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Ververica Platform Versions

From Ververica Platform 2.0 onwards every released major or minor version is supported for three years from the date of its general availability. Earlier versions are supported for one year.

Version	Release Date	End of Support Date
1.0.x	March 28, 2018	March 28, 2019
1.1.x	July 3, 2018	July 3, 2019
1.2.x	September 5, 2018	September 5, 2019
1.3.x	December 18, 2018	December 18, 2019
1.4.x	May 21, 2019	May 21, 2020
2.0.x	October 15, 2019	October 15, 2022
2.1.x	March 9, 2020	March 9, 2023
2.2.x	August 4, 2020	August 4, 2023
2.3.x	October 21, 2020	October 21, 2023
2.4.x	March 10, 2021	March 10, 2024
2.5.x	June 11, 2021	June 11, 2024
2.6.x	November 2, 2021	November 2, 2024
2.7.x	July 6, 2022	July 6, 2025
2.8.x	September 29, 2022	September 29, 2025
2.9.x	December 21, 2022	December 21, 2025
2.10.x	February 21, 2023	February 21, 2026
2.11.x	July 26, 2023	July 26, 2026
2.12.x	December 22, 2023	December 22, 2026

Ververica Platform Components

Every version of Ververica Platform bundles its components including Apache Flink® in a specific version.

VVP Version	Apache Flink®	Apache Flink® SQL
1.0	1.4	-
1.1	1.4/1.5	-
1.2	1.5/1.6	-
1.3	1.6/1.7	-
1.4	1.7/1.8	-
2.0	1.8/1.9	-
2.1	1.9/1.10	-
2.2	(1.9)/1.10/1.11	-
2.3	(1.9)/1.10/1.11	1.11 (1.11.6-stream2-scala_2.12)
2.4	(1.10)/1.11/1.12	1.12 (1.12.7-stream2-scala_2.12-java8)
2.5	(1.11)/1.12/1.13	1.13 (1.13.6-stream1-scala_2.12-java8)
2.6	(1.12)/1.13/1.14	1.14 (1.14.6-stream2-scala_2.12-java8)
2.7	(1.13)/1.14/1.15	1.15 (1.15.1-stream1-scala_2.12-java8)
2.8	(1.13)/1.14/1.15	1.15 (1.15.2-stream4-scala_2.12-java8)
2.9	(1.13)/1.14/1.15	1.15 (1.15.3-stream2-scala_2.12-java8)
2.10	(1.14)/1.15/1.16	1.16 (1.15.4-stream1-scala_2.12-java8)
2.11	(1.15)/1.16/1.17	1.17 (1.17.1-stream2-scala_2.12-java8)
2.12	(1.16)/1.17/1.18	1.18 (1.18.0-stream1-scala_2.12-java8)

(1.x) = Best-Effort Support

Supported Apache Flink® Components

For every minor and major version of Apache Flink® Ververica supports a specific set of components of Apache Flink®. All components are supported by the Java 8 and Java 11 images if not stated otherwise.

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

Core

Apache Flink® Version	1.18	1.17	1.16
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	1.18	1.17	1.16
RocksDB (flink-statebackend-rocksdb)	Y	Y	Y
FileSystem (flink-runtime)	Y	Y	Y
Memory (flink-runtime)	Y	Y	Y

Stable APIs

Apache Flink® Version	1.18	1.17	1.16
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	1.18	1.17	1.16
Ververica Platform Built-In Catalog	Y	Y	Y
Apache Hive®	(Y)	(Y)	(Y)
JDBC	Y	Y	Y

Connectors

Apache Flink® Version / Java Version	1.18 / 1.8	1.18 / 11	1.17 / 1.8	1.17 / 11	1.16 / 1.8	1.16 / 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	1.18	1.17	1.16
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	1.18	1.17	1.16
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	1.18	1.17	1.16
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)

Kubernetes Compatibility

Ververica Platform relies on Kubernetes as its underlying resource manager. Every minor and major release of Ververica Platform is compatible to a specific range of Kubernetes versions.

VVP Version	Kubernetes Version	Open Shift Container Platform
1.0	1.8+	3.9+
1.1	1.8+	3.9+
1.2	1.8+	3.9+
1.3	1.9+	3.9+
1.4	1.9+	3.9+
2.0	1.11+	3.11
2.1	1.11+	3.11
2.2	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.3	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.4	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.5	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.6	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.7	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.8	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.9	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.10	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.11	1.11+	3.11/4.1+
2.12	1.11+	3.11/4.1+

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
1.16	1.8, 11
1.17	1.8, 11
1.18	1.8, 11