[FLINK-9595] Add instructions to docs about ceased support of KPL version used in Kinesis connector

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.2, 1.5.0, 1.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.3, 1.5.1, 1.6.0
• Component/s: Connectors / Kinesis, Documentation
• Assignee: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
• Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
• Created: 15/Jun/18 08:47
• Updated: 22/Jun/18 10:19
• Resolved: 22/Jun/18 10:19

Description

The KPL version used in the Kinesis connector for FlinkKinesisProducer is not longer supported by AWS Kinesis Streams: http://apache-flink-mailing-list-archive.1008284.n3.nabble.com/DISCUSS-Flink-1-4-and-below-STOPS-writing-to-Kinesis-after-June-12th-td22687.html#a22701

We should add a notice about this to the Kinesis connectors, and how to bypass it by specifying the KPL version when building the Kinesis connector.