Updating Airflow

This file documents any backwards-incompatible changes in Airflow and assists users migrating to a new version.

Table of contents

Airflow Master
Airflow 1.10.10
Airflow 1.10.9
Airflow 1.10.8
Airflow 1.10.7
Airflow 1.10.6
Airflow 1.10.5
Airflow 1.10.4
Airflow 1.10.3
Airflow 1.10.2
Airflow 1.10.1
Airflow 1.10
Airflow 1.9
Airflow 1.8.1
Airflow 1.8
Airflow 1.7.1.2

Airflow Master

Weekday enum has been moved

Formerly the core code was maintained by the original creators - Airbnb. The code that was in the contrib package was supported by the community. The project was passed to the Apache community and currently the entire code is maintained by the community, so now the division has no justification, and it is only due to historical reasons.

To clean up, Weekday enum has been moved from airflow.contrib.utils into airflow.utils module.

airflow.contrib.utils.log has been moved

Formerly the core code was maintained by the original creators - Airbnb. The code that was in the contrib package was supported by the community. The project was passed to the Apache community and currently the entire code is maintained by the community, so now the division has no justification, and it is only due to historical reasons.

To clean up, modules in airflow.contrib.utils.log have been moved into airflow.utils.log this includes:

TaskHandlerWithCustomFormatter class

Deprecated method in Connection

The connection module has new deprecated methods:

Connection.parse_from_uri
Connection.log_info
Connection.debug_info

and one deprecated function:

parse_netloc_to_hostname

Previously, users could create a connection object in two ways

conn_1 = Connection(conn_id="conn_a", uri="mysql://AAA/")
# or
conn_2 = Connection(conn_id="conn_a")
conn_2.parse_uri(uri="mysql://AAA/")

Now the second way is not supported.

Connection.log_info and Connection.debug_info method have been deprecated. Read each Connection field individually or use the default representation (__repr__).

The old method is still works but can be abandoned at any time. The changes are intended to delete method that are rarely used.

BaseOperator uses metaclass

BaseOperator class uses a BaseOperatorMeta as a metaclass. This meta class is based on abc.ABCMeta. If your custom operator uses different metaclass then you will have to adjust it.

Not-nullable conn_type column in connection table

The conn_type column in the connection table must contain content. Previously, this rule was enforced by application logic, but was not enforced by the database schema.

If you made any modifications to the table directly, make sure you don't have null in the conn_type column.

DAG.create_dagrun accepts run_type and does not require run_id

This change is caused by adding run_type column to DagRun.

Previous signature:

def create_dagrun(self,
                  run_id,
                  state,
                  execution_date=None,
                  start_date=None,
                  external_trigger=False,
                  conf=None,
                  session=None):

current:

def create_dagrun(self,
                  state,
                  execution_date=None,
                  run_id=None,
                  start_date=None,
                  external_trigger=False,
                  conf=None,
                  run_type=None,
                  session=None):

If user provides run_id then the run_type will be derived from it by checking prefix, allowed types : manual, scheduled, backfill (defined by airflow.utils.types.DagRunType).

If user provides run_type and execution_date then run_id is constructed as {run_type}__{execution_data.isoformat()}.

Airflow should construct dagruns using run_type and execution_date, creation using run_id is preserved for user actions.

Standardised "extra" requirements

We standardised the Extras names and synchronized providers package names with the main airflow extras.

We deprecated a number of extras in 2.0.

Deprecated extras	New extras
atlas	apache.atlas
aws	amazon
azure	microsoft.azure
cassandra	apache.cassandra
druid	apache.druid
gcp	google
gcp_api	google
hdfs	apache.hdfs
hive	apache.hive
kubernetes	cncf.kubernetes
mssql	microsoft.mssql
pinot	apache.pinot
webhdfs	apache.webhdfs
winrm	apache.winrm

For example instead of pip install apache-airflow[atlas] you should use pip install apache-airflow[apache.atlas] .

The deprecated extras will be removed in 2.1:

Skipped tasks can satisfy wait_for_downstream

Previously, a task instance with wait_for_downstream=True will only run if the downstream task of the previous task instance is successful. Meanwhile, a task instance with depends_on_past=True will run if the previous task instance is either successful or skipped. These two flags are close siblings yet they have different behavior. This inconsistency in behavior made the API less intuitive to users. To maintain consistent behavior, both successful or skipped downstream task can now satisfy the wait_for_downstream=True flag.

Use DagRunType.SCHEDULED.value instead of DagRun.ID_PREFIX

All the run_id prefixes for different kind of DagRuns have been grouped into a single enum in airflow.utils.types.DagRunType.

Previously, there were defined in various places, example as ID_PREFIX class variables for DagRun, BackfillJob and in _trigger_dag function.

Was:

>> from airflow.models.dagrun import DagRun
>> DagRun.ID_PREFIX
scheduled__

Replaced by:

>> from airflow.utils.types import DagRunType
>> DagRunType.SCHEDULED.value
scheduled

Ability to patch Pool.DEFAULT_POOL_NAME in BaseOperator

It was not possible to patch pool in BaseOperator as the signature sets the default value of pool as Pool.DEFAULT_POOL_NAME. While using subdagoperator in unittest(without initializing the sqlite db), it was throwing the following error:

sqlalchemy.exc.OperationalError: (sqlite3.OperationalError) no such table: slot_pool.

Fix for this, apache#8587

Change signature of BigQueryGetDatasetTablesOperator

Was:

BigQueryGetDatasetTablesOperator(dataset_id: str, dataset_resource: dict, ...)

and now it is:

BigQueryGetDatasetTablesOperator(dataset_resource: dict, dataset_id: Optional[str] = None, ...)

Unify `hostname_callable` option in `core` section

The previous option used a colon(:) to split the module from function. Now the dot(.) is used.

The change aims to unify the format of all options that refer to objects in the airflow.cfg file.

Changes in BigQueryHook

In general all hook methods are decorated with @GoogleBaseHook.fallback_to_default_project_id thus parameters to hook can only be passed via keyword arguments.

create_empty_table method accepts now table_resource parameter. If provided all other parameters are ignored.
create_empty_dataset will now use values from dataset_reference instead of raising error if parameters were passed in dataset_reference and as arguments to method. Additionally validation of dataset_reference is done using Dataset.from_api_repr. Exception and log messages has been changed.
update_dataset requires now new fields argument (breaking change)
delete_dataset has new signature (dataset_id, project_id, ...) previous one was (project_id, dataset_id, ...) (breaking change)
get_tabledata returns list of rows instead of API response in dict format. This method is deprecated in favor of list_rows. (breaking change)

Added mypy plugin to preserve types of decorated functions

Mypy currently doesn't support precise type information for decorated functions; see python/mypy#3157 for details. To preserve precise type definitions for decorated functions, we now include a mypy plugin to preserve precise type definitions for decorated functions. To use the plugin, update your setup.cfg:

[mypy]
plugins =
  airflow.mypy.plugin.decorators

Use project_id argument consistently across GCP hooks and operators

Changed order of arguments in DataflowHook.start_python_dataflow. Uses with positional arguments may break.
Changed order of arguments in DataflowHook.is_job_dataflow_running. Uses with positional arguments may break.
Changed order of arguments in DataflowHook.cancel_job. Uses with positional arguments may break.
Added optional project_id argument to DataflowCreateJavaJobOperator constructor.
Added optional project_id argument to DataflowTemplatedJobStartOperator constructor.
Added optional project_id argument to DataflowCreatePythonJobOperator constructor.

