[Meeting Notes] Airflow 3 dev call - 4 December 2025

[Vikram Koka via dev <de...@airflow.apache.org>]

Hey everyone,

Thank you for attending the dev call on the 4th. Apologies for the belated
notes this time.
I updated our meeting notes document in the Airflow 3.x wiki
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/AIRFLOW/Airflow+3.x>to capture
the notes. The link for those notes is here
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=373886699#Airflow3.xDevCall:Meetingnotes-Summary.13>

To everyone who attended the meeting, please check the summary and add
anything that I may have missed. For those who could not join, please let
us know if you disagree with anything discussed and agreed upon in
the meeting. Also, please do ask questions if something is unclear.

Our next meeting is scheduled for tomorrow the 18th of December at the same
time. The agenda is pretty open at this time and I know that a fair number
of people are out, so may end up cancelling this. If you would like to keep
this call to discuss a particular topic, please let me know if you would
like to add anything to the agenda
<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=373886699#Airflow3.xDevCall:Meetingnotes-ProposedAgenda.14>
.

Best regards,
Vikram
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Below is the summary from the call:

   - Development Updates
      - Airflow 3.1.4 patch release update (Ephraim Anierobi)
         - Ephraim shared that the 3.1.4 patch release had around 47 bug
         fixes, with a total of around 183 pull requests.
         - Key fixes included task clearing race conditions in backfills
         when multiple schedulers are active, deadline alert handling, local
         executor memory leaks and N+1 query improvements.
         - There are also several UI improvements including task
         highlighting in the graph view and mobile layout.
      - Task SDK / Shared libraries update (Amogh Desai)
         - Amogh said that the "shared library" effort is nearly complete
         now with 7 libraries identified for decoupling Task SDK from
Airflow Core.
         - Out of these seven, five have already been completed and merged.
         The two remaining are for traces/metrics and listeners.
         - Amogh and Jarek gave a shoutout to Christos for the work here!
      - UI E2E Testing framework update (Rahul Vats)
         - Rahul shared that the playwright based framework PR for testing
         was merged and that CI work is in progress to trigger these
tests for UI
         changes.
         - Rahul said that he had created a meta issue containing all the
         test scenarios organized by page and that the plan was to
focus on critical
         flows and recent UI issues such as pagination.
         - Rahul asked for community contributions here and was considering
         a phased rollout.
      - Discussion Topics
      - Providers documented release plan (Jens Scheffler / Jarek Potiuk)
         - Jens said he had created a draft release for providers in
         Confluence to help coordinate the work between release managers.
         - Jens said that it currently covered Provider releases and could
         be expanded to others.
         - Jens asked where the Core Airflow releases were documented and
         Vikram shared that they were documented in the Airflow 3.x
wiki page, but
         was out of date for the 3.1.4 page
         - Jens also asked if there were any objections to moving the
         provider releases from Thursday to Tuesday to facilitate
easier validation
         on weekdays instead of weekends. The release managers agreed to this.
      - Helm chart scope and strategy (Jens, Jarek, Jed)
         - There was a quick reference to the dev list email about dropping
         support for Airflow 1 in the helm chart and that there would be a lazy
         consensus follow up to the same
         - There was much longer discussion on the overall scope of the
         Helm chart, including changes for the embedded database
support in the helm
         chart. There also was a reference to potentially adopting
Kustomize as a
         way to simplify the chart and to extend it for edge cases
using Kustomize.
         There was no immediate agreement here, other than to continue the
         discussion async on the dev list.
      - Airflow 3.2 potential scope
         - Vikram started the discussion saying that it would be good to
         get an overall scope and plans together for 3.2 release with
the target
         timeline of March 2026.
         - Vikram also added that Daniel Standish had updated the Asset
         Partitions AIP with the focus on 3.2.
         - Vincent added that the multi-team work was progressing and that
         they would be targeting an experimental release in time for
3.2 to enable
         user testing and feedback, with a goal of an official release
in Airflow
         3.3 later in the year.
         - Rajesh added that Dennis was actively working on the Deadline
         Alerts sync callback work with a target of 3.2 release.
         - The team noted that there were several large AIPs being
         discussed and that we need to get some formal scope and
planning together
         in order to identify the interactions between these AIPs.
Vikram took the
         action item to ask and help these AIP authors formalize scope and
         timelines.
      - Rookie awards vote (Srabasti)
         - Vikram said that Srabasti Banerjee had wanted to remind the team
         to vote for the "new budding contributor" awards on the dev
list before the
         deadline.

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Vikram Koka
Chief Strategy Officer
Email: vikram@astronomer.io


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