Hello All! Another month flew by - Apache Airflow 3.3.1 is available [image: :tada:] Thanks to all contributors!!!✨
Airflow Summit is around the corner at Austin, Texas at the end of this month from August 31 to September 2nd this year. It is not late yet to book your tickets!! Learn more about discounts at : https://airflowsummit.org/tickets/ 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 August. 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 Friday, August 28th at 5 PM PST. The winner will be featured in the next issue of the Airflow newsletter. Warm Regards, Srabasti Banerjee 🏆 Top 15 PRs (2026-08-01 to 2026-09-01): 1. PR#68847: Add SandboxToolset for sandboxed agent shell and file access by @zozo123 (Yossi Eliaz) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-08-13 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/68847 2. PR#67532: Add IBM Db2 provider with Hook by @Amitkumar293 (Amit Kumar) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-23 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/67532 3. PR#65738: Fix orphaned subprocesses and supervisor crash on heartbeat 409 by @cmettler (Christoph) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-05 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/65738 4. PR#70473: Add password field type to FlexibleForm by @Ed3110 (Edward Shen) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-13 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70473 5. PR#66751: Use parameterized queries in HiveStatsCollectionOperator by @Har1sh-k (Harish Kolla) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-19 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/66751 6. PR#71237: Add terminationGracePeriodSeconds support for PgBouncer in Helm chart by @antruigon 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-18 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/71237 7. PR#70896: Separate JWT secret env var from the standard Airflow environment helper by @rohan9446 (Rohan Bandaru) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-08-04 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70896 8. PR#70089: Fix manual runs getting a zero-length data interval across DST by @harjothkhara (Harjoth Khara) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-12 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70089 9. PR#71380: Prevent a broken job from stalling AWS Batch executor sync by @AlexanderBLR (Alexander Oreshkevich) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-17 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/71380 10. PR#69182: Add Databricks-native retry settings to task operators by @Beat-Nick (Nick) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-07 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/69182 11. PR#62938: git dag bundle to use the private key in submodule pull by @Pandry (Pandry) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-01 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/62938 12. PR#71823: Fix Variable.set rewriting team_name of existing variables by @ccoliu (ccoliu) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-20 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/71823 13. PR#70942: Dispatch the highest priority tasks first in the executor by @ignacioparicio (Ignacio Paricio) 🆕 Rookie: PR #1, first merged 2026-08-17 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70942 14. PR#70819: Added dompurify override to UI to resolve CVEs by @ivonaest (Ivona Cvija) 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-08-13 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70819 15. PR#70237: Fix clearTaskInstances returning 500 instead of 422 on invalid body by @SreeramaYeshwanthGowd 🆕 Rookie: PR #2, first merged 2026-08-13 https://github.com/apache/airflow/pull/70237
