# Apache Airflow 3.3.2 — Release & Upgrade Intelligence
- **Product:** Apache Airflow (https://airflow.apache.org)
- **Version:** 3.3.2
- **Released:** Sep 17, 2026
- **Impact Score:** 7/10
- **Breaking Changes:** Source flagged
- **Canonical Analysis:** https://changelogs.us/airflow/updates/3.3.2/

## Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Apache Airflow 3.3.2. Source highlight: 📦 PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow/3.3.2/

## Breaking Changes & Deprecations
- - UI: Fix ``hierarchical_alphabetical`` sort order breaking the graph and grid (#72618)

## New Features
- Add async asset store accessors for async tasks and watcher triggers (#72851)
- UI: Add Consuming Tasks, Aliases, and Watchers to the assets pages (#72780)
- Improve confirmation output when connections are added via the CLI (#72779)
- Add ``SerializedVariableInterval`` for deadline alerts (#72244)
- Add a password field type to ``FlexibleForm`` (#71573)
- Add ``BaseDeadlineReference`` and ``deadline_reference`` to the SDK public interface (#71208)

## Improvements
- UI: Improve French translation wording (#71846)
- Improve Arabic UI translations (#71789)

## Bug Fixes
- Optimize the previous-task-instance lookup by removing a redundant ``dag_run`` join (#72944)
- Revoke every credential presented to the logout endpoint, not just the session cookie (#72933)
- API: Return HTTP 404 instead of 500 when a task starts against a missing Dag run (#72900)
- Fix ``airflow db clean`` never purging the ``callback`` table (#72899)
- Fix the Dag version inflation check not warning about custom ``DAG`` subclasses or aliased-module imports (#72898)
- Fix ``DeadlockImminentError`` when a connection is resolved inside an async task (#72895)