Dear All, Finally, I have been able to make the FIFTH RELEASE CANDIDATE of Airflow 1.8.0 available at: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/airflow/ <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/incubator/airflow/> , public keys are available at https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/airflow/ <https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/incubator/airflow/> . It is tagged with a local version “apache.incubating” so it allows upgrading from earlier releases.
Issues fixed since rc4: [AIRFLOW-900] Double trigger should not kill original task instance [AIRFLOW-900] Fixes bugs in LocalTaskJob for double run protection [AIRFLOW-932] Do not mark tasks removed when backfilling [AIRFLOW-961] run onkill when SIGTERMed [AIRFLOW-910] Use parallel task execution for backfills [AIRFLOW-967] Wrap strings in native for py2 ldap compatibility [AIRFLOW-941] Use defined parameters for psycopg2 [AIRFLOW-719] Prevent DAGs from ending prematurely [AIRFLOW-938] Use test for True in task_stats queries [AIRFLOW-937] Improve performance of task_stats [AIRFLOW-933] use ast.literal_eval rather eval because ast.literal_eval does not execute input. [AIRFLOW-919] Running tasks with no start date shouldn't break a DAGs UI [AIRFLOW-897] Prevent dagruns from failing with unfinished tasks [AIRFLOW-861] make pickle_info endpoint be login_required [AIRFLOW-853] use utf8 encoding for stdout line decode [AIRFLOW-856] Make sure execution date is set for local client [AIRFLOW-830][AIRFLOW-829][AIRFLOW-88] Reduce Travis log verbosity [AIRFLOW-794] Access DAGS_FOLDER and SQL_ALCHEMY_CONN exclusively from settings [AIRFLOW-694] Fix config behaviour for empty envvar [AIRFLOW-365] Set dag.fileloc explicitly and use for Code view [AIRFLOW-931] Do not set QUEUED in TaskInstances [AIRFLOW-899] Tasks in SCHEDULED state should be white in the UI instead of black [AIRFLOW-895] Address Apache release incompliancies [AIRFLOW-893][AIRFLOW-510] Fix crashing webservers when a dagrun has no start date [AIRFLOW-793] Enable compressed loading in S3ToHiveTransfer [AIRFLOW-863] Example DAGs should have recent start dates [AIRFLOW-869] Refactor mark success functionality [AIRFLOW-856] Make sure execution date is set for local client [AIRFLOW-814] Fix Presto*CheckOperator.__init__ [AIRFLOW-844] Fix cgroups directory creation No known issues anymore. I would also like to raise a VOTE for releasing 1.8.0 based on release candidate 5, i.e. just renaming release candidate 5 to 1.8.0 release. Please respond to this email by: +1,0,-1 with *binding* if you are a PMC member or *non-binding* if you are not. Thanks! Bolke My VOTE: +1 (binding)
