Airflow 3.1 Scope

Theme / Workstream	Improvement Proposals	Responsible	Status (Github project link)
Run anywhere in any language	AIP-72 Task Execution Interface aka Task SDK	Ash Berlin-Taylor Kaxil Naik	Github project Initial scoped items needed for independent version upgrades done. Test framework also in place for client / server interface testing.
UI modernization	AIP-68 Extended Plugin Interface for React Views	Brent Bovenzi , Pierre Jeambrun. Jens Scheffler	Development done.
	UI Internationalization	Shahar Epstein, Brent Bovenzi	Dev complete
	UI filters	Brent Bovenzi Pierre Jeambrun	Finish filters in the UI - key point raised in adoption. Significant progress with community help. Documented as Github issues
Misc	AIP-86 Deadline Alerts (Formerly SLA)	Dennis Ferruzzi	Async callbacks run on Triggerer is dev complete. Sync callbacks (to be run via Executor) deferred to 3.2 Github project
Misc	AIP-81 Enhanced Security in CLI via Integration of API	Buğra Öztürk	Github project Released as airflowctl, independent from Core Airflow release
AI workloads	AIP-90 Human in the loop	Wei Lee, Jens Scheffler , Vikram Koka	Dev complete, Includes API and UI GitHub Project
AI workloads	Enable Inference Execution / Synchronous DAG Execution	Tzu-ping Chung	Following up from 3.0 work on non-data-interval DAG runs https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/51711 Dev complete

Airflow 3.1 Timelines

The expected high level milestones are shown below.

Date	Milestone
08 May 2025	Started discussing Airflow 3.1 in dev calls both scope and timing
May - Aug 2025	Detailed scoping and development
Week of 25 Aug 2025	Cut release branch from main
09 Sep 2025	Cut Beta Release of Airflow 3.1
Week of 15 Sep 2025	Cut Release Candidate of Airflow 3.1
25 Sep 2025	Airflow 3.1.0 released