+1 on extending the providers support. Personally, I'd say May 2027 :) On the Google provider, we'll be happy to do the work to keep it compatible with AF2.11 & AF3.x. Migration between Airflow major versions is much bigger undertaking than just upgrading to the next minor or patch version. Many customers, including big organizations, take a long time to execute the migration across their, sometimes numerous, Airflow deployments.
On Fri, Mar 6, 2026 at 2:18 PM Elad Kalif <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello community, > > As our policy > > https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/PROVIDERS.rst#upgrading-minimum-supported-version-of-airflow > states: > > The default support timespan for the minimum version of Airflow (there > > could be justified exceptions) is that we increase the minimum Airflow > > version to the next MINOR release, when 12 months passed since the first > > release for the MINOR version of Airflow. > > > This means that in May 2026 providers will bulk change > minimum apache-airflow version from 2.11 to 3.1. Since this policy was > established on bumping minor versions I'd like to open a discussion with > the community if we should keep the policy as is for major versions (2->3). > > Providers can continue to support 2.11 even after 2.11 reaches EOL. > > My thoughts is that we still have open issues that are marked as blocker > for users migration from 2 to 3: > > https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3Apriority%3Aupgrade_to_airflow3 > thus some users were not able to use the 12 months to make the upgrade. I > think we need to consider making an exception and keep supporting 2.11 in > providers for a while longer. > The impact is that users who need a bug fix of an operator in K8s, google > or amazon won't be able to get the fixes unless they will apply it from > their side. While workarounds do exist I think we help users to focus on > migration rather than spending time on workarounds. > I think extending support by a few months is reasonable. > > My suggestion: > Extend support in providers for 2.11 till Aug 2026. > > Thanks, > Elad >