GCSUploadSessionCompleteSensor signature change

To provide more precise control in handling of changes to objects in underlying GCS Bucket the constructor of this sensor now has changed.

Old Behavior: This constructor used to optionally take previous_num_objects: int.
New replacement constructor kwarg: previous_objects: Optional[Set[str]].

Most users would not specify this argument because the bucket begins empty and the user wants to treat any files as new.

Example of Updating usage of this sensor: Users who used to call:

GCSUploadSessionCompleteSensor(bucket='my_bucket', prefix='my_prefix', previous_num_objects=1)

Will now call:

GCSUploadSessionCompleteSensor(bucket='my_bucket', prefix='my_prefix', previous_num_objects={'.keep'})

Where '.keep' is a single file at your prefix that the sensor should not consider new.

Rename pool statsd metrics

Used slot has been renamed to running slot to make the name self-explanatory and the code more maintainable.

This means pool.used_slots.<pool_name> metric has been renamed to pool.running_slots.<pool_name>. The Used Slots column in Pools Web UI view has also been changed to Running Slots.

Remove SQL support in base_hook

Remove get_records and get_pandas_df and run from base_hook, which only apply for sql like hook, If want to use them, or your custom hook inherit them, please use dbapi_hook

Changes to SalesforceHook

Replace parameter sandbox with domain. According to change in simple-salesforce package

Rename parameter name in PinotAdminHook.create_segment

Rename parameter name from format to segment_format in PinotAdminHook function create_segment fro pylint compatible

Rename parameter name in HiveMetastoreHook.get_partitions

Rename parameter name from filter to partition_filter in HiveMetastoreHook function get_partitions for pylint compatible

Remove unnecessary parameter in FTPHook.list_directory

Remove unnecessary parameter nlst in FTPHook function list_directory for pylint compatible

Remove unnecessary parameter in PostgresHook function copy_expert

Remove unnecessary parameter open in PostgresHook function copy_expert for pylint compatible

Change parameter name in OpsgenieAlertOperator

Change parameter name from visibleTo to visible_to in OpsgenieAlertOperator for pylint compatible

Use NULL as default value for dag.description

Now use NULL as default value for dag.description in dag table

Assigning task to a DAG using bitwise shift (bit-shift) operators are no longer supported

Previously, you could assign a task to a DAG as follows:

dag = DAG('my_dag')
dummy = DummyOperator(task_id='dummy')

dag >> dummy

This is no longer supported. Instead, we recommend using the DAG as context manager:

with DAG('my_dag'):
    dummy = DummyOperator(task_id='dummy')

Deprecating ignore_first_depends_on_past on backfill command and default it to True

When doing backfill with depends_on_past dags, users will need to pass --ignore-first-depends-on-past. We should default it as true to avoid confusion

Custom executors is loaded using full import path

In previous versions of Airflow it was possible to use plugins to load custom executors. It is still possible, but the configuration has changed. Now you don't have to create a plugin to configure a custom executor, but you need to provide the full path to the module in the executor option in the core section. The purpose of this change is to simplify the plugin mechanism and make it easier to configure executor.

If your module was in the path my_acme_company.executors.MyCustomExecutor and the plugin was called my_plugin then your configuration looks like this

[core]
executor = my_plguin.MyCustomExecutor

And now it should look like this:

[core]
executor = my_acme_company.executors.MyCustomExecutor

The old configuration is still works but can be abandoned at any time.

Removed sub-package imports from `airflow/init.py`

The imports LoggingMixin, conf, and AirflowException have been removed from airflow/__init__.py. All implicit references of these objects will no longer be valid. To migrate, all usages of each old path must be replaced with its corresponding new path.

Old Path (Implicit Import)	New Path (Explicit Import)
`airflow.LoggingMixin`	`airflow.utils.log.logging_mixin.LoggingMixin`
`airflow.conf`	`airflow.configuration.conf`
`airflow.AirflowException`	`airflow.exceptions.AirflowException`

Added `airflow dags test` CLI command

A new command was added to the CLI for executing one full run of a DAG for a given execution date, similar to airflow tasks test. Example usage:

airflow dags test [dag_id] [execution_date]
airflow dags test example_branch_operator 2018-01-01

Drop plugin support for stat_name_handler

In previous version, you could use plugins mechanism to configure stat_name_handler. You should now use the stat_name_handler option in [scheduler] section to achieve the same effect.

If your plugin looked like this and was available through the test_plugin path:

def my_stat_name_handler(stat):
    return stat

class AirflowTestPlugin(AirflowPlugin):
    name = "test_plugin"
    stat_name_handler = my_stat_name_handler

then your airflow.cfg file should look like this:

[scheduler]
stat_name_handler=test_plugin.my_stat_name_handler

This change is intended to simplify the statsd configuration.

Move methods from BiqQueryBaseCursor to BigQueryHook

To simplify BigQuery operators (no need of Cursor) and standardize usage of hooks within all GCP integration methods from BiqQueryBaseCursor were moved to BigQueryHook. Using them by from Cursor object is still possible due to preserved backward compatibility but they will raise DeprecationWarning. The following methods were moved:

Standardize handling http exception in BigQuery

Since BigQuery is the part of the GCP it was possible to simplify the code by handling the exceptions by usage of the airflow.providers.google.common.hooks.base.GoogleBaseHook.catch_http_exception decorator however it changes exceptions raised by the following methods:

airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.run_table_delete raises AirflowException instead of Exception.
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.create_empty_dataset raises AirflowException instead of ValueError.
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.get_dataset raises AirflowException instead of ValueError.

Remove airflow.utils.file.TemporaryDirectory

Since Airflow dropped support for Python < 3.5 there's no need to have this custom implementation of TemporaryDirectory because the same functionality is provided by tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.

Now users instead of import from airflow.utils.files import TemporaryDirectory should do from tempfile import TemporaryDirectory. Both context managers provide the same interface, thus no additional changes should be required.

Chain and cross_downstream moved from helpers to BaseOperator

The chain and cross_downstream methods are now moved to airflow.models.baseoperator module from airflow.utils.helpers module.

The baseoperator module seems to be a better choice to keep closely coupled methods together. Helpers module is supposed to contain standalone helper methods that can be imported by all classes.

The chain method and cross_downstream method both use BaseOperator. If any other package imports any classes or functions from helpers module, then it automatically has an implicit dependency to BaseOperator. That can often lead to cyclic dependencies.

More information in AIFLOW-6392

In Airflow <2.0 you imported those two methods like this:

from airflow.utils.helpers import chain
from airflow.utils.helpers import cross_downstream

In Airflow 2.0 it should be changed to:

from airflow.models.baseoperator import chain
from airflow.models.baseoperator import cross_downstream

Change python3 as Dataflow Hooks/Operators default interpreter

Now the py_interpreter argument for DataFlow Hooks/Operators has been changed from python2 to python3.

