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To create your own FLIP, click on "Create" on the header and choose "FLIP-Template" other than "Blank page".

Purpose

The purpose of FLIPs is to have a central place to collect and document planned major enhancements to Apache Flink. While JIRA is still the tool to track tasks, bugs, and progress, the FLIPs give an accessible high level overview of the result of design discussions and proposals. Think of FLIPs as collections of major design documents for user-relevant changes.

We want to make Flink a core architectural component for users. We also support a large number of integrations with other tools, systems, and clients. Keeping this kind of usage healthy requires a high level of compatibility between releases — core architectural elements can't break compatibility or shift functionality from release to release. As a result each new major feature or public api API has to be done in a way that we can stick with it going forward.

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