Hello All!
Time flies.. the first quarter Q1 26 flew by. Apache Airflow 3.2.1, Apache
Airflow CTL 0.1.3 and Apache Airflow Helm Chart 1.21.0 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 10 PRs for the month of April.
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 Wednesday, April 29th at 5 PM PST. The winner will be
featured in the next issue of the Airflow newsletter.
Warm Regards,
Srabasti Banerjee
🏆 Top 10 PRs (2026-04-01 to 2026-05-01):
1. PR#64763: [Helm]Support tpl rendering in ServiceAccount annotations,
metadataConnection, and config ConfigMap names
by @shlomitubul (shlomi tubul) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-04-12
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64763
2. PR#64133: Fix task CLI map_index bounds validation
by @Nandann018-ux (Nandan ) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-03-18
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64133
3. PR#65685: Honor AUTH_ROLE_PUBLIC in FastAPI API server
by @gaurav0107 (Gaurav Dubey) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-04-24
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65685
4. PR#64189: fix(DagCalendarTab): improve background color retrieval and
loading overlay handling
by @MFWhen 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-04-07
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64189
5. PR#63372: Expose queueing/scheduled time in the Gantt Chart
by @smyjt (Saumyajit) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-04-10
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/63372
6. PR#63546: fix: Skip dataset-triggered dags without SerializedDagModel
by @leossantos (Leonardo Soares) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged
2026-04-10
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/63546
7. PR#64322: fix(scheduler): skip asset-triggered dags without
SerializedDagModel
by @leossantos (Leonardo Soares) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged
2026-04-10
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64322
8. PR#64285: Fix UI log fetch crash when ti.hostname is empty
by @NssGourav (Gourav N S S) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-04-21
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64285
9. PR#62230: Fix group/extra bug in initialize_virtualenv
by @tuzonghua (Michael Doo) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-04-02
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/62230
10. PR#64968: Fix missing dag_id in get_task_instance (#64957)
by @holmuk (Pavel Grakhov) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-04-11
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/64968
