GitHub user potiuk edited a comment on the discussion: Apache Spark Provider not working with python3.8 anymore
This is result of our policy: https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/README.md#support-for-python-and-kubernetes-versions Providers are released from `main` and the policy is clear about removing support for Python version in main. I heartily recommend you to upgrade to Python 3.9+ - becuase Python 3.8 will not receive any security fixes - so if you want to stick with that you are endangering your employer to any security fixes that Python team might release. If - despite knowing the risk - you want to stay with Python 3.8 and want to install latest provider version for Python 3.8, there is completely no problem for you to check out the right tag and backport the provider to 3.8, release it locally in your own registry and use it from there. You are absolutely not blocked, and it makes sense that the burden of doing it is on those who want to follow not-best-practices and do this for commercial reasons (for example becaue it will cost them to perform an upgrade in their own system) rather than expect that voluntary maintainers will handle their outdated installation, We even are about to merge a short chapter explaining in detail how to build your own version of provider packages using Airflow's source code as it was a little bit burried: see #43524 This is a very deliberate decision of the community - more than 3 years ago when we adopted the policy and voted on it on the devlist. And specifically shifting the effort to those users who prefer to stay behind was the driver for that decision, so the effort that you need to to keep up with older versions of Python is expected and we deliberately designed it in the way our release policy is defined. Generally in a very near future (~ 2027) when various regulations in EU and US and China wil be effective, you will be required to do that by law (i.e. upgrade to versions of software with latest security fixes). You can read it here for example https://ubuntu.com/blog/the-cyber-resilience-act-what-it-means-for-open-source, so this is but a very little intro to what is going to happen for your updates, and I heartily recommend you start upgrading your software early and often - this will decrease the pain later - when it will be cheaper for your company to upgrade rather than not. GitHub link: https://github.com/apache/airflow/discussions/43542#discussioncomment-11111363 ---- This is an automatically sent email for commits@airflow.apache.org. To unsubscribe, please send an email to: commits-unsubscr...@airflow.apache.org
