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+---
+title: "Apache Flink 1.20.5 Release Announcement"
+date: "2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z"
+aliases:
+- /news/2026/06/08/release-1.20.5.html
+authors:
+- yunfengzhou:
+ name: "Yunfeng Zhou"
+
+---
+
+The Apache Flink Community is pleased to announce the fifth bug fix release of the Flink 1.20 series.
+
+This release includes 3 bug fixes, vulnerability fixes, and minor improvements for Flink 1.20.
+Below you will find a list of all bug fixes and improvements (excluding improvements to the build infrastructure and build stability). For a complete list of all changes see:
+[JIRA](https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?version=12356854&projectId=12315522).
+
+We highly recommend all users upgrade to Flink 1.20.5 or higher.
+
+# Release Artifacts
+
+## Maven Dependencies
+
+```xml
+
+ org.apache.flink
+ flink-java
+ 1.20.5
+
+
+ org.apache.flink
+ flink-streaming-java
+ 1.20.5
+
+
+ org.apache.flink
+ flink-clients
+ 1.20.5
+
+```
+
+## Binaries
+
+You can find the binaries on the updated [Downloads page]({{< relref "downloads" >}}).
+
+## Docker Images
+
+* [library/flink](https://hub.docker.com/_/flink/tags?page=1&name=1.20.5) (official images)
+* [apache/flink](https://hub.docker.com/r/apache/flink/tags?page=1&name=1.20.5) (ASF repository)
+
+## PyPi
+
+* [apache-flink==1.20.5](https://pypi.org/project/apache-flink/1.20.5/)
+
+# Release Notes
+
+
+ Release Notes - Flink - Version 1.20.5
+
+
Bug
+
+
+- [FLINK-39534] - Upgrade pemja to 0.5.7
+
+- [FLINK-39753] - RocksDB ColumnFamilyOptions and LRUCache leak in Compactor
+
+
+
+ Improvement
+
+
diff --git a/docs/data/flink.yml b/docs/data/flink.yml
index 72bfcb5f23..0d3d1fe85d 100644
--- a/docs/data/flink.yml
+++ b/docs/data/flink.yml
@@ -43,13 +43,13 @@
source_release_sha512_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/flink/flink-2.0.2/flink-2.0.2-src.tgz.sha512"
1.20:
- name: "Apache Flink 1.20.4"
- binary_release_url: "https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/flink/flink-1.20.4/flink-1.20.4-bin-scala_2.12.tgz"
- binary_release_asc_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/flink/flink-1.20.4/flink-1.20.4-bin-scala_2.12.tgz.asc"
- binary_release_sha512_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/flink/flink-1.20.4/flink-1.20.4-bin-scala_2.12.tgz.sha512"
- source_release_url: "https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/flink/flink-1.20.4/flink-1.20.4-src.tgz"
- source_release_asc_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/flink/flink-1.20.4/flink-1.20.4-src.tgz.asc"
- source_release_sha512_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/flink/flink-1.20.4/flink-1.20.4-src.tgz.sha512"
+ name: "Apache Flink 1.20.5"
+ binary_release_url: "https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/flink/flink-1.20.5/flink-1.20.5-bin-scala_2.12.tgz"
+ binary_release_asc_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/flink/flink-1.20.5/flink-1.20.5-bin-scala_2.12.tgz.asc"
+ binary_release_sha512_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/flink/flink-1.20.5/flink-1.20.5-bin-scala_2.12.tgz.sha512"
+ source_release_url: "https://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.lua/flink/flink-1.20.5/flink-1.20.5-src.tgz"
+ source_release_asc_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/flink/flink-1.20.5/flink-1.20.5-src.tgz.asc"
+ source_release_sha512_url: "https://downloads.apache.org/flink/flink-1.20.5/flink-1.20.5-src.tgz.sha512"
release_notes_url: "https://nightlies.apache.org/flink/flink-docs-release-1.20/release-notes/flink-1.20"
1.19:
diff --git a/docs/data/release_archive.yml b/docs/data/release_archive.yml
index a505090ec6..718add0731 100644
--- a/docs/data/release_archive.yml
+++ b/docs/data/release_archive.yml
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
release_archive:
flink:
+ -
+ version_short: "1.20"
+ version_long: 1.20.5
+ release_date: 2026-06-03
-
version_short: "2.2"
version_long: 2.2.1