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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
1.10.x	March 9, 2020	March 9, 2023
1.11.x	August 4, 2020	August 4, 2023
1.12.x	March 10, 2021	March 10, 2024
1.13.x	May 3, 2021	May 3, 2024
1.14.x	September 29, 2021	September 29, 2024
1.15.x	May 5, 2022	May 5, 2025

Supported Apache Flink® Components

For every minor and major version of Apache Flink®, Ververica supports a specific set of components of Apache Flink®.

Y = Supported under SLAs, (Y) = Best-Effort Support

Core

Apache Flink® Version	1.15	1.14	1.13
Deployment & Runtime (flink-runtime, flink-container, flink-core, flink-clients)	Y	Y	Y
Flink WebUI (flink-runtime-web)	Y	Y	Y
Apache Hadoop® YARN (flink-yarn)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)
External Resource Management (flink-external-resources, flink-external-resources-gpu)	Y	Y	Y
Kubernetes HighAvailabilityServices (vvp-flink-ha-kubernetes)	Y	Y	Y

State Backends

Apache Flink® Version	1.15	1.14	1.13
RocksDB (flink-statebackend-rocksdb)	Y	Y	Y
FileSystem (flink-runtime)	Y	Y	Y
Memory (flink-runtime)	Y	Y	Y

Stable APIs

Apache Flink® Version	1.15	1.14	1.13
CLI client (flink-client)	Y	Y	Y
v1 REST API (flink-runtime-web)	Y	Y	Y
DataStream API (flink-streaming-java, flink-streaming-scala)	Y	Y	Y
DataStream API BATCH Execution Mode	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)
Table API/SQL (flink-table-common, flink-table-api-java(-bridge), flink-table-api-scala(-bridge))	Y	Y	Y
Table API/SQL Stack (flink-table-planner, flink-table-runtime, flink-sql-parser)*	Y	Y	Y
CEP library (flink-cep, flink-cep-scala)	Y	Y	Y
State Processor API (flink-state-processor-api)	Y	Y	Y
DataSet API (flink-java, flink-scala)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)
Queryable State (flink-queryable-state)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)

Note

The Table API/SQL Stack modules have been renamed in Flink 1.14. This means that flink-table-planner-blink and flink-table-runtime-blink have been renamed to flink-table-planner and flink-table-runtime. Support for the legacy flink-table-planner already ended since 1.12.

Catalogs

Apache Flink® Version	1.15	1.14	1.13
Ververica Platform Built-In Catalog	Y	Y	Y
Apache Hive®	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)
JDBC	Y	Y	Y

Connectors

Apache Flink® Version	1.15		1.14		1.13
Java Version	1.8	11	1.8	11	1.8	11
Connector API (flink-connector-base)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Apache Kafka® 1.0+ (flink-connector-kafka, flink-sql-connector-kafka)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Elasticsearch® 7 (flink-connector-elasticsearch7, flink-sql-connector-elasticsearch7)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Elasticsearch® 6 (flink-connector-elasticsearch6, flink-sql-connector-elasticsearch6)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Elasticsearch® 5 (flink-connector-elasticsearch5)			(Y)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)
FileSystem (flink-connector-files)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
StreamingFileSink (flink-streaming-java)	(Y)	(Y)	Y	Y	Y	Y
File Sink Common (flink-file-sink-common)					Y	Y
AWS Firehose (flink-connector-aws-kinesis-firehose, flink-sql-connector-aws-kinesis-firehose)	Y	Y
AWS Kinesis (flink-connector-aws-kinesis-streams, flink-sql-connector-aws-kinesis-streams)	Y	Y
AWS Kinesis (flink-connector-kinesis, flink-sql-connector-kinesis)	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
GCP PubSub (flink-connector-gcp-pubsub)	(Y)		(Y)		(Y)
Apache Cassandra® (flink-connector-cassandra)	(Y)		(Y)		(Y)
Apache HBase® (flink-hbase)	(Y)		(Y)		(Y)
RabbitMQ (flink-connector-rabbitmq)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)
JDBC (flink-connector-jdbc)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)
Apache Hive® (flink-connector-hive)	(Y)		(Y)		(Y)
Apache HCatalog® (flink-hcatalog)	(Y)		(Y)		(Y)
Apache Pulsar® (flink-connector-pulsar)	Y		Y
HybridSource (flink-connector-base)	Y	Y	Y	Y

Input/Output Formats

Apache Flink® Version	1.15	1.14	1.13
Apache Avro® (flink-avro)	Y	Y	Y
Apache Avro® Confluent® (flink-avro-confluent-registry)	Y	Y	Y
Apache Parquet® (flink-parquet)	Y	Y	Y
Json (flink-json)	Y	Y	Y
Apache ORC® (flink-orc)	Y	Y	Y

File Systems

Apache Flink® Version	1.15	1.14	1.13
AWS S3 (flink-s3-fs-hadoop, flink-s3-fs-presto)	Y	Y	Y
Azure Blob Storage (flink-azure-fs-hadoop)	Y	Y	Y
Alibaba Cloud Object Storage Service (flink-oss-fs-hadoop)	Y	Y	Y

Metric Reporters

Apache Flink® Version	1.15	1.14	1.13
Datadog (flink-metrics-datadog)	Y	Y	Y
JMX (flink-metrics-jmx)	Y	Y	Y
InfluxDB (flink-metrics-influxdb)	Y	Y	Y
Prometheus (flink-metrics-prometheus)	Y	Y	Y
statsd (flink-metrics-statsd)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)
Graphite (flink-metrics-graphite)	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)

Java Compatibility

Each release of Apache Flink® supports one or more Java Versions.

Apache Flink® Version	Java Version
1.8	1.8
1.9	1.8
1.10	1.8
1.11	1.8
1.12	1.8, 11
1.13	1.8, 11
1.14	1.8, 11
1.15	1.8, 11