Overview of the most notable new features (in my opinion):<p>- Improved Memory Management and Configuration<p>- Reworked job submission (allowing things like Zeppelin or other interactive notebooks)<p>- Native Kubernetes integration (there's now multiple ways to submit Flink to K8s)<p>- Hive integration: Use your Hive tables, UDFs etc. in Flink SQL<p>- Full TPC-DS coverage for batch: this basically means Flink supports a lot of SQL syntax<p>- PyFlink supports user defined functions (based on Apache Beam's portability framework). This makes Flink's Python support really strong<p>... there are many more features in the announcement (1200 tickets were resolved)