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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
 
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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
 
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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
  • Blog: The 2026 Astronomer Data Excellence Awards
  • Blog: Best Practices Learned From Scaling AI at Oracle
  • Guide: Data quality and Airflow
  • Blog: How to build a decision tracing context graph with Apache Airflow®
  • Blog: Dag-Level Roles on Astro: Fine-Grained Access for Enterprise Airflow
  • Blog: Expedia’s Multi-Tenant Platform at 200+ Clusters, 14,000+ Pipelines
  • Blog: Introducing AI Agent Tooling: Bringing Airflow Intelligence to Your Local Workflow
 
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
  • Podcast: Modern Airflow Best Practices for Scalable Data Pipelines with Bhavani Ravi
  • Podcast: Uphold’s Approach to Orchestrating Modern Data Workflows with Jaime Oliveira
  • Podcast: Building Event-Driven Data Pipelines With Airflow 3 at Astrafy ft. Andrea Bombino
Dev List Digest
Votes:
  • AIP-94 Decouple Remote Commands from airflow CLI (to airflowctl)
  • Release Apache Airflow Helm Chart 1.19.0 based on 1.19.0rc3
  • February 2026 Rookie PR of the Month
  • Change the way we approach assignments
  • Suspend Apache Beam provider due to grpcio limitation
 
Discussed:
  • Move Airflow Server Components into airflow.core.* namespace
  • Expanding Deadline Alert Reference types (AIP-86)
  • Reworking dag run and task OTEL spans
  • Stop assigning unknown contributors to issues (AI-slop prevention)
  • Apache Airflow Provider Registry: a searchable catalog of all providers and modules
  • AIP-102: Reproducible Benchmarks and Conformance for AI Capabilities
  • Task Group Retries
  • Counting "Deferred" task status as running in general?
  • Execution API access control for multi-team (AIP-67)
  • Suspend Apache Beam Provider due to grpcio limitation
  • Active approach to fighting with AI slop (while keeping maintainers in the driving seat)
  • Move connection testing to workers
  • [AIP-86] Deadline Callback queuing and priority

Proposed:
  • New Provider: Informatica - AIP-95
  • Help Define Translation Agent Skills for Airflow Terminology
  • Multi-team - Testing

Announced:
  • Apache Airflow Providers prepared on 2026-01-27 are released
  • Apache Airflow 3.1.7 Released
  • Korea Apache Airflow 5th Meetup(Agenda Confirmed) – Feb 26, Seoul
  • Apache Airflow Providers prepared on 2026-02-10 are released
  • Apache Airflow 2.11.1 and Fab provider 1.5.4 Released
  • Change applied to container images 2.11.1 and constraints for 2.11.1
  • Migrating provider connection UI metadata to YAML
  • Apache Airflow CTl 0.1.2 from 0.1.2rc1 released
  • Community Over Code with Airflow Contributor Days in Glasgow, October 11-14, 2026 (CFP is open till 20 March)
  • New: AGENTS.md overhaul + Copilot catches AI-slop PRs automatically
  • Updates on Ruff AIR Rules
  • Airflow 2.11.1 - Python 3.12 constraints and image updated today
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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