# Apache Airflow 1.7.0 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 1.7.0
- **Released:** Mar 28, 2016
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/1.7.0/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 1.7.0. Source highlight: for the record, generated with:

## New Features
- #1110 Add date support to MySQL to GCS operator (@criccomini)
- #1135 Added start_date initialization for DagRun creation within schedule_dag(self, dag_id) (@RvN76)
- #1138 Add support for BigQuery User Defined Functions in BigQuery operator (@LeBlanc)
- #1132 Add custom email backends. (@jmcarp)
- #1119 Add gcloud-based GCSHook (@jlowin)
- #1045 Add startup scripts for upstart based systems (@d-lee)

## Improvements
- #1147 Enhance CLI Test command to accept a JSON-formatted dictionary of par… (@r39132)
- #1055 Improve [Hide/Show all series] perforamce (@lumengxi)

## Bug Fixes
- #1143 small fixes to previous bq project inclusion pr. (@mtagle)
- #1115 This patch adds license checking for Airflow. (@bolkedebruin)
- #1088 Fix MySQL to Google cloud storage scoping. (@criccomini)
- #1013 Fixed issue 1012: pool not used with celery executor (@rdavison)
- #995 Fix LDAP error messages when login fails. (@criccomini)
- #1006 Fix forgetting to expose yesterday_ds_nodash and tomorrow_ds_nodash (@0xR)