# Apache Airflow 2.8.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 2.8.2
- **Released:** Feb 26, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/2.8.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 2.8.2. Source highlight: The ``allowed_deserialization_classes`` flag now follows a glob pattern (#36147).

## New Features
- Add Python ``3.12`` exclusions in ``providers/pyproject.toml`` (#37404)
- Add more-itertools as dependency of common-sql (#37359)
- Add description to ``queue_when`` (#36997)
- Add redirect for deprecated page (#37384)
- Add more precise description on avoiding generic ``package/module`` names (#36927)
- Add airflow version substitution into Docker Compose Howto (#37177)

## Bug Fixes
- Sort dag processing stats by last_runtime (#37302)
- Allow pre-population of trigger form values via URL parameters (#37497)
- Base date for fetching dag grid view must include selected run_id (#34887)
- Check permissions for ImportError (#37468)
- Move ``IMPORT_ERROR`` from DAG related permissions to view related permissions (#37292)
- Change ``AirflowTaskTimeout`` to inherit ``BaseException`` (#35653)