# Apache Airflow 3.0.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 3.0.2
- **Released:** Jun 10, 2025
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/3.0.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 3.0.2. Source highlight: 📦 PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow/3.0.2/

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - Remove unnecessary breaking flag in config command (#50781)

## New Features
- UI: Add basic json check to variable value
- Add a link to the Airflow logo in Nav (#50304)
- Added a direct link to the latest DAG run in the DAG header (#51119,#51148)
- Add ``owner_links`` field to ``DAGDetailsResponse`` for enhanced owner metadata in the API (#50557)
- Add dates for Limited Maintenance & EOL for Airflow 2.x (#50794)
- Add Apache Airflow setup instructions for Apple Silicon (#50179)

## Improvements
- Optimized DAG header to fetch only the most recent DAG run for improved performance (#50767)
- Enhanced task log viewer with virtualized rendering for improved performance on large logs (#50746)

## Bug Fixes
- Fix memory leak in dag-processor (#50558)
- Add back invalid inlet and outlet check before running tasks (#50773)
- Implement slice on LazyXComSequence to allow filtering items from a mapped task(#50117)
- Fix execution API server URL handling for relative paths in KE (#51183)
- Add log lookup exception for Empty operator subtypes (#50325)
- Increase the max zoom on the graph view to make it easier to see small dags on big monitor screens (#50772)