Welcome to the last quarter of 2026! Apache Airflow AI Provider 1.0 is 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 October. Links are not included to avoid spam alerts. New Contributors - please reply to this thread with your introduction, community experience 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 Thursday, October 29th at 5 PM PST. The winner will be featured in the next issue of the Airflow newsletter. Warm Regards, Srabasti Banerjee 1. PR#67592: Fix missing task.queued_duration metric in Airflow 3 by @myps6415 (Tung, Hsiao-Yu) 2. PR#74869: Enforce execution_timeout for tasks run by a language SDK by @ChickenBenny 3. PR#74401: Fix /ui/dags recent-runs query degradation on large, skewed dag_run tables by @pickfire (Ivan Tham) 4. PR#74600: Detect when enhanced Power BI refreshes finish or fail by @omar-massfih (Omar Massfih) 5. PR#75422: Make Dags sidebar button a link and move Dag Runs and Task Instances to Browse by @stephenyang0215 (Stephen Yang) 6. PR#73940: Add documentation and sample DAG for ExasolToS3Operator by @Mola-maker (mola) 7. PR#71675: Warn when ignore_unknown_values is a no-op in GCSToBigQueryOperator by @jonathangosling (Jonathan Gosling) 8. PR#73099: Support Table objects in BigQueryHook.create_table table_resource by @X33834 (X33834) 9. PR#73885: Allow ECS exit codes to fail tasks without retrying by @jingi723 (Jingi Kim) 10. PR#73616: UI: Add match-anywhere toggle to the tags filter by @krisztiansala (krisztiansala) 11. PR#74666: Send task inlets and outlets as JSON lists in OpenLineage facet by @frank-ye (Frank Ye) 12. PR#71528: Fix GKEStartPodOperator ignoring execution_timeout when deferrable by @AyushkhatiDev (Ayush Khati) 13. PR#71092: Add configurable request timeout for the Airbyte API by @filipeaaoliveira (Filipe Oliveira) 14. PR#69226: Fix Cloud Function invoke operator docs link by @EltonChang1 (Elton Chang) 15. PR#72063: Redact secrets written through RedactedIO.writelines() by @MahathirMohammadShuvo (Mahathir Mohammad Shuvo)
