# Apache Airflow 2.8.3 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 2.8.3
- **Released:** Mar 11, 2024
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/2.8.3/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 2.8.3. Source highlight: The smtp provider is now pre-installed when you install Airflow. (#37713)

## New Features
- Add section about local settings configuration (#37829)

## Improvements
- Improve code coverage for TriggerRuleDep (#37680)
- ``ERD`` generating doc improvement (#37808)

## Bug Fixes
- Add "MENU" permission in auth manager (#37881)
- Fix external_executor_id being overwritten (#37784)
- Make more MappedOperator members modifiable (#37828)
- Set parsing context dag_id in dag test command (#37606)
- Fix docs of ``BranchDayOfWeekOperator`` (#37813)
- Fix ImportError on examples dags (#37571)