LINK-32326">FLINK-32326</a></li>
<li><a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-32345">FLINK-32345</a></li>
</ul>
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  Support for Java 17
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<p>Java 17 was released in 2021 and is the latest long-term support (LTS) release of Java with an end-of-life in 2029.
So, it was about time that Apache Flink added support for it. What does this mean concretely? As of Flink 1.18, you can
now run Apache Flink on Java 17 and t