Hello everyone,
I am Gökhan Çetin (@cetingokhan), and I’m honored to see the Informatica Provider (PR#57610 - https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/57610) among the top rookie contributions. In today’s data-driven world, data governance and lineage have become essential. While Airflow has OpenLineage, there was a gap for Informatica users. Having solved this challenge for clients in the past, I wanted to share that experience with the open-source community. This first PR focuses on the core integration and helped me learn the Airflow CI/CD process. (I’d like to thank the maintainers who reviewed the code and guided me through the CI/CD process.) I am already planning future PRs with more advanced features. Currently, I am diving deep into the Airflow Core and SDK, and I look forward to contributing to bug fixes and new features soon. Thank you for the warm welcome! Best regards, Gökhan Çetin ________________________________ From: Srabasti Banerjee <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2026 9:22 AM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: February 2025 Rookie PR of the Month 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