Logging configuration has been moved to new section

The following configurations have been moved from [core] to the new [logging] section.

base_log_folder
remote_logging
remote_log_conn_id
remote_base_log_folder
encrypt_s3_logs
logging_level
fab_logging_level
logging_config_class
colored_console_log
colored_log_format
colored_formatter_class
log_format
simple_log_format
task_log_prefix_template
log_filename_template
log_processor_filename_template
dag_processor_manager_log_location
task_log_reader

Simplification of CLI commands

Grouped to improve UX of CLI

Some commands have been grouped to improve UX of CLI. New commands are available according to the following table:

Old command	New command
`airflow worker`	`airflow celery worker`
`airflow flower`	`airflow celery flower`

Cli use exactly single character for short option style change

For Airflow short option, use exactly one single character, New commands are available according to the following table:

Old command	New command
``airflow (dags	tasks
`airflow tasks test [-dr, --dry_run]`	`airflow tasks test [-n, --dry-run]`
`airflow dags backfill [-dr, --dry_run]`	`airflow dags backfill [-n, --dry-run]`
`airflow tasks clear [-dx, --dag_regex]`	`airflow tasks clear [-R, --dag-regex]`
`airflow kerberos [-kt, --keytab]`	`airflow kerberos [-k, --keytab]`
`airflow tasks run [-int, --interactive]`	`airflow tasks run [-N, --interactive]`
`airflow webserver [-hn, --hostname]`	`airflow webserver [-H, --hostname]`
`airflow celery worker [-cn, --celery_hostname]`	`airflow celery worker [-H, --celery-hostname]`
`airflow celery flower [-hn, --hostname]`	`airflow celery flower [-H, --hostname]`
`airflow celery flower [-fc, --flower_conf]`	`airflow celery flower [-c, --flower-conf]`
`airflow celery flower [-ba, --basic_auth]`	`airflow celery flower [-A, --basic-auth]`
`airflow celery flower [-tp, --task_params]`	`airflow celery flower [-t, --task-params]`
`airflow celery flower [-pm, --post_mortem]`	`airflow celery flower [-m, --post-mortem]`

For Airflow long option, use kebab-case instead of snake_case

Old option	New option
`--task_regex`	`--task-regex`
`--start_date`	`--start-date`
`--end_date`	`--end-date`
`--dry_run`	`--dry-run`
`--no_backfill`	`--no-backfill`
`--mark_success`	`--mark-success`
`--donot_pickle`	`--donot-pickle`
`--ignore_dependencies`	`--ignore-dependencies`
`--ignore_first_depends_on_past`	`--ignore-first-depends-on-past`
`--delay_on_limit`	`--delay-on-limit`
`--reset_dagruns`	`--reset-dagruns`
`--rerun_failed_tasks`	`--rerun-failed-tasks`
`--run_backwards`	`--run-backwards`
`--only_failed`	`--only-failed`
`--only_running`	`--only-running`
`--exclude_subdags`	`--exclude-subdags`
`--exclude_parentdag`	`--exclude-parentdag`
`--dag_regex`	`--dag-regex`
`--run_id`	`--run-id`
`--exec_date`	`--exec-date`
`--ignore_all_dependencies`	`--ignore-all-dependencies`
`--ignore_depends_on_past`	`--ignore-depends-on-past`
`--ship_dag`	`--ship-dag`
`--job_id`	`--job-id`
`--cfg_path`	`--cfg-path`
`--ssl_cert`	`--ssl-cert`
`--ssl_key`	`--ssl-key`
`--worker_timeout`	`--worker-timeout`
`--access_logfile`	`--access-logfile`
`--error_logfile`	`--error-logfile`
`--dag_id`	`--dag-id`
`--num_runs`	`--num-runs`
`--do_pickle`	`--do-pickle`
`--celery_hostname`	`--celery-hostname`
`--broker_api`	`--broker-api`
`--flower_conf`	`--flower-conf`
`--url_prefix`	`--url-prefix`
`--basic_auth`	`--basic-auth`
`--task_params`	`--task-params`
`--post_mortem`	`--post-mortem`
`--conn_uri`	`--conn-uri`
`--conn_type`	`--conn-type`
`--conn_host`	`--conn-host`
`--conn_login`	`--conn-login`
`--conn_password`	`--conn-password`
`--conn_schema`	`--conn-schema`
`--conn_port`	`--conn-port`
`--conn_extra`	`--conn-extra`
`--use_random_password`	`--use-random-password`
`--skip_serve_logs`	`--skip-serve-logs`

Remove serve_logs command from CLI

The serve_logs command has been deleted. This command should be run only by internal application mechanisms and there is no need for it to be accessible from the CLI interface.

dag_state CLI command

If the DAGRun was triggered with conf key/values passed in, they will also be printed in the dag_state CLI response ie. running, {"name": "bob"} whereas in in prior releases it just printed the state: ie. running

Remove gcp_service_account_keys option in airflow.cfg file

This option has been removed because it is no longer supported by the Google Kubernetes Engine. The new recommended service account keys for the Google Cloud Platform management method is Workload Identity.

BranchPythonOperator has a return value

BranchPythonOperator will now return a value equal to the task_id of the chosen branch, where previously it returned None. Since it inherits from BaseOperator it will do an xcom_push of this value if do_xcom_push=True. This is useful for downstream decision-making.

Removal of airflow.AirflowMacroPlugin class

The class was there in airflow package but it has not been used (apparently since 2015). It has been removed.

Changes to settings

CONTEXT_MANAGER_DAG was removed from settings. It's role has been taken by DagContext in 'airflow.models.dag'. One of the reasons was that settings should be rather static than store dynamic context from the DAG, but the main one is that moving the context out of settings allowed to untangle cyclic imports between DAG, BaseOperator, SerializedDAG, SerializedBaseOperator which was part of AIRFLOW-6010.

Change default aws_conn_id in EMR operators

The default value for the aws_conn_id was accidently set to 's3_default' instead of 'aws_default' in some of the emr operators in previous versions. This was leading to EmrStepSensor not being able to find their corresponding emr cluster. With the new changes in the EmrAddStepsOperator, EmrTerminateJobFlowOperator and EmrCreateJobFlowOperator this issue is solved.

Removal of redirect_stdout, redirect_stderr

Function redirect_stderr and redirect_stdout from airflow.utils.log.logging_mixin module has been deleted because it can be easily replaced by the standard library. The functions of the standard library are more flexible and can be used in larger cases.

The code below

import logging

from airflow.utils.log.logging_mixin import redirect_stderr, redirect_stdout

logger = logging.getLogger("custom-logger")
with redirect_stdout(logger, logging.INFO), redirect_stderr(logger, logging.WARN):
    print("I love Airflow")

can be replaced by the following code:

from contextlib import redirect_stdout, redirect_stderr
import logging

from airflow.utils.log.logging_mixin import StreamLogWriter

logger = logging.getLogger("custom-logger")

with redirect_stdout(StreamLogWriter(logger, logging.INFO)), \
        redirect_stderr(StreamLogWriter(logger, logging.WARN)):
    print("I Love Airflow")

Removal of XCom.get_one()

This one is superseded by XCom.get_many().first() which will return the same result.

Changes to SQLSensor

SQLSensor now consistent with python bool() function and the allow_null parameter has been removed.

It will resolve after receiving any value that is casted to True with python bool(value). That changes the previous response receiving NULL or '0'. Earlier '0' has been treated as success criteria. NULL has been treated depending on value of allow_nullparameter. But all the previous behaviour is still achievable setting param success to lambda x: x is None or str(x) not in ('0', '').

Idempotency in BigQuery operators

Idempotency was added to BigQueryCreateEmptyTableOperator and BigQueryCreateEmptyDatasetOperator. But to achieve that try / except clause was removed from create_empty_dataset and create_empty_table methods of BigQueryHook.

