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September 02, 2026
A new Managed Service for Apache Airflow release has started on September 02, 2026. Get ready for upcoming changes and features as we roll out the new release to all regions. This release is in progress at the moment. Listed changes and features might not be available in some regions yet.
Managed Airflow (Gen 3) environments now provide Out-of-Memory (OOM) event logs to help troubleshoot and diagnose memory exhaustion.
Improved Airflow task resilience against transient Kubernetes pod connection issues.
Improved Airflow web server update process during environment upgrade operations.
New Airflow builds are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 3):
New images are available in Managed Airflow (Gen 2):
August 28, 2026
Orchestration Pipelines are now generally available (GA).