# Amazon EMR 7.9.0 - Flink release notes
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**Amazon EMR 7.9.0 - Flink Changes**


| Type | Description | 
| --- | --- | 
| New Feature | Starting with Amazon EMR 7.9.0, Apache Flink provides out-of-the-box support for Avro, Parquet, and ORC file formats. You can use these formats directly with any Flink API (DataStream, Table, or SQL) without requiring any additional configuration. | 
| New Feature | Starting with Amazon EMR version 7.9.0, you can enable Hive metastore or AWS Glue data catalogs more easily by using configuration settings. Add either `hive.enabled: true` or `glue.enabled: true` in the `flink-conf` classification during cluster creation to automatically configure the respective data catalog. This streamlined approach eliminates the manual configuration steps that were previously required. |