This section is a draft to facilitate discussions, with a proposed release timeline of June 2026.

Airflow 3.3 scope

Theme / WorkstreamImprovement ProposalsResponsibleStatus (Github project link)
Expanded data awareness


AIP-76 Asset Partitions (Specifically Segment based partitions)

In progress

Github project

UI enhancements for Asset navigation

In progress

Resiliency

AIP-103 Task State Management

In progress, Core back-end development for task state across task instances complete. API naming changes may still happen. UI work open. 
Github project

AIP-105 Pluggable retry policies

Completed

Misc
 

AIP-86 Deadline Alerts (Formerly SLA)Finish up?
Github project
AIP-67 Multi-team deployment of Airflow components

What's the expected deliverable by this timeframe?

GA to follow up "experimental" in the 3.2 release?

Key Provider releases in the same time frame

Agentic AI Enablement: AIP-99 Common Data Access Pattern + AI

1.0 release

Java Task SDK and Golang Task SDK
Includes AIP-108 Language Coordination Layer
CLIAIP-94 Decouple Remote Commands from airflow CLI (to airflowctl)

Status: Started, Github project

Airflow 3.3 Timelines

Rough timeline for Airflow 3.3.0 release

Date

Milestone

Week  of  

Key AIPs close to dev complete

Week of    

Release branch from main cut and release Beta1 for testing

Week of   

Publish Beta2 for testing

Week of   

Release RC1 for testing

Week of   

Final Release

Open Issues / Pull Request swim lanes

Following up on the dev call and the summary on the devlist, here is a list of the "swim lanes", including open issues and pull requests by area

Macro areaSwim laneGithub LabelsLeadsOpen issuesOpen PRsTotal%
Core Airflow 
  • total


20121841965%
UI / APIarea:UI, area:API, area:pluginsBrent Bovenzi / Pierre Jeambrun6271133
Schedulerarea:schedulerAsh201434
Task SDKarea:task-sdk, area:aip-72Kaxil, Amogh34952
Loggingarea:loggingAsh17522
Autharea:auth, provider:fabVincent505
Serializationarea:serialization, area:DAG-processingTP102535
KubernetesHelm Charthelm-chartJed Cunningham, Jens Scheffler18193710%
k8s providerprovider:cncf-kubernetes16925
Dev Tools
dev-tools, ci, dev-envJarek Potiuk014142
Airflow Ctl
airflow-ctlBugra Ozturk1781
Translations
translationsShahar Epstein012122
Providers
  • total
area:providers
638715023
amazonprovider:amazonAWS Team81119
googleprovider:googleGoogle Team121830
Standardprovider:standardCore Airflow - PMC3912
Databricksprovider:databricks
5712

 Includes all swim lanes with greater than 10 total (issues + PRs). Now ignores "Draft PRs".

Last updated: 24-March-2026



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