# Apache Airflow 2.10.3 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 2.10.3
- **Released:** Nov 05, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/2.10.3/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 2.10.3. Source highlight: No significant changes.

## New Features
- Add templating info to TaskFlow tutorial (#42992)

## Bug Fixes
- Improves the handling of value masking when setting Airflow variables for enhanced security.  (#43123) (#43278)
- Adds support for task_instance_mutation_hook to handle mapped operators with index 0. (#42661) (#43089)
- Fixes executor cleanup to properly handle zombie tasks when task instances are terminated. (#43065)
- Adds retry logic for HTTP 502 and 504 errors in internal API calls to handle webserver startup issues. (#42994) (#43044)
- Restores the use of separate sessions for writing and deleting RTIF data to prevent StaleDataError. (#42928) (#43012)
- Fixes PythonOperator error by replacing hyphens with underscores in DAG names. (#42993)