# Apache Airflow 3.0.1 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 3.0.1
- **Released:** May 12, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 5/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Not verified
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/3.0.1/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 3.0.1. Source highlight: 📦 PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow/3.0.1/

## New Features
- Add ``STRAIGHT_JOIN`` prefix for MySQL query optimization in ``get_sorted_triggers`` (#46303)
- Add backwards compatibility shim for ``get_current_context`` (#49630)
- Add count to Stats Cards in Dashboard (#49519)
- Add auto-refresh to health section for live updates. (#49645)
- Add ``SimpleAllAdminMiddleware`` to allow api usage without auth header in request (#49599)
- Add redirects for old operators location to standard provider (#49776)

## Improvements
- AIP-38: enhance layout for ``RunBackfillForm`` (#49609)
- Tweak Execution API OpenAPI spec to improve code Generation (#49700)
- Execution API: Improve task instance logging with structlog context (#50120)
- Refactor Dashboard to enhance layout (#50026)

## Bug Fixes
- Improves the handling of value masking when setting Airflow variables for enhanced security (#43123)
- Make entire task box clickable to select the task (#49299)
- Vertically align task log header components in full screen mode (#49569)
- Remove ``dag_code`` records with no serialized dag (#49478)
- Clear out the ``dag_code`` and ``serialized_dag`` tables on 3.0 upgrade (#49563)
- Remove extra slash so that the runs tab is selected (#49600)