# Apache Airflow 2.6.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 2.6.1
- **Released:** May 16, 2023
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/2.6.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 2.6.1. Source highlight: Clarifications of the external Health Check mechanism and using ``Job`` classes (#31277).

## New Features
- Add section about missing task logs to the FAQ (#30717)

## Improvements
- Improve description of the ``dag_processing.processes`` metric (#30891)
- Improve Quick Start instructions (#30820)

## Bug Fixes
- Fix calculation of health check threshold for SchedulerJob (#31277)
- Fix timestamp parse failure for k8s executor pod tailing (#31175)
- Make sure that DAG processor job row has filled value in ``job_type`` column (#31182)
- Fix section name reference for ``api_client_retry_configuration`` (#31174)
- Ensure the KPO runs pod mutation hooks correctly (#31173)
- Remove worrying log message about redaction from the OpenLineage plugin (#31149)