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Summary

Monthly community update blog post for April 2026, covering March 2026 activity.

  • Hot topics: Flink 2.3 release, Flink CDC 3.6.0, documentation re-structure, native S3 connector
  • Developer/technical updates: Table API & SQL, Runtime, Checkpointing, Metrics, Python
  • User-facing updates: CDC 3.6.0 and Agents 0.2.1 releases, documentation
  • Governance: FLIP activity (558, 557, 561, 551, 332, 267) and dev list

Format follows the March 2026 post (#832).

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Enhanced readability of the April 2026 Flink Community update by breaking long paragraphs into shorter ones for better clarity.
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thanks for doing this @jlpayne72!
I've left some notes and suggestions.

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jlpayne72 and others added 2 commits April 14, 2026 16:31
Co-authored-by: Robin Moffatt <robin@rmoff.net>
Defined what a FLIP Is for new readers
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I see links to FLIPs which are completely abandoned e.g. FLIP-267, FLIP-332
others I didn't check

please mention only those where the activity is present

jlpayne72 and others added 5 commits April 14, 2026 16:39
Co-authored-by: Sergey Nuyanzin <snuyanzin@confluent.io>
Removed documentation section detailing March updates.
Moved developer updates to user-facing updates section, ensuring clarity in the community update.
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8 hardcoded flink.apache.org links should be changed to relative paths (lines 28, 38, 88, 100, 128, 131, 132, 136)

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I have agreed with @jlpayne72 to take this over and address the outstanding comments. @snuyanzin @rmoff I hope to have something for you to review tomorrow (I know we have missed April), but we should get this out asap - and I can then get started on the May blog!

Signed-off-by: david_radley@uk.ibm.com <david_radley@uk.ibm.com>
@davidradl davidradl requested review from rmoff and snuyanzin May 1, 2026 10:20
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@jlpayne72 @snuyanzin @rmoff I have address the issues I could see- please review. I hope to get this out asap , ideally getting an approve from one of you so an can merge - but I will obviously address any issues you see with it prior to that.

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@rmoff Thanks for the quick input - I did not get to this yesterday. I have made changes in response to yu suggestions. WDYT?

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