Migration of AWS components

All AWS components (hooks, operators, sensors, example DAGs) will be grouped together as decided in AIP-21. Migrated components remain backwards compatible but raise a DeprecationWarning when imported from the old module. Migrated are:

Old path	New path
airflow.hooks.S3_hook.S3Hook	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.s3.S3Hook
airflow.contrib.hooks.aws_athena_hook.AWSAthenaHook	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.athena.AWSAthenaHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.aws_lambda_hook.AwsLambdaHook	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.lambda_function.AwsLambdaHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.aws_sqs_hook.SQSHook	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.sqs.SQSHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.aws_sns_hook.AwsSnsHook	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.sns.AwsSnsHook
airflow.contrib.operators.aws_athena_operator.AWSAthenaOperator	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.operators.athena.AWSAthenaOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.awsbatch.AWSBatchOperator	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.operators.batch.AwsBatchOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.awsbatch.BatchProtocol	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.batch_client.AwsBatchProtocol
private attrs and methods on AWSBatchOperator	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.batch_client.AwsBatchClient
n/a	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.hooks.batch_waiters.AwsBatchWaiters
airflow.contrib.operators.aws_sqs_publish_operator.SQSPublishOperator	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.operators.sqs.SQSPublishOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.aws_sns_publish_operator.SnsPublishOperator	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.operators.sns.SnsPublishOperator
airflow.contrib.sensors.aws_athena_sensor.AthenaSensor	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.sensors.athena.AthenaSensor
airflow.contrib.sensors.aws_sqs_sensor.SQSSensor	airflow.providers.amazon.aws.sensors.sqs.SQSSensor

AWS Batch Operator

The AwsBatchOperator was refactored to extract an AwsBatchClient (and inherit from it). The changes are mostly backwards compatible and clarify the public API for these classes; some private methods on AwsBatchOperator for polling a job status were relocated and renamed to surface new public methods on AwsBatchClient (and via inheritance on AwsBatchOperator). A couple of job attributes are renamed on an instance of AwsBatchOperator; these were mostly used like private attributes but they were surfaced in the public API, so any use of them needs to be updated as follows:

AwsBatchOperator().jobId -> AwsBatchOperator().job_id
AwsBatchOperator().jobName -> AwsBatchOperator().job_name

The AwsBatchOperator gets a new option to define a custom model for waiting on job status changes. The AwsBatchOperator can use a new waiters parameter, an instance of AwsBatchWaiters, to specify that custom job waiters will be used to monitor a batch job. See the latest API documentation for details.

Additional arguments passed to BaseOperator cause an exception

Previous versions of Airflow took additional arguments and displayed a message on the console. When the message was not noticed by users, it caused very difficult to detect errors.

In order to restore the previous behavior, you must set an True in the allow_illegal_arguments option of section [operators] in the airflow.cfg file. In the future it is possible to completely delete this option.

Simplification of the TriggerDagRunOperator

The TriggerDagRunOperator now takes a conf argument to which a dict can be provided as conf for the DagRun. As a result, the python_callable argument was removed. PR: apache#6317.

Changes in Google Cloud Platform related hooks

The change in GCP operators implies that GCP Hooks for those operators require now keyword parameters rather than positional ones in all methods where project_id is used. The methods throw an explanatory exception in case they are called using positional parameters.

Hooks involved:

DataflowHook
MLEngineHook
PubSubHook

Other GCP hooks are unaffected.

Fernet is enabled by default

The fernet mechanism is enabled by default to increase the security of the default installation. In order to restore the previous behavior, the user must consciously set an empty key in the fernet_key option of section [core] in the airflow.cfg file.

At the same time, this means that the apache-airflow[crypto] extra-packages are always installed. However, this requires that your operating system has libffi-dev installed.

Changes to Google PubSub Operators, Hook and Sensor

In the PubSubPublishOperator and PubSubHook.publsh method the data field in a message should be bytestring (utf-8 encoded) rather than base64 encoded string.

Due to the normalization of the parameters within GCP operators and hooks a parameters like project or topic_project are deprecated and will be substituted by parameter project_id. In PubSubHook.create_subscription hook method in the parameter subscription_project is replaced by subscription_project_id. Template fields are updated accordingly and old ones may not work.

It is required now to pass key-word only arguments to PubSub hook.

These changes are not backward compatible.

Affected components:

airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.pubsub.PubSubHook
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubTopicCreateOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubSubscriptionCreateOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubTopicDeleteOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubSubscriptionDeleteOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubPublishOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.pubsub.PubSubPullSensor

Removed Hipchat integration

Hipchat has reached end of life and is no longer available.

For more information please see https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Stride-articles/Stride-and-Hipchat-Cloud-have-reached-End-of-Life-updated/ba-p/940248

The gcp_conn_id parameter in GKEPodOperator is required

In previous versions, it was possible to pass the None value to the gcp_conn_id in the GKEPodOperator operator, which resulted in credentials being determined according to the Application Default Credentials strategy.

Now this parameter requires a value. To restore the previous behavior, configure the connection without specifying the service account.

Detailed information about connection management is available: Google Cloud Platform Connection.

Normalize gcp_conn_id for Google Cloud Platform

Previously not all hooks and operators related to Google Cloud Platform use gcp_conn_id as parameter for GCP connection. There is currently one parameter which apply to most services. Parameters like datastore_conn_id, bigquery_conn_id, google_cloud_storage_conn_id and similar have been deprecated. Operators that require two connections are not changed.

Following components were affected by normalization:

airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.datastore.DatastoreHook
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageHook
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryCheckOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryValueCheckOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryIntervalCheckOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryGetDataOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryDeleteDatasetOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryCreateEmptyDatasetOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryTableDeleteOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageCreateBucketOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageListOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageDownloadOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageDeleteOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageBucketCreateAclEntryOperator
airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GoogleCloudStorageObjectCreateAclEntryOperator
airflow.operators.sql_to_gcs.BaseSQLToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.operators.adls_to_gcs.AdlsToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.operators.gcs_to_s3.GoogleCloudStorageToS3Operator
airflow.operators.gcs_to_gcs.GoogleCloudStorageToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.operators.bigquery_to_gcs.BigQueryToCloudStorageOperator
airflow.operators.local_to_gcs.FileToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.operators.cassandra_to_gcs.CassandraToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.operators.bigquery_to_bigquery.BigQueryToBigQueryOperator

Changes to propagating Kubernetes worker annotations

kubernetes_annotations configuration section has been removed. A new key worker_annotations has been added to existing kubernetes section instead. That is to remove restriction on the character set for k8s annotation keys. All key/value pairs from kubernetes_annotations should now go to worker_annotations as a json. I.e. instead of e.g.

[kubernetes_annotations]
annotation_key = annotation_value
annotation_key2 = annotation_value2

it should be rewritten to

[kubernetes]
worker_annotations = { "annotation_key" : "annotation_value", "annotation_key2" : "annotation_value2" }

Changes to import paths and names of GCP operators and hooks

According to AIP-21 operators related to Google Cloud Platform has been moved from contrib to core. The following table shows changes in import paths.

