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This document builds on the Airflow 3.0 release, to layout the next set of releases which build on the foundation of Airflow 3.0, starting with Airflow 3.1. This is very much a living document, which will be updated based on the community discussions and decisions, as well as development progress. Everything detailed here, especially scope and expected timelines are "statements of intent" to enable consistent visibility into the status and goals of the project.
The community discussions about Airflow 3 happen in the following places:
Airflow 3.1 scope
This section is documented based on the discussions to date in the dev call, with a rough timeline of middle of Sep 2025 for release.
| Theme / Workstream | Improvement Proposals | Responsible | Status (Github project link) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Run anywhere in any language | AIP-72 Task Execution Interface aka Task SDK | Lots of progress made on this, but quite a bit more to do before release. | |
| UI modernization | AIP-68 Extended Plugin Interface for React Views | Unknown User (bbovenzi) , Pierre Jeambrun. Unknown User (jscheffl) | Great progress here. Core development almost done. Examples and documentation to be done for AIP completion. |
| UI Internationalization | Shahar Epstein, Unknown User (bbovenzi) | Great progress here, just need some clarity around what/when | |
| Misc | AIP-86 Deadline Alerts (Formerly SLA) | Significant progress here. Github project | |
| AIP-81 Enhanced Security in CLI via Integration of API | Core development almost complete. In the bug fixing stage. | ||
| AI workloads | Back-end and API seems to be progressing well | ||
Enable Inference Execution / Synchronous DAG Execution | Following up from 3.0 work on non-data-interval DAG runs |
Airflow 3.1 Timelines
The expected high level milestones are shown below.
Date | Milestone |
| Started discussing Airflow 3.1 in dev calls both scope and timing |
May - Aug 20205 | Detailed scoping and development |
Week of | Cut release branch from main |
Week of | Cut Release Candidate of Airflow 3.1 |