New year, same incredible momentum. After kicking things off with a strong January full of releases, community milestones, and Summit excitement, February kept the energy high and the progress rolling. The Airflow community continues to build, ship, and celebrate together. Here’s a quick look at what February had in store:

We released Apache Airflow 3.1.7
Pavan kumar Gopidesu became a PMC Member
And we received a ton of amazing submissions to speak at Airflow Summit 2026! Submit yours today!

Airflow Summit 2026

Airflow Summit 2026 is coming to Austin, TX!

Where: Austin, TX, Hyatt Regency Austin
When: August 31 – September 2, 2026

Registration is now open.
Super Early-Bird tickets are available for a limited time. Get your discounted ticket.

Call for Proposals is also open.
Have a story, use case, or hard-earned lesson to share? We’d love to hear from you. Submit your talk.

We can’t wait to bring the global Apache Airflow community back together in Austin!

Releases & Doc Improvements

Airflow 3.1.7 was released on February 9th and includes:

PyPI | Release Notes | Docs | Constraints

Providers
New versions of 49 Airflow Providers packages were released.
For all source releases, PyPI packages and docs, see:

Sources | PyPI | Docs

Upcoming Events

Virtual

3/4 Webinar: Stopping bad data before it breaks your Airflow pipelines
3/6 Webinar: Airflow Monthly Town-Hall
3/19 Webinar: How to run Airflow-as-a-Service in regulated environments
3/26 Workshop: Building ETL/ELT pipelines with Apache Airflow® 3

In Person

3/24 Meetup in Los Angeles: The State of Airflow 2026
8/31-9/2 Conference in Austin: Airflow Summit 2026

Recent Events

Virtual

2/5 Webinar: The State of Apache Airflow 2026
2/6 Webinar: Airflow Monthly Town Hall
2/10 Webinar: Building Production Geospatial Pipelines with Airflow and Wherobots
2/11 Webinar: Data Orchestration in Azure: Patterns for Scale and Reliability
2/19 Webinar: Best practices for writing ETL/ELT pipelines

In Person

2/11 Meetup in Seattle: The State of Airflow 2026
2/12 Meetup in Stuttgart: The State of Airflow 2026
2/18 Meetup in Los Angeles: The State of Airflow 2026
2/26 Meetup in Seoul: Airflow 5th Meetup @Seoul, Hanbit

PR of the Month

PR #54103: Include the max_active_tasks limit in the
query fetching TIs to be queued

Congratulations to Christos Bisias on winning PR of the Month for PR #54103

This PR ensures the max_active_tasks limit is respected when queuing TaskInstances, improving scheduler correctness and robustness.

Rookie PR of the Month

PR #57610: Informatica provider

Congrats Gökhan Çetin on winning Rookie PR of the Month for PR #57610

This PR adds the Informatica Provider to Airflow and reflects significant community collaboration, with extensive discussion alongside AIP-95 to establish clearer guidelines for introducing new providers.

Communications Digest

Read

Watch

Webinar: The State of Apache Airflow 2026
Youtube: Upgrade from #airflow 2 to 3 with Astronomer's #ai agent tooling
Webinar: Data Orchestration in Azure: Patterns for Scale and Reliability

Listen

Dev List Digest

Votes:

Discussed:

Proposed:

Announced:

In-Development

See the Wiki for more of the project’s approved AIPs.

AIP-59 Performance test framework
AIP-72 Task Execution Interface aka Task SDK
AIP-73 Expanded Data Awareness

Airflow Fact of the Month

Did you know that February is the only month that can pass without a full moon? Because it’s the shortest month of the year, there are rare times when the lunar cycle skips it entirely — something that can’t happen in any other month.

Source: NASA

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