Old path	New path
airflow.contrib.hooks.bigquery_hook.BigQueryHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.datastore_hook.DatastoreHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.datastore.DatastoreHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_bigtable_hook.BigtableHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigtable.BigtableHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_cloud_build_hook.CloudBuildHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.cloud_build.CloudBuildHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_container_hook.GKEClusterHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.kubernetes_engine.GKEHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_compute_hook.GceHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.compute.ComputeEngineHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_dataflow_hook.DataFlowHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataflow.DataflowHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_dataproc_hook.DataProcHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dataproc.DataprocHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_dlp_hook.CloudDLPHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.dlp.CloudDLPHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_function_hook.GcfHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.functions.CloudFunctionsHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_kms_hook.GoogleCloudKMSHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.kms.CloudKMSHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_mlengine_hook.MLEngineHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.mlengine.MLEngineHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_natural_language_hook.CloudNaturalLanguageHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.natural_language.CloudNaturalLanguageHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_pubsub_hook.PubSubHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.pubsub.PubSubHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_speech_to_text_hook.GCPSpeechToTextHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.speech_to_text.CloudSpeechToTextHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_spanner_hook.CloudSpannerHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.spanner.SpannerHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_sql_hook.CloudSqlDatabaseHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.cloud_sql.CloudSQLDatabaseHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_sql_hook.CloudSqlHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.cloud_sql.CloudSQLHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_tasks_hook.CloudTasksHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.tasks.CloudTasksHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_text_to_speech_hook.GCPTextToSpeechHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.text_to_speech.CloudTextToSpeechHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_transfer_hook.GCPTransferServiceHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServiceHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_translate_hook.CloudTranslateHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.translate.CloudTranslateHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_video_intelligence_hook.CloudVideoIntelligenceHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.video_intelligence.CloudVideoIntelligenceHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcp_vision_hook.CloudVisionHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.vision.CloudVisionHook
airflow.contrib.hooks.gcs_hook.GoogleCloudStorageHook	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.gcs.GCSHook
airflow.contrib.operators.adls_to_gcs.AdlsToGoogleCloudStorageOperator	airflow.operators.adls_to_gcs.AdlsToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_check_operator.BigQueryCheckOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryCheckOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_check_operator.BigQueryIntervalCheckOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryIntervalCheckOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_check_operator.BigQueryValueCheckOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryValueCheckOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_get_data.BigQueryGetDataOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryGetDataOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_operator.BigQueryCreateEmptyDatasetOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryCreateEmptyDatasetOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_operator.BigQueryCreateEmptyTableOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryCreateEmptyTableOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_operator.BigQueryCreateExternalTableOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryCreateExternalTableOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_operator.BigQueryDeleteDatasetOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryDeleteDatasetOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_operator.BigQueryOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryExecuteQueryOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_table_delete_operator.BigQueryTableDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigquery.BigQueryDeleteTableOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_to_bigquery.BigQueryToBigQueryOperator	airflow.operators.bigquery_to_bigquery.BigQueryToBigQueryOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_to_gcs.BigQueryToCloudStorageOperator	airflow.operators.bigquery_to_gcs.BigQueryToCloudStorageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.bigquery_to_mysql_operator.BigQueryToMySqlOperator	airflow.operators.bigquery_to_mysql.BigQueryToMySqlOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataflow_operator.DataFlowJavaOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataFlowJavaOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataflow_operator.DataFlowPythonOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataFlowPythonOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataflow_operator.DataflowTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataflow.DataflowTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataProcHadoopOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocSubmitHadoopJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataProcHiveOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocSubmitHiveJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataProcJobBaseOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocJobBaseOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataProcPigOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocSubmitPigJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataProcPySparkOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocSubmitPySparkJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataProcSparkOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocSubmitSparkJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataProcSparkSqlOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocSubmitSparkSqlJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataprocClusterCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocCreateClusterOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataprocClusterDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocDeleteClusterOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataprocClusterScaleOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocScaleClusterOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataprocOperationBaseOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocOperationBaseOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataprocWorkflowTemplateInstantiateInlineOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocInstantiateInlineWorkflowTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.dataproc_operator.DataprocWorkflowTemplateInstantiateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dataproc.DataprocInstantiateWorkflowTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.datastore_export_operator.DatastoreExportOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datastore.DatastoreExportOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.datastore_import_operator.DatastoreImportOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.datastore.DatastoreImportOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.file_to_gcs.FileToGoogleCloudStorageOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.transfers.local_to_gcs.FileToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_bigtable_operator.BigtableClusterUpdateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigtable.BigtableUpdateClusterOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_bigtable_operator.BigtableInstanceCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigtable.BigtableCreateInstanceOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_bigtable_operator.BigtableInstanceDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigtable.BigtableDeleteInstanceOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_bigtable_operator.BigtableTableCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigtable.BigtableCreateTableOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_bigtable_operator.BigtableTableDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.bigtable.BigtableDeleteTableOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_bigtable_operator.BigtableTableWaitForReplicationSensor	airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.bigtable.BigtableTableReplicationCompletedSensor
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_cloud_build_operator.CloudBuildCreateBuildOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_build.CloudBuildCreateBuildOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_compute_operator.GceBaseOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.compute.GceBaseOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_compute_operator.GceInstanceGroupManagerUpdateTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.compute.GceInstanceGroupManagerUpdateTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_compute_operator.GceInstanceStartOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.compute.GceInstanceStartOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_compute_operator.GceInstanceStopOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.compute.GceInstanceStopOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_compute_operator.GceInstanceTemplateCopyOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.compute.GceInstanceTemplateCopyOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_compute_operator.GceSetMachineTypeOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.compute.GceSetMachineTypeOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_container_operator.GKEClusterCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.kubernetes_engine.GKECreateClusterOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_container_operator.GKEClusterDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.kubernetes_engine.GKEDeleteClusterOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_container_operator.GKEPodOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.kubernetes_engine.GKEStartPodOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPCancelDLPJobOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPCancelDLPJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPCreateDLPJobOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPCreateDLPJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPCreateDeidentifyTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPCreateDeidentifyTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPCreateInspectTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPCreateInspectTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPCreateJobTriggerOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPCreateJobTriggerOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPCreateStoredInfoTypeOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPCreateStoredInfoTypeOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPDeidentifyContentOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPDeidentifyContentOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPDeleteDeidentifyTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPDeleteDeidentifyTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPDeleteDlpJobOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPDeleteDLPJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPDeleteInspectTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPDeleteInspectTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPDeleteJobTriggerOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPDeleteJobTriggerOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPDeleteStoredInfoTypeOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPDeleteStoredInfoTypeOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPGetDeidentifyTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPGetDeidentifyTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPGetDlpJobOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPGetDLPJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPGetInspectTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPGetInspectTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPGetJobTripperOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPGetJobTriggerOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPGetStoredInfoTypeOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPGetStoredInfoTypeOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPInspectContentOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPInspectContentOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPListDeidentifyTemplatesOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPListDeidentifyTemplatesOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPListDlpJobsOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPListDLPJobsOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPListInfoTypesOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPListInfoTypesOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPListInspectTemplatesOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPListInspectTemplatesOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPListJobTriggersOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPListJobTriggersOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPListStoredInfoTypesOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPListStoredInfoTypesOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPRedactImageOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPRedactImageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPReidentifyContentOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPReidentifyContentOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPUpdateDeidentifyTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPUpdateDeidentifyTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPUpdateInspectTemplateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPUpdateInspectTemplateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPUpdateJobTriggerOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPUpdateJobTriggerOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_dlp_operator.CloudDLPUpdateStoredInfoTypeOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.dlp.CloudDLPUpdateStoredInfoTypeOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_function_operator.GcfFunctionDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.functions.GcfFunctionDeleteOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_function_operator.GcfFunctionDeployOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.functions.GcfFunctionDeployOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_natural_language_operator.CloudNaturalLanguageAnalyzeEntitiesOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.natural_language.CloudNaturalLanguageAnalyzeEntitiesOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_natural_language_operator.CloudNaturalLanguageAnalyzeEntitySentimentOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.natural_language.CloudNaturalLanguageAnalyzeEntitySentimentOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_natural_language_operator.CloudNaturalLanguageAnalyzeSentimentOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.natural_language.CloudNaturalLanguageAnalyzeSentimentOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_natural_language_operator.CloudNaturalLanguageClassifyTextOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.natural_language.CloudNaturalLanguageClassifyTextOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_spanner_operator.CloudSpannerInstanceDatabaseDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.spanner.SpannerDeleteDatabaseInstanceOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_spanner_operator.CloudSpannerInstanceDatabaseDeployOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.spanner.SpannerDeployDatabaseInstanceOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_spanner_operator.CloudSpannerInstanceDatabaseQueryOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.spanner.SpannerQueryDatabaseInstanceOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_spanner_operator.CloudSpannerInstanceDatabaseUpdateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.spanner.SpannerUpdateDatabaseInstanceOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_spanner_operator.CloudSpannerInstanceDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.spanner.SpannerDeleteInstanceOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_spanner_operator.CloudSpannerInstanceDeployOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.spanner.SpannerDeployInstanceOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_speech_to_text_operator.GcpSpeechToTextRecognizeSpeechOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.speech_to_text.CloudSpeechToTextRecognizeSpeechOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_text_to_speech_operator.GcpTextToSpeechSynthesizeOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.text_to_speech.CloudTextToSpeechSynthesizeOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator.GcpTransferServiceJobCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServiceCreateJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator.GcpTransferServiceJobDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServiceDeleteJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator.GcpTransferServiceJobUpdateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServiceUpdateJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator.GcpTransferServiceOperationCancelOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServiceCancelOperationOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator.GcpTransferServiceOperationGetOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServiceGetOperationOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator.GcpTransferServiceOperationPauseOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServicePauseOperationOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator.GcpTransferServiceOperationResumeOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServiceResumeOperationOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator.GcpTransferServiceOperationsListOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServiceListOperationsOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator.GoogleCloudStorageToGoogleCloudStorageTransferOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.cloud_storage_transfer_service.CloudDataTransferServiceGCSToGCSOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_translate_operator.CloudTranslateTextOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.translate.CloudTranslateTextOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_translate_speech_operator.GcpTranslateSpeechOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.translate_speech.GcpTranslateSpeechOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_video_intelligence_operator.CloudVideoIntelligenceDetectVideoExplicitContentOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.video_intelligence.CloudVideoIntelligenceDetectVideoExplicitContentOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_video_intelligence_operator.CloudVideoIntelligenceDetectVideoLabelsOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.video_intelligence.CloudVideoIntelligenceDetectVideoLabelsOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_video_intelligence_operator.CloudVideoIntelligenceDetectVideoShotsOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.video_intelligence.CloudVideoIntelligenceDetectVideoShotsOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionAddProductToProductSetOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionAddProductToProductSetOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionAnnotateImageOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionImageAnnotateOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionDetectDocumentTextOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionTextDetectOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionDetectImageLabelsOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionDetectImageLabelsOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionDetectImageSafeSearchOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionDetectImageSafeSearchOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionDetectTextOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionDetectTextOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionProductCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionCreateProductOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionProductDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionDeleteProductOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionProductGetOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionGetProductOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionProductSetCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionCreateProductSetOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionProductSetDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionDeleteProductSetOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionProductSetGetOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionGetProductSetOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionProductSetUpdateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionUpdateProductSetOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionProductUpdateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionUpdateProductOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionReferenceImageCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionCreateReferenceImageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_vision_operator.CloudVisionRemoveProductFromProductSetOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.vision.CloudVisionRemoveProductFromProductSetOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_acl_operator.GoogleCloudStorageBucketCreateAclEntryOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GCSBucketCreateAclEntryOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_acl_operator.GoogleCloudStorageObjectCreateAclEntryOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GCSObjectCreateAclEntryOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_delete_operator.GoogleCloudStorageDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GCSDeleteObjectsOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_download_operator.GoogleCloudStorageDownloadOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GCSToLocalFilesystemOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_list_operator.GoogleCloudStorageListOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GCSListObjectsOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_operator.GoogleCloudStorageCreateBucketOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.gcs.GCSCreateBucketOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_to_bq.GoogleCloudStorageToBigQueryOperator	airflow.operators.gcs_to_bq.GoogleCloudStorageToBigQueryOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_to_gcs.GoogleCloudStorageToGoogleCloudStorageOperator	airflow.operators.gcs_to_gcs.GoogleCloudStorageToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_to_s3.GoogleCloudStorageToS3Operator	airflow.operators.gcs_to_s3.GCSToS3Operator
airflow.contrib.operators.mlengine_operator.MLEngineBatchPredictionOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.mlengine.MLEngineStartBatchPredictionJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.mlengine_operator.MLEngineModelOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.mlengine.MLEngineManageModelOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.mlengine_operator.MLEngineTrainingOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.mlengine.MLEngineStartTrainingJobOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.mlengine_operator.MLEngineVersionOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.mlengine.MLEngineManageVersionOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.mssql_to_gcs.MsSqlToGoogleCloudStorageOperator	airflow.operators.mssql_to_gcs.MsSqlToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.mysql_to_gcs.MySqlToGoogleCloudStorageOperator	airflow.operators.mysql_to_gcs.MySqlToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.postgres_to_gcs_operator.PostgresToGoogleCloudStorageOperator	airflow.operators.postgres_to_gcs.PostgresToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.pubsub_operator.PubSubPublishOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubPublishMessageOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.pubsub_operator.PubSubSubscriptionCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubCreateSubscriptionOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.pubsub_operator.PubSubSubscriptionDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubDeleteSubscriptionOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.pubsub_operator.PubSubTopicCreateOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubCreateTopicOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.pubsub_operator.PubSubTopicDeleteOperator	airflow.providers.google.cloud.operators.pubsub.PubSubDeleteTopicOperator
airflow.contrib.operators.sql_to_gcs.BaseSQLToGoogleCloudStorageOperator	airflow.operators.sql_to_gcs.BaseSQLToGoogleCloudStorageOperator
airflow.contrib.sensors.bigquery_sensor.BigQueryTableSensor	airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.bigquery.BigQueryTableExistenceSensor
airflow.contrib.sensors.gcp_transfer_sensor.GCPTransferServiceWaitForJobStatusSensor	airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.cloud_storage_transfer_service.DataTransferServiceJobStatusSensor
airflow.contrib.sensors.gcs_sensor.GoogleCloudStorageObjectSensor	airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.gcs.GCSObjectExistenceSensor
airflow.contrib.sensors.gcs_sensor.GoogleCloudStorageObjectUpdatedSensor	airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.gcs.GCSObjectUpdateSensor
airflow.contrib.sensors.gcs_sensor.GoogleCloudStoragePrefixSensor	airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.gcs.GCSObjectsWtihPrefixExistenceSensor
airflow.contrib.sensors.gcs_sensor.GoogleCloudStorageUploadSessionCompleteSensor	airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.gcs.GCSUploadSessionCompleteSensor
airflow.contrib.sensors.pubsub_sensor.PubSubPullSensor	airflow.providers.google.cloud.sensors.pubsub.PubSubPullSensor

