Impact Score: 5/10
Apache Airflow 2.8.4
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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 2.8.4. Source highlight: No significant changes.
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
๐ Product & Engineering Leads
Use the documented changes to assess relevance to your product; release frequency alone is not a quality measure.
โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Fix incorrect serialization of ``FixedTimezone`` (#38139)
- Fix excessive permission changing for log task handler (#38164)
- Fix task instances list link (#38096)
- Fix a bug where scheduler heartrate parameter was not used (#37992)
- Add padding to prevent grid horizontal scroll overlapping tasks (#37942)
- Fix hash caching in ``ObjectStoragePath`` (#37769)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Significant Changes
No significant changes.
## Bug Fixes
- Fix incorrect serialization of ``FixedTimezone`` (#38139)
- Fix excessive permission changing for log task handler (#38164)
- Fix task instances list link (#38096)
- Fix a bug where scheduler heartrate parameter was not used (#37992)
- Add padding to prevent grid horizontal scroll overlapping tasks (#37942)
- Fix hash caching in ``ObjectStoragePath`` (#37769)
## Miscellaneous
- Limit importlib_resources as it breaks ``pytest_rewrites`` (#38095, #38139)
- Limit ``pandas`` to ``<2.2`` (#37748)
- Bump ``croniter`` to fix an issue with 29 Feb cron expressions (#38198)
## Doc Only Changes
- Tell users what to do if their scanners find issues in the image (#37652)
- Add a section about debugging in Docker Compose with PyCharm (#37940)
- Update deferrable docs to clarify kwargs when trigger resumes operator (#38122)