> So Jed and me wanted to drop exactly the same topic and propose that we make > a release policy with the Helm chart matching the rest of the SW release > cycle, meaning to release 1.19 as next version and after this drop support > For Airflow <= 2.10. Next year then drop support for Airflow <3.
I agree with that and also, I have a small concern too. Wouldn't that be too big support drop at one time (drop of version 1 and almost whole version 2)? I was thinking that maybe it would be better to drop only support for version 1 after release of 1.19.0. Then drop version 2 despite 2.11 (something like bridge version between Airflow 2 and 3), and after that drop of 2.11 entirely. What do you think? ________________________________ From: Jens Scheffler <[email protected]> Sent: 26 November 2025 20:20 To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Removal of Airflow 1 support from official Helm Chart Hi, oh, you catched a topic that I also wanted to drop together with Jed to the devlist. So far the Helm chart never made deprecations for old Airflow versions. But we stop supporting Airflow-Versions based on release date, so for example with providers release (=tomorrow) we will stop releasing providers for Airflow 2.10 and will only further support Airflow 2.11. Same like with Python, we dropped support for Python 3.9 and require Python 3.10++ So Jed and me wanted to drop exactly the same topic and propose that we make a release policy with the Helm chart matching the rest of the SW release cycle, meaning to release 1.19 as next version and after this drop support For Airflow <= 2.10. Next year then drop support for Airflow <3. Discussion and other opinions open! Jens On 11/26/25 19:25, Przemysław Mirowski wrote: > Dear Airflow Community, > I would like to ask your opinion on removing support for Airflow 1 from > official Helm Chart. > Airflow 1 is unsupported for many years now and I think having it in the Helm > Chart introduces more complexity. Furthermore it raises the threshold for new > contributors, cause it general all of the changes in the Helm Chart now > should support Airflow in version 1, 2 and 3. > Before dev list I created a discussion topic on GitHub - Removal of Airflow 1 > support from official Helm Chart · apache/airflow · Discussion > #58691<https://github.com/apache/airflow/discussions/58691>. > Best Regards, > P.M. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
