a compelling alternative to Cloud Dataflow when running on premise or on non-Google clouds&rdquo;</a>.</p>
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  Feature Timeline in 2016
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<p>Here’s a selection of major features added to Flink over the course of 2016:</p>
<img src="/img/blog/flink-releases-2016.png" width="775" alt="Flink Release Timeline 2016"/>
<p>If you spend time in the <a href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FLINK-4554?jql=project%2