# Apache Airflow 2.1.3 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 2.1.3
- **Released:** Sep 11, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/2.1.3/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 2.1.3. Source highlight: Fix task retries when they receive ``sigkill`` and have retries and properly handle ``sigterm`` (#16301)

## New Features
- Add State types for tasks and DAGs (#15285)

## Improvements
- Run mini scheduler in ``LocalTaskJob`` during task exit (#16289)
- Remove ``SQLAlchemy<1.4`` constraint (#16630)
- Bump Jinja2 upper-bound from 2.12.0 to 4.0.0 (#16595)
- Bump ``dnspython`` (#16698)
- Updates to ``FlaskAppBuilder`` 3.3.2+ (#17208)
- Set Process title for Worker when using ``LocalExecutor`` (#16623)

## Bug Fixes
- Fix task retries when they receive ``sigkill`` and have retries and properly handle ``sigterm`` (#16301)
- Fix redacting secrets in context exceptions. (#17618)
- Fix race condition with dagrun callbacks (#16741)
- Add 'queued' to DagRunState (#16854)
- Add 'queued' state to DagRun (#16401)
- Fix external elasticsearch logs link (#16357)