# Apache Airflow 2.2.3 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 2.2.3
- **Released:** Dec 21, 2021
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/2.2.3/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 2.2.3. Source highlight: Lazy Jinja2 context (#20217)

## New Features
- Add xcom clearing behaviour on task retries (#19968)
- Add a short chapter focusing on adapting secret format for connections (#19859)
- Add information about supported OS-es for Apache Airflow (#19855)
- Add upgrade note on ``execution_date`` -> ``run_id`` (#19593)
- Add example SLA DAG (#19563)
- Add DAG file processing description to Scheduler Concepts (#18954)

## Bug Fixes
- Lazy Jinja2 context (#20217)
- Exclude ``snowflake-sqlalchemy`` v1.2.5 (#20245)
- Move away from legacy ``importlib.resources`` API (#19091)
- Move setgid as the first command executed in forked task runner (#20040)
- Fix race condition when starting ``DagProcessorAgent`` (#19935)
- Limit ``httpx`` to <0.20.0 (#20218)