Impact Score: 5/10
Apache Airflow 3.1.6
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Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
โก Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 3.1.6. Source highlight: ๐ฆ PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow/3.1.6/
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๐ป Software Engineers & Devs
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๐ Product & Engineering Leads
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โ๏ธ DevOps & Security
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โจ New Features & Capabilities (3)
- Add fast client-side search to Airflow documentation (#59658)
- Add Refresh Token logic to auth manager docs (#54196) (#59482)
- Add UI/API performance tips (#59004) (#59052)
โก Performance & Enhancements (1)
- Improve CLI date argument help text documentation (#59797) (#59810)
๐ง Bug Fixes & Patches (6)
- Protect against hanging thread in aiosqlite 0.22+ (#60217) (#60245)
- Fix log task instance sqlalchemy join query (#59973) (#60222)
- Fix invalid uri created when extras contains non string elements (#59339) (#60219)
- Fix operator template fields via callable serialization that causes unstable DAG serialization (#60065) (#60221)
- Fix real-time extra links updates for TriggerDagRunOperator (#59507) (#60225)
- Fix signal handling in triggerer job runner (#60190) (#60214)
๐ View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
๐ฆ PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow/3.1.6/
๐ Docs: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/3.1.6/
๐ Release Notes: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/3.1.6/release_notes.html
๐ณ Docker Image: "docker pull apache/airflow:3.1.6"
๐ Constraints: https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/constraints-3.1.6
## Significant Changes
### ``is_authorized_hitl_task()`` method now available in auth managers(#59399).
This method is now available in auth managers to check whether a user is authorized to approve a HITL task
### ``proxy`` and ``proxies`` added to ``DEFAULT_SENSITIVE_FIELDS`` (#59688)
``proxy`` and ``proxies`` have been added to ``DEFAULT_SENSITIVE_FIELDS`` in secrets_masker to treat proxy configurations as sensitive by default
## Bug Fixes
- Protect against hanging thread in aiosqlite 0.22+ (#60217) (#60245)
- Fix log task instance sqlalchemy join query (#59973) (#60222)
- Fix invalid uri created when extras contains non string elements (#59339) (#60219)
- Fix operator template fields via callable serialization that causes unstable DAG serialization (#60065) (#60221)
- Fix real-time extra links updates for TriggerDagRunOperator (#59507) (#60225)
- Fix signal handling in triggerer job runner (#60190) (#60214)
- Added state validation to delete dag run endpoint (#60195) (#60207)
- Fix text overflow issue (#60080)
- UI: Add toggle functionality to Dags state filters (#59089)
- Fix ``deprecated_options`` entry for ``dag_file_processor_timeout`` (#59181) (#60162)
- Fix ``ApprovalOperator`` with ``SimpleAuthManager`` when ``all_admins=True`` (#59399) (#60116)
- Record missing ``ti_failure`` metrics for tasks (#59731) (#59964)
- Fix missing ``TaskInstanceHistory`` on scheduler ``TI`` resets (#59639) (#59752)
- Add ``proxy`` and ``proxies`` as sensitive fields in ``DEFAULT_SENSITIVE_FIELDS`` (#59688) (#59792)
- Fix compat deprecation handling for ``[webserver] base_url`` (#59659) (#59781)
- Fix Execution API refresh token (#58782) (#59713)
- Fix eager-loading DagRun asset relationships before creating ``DagRunContext`` (#59714) (#59732)
- Redact secrets in rendered templates properly when truncating it (#59566) (#59704)
- Add ``Content-Type`` to request headers in Task SDK calls when missing (#59676) (#59687)
- UI: Fix Expand+Collapse Translation Key (#59672) (#59674)
- Fix server context for connections (#59624) (#59652)
- Fix clear task instance dialog tasks states (#59363) (#59580)
- Add log record when listening dag is partitioned but run has no key (#59375) (#59582)
- Fix Dag Processor logging crash (#59317) (#59581)
- Flush session before processing Event Buffer in dag test (#59314) (#59559)
- Add task group ID filtering support to task instance query (#58092) (#59511)
- Fix message of ``_read_from_logs_server`` when status_code is 403 (#59489) (#59504)
- Fix import errors not cleared for files without Dags (#58242) (#59500)
- Fix backfill ``run_on_latest_version`` defaulting to False instead of True (#59304) (#59328)
- Add toaster notifications for Connection Test (#59354) (#59368)
- Fix ``.airflowignore`` negation not working in subfolders (#58740) (#59305)
- Fix XCom key handling when keys contain special characters like slash (#58344) (#59311)
- Fix an odd import of pendulum from sqlalchemy_utils instead of elsewhere. (#59258) (#59265)
- Fix links for DurationChart (#59095) (#59237)
- Fix misleading error message when GitHook creation fails (#59236)
- Show asset extra in asset list (#59195) (#59201)
- Prevent dag processor crash on encountering excel files in the Dag directory (#59069) (#59170)
- Fix ``DagRun.queued_at`` not updating when clearing (#59066) (#59177)
- Fix Rendered Templates not showing dictionary items (#58071) (#59176)
- UI: Change task log source display to hidden by default (#58749) (#59045)
- Fix button to go back from FAB iframe (#58997) (#59007)
- Fix task instance and run tooltips in Grid view (#58359) (#59013)
## Miscellaneous
- Don't depend upon FastAPI inside Task-SDK client (#59250) (#59257)
- Align the term Dag in all translations (#59155)
## Doc Only Changes
- Bump Sphinx Airflow theme to ``0.3.0`` (#59538)
- Translations updates [French: (#60157) (#60167), German: (#59673), PL: (#59675) (#59251) (#59256), Japanese: (#59557),(#59313),
Taiwanese Mandarin (#59513) (#59515), Hebrew: (#59133) (#59255), Ca: (#59216) (#60199), TR: (#59169) (#60191)]
- Update webserver probe health check doc (#59942) (#59982)
- Update API auth. instructions in Docker running docs (#59830) (#59832)
- Improve CLI date argument help text documentation (#59797) (#59810)
- Add fast client-side search to Airflow documentation (#59658)
- Fix broken ``permalink`` icon (#58763)
- Add Refresh Token logic to auth manager docs (#54196) (#59482)
- Update json to JSON for consistency in translations (#59323) (#59333)
- Fix outdated dependency documentation (#58970) (#59219)
- Add UI/API performance tips (#59004) (#59052)
- Provide a clear naming and description for the attribute caching ``get_template_context`` (#59023) (#59036)
- Update the documentation for the LocalExecutor (#58990) (#59022)