Impact Score: 5/10
Apache Airflow 2.7.3
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Component: airflow ยท Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 2.7.3. Source highlight: No significant changes.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
โจ New Features & Capabilities (6)
- Add pytest db_test markers to our tests (#35264)
- Add pip caching for faster build (#35026)
- Add ``connexion<3.0`` upper bound (#35218)
- Added example for defaults in ``conn.extras`` (#35165)
- Add info on getting variables and config in custom secrets backend (#34834)
- Add missing multiple_outputs=True param in the TaskFlow example (#34812)
โก Performance & Enhancements (2)
- Improve testing harness to separate DB and non-DB tests (#35160, #35333)
- Improve modules import in Airflow core by moving some of them into a type-checking block (#33755)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Fix pre-mature evaluation of tasks in mapped task group (#34337)
- Add TriggerRule missing value in rest API (#35194)
- Fix Scheduler crash looping when dagrun creation fails (#35135)
- Fix test connection with ``codemirror`` and extra (#35122)
- Fix usage of cron-descriptor since BC in v1.3.0 (#34836)
- Fix ``get_plugin_info`` for class based listeners. (#35022)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Significant Changes
No significant changes.
## Bug Fixes
- Fix pre-mature evaluation of tasks in mapped task group (#34337)
- Add TriggerRule missing value in rest API (#35194)
- Fix Scheduler crash looping when dagrun creation fails (#35135)
- Fix test connection with ``codemirror`` and extra (#35122)
- Fix usage of cron-descriptor since BC in v1.3.0 (#34836)
- Fix ``get_plugin_info`` for class based listeners. (#35022)
- Some improvements/fixes for dag_run and task_instance endpoints (#34942)
- Fix the dags count filter in webserver home page (#34944)
- Return only the TIs of the readable dags when ~ is provided as a dag_id (#34939)
- Fix triggerer thread crash in daemon mode (#34931)
- Fix wrong plugin schema (#34858)
- Use DAG timezone in TimeSensorAsync (#33406)
- Mark tasks with ``all_skipped`` trigger rule as ``skipped`` if any task is in ``upstream_failed`` state (#34392)
- Add read only validation to read only fields (#33413)
## Misc/Internal
- Improve testing harness to separate DB and non-DB tests (#35160, #35333)
- Add pytest db_test markers to our tests (#35264)
- Add pip caching for faster build (#35026)
- Upper bound ``pendulum`` requirement to ``<3.0`` (#35336)
- Limit ``sentry_sdk`` to ``1.33.0`` (#35298)
- Fix subtle bug in mocking processor_agent in our tests (#35221)
- Bump ``@babel/traverse`` from ``7.16.0 to 7.23.2`` in ``/airflow/www`` (#34988)
- Bump ``undici`` from ``5.19.1 to 5.26.3`` in ``/airflow/www`` (#34971)
- Remove unused set from ``SchedulerJobRunner`` (#34810)
- Remove warning about ``max_tis per query > parallelism`` (#34742)
- Improve modules import in Airflow core by moving some of them into a type-checking block (#33755)
- Fix tests to respond to Python 3.12 handling of utcnow in sentry-sdk (#34946)
- Add ``connexion<3.0`` upper bound (#35218)
- Limit Airflow to ``< 3.12`` (#35123)
- update moto version (#34938)
- Limit WTForms to below ``3.1.0`` (#34943)
## Doc Only Changes
- Fix variables substitution in Airflow Documentation (#34462)
- Added example for defaults in ``conn.extras`` (#35165)
- Update datasets.rst issue with running example code (#35035)
- Remove ``mysql-connector-python`` from recommended MySQL driver (#34287)
- Fix syntax error in task dependency ``set_downstream`` example (#35075)
- Update documentation to enable test connection (#34905)
- Update docs errors.rst - Mention sentry "transport" configuration option (#34912)
- Update dags.rst to put SubDag deprecation note right after the SubDag section heading (#34925)
- Add info on getting variables and config in custom secrets backend (#34834)
- Document BaseExecutor interface in more detail to help users in writing custom executors (#34324)
- Fix broken link to ``airflow_local_settings.py`` template (#34826)
- Fixes python_callable function assignment context kwargs example in params.rst (#34759)
- Add missing multiple_outputs=True param in the TaskFlow example (#34812)
- Remove extraneous ``'>'`` in provider section name (#34813)
- Fix imports in extra link documentation (#34547)