Remove provide_context

provide_context argument on the PythonOperator was removed. The signature of the callable passed to the PythonOperator is now inferred and argument values are always automatically provided. There is no need to explicitly provide or not provide the context anymore. For example:

def myfunc(execution_date):
    print(execution_date)

python_operator = PythonOperator(task_id='mytask', python_callable=myfunc, dag=dag)

Notice you don't have to set provide_context=True, variables from the task context are now automatically detected and provided.

All context variables can still be provided with a double-asterisk argument:

def myfunc(**context):
    print(context)  # all variables will be provided to context

python_operator = PythonOperator(task_id='mytask', python_callable=myfunc)

The task context variable names are reserved names in the callable function, hence a clash with op_args and op_kwargs results in an exception:

def myfunc(dag):
    # raises a ValueError because "dag" is a reserved name
    # valid signature example: myfunc(mydag)

python_operator = PythonOperator(
    task_id='mytask',
    op_args=[1],
    python_callable=myfunc,
)

The change is backwards compatible, setting provide_context will add the provide_context variable to the kwargs (but won't do anything).

PR: #5990

Changes to FileSensor

FileSensor is now takes a glob pattern, not just a filename. If the filename you are looking for has *, ?, or [ in it then you should replace these with [*], [?], and [[].

Change dag loading duration metric name

Change DAG file loading duration metric from dag.loading-duration.<dag_id> to dag.loading-duration.<dag_file>. This is to better handle the case when a DAG file has multiple DAGs.

Changes to ImapHook, ImapAttachmentSensor and ImapAttachmentToS3Operator

ImapHook:

The order of arguments has changed for has_mail_attachment, retrieve_mail_attachments and download_mail_attachments.
A new mail_filter argument has been added to each of those.

ImapAttachmentSensor:

The order of arguments has changed for __init__.
A new mail_filter argument has been added to __init__.

ImapAttachmentToS3Operator:

The order of arguments has changed for __init__.
A new imap_mail_filter argument has been added to __init__.

Changes to `SubDagOperator`

SubDagOperator is changed to use Airflow scheduler instead of backfill to schedule tasks in the subdag. User no longer need to specify the executor in SubDagOperator.

Variables removed from the task instance context

The following variables were removed from the task instance context:

end_date
latest_date
tables

Moved provide_gcp_credential_file decorator to GoogleBaseHook

To simplify the code, the decorator has been moved from the inner-class.

Instead of @GoogleBaseHook._Decorators.provide_gcp_credential_file, you should write @GoogleBaseHook.provide_gcp_credential_file

Changes to S3Hook

Note: The order of arguments has changed for check_for_prefix. The bucket_name is now optional. It falls back to the connection schema attribute. The delete_objects now returns None instead of a response, since the method now makes multiple api requests when the keys list length is > 1000.

Changes to Google Transfer Operator

To obtain pylint compatibility the filter argument in GcpTransferServiceOperationsListOperator has been renamed to request_filter.

Changes in Google Cloud Transfer Hook

To obtain pylint compatibility the filter argument in GCPTransferServiceHook.list_transfer_job and GCPTransferServiceHook.list_transfer_operations has been renamed to request_filter.

CLI reorganization

The Airflow CLI has been organized so that related commands are grouped together as subcommands. The airflow list_dags command is now airflow dags list, airflow pause is airflow dags pause, etc. For a complete list of updated CLI commands, see https://airflow.apache.org/cli.html.

Removal of Mesos Executor

The Mesos Executor is removed from the code base as it was not widely used and not maintained. Mailing List Discussion on deleting it.

Increase standard Dataproc disk sizes

It is highly recommended to have 1TB+ disk size for Dataproc to have sufficient throughput: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/performance

Hence, the default value for master_disk_size in DataprocCreateClusterOperator has beeen changes from 500GB to 1TB.

Changes to SalesforceHook

renamed sign_in function to get_conn

HTTPHook verify default value changed from False to True.

The HTTPHook is now secured by default: verify=True. This can be overwriten by using the extra_options param as {'verify': False}.

Changes to GoogleCloudStorageHook

The following parameters have been replaced in all the methods in GCSHook:
- bucket is changed to bucket_name
- object is changed to object_name
The maxResults parameter in GoogleCloudStorageHook.list has been renamed to max_results for consistency.

Changes to CloudantHook

upgraded cloudant version from >=0.5.9,<2.0 to >=2.0
removed the use of the schema attribute in the connection
removed db function since the database object can also be retrieved by calling cloudant_session['database_name']

For example:

from airflow.contrib.hooks.cloudant_hook import CloudantHook

with CloudantHook().get_conn() as cloudant_session:
    database = cloudant_session['database_name']

See the docs for more information on how to use the new cloudant version.

Unify default conn_id for Google Cloud Platform

Previously not all hooks and operators related to Google Cloud Platform use google_cloud_default as a default conn_id. There is currently one default variant. Values like google_cloud_storage_default, bigquery_default, google_cloud_datastore_default have been deprecated. The configuration of existing relevant connections in the database have been preserved. To use those deprecated GCP conn_id, you need to explicitly pass their conn_id into operators/hooks. Otherwise, google_cloud_default will be used as GCP's conn_id by default.

Removed deprecated import mechanism

The deprecated import mechanism has been removed so the import of modules becomes more consistent and explicit.

For example: from airflow.operators import BashOperator becomes from airflow.operators.bash_operator import BashOperator

Changes to sensor imports

Sensors are now accessible via airflow.sensors and no longer via airflow.operators.sensors.

For example: from airflow.operators.sensors import BaseSensorOperator becomes from airflow.sensors.base_sensor_operator import BaseSensorOperator

Renamed "extra" requirements for cloud providers

Subpackages for specific services have been combined into one variant for each cloud provider. The name of the subpackage for the Google Cloud Platform has changed to follow style.

If you want to install integration for Microsoft Azure, then instead of

pip install 'apache-airflow[azure_blob_storage,azure_data_lake,azure_cosmos,azure_container_instances]'

you should execute pip install 'apache-airflow[azure]'

If you want to install integration for Amazon Web Services, then instead of pip install 'apache-airflow[s3,emr]', you should execute pip install 'apache-airflow[aws]'

If you want to install integration for Google Cloud Platform, then instead of pip install 'apache-airflow[gcp_api]', you should execute pip install 'apache-airflow[gcp]'. The old way will work until the release of Airflow 2.1.

Deprecate legacy UI in favor of FAB RBAC UI

Previously we were using two versions of UI, which were hard to maintain as we need to implement/update the same feature in both versions. With this change we've removed the older UI in favor of Flask App Builder RBAC UI. No need to set the RBAC UI explicitly in the configuration now as this is the only default UI. Please note that that custom auth backends will need re-writing to target new FAB based UI.

As part of this change, a few configuration items in [webserver] section are removed and no longer applicable, including authenticate, filter_by_owner, owner_mode, and rbac.

Remove run_duration

We should not use the run_duration option anymore. This used to be for restarting the scheduler from time to time, but right now the scheduler is getting more stable and therefore using this setting is considered bad and might cause an inconsistent state.

CLI Changes

The ability to manipulate users from the command line has been changed. 'airflow create_user' and 'airflow delete_user' and 'airflow list_users' has been grouped to a single command airflow users with optional flags --create, --list and --delete.

