Impact Score: 5/10
Apache Airflow: Airflow 1.10.14, 2020-12-10
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 1.10.14. Source highlight: BugFix: Tasks with ``depends_on_past`` or ``task_concurrency`` are stuck (#12663)
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✨ New Features & Capabilities (3)
- Add metric for scheduling delay between first run task & expected start time (#9544)
- Add new-style 2.0 command names for Airflow 1.10.x (#12725)
- Add Kubernetes cleanup-pods CLI command for Helm Chart (#11802)
⚡ Performance & Enhancements (4)
- Update setup.py to get non-conflicting set of dependencies (#12636)
- Rename ``[scheduler] max_threads`` to ``[scheduler] parsing_processes`` (#12605)
- Don't let webserver run with dangerous config (#12747)
- Replace pkg_resources with importlib.metadata to avoid VersionConflict errors (#12694)
🔧 Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- BugFix: Tasks with ``depends_on_past`` or ``task_concurrency`` are stuck (#12663)
- Fix issue with empty Resources in executor_config (#12633)
- Fix: Deprecated config ``force_log_out_after`` was not used (#12661)
- Fix empty asctime field in JSON formatted logs (#10515)
- [AIRFLOW-2809] Fix security issue regarding Flask SECRET_KEY (#3651)
- [AIRFLOW-2884] Fix Flask SECRET_KEY security issue in www_rbac (#3729)
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Bug Fixes
- BugFix: Tasks with ``depends_on_past`` or ``task_concurrency`` are stuck (#12663)
- Fix issue with empty Resources in executor_config (#12633)
- Fix: Deprecated config ``force_log_out_after`` was not used (#12661)
- Fix empty asctime field in JSON formatted logs (#10515)
- [AIRFLOW-2809] Fix security issue regarding Flask SECRET_KEY (#3651)
- [AIRFLOW-2884] Fix Flask SECRET_KEY security issue in www_rbac (#3729)
- [AIRFLOW-2886] Generate random Flask SECRET_KEY in default config (#3738)
- Add missing comma in setup.py (#12790)
- Bugfix: Unable to import Airflow plugins on Python 3.8 (#12859)
- Fix setup.py missing comma in ``setup_requires`` (#12880)
- Don't emit first_task_scheduling_delay metric for only-once dags (#12835)
## Improvements
- Update setup.py to get non-conflicting set of dependencies (#12636)
- Rename ``[scheduler] max_threads`` to ``[scheduler] parsing_processes`` (#12605)
- Add metric for scheduling delay between first run task & expected start time (#9544)
- Add new-style 2.0 command names for Airflow 1.10.x (#12725)
- Add Kubernetes cleanup-pods CLI command for Helm Chart (#11802)
- Don't let webserver run with dangerous config (#12747)
- Replace pkg_resources with importlib.metadata to avoid VersionConflict errors (#12694)
## Doc only changes
- Clarified information about supported Databases