Hey all,
I have just cut the new wave Airflow Providers packages with release
preparation date 2026-08-18. This email is calling a vote on the release,
which will last for 72 hours - which means that it will end on 2026-08-22
17:52 UTC and until 3 binding +1 votes have been received.
Consider this my (binding) +1.
This wave releases 29 providers. Two of them carry changes worth calling
out:
* apache-airflow-providers-microsoft-azure 15.0.0 is a major release.
AzureBatchHook and
AzureBatchOperator are migrated to the azure-batch 15.x (track 2) SDK:
get_conn now returns
a BatchClient instead of a BatchServiceClient, configure_pool no longer
accepts os_family
or os_version, AzureBatchOperator no longer accepts os_family, and the
Batch model classes
were renamed by the SDK. The changelog note describes the migration.
* apache-airflow-providers-common-ai 0.8.0 changes the shape returned by
the "query" tool of
SQLToolset and DataFusionToolset: rows are now columnar and "count" is
replaced by
"row_count". Agents adapt from the tool description, but code calling
toolset.call_tool("query", ...) directly needs updating. The changelog
note has the details.
apache-airflow-providers-keycloak is released as 0.9.0rc2 - its 0.9.0rc1
from the 2026-08-01
wave was excluded from that release, so this is a re-cut of the same
version.
Airflow Providers are available at:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/airflow/providers/2026-08-18
*apache-airflow-providers-2026-08-18-source.tar.gz* is the full source
tarball of airflow repo - snapshot taken at the moment of provider's
release.
*apache-airflow-providers-<PROVIDER>-*.tar.gz* are the convenience python
"sdist" distributions that we publish in PyPI
*apache_airflow_providers_<PROVIDER>-*.whl are the convenience Python
"wheel" distributions that we publish in PyPI.
The test procedure for PMC members is described in
https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/dev/README_RELEASE_PROVIDERS.md#verify-the-release-candidate-by-pmc-members
The test procedure for and Contributors who would like to test this RC is
described in:
https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/dev/README_RELEASE_PROVIDERS.md#verify-the-release-candidate-by-contributors
Public keys are available at:
https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/airflow/KEYS
Please vote accordingly:
[ ] +1 approve
[ ] +0 no opinion
[ ] -1 disapprove with the reason
Only votes from PMC members are binding, but members of the community are
encouraged to test the release and vote with "(non-binding)".
Please note that the version number excludes the 'rcX' string.
This will allow us to rename the artifact without modifying
the artifact checksums when we actually release it.
The status of testing the providers by the community is kept here:
https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/71847
The issue is also the easiest way to see important PRs included in the RC
candidates.
Detailed changelog for the providers will be published in the documentation
after the
RC candidates are released.
You can find the RC packages in PyPI following these links:
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-amazon/9.35.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-anthropic/0.3.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-apache-hdfs/4.13.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-apache-iceberg/2.1.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-apache-kafka/1.16.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-apache-livy/4.6.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-apache-spark/6.3.2rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-cncf-kubernetes/10.21.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-common-ai/0.8.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-common-sql/2.1.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-databricks/7.19.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-edge3/4.3.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-fab/3.8.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-git/0.4.3rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-google/22.4.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-hashicorp/4.8.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-jdbc/5.5.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-keycloak/0.9.0rc2/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-microsoft-azure/15.0.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-microsoft-mssql/4.7.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-microsoft-psrp/3.2.7rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-mysql/6.6.2rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-openlineage/2.20.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-oracle/4.6.3rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-postgres/7.0.2rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-samba/4.13.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-snowflake/6.16.1rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-standard/1.18.0rc1/
https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow-providers-tableau/5.6.1rc1/
Cheers,
Hussein Awala
