[VOTE] May 2026 Rookie PR of the Month

[Srabasti Banerjee]

Hello All!

Another month flew by - Apache Airflow CTL 0.1.4 is available [image:
:tada:]  Thanks to all contributors!!!✨
Curious to learn about "common AI" provider that works with Works with 20+
model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Bedrock, Ollama, and more)?
Check out link below, that has tutorials, in case you have not done that
yet.
https://airflow.apache.org/blog/common-ai-provider/

Before you head out, drop in your votes for Rookie PR!

Kindly take the time to celebrate your own contributions or recommend a
fellow contributor, for Rookie PR of the month.
Below is a list of Top 10 PRs for the month of May.

New Contributors - please reply to this thread with your introduction and
merged PR details. Do not hesitate to show off your  impact on the Apache
Airflow community!  Everyone is welcome to share their wins.

Voting will close on Thursday, May 29th at 5 PM PST. The winner will be
featured in the next issue of the Airflow newsletter.

Warm Regards,
Srabasti Banerjee

🏆 Top 15 PRs (2026-05-01 to 2026-06-01):

 1.  PR#65943: Allow using fresh interpreter besides fork() in Edge Worker
     by @diogosilva30 (Diogo Silva) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-05-14
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65943

 2.  PR#58929: Add support for influx3 in influxdb provider
     by @arpitrathore (Arpit Rathore) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-05-14
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/58929

 3.  PR#65310: Fix max_active_runs lost during DAG serialisation when value
equals schema default
     by @seruman (Selman) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-05-18
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65310

 4.  PR#62240: Add AWS SageMakerUnifiedStudioNotebookOperator
     by @qaziashikin (Qazi Ashikin) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-05-05
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/62240

 5.  PR#64770: Fix EMR container job not cancelled on deferral timeout
     by @aurangzaib048 (Rana Aurangzaib) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-05-07
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64770

 6.  PR#67234: i18n(ko): Improve Korean Task terminology consistency
     by @kddhhh23 (kddhhh23) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-04-29
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/67234

 7.  PR#66251: Allow pasting full datetime strings into date picker inputs
     by @junyeong0619 (Jun Yeong Kim) 🆕 Rookie: PR #3, first merged
2026-05-13
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/66251

 8.  PR#66431: fix(scheduler): ignore stale executor success after defer
reschedule
     by @Pedrinhonitz (/-\ - Pedro Henrique Klein) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first
merged 2026-05-18
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/66431

 9.  PR#65948: Add support of different graph directions in the Asset graph
view.
     by @smit-makadia-infocusp 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-05-05
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65948

10.  PR#62280: Fix scheduler healthcheck command in docker-compose.yaml
     by @bhasker87 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-05-10
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/62280

11.  PR#66065: fix(elasticsearch): pin compatible-with at the transport
layer to keep ES 8 servers working
     by @petercheon (Peter) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-05-19
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/66065

12.  PR#66856: Refactor Opensearch log formatter to use
timezone.from_timestamp
     by @23tae (Taehoon Kim) 🆕 Rookie: PR #4, first merged 2026-04-29
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/66856

13.  PR#66204: Add optional object-level retention support to
GcsToGcsOperator
     by @chrisqiqiu (Chris Qiu) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-05-05
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/66204

14.  PR#65571: Adds async support to SageMakerNotebookJobTrigger
     by @Cloud-Architect-Emma (EMMANUELA OPURUM) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first
merged 2026-05-12
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65571

15.  PR#66072: Databricks: support user-assigned managed identity for Azure
VM auth
     by @sydongda (Shen YuDong) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-05-06
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/66072