[VOTE] June 2026 Rookie PR of the Month

[Srabasti Banerjee]

Hello All!

Another month flew by -  Apache Airflow Helm chart 1.22.0 and Apache
Airflow CTL 0.1.5 are available [image: :tada:]  Thanks to all
contributors!!!✨

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 15 PRs for the month of June.

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 Monday, June 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 (2026-06-01 to 2026-07-01):

 1.  PR#64745: Fix batchoperator deferrable xcom links
     by @kakatur (Krishna Kakatur) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-06-24
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64745

 2.  PR#67524: Add `DmsModifyTaskOperator`
     by @AlejandroMorgante (Morgan) 🆕 Rookie: PR #3, first merged
2026-06-03
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/67524

 3.  PR#64960: Databricks: Fail fast for non-serializable retry_args in
deferrable operators and triggers
     by @kosiew 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-06-02
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64960

 4.  PR#62409: Fixed "AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute
'close'" for SmtpHook
     by @TopCoder2K (Svyatoslav Pchelintsev) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-06-18
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/62409

 5.  PR#67955: fix: guard the to.finish stats emission
     by @TimotheBarbe (Timothé Barbe) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-06-05
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/67955

 6.  PR#67994: docs: update architecture overview to Airflow 3 architecture
     by @JH-A-Kim (Jung-Hyun Andrew Kim) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-06-10
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/67994

 7.  PR#65452: Handle undecryptable Variable values gracefully in Stable
REST API
     by @shan-zeeshan786 (Md Zeeshan alam) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged
2026-06-01
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65452

 8.  PR#68378: Add additional task instance attributes to task instance's
details section
     by @jayachandrakasarla (Jayachandra Kasarla) 🆕 Rookie: PR #3, first
merged 2026-06-14
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/68378

 9.  PR#66616: Add ipFamilyPolicy and ipFamilies support to all Helm
service templates
     by @huynhsontung (Tung Huynh) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-06-07
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/66616

10.  PR#67664: Hide Dashboard metric percentages when a state count is
capped
     by @wilmerdooley 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-06-06
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/67664

11.  PR#65161: fix: task run exception never catch by Sentry
     by @EpicFail4Ever 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-06-07
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65161

12.  PR#66013: Add MongoToGCSOperator to copy MongoDB collections to GCS
     by @seungoh-lee (이승오(Data Platform)) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-06-09
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/66013

13.  PR#67785: Correct the configuration key of triggerer log server port
     by @vin-c-ent 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-06-23
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/67785

14.  PR#61866: Add Redis client self-identification for Apache Airflow
     by @vchomakov (Vasil Chomakov) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-06-09
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61866

15.  PR#68409: Add ServiceNow to INTHEWILD.md
     by @koteshyelamati (Kotesh Kumar Yelamati) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first
merged 2026-06-16
     https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/68409