
| Version | Release Date | End of Support Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1.4.x | March 28, 2018 | March 28, 2019 |
| 1.5.x | July 3, 2018 | July 3, 2019 |
| 1.6.x | September 5, 2018 | September 5, 2019 |
| 1.7.x | December 18, 2018 | December 18, 2019 |
| 1.8.x | May 21, 2019 | May 21, 2022 |
| 1.9.x | October 15, 2019 | October 15, 2022 |
Supported Apache Flink® Components¶
For every minor and major version of Apache Flink®, Ververica supports a specific set of components of Apache Flink®.
| Apache Flink Version | 1.9 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core | |||||
| Deployment & Runtime (flink-runtime, flink-container, flink-core, flink-clients) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Flink WebUI (flink-runtime-web) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| YARN (flink-yarn) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| StateBackends | |||||
| RocksDB (flink-statebackend-rocksdb) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| FileSystem (flink-runtime) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Memory (flink-runtime) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Stable APIs | |||||
| CLI client (flink-client) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| v1 REST API (flink-runtime-web) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| DataStream API (flink-streaming-java, flink-streaming-scala) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Table API/SQL (flink-table-api-java(-bridge), flink-table-api-scala(-bridge)) | Y | Y | |||
| Table API/SQL Stack (flink-table-planner, flink-table-common, flink-sql-parser) | Y | Y | |||
| Pre 1.8 Table API/SQL (flink-table/flink-table-common) | Y | Y | Y | ||
| CEP library (flink-cep, flink-cep-scala) | Y | Y | Y | Y | (Y) |
| State Processor API (flink-cep, flink-cep-scala) | Y | ||||
| DataSet API (flink-java, flink-scala) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) |
| Queryable State (flink-queryable-state) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) |
| Connectors | |||||
| Apache Kafka 1.0+ (flink-connector-kafka, flink-sql-connector-kafka) | Y | Y | Y | ||
| Elasticsearch 6 (flink-connector-elasticsearch6, flink-sql-connector-elasticsearch6) | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Elasticsearch 5 (flink-connector-elasticsearch5) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | Y | Y |
| StreamingFileSink (flink-streaming-java) | Y | Y | Y | ||
| AWS Kinesis (flink-connector-kinesis) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Apache Kafka 0.10 (flink-connector-kafka-0.10, flink-sql-connector-kafka-0.10) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | Y | Y |
| Apache Kafka 0.11 (flink-connector-kafka-0.11, flink-sql-connector-kafka-0.11) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | Y | Y |
| Cassandra (flink-connector-cassandra) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) |
| Hbase (flink-hbase) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) |
| RabbitMQ (flink-connector-rabbitmq) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) |
| JDBC (flink-jdbc) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) |
| Hive (flink-connector-hive) | (Y) | (Y) | |||
| HCatalog (flink-hcatalog) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | |
| FileSystems | |||||
| AWS S3 (flink-s3-fs-hadoop, flink-s3-fs-presto) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Azure Blob Storage (flink-azure-fs-hadoop) | Y | ||||
| Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (flink-oss-fs-hadoop) | Y | ||||
| Input/Output Formats | |||||
| Apache Avro (flink-avro) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| Apache Parquet (flink-parquet) | Y | Y | Y | Y | |
| Metrics Reporters | |||||
| Datadog (flink-metrics-datadog) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| JMX (flink-metrics-jmx) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| InfluxDB (flink-metrics-influxdb) | Y | Y | |||
| Prometheus (flink-metrics-prometheus) | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
| statsd (flink-metrics-statsd) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) |
| Graphite (flink-metrics-graphite) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) | (Y) |
Y = Supported under SLAs, (Y) = Best-Effort Support
Java Compatibility¶
Each release of Apache Flink® supports one or more Java Versions.
| Apache Flink® Version | Java Version |
|---|---|
| 1.4 | 1.8 |
| 1.5 | 1.8 |
| 1.6 | 1.8 |
| 1.7 | 1.8 |
| 1.8 | 1.8 |
| 1.9 | 1.8 |