June brought with it a flurry of activity within the Airflow Community, from developments in the Airflow Summit agenda to the announcement of a new committer. This month, we’re happy to announce:

• The release of the speakers and sessions for Airflow Summit 2024

• The impending launch of our Los Angeles Chapter

• And the announcements of a new committer- Ryan Hatter!

As always, please reach out with items for the next issue.

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Airflow 2.9.2
Airflow 2.9.2 was released on June 10th, and includes several improvements and relevant bug fixes.

• PyPI | Release Notes | Docs | Sources | Docker | Constraints

Providers

New versions of 43 Airflow Providers packages were released.

For all source releases, PyPI packages and docs, see: 

• Sources | PyPI | Docs

Ecosystem

Recent releases: 

• OpenLineage 1.17.1

• Cosmos 1.5.0

   

• 7/9 Webinar: Best Practices for Effectively Running dbt in Airflow

• 7/10 Webinar: Airflow Monthly Town Hall

• 7/17 Meetup in NYC: Airflow Rooftop Happy Hour

• 7/24 Meetup in London: Data Engineer Thing SUMMER BASH!

• 8/7 Meetup in LA: Los Angeles Apache Airflow® Chapter Launch!

• 9/10-12 Conference in San Francisco: Airflow Summit 2024

• 11/19-21 Virtual Conference: The Open Source Analytics Conference

• 6/5 Webinar: Airflow Monthly Town Hall

• 6/3-5 Conference in Bratislava: Community Over Code

• 6/6 Conference in San Francisco: Snowflake Dev Day

• 6/13 Webinar: How Grindr uses Airflow to monitor and optimize Snowflake usage

• 6/10-13 Conference in San Francisco: Data and AI Summit

• 6/27 Webinar: How to write data pipelines with Airflow

Read

• Exploring Airflow 2.9 Features with Astronomer's 29 Days of Airflow 2.9 Series by Radhika Gulati & Constance Martineau on the Astronomer Blog

• Start Airflow task execution directly from the triggerer by Wei Lee on Airflow Medium

• Observations from migrating away from Control-M to Airflow by Arjun Anandkumar on Airflow Medium

• Introducing the First Generative AI Cookbook for Data Orchestration by Kenten Danas and Tamara Fingerlin on the Astronomer Blog

• How we orchestrate 2000+ DBT models in Apache Airflow® by Alexandre Magno Lima Martins on Airflow Medium

• How Vibrant Planet's Self-Healing Pipelines Revolutionize Data Processing with Cyrus Dukart & David Sacerdote on The Data Flowcast

• Learn from the experts: how to write data pipelines with Airflow on Astronomer Webinars

• How Grindr uses Airflow to monitor and optimize Snowflake usage on Astronomer Webinars

Votes: 

• [RESULT][VOTE] Airflow Providers - release of May 30, 2024

• [RESULT][VOTE] AIP-59 Performance Testing Framework

• Airflow Providers prepared on June 07, 2024

• [RESULT][VOTE] Airflow Providers - release of June 07, 2024

• Release Airflow 2.9.2 from 2.9.2rc1

• [RESULT][VOTE] Release Airflow 2.9.2 from 2.9.2rc1

• Add YDB provider

• [RESULT][VOTE] Airflow Providers - release of May 30, 2024

• [RESULT][VOTE] AIP-59 Performance Testing Framework

• Release Apache Airflow® Helm Chart 1.14.0 based on 1.14.0rc1

• [RESULT][VOTE] Release Apache Airflow® Helm Chart 1.14.0 based on 1.14.0rc1

• Introduce common.compat provider

• Remove "Experimental' banner for OpenTelemetry Metrics

• Remove "Experimental' banner for OpenTelemetry Traces

• Airflow Providers prepared on June 22, 2024

• [RESULT][VOTE] Airflow Providers - release of June 22, 2024

• Auto-labeling Airflow issues with DoSu AI

• June 2024 PR of the Month

• [RESULT][VOTE] June 2024 PR of the Month

   

Discussed:

• Proposal around the Injection of Task Execution Secrets

• Number of queries to Airflow database in "DAG File Processing Stats"

• Call with Nielsen team demoing their DAG debugging feature

• System Test Dashboards - Phase Two??

• Implement common.dataframe (or similar) provider based on Ibis

• [AIP-38 Modern Web Application]

• Using AI / Dosu to help us with triaging issues

   

Announced:

• Apache Airflow® Providers prepared on May 30, 2024 are released

• Apache Airflow® Newsletter May 2024

• Minutes and Recording from June 2024 Airflow Monthly Town Hall

• Apache Airflow® Providers prepared on June 07, 2024 are released

• Apache Airflow® 2.9.2 Released

• [Meeting Notes] Airflow 3.0 Dev call - 4 June 2024

• Apache Airflow® Providers prepared on May 30, 2024 are released

• [Meeting Notes] Airflow 3.0 Dev call - 13 June 2024

• Google Provider Package System Tests Dashboard

• Apache Airflow® Helm Chart version 1.14.0 Released

• [Airflow 3] The Airflow actors

• Airflow 3 Dev call tomorrow

• [Meeting Notes] Airflow 3.0 Dev call - 20 June 2024

• Airflow Summit 2024: Sessions are ready!

• Airflow 3 Dev call today

• Apache Airflow® Providers prepared on June 22, 2024 are released

• New committer: Ryan Hatter

   

Proposed:

• Automated management of lower-bounds of airflow dependencies

• Proposal for Enhanced Data Awareness in Airflow

• Use Trusted Publishing workflow for Airflow releases to PyPI

   

• AIP-44: Airflow Internal API

• AIP-49: Open Telemetry Support

• AIP-51 Removing Executor Coupling from Core Airflow

• AIP-57: Refactor SLA feature

• AIP-58: Airflow ObjectStore (AS)

• AIP-59: Performance test framework

• AIP-61 Hybrid Execution

• AIP-62 Getting Lineage from Hook Instrumentation

• AIP-63: DAG Versioning

• AIP-64: Keep TaskInstance try history

• AIP-65: Improve DAG history in UI

• AIP-66: Execution of specific DAG versions

• AIP-67 Multi-tenant deployment of Airflow components

• AIP-68 Extended Plugin Interface for Custom Grid View Panels

• AIP-69 Remote Executor

• AIP-71 Generalizing DAG Loader and Processor for Ephemeral Storage

• See the Wiki for more of the project’s approved AIPs.

   

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