Apache Flink 2.0.0 is out, marking a major milestone with significant improvements for cloud-native environments, stream-batch unification, and AI workloads. Key features include Disaggregated State Management, Materialized Tables, Adaptive Batch Execution, enhanced Streaming Lakehouse integration with Paimon, and experimental AI model invocation. This release also introduces the DataStream V2 API (experimental) and removes deprecated APIs, including DataSet API, and requires Java 11 or higher.