Example Usage:

To create a new user:

airflow users --create --username jondoe --lastname doe --firstname jon --email jdoe@apache.org --role Viewer --password test

To list users:

airflow users --list

To delete a user:

airflow users --delete --username jondoe

To add a user to a role:

airflow users --add-role --username jondoe --role Public

To remove a user from a role:

airflow users --remove-role --username jondoe --role Public

Unification of `do_xcom_push` flag

The do_xcom_push flag (a switch to push the result of an operator to xcom or not) was appearing in different incarnations in different operators. It's function has been unified under a common name (do_xcom_push) on BaseOperator. This way it is also easy to globally disable pushing results to xcom.

The following operators were affected:

DatastoreExportOperator (Backwards compatible)
DatastoreImportOperator (Backwards compatible)
KubernetesPodOperator (Not backwards compatible)
SSHOperator (Not backwards compatible)
WinRMOperator (Not backwards compatible)
BashOperator (Not backwards compatible)
DockerOperator (Not backwards compatible)
SimpleHttpOperator (Not backwards compatible)

See AIRFLOW-3249 for details

Changes to Dataproc related Operators

The 'properties' and 'jars' properties for the Dataproc related operators (DataprocXXXOperator) have been renamed from dataproc_xxxx_properties and dataproc_xxx_jars to dataproc_properties and dataproc_jarsrespectively. Arguments for dataproc_properties dataproc_jars

Changes to skipping behaviour of LatestOnlyOperator

In previous versions, the LatestOnlyOperator forcefully skipped all (direct and undirect) downstream tasks on its own. From this version on the operator will only skip direct downstream tasks and the scheduler will handle skipping any further downstream dependencies.

No change is needed if only the default trigger rule all_success is being used.

If the DAG relies on tasks with other trigger rules (i.e. all_done) being skipped by the LatestOnlyOperator, adjustments to the DAG need to be made to commodate the change in behaviour, i.e. with additional edges from the LatestOnlyOperator.

The goal of this change is to achieve a more consistent and configurale cascading behaviour based on the BaseBranchOperator (see AIRFLOW-2923 and AIRFLOW-1784).

Change default snowflake_conn_id for Snowflake hook and operators

When initializing a Snowflake hook or operator, the value used for snowflake_conn_id was always snowflake_conn_id, regardless of whether or not you specified a value for it. The default snowflake_conn_id value is now switched to snowflake_default for consistency and will be properly overriden when specified.

Simplify the response payload of endpoints /dag_stats and /task_stats

The response of endpoints /dag_stats and /task_stats help UI fetch brief statistics about DAGs and Tasks. The format was like

{
    "example_http_operator": [
        {
            "state": "success",
            "count": 0,
            "dag_id": "example_http_operator",
            "color": "green"
        },
        {
            "state": "running",
            "count": 0,
            "dag_id": "example_http_operator",
            "color": "lime"
        },
        ...
],
...
}

The dag_id was repeated in the payload, which makes the response payload unnecessarily bigger.

Now the dag_id will not appear repeated in the payload, and the response format is like

{
    "example_http_operator": [
        {
            "state": "success",
            "count": 0,
            "color": "green"
        },
        {
            "state": "running",
            "count": 0,
            "color": "lime"
        },
        ...
],
...
}

Airflow 1.10.10

Setting Empty string to a Airflow Variable will return an empty string

Previously when you set an Airflow Variable with an empty string (''), the value you used to get back was None. This will now return an empty string (''')

Example:

>> Variable.set('test_key', '')
>> Variable.get('test_key')

The above code returned None previously, now it will return ''.

Make behavior of `none_failed` trigger rule consistent with documentation

The behavior of the none_failed trigger rule is documented as "all parents have not failed (failed or upstream_failed) i.e. all parents have succeeded or been skipped." As previously implemented, the actual behavior would skip if all parents of a task had also skipped.

Add new trigger rule `none_failed_or_skipped`

The fix to none_failed trigger rule breaks workflows that depend on the previous behavior. If you need the old behavior, you should change the tasks with none_failed trigger rule to none_failed_or_skipped.

Success Callback will be called when a task in marked as success from UI

When a task is marked as success by a user from Airflow UI - on_success_callback will be called

Airflow 1.10.9

No breaking changes.

Airflow 1.10.8

Failure callback will be called when task is marked failed

When task is marked failed by user or task fails due to system failures - on failure call back will be called as part of clean up

See AIRFLOW-5621 for details

Airflow 1.10.7

Changes in experimental API execution_date microseconds replacement

The default behavior was to strip the microseconds (and milliseconds, etc) off of all dag runs triggered by by the experimental REST API. The default behavior will change when an explicit execution_date is passed in the request body. It will also now be possible to have the execution_date generated, but keep the microseconds by sending replace_microseconds=false in the request body. The default behavior can be overridden by sending replace_microseconds=true along with an explicit execution_date

Infinite pool size and pool size query optimisation

Pool size can now be set to -1 to indicate infinite size (it also includes optimisation of pool query which lead to poor task n^2 performance of task pool queries in MySQL).

Viewer won't have edit permissions on DAG view.

Google Cloud Storage Hook

The GoogleCloudStorageDownloadOperator can either write to a supplied filename or return the content of a file via xcom through store_to_xcom_key - both options are mutually exclusive.

Airflow 1.10.6

BaseOperator::render_template function signature changed

Previous versions of the BaseOperator::render_template function required an attr argument as the first positional argument, along with content and context. This function signature was changed in 1.10.6 and the attr argument is no longer required (or accepted).

In order to use this function in subclasses of the BaseOperator, the attr argument must be removed:

result = self.render_template('myattr', self.myattr, context)  # Pre-1.10.6 call
...
result = self.render_template(self.myattr, context)  # Post-1.10.6 call

Changes to `aws_default` Connection's default region

The region of Airflow's default connection to AWS (aws_default) was previously set to us-east-1 during installation.

The region now needs to be set manually, either in the connection screens in Airflow, via the ~/.aws config files, or via the AWS_DEFAULT_REGION environment variable.

Some DAG Processing metrics have been renamed

The following metrics are deprecated and won't be emitted in Airflow 2.0:

scheduler.dagbag.errors and dagbag_import_errors -- use dag_processing.import_errors instead
dag_file_processor_timeouts -- use dag_processing.processor_timeouts instead
collect_dags -- use dag_processing.total_parse_time instead
dag.loading-duration.<basename> -- use dag_processing.last_duration.<basename> instead
dag_processing.last_runtime.<basename> -- use dag_processing.last_duration.<basename> instead

Airflow 1.10.5

No breaking changes.

Airflow 1.10.4

Export MySQL timestamps as UTC

MySqlToGoogleCloudStorageOperator now exports TIMESTAMP columns as UTC by default, rather than using the default timezone of the MySQL server. This is the correct behavior for use with BigQuery, since BigQuery assumes that TIMESTAMP columns without time zones are in UTC. To preserve the previous behavior, set ensure_utc to False.

Python 2 support is going away

Airflow 1.10 will be the last release series to support Python 2. Airflow 2.0.0 will only support Python 3.5 and up.

If you have a specific task that still requires Python 2 then you can use the PythonVirtualenvOperator for this.

Changes to DatastoreHook

removed argument version from get_conn function and added it to the hook's __init__ function instead and renamed it to api_version
renamed the partialKeys argument of function allocate_ids to partial_keys

Changes to GoogleCloudStorageHook

the discovery-based api (googleapiclient.discovery) used in GoogleCloudStorageHook is now replaced by the recommended client based api (google-cloud-storage). To know the difference between both the libraries, read https://cloud.