Hello All,
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 February.
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 Thursday, February 26th at 5 PM PST. The winner will
be featured in the next issue of the Airflow newsletter.
Warm Regards,
Srabasti Banerjee
🏆 Top 15 PRs (2026-02-01 to 2026-03-01):
1. PR#61458: Databricks OIDC token federation for Kubernetes deployment
by @mwojtyczka (Marcin Wojtyczka) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-02-17
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61458
2. PR#60369: Add wait_for_termination parameter and fix double-deferral
in PowerBIDatasetRefreshOperator
by @shreyas-dev (Shreyas) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-02-04
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60369
3. PR#60738: added UI E2E Tests for Connections Page #60569
by @vishakha1411 (Vishakha Agrawal ) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged
2026-02-12
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/60738
4. PR#61441: EKS hook: Update auth. API version to v1 and replace
non-POSIX 'source' with '.'
by @idrisakorede (Idris Akorede Ibrahim) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first
merged 2026-02-10
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61441
5. PR#61351: Keycloak auth manager: enforce team‑scoped authorization
(AIP‑67)
by @stegololz (Mathieu Monet) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-02-19
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61351
6. PR#57610: Informatica provider
by @cetingokhan (Gökhan Çetin) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-02-14
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/57610
7. PR#61043: Fix middleware order to prevent chunked FastAPI responses
by @abhijeets25012-tech 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-02-04
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61043
8. PR#61176: Add XCom serializer for pendulum.date.Date
by @mrlimacz 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-02-10
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61176
9. PR#61439: Add JWT/OIDC authentication support to Hashicorp Vault
provider
by @piotrlinski (Piotr Klinski) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged
2026-02-09
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61439
10. PR#61762: i18n(Ko): add missing translations (Feb 11)
by @1wos (somi) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-02-12
https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/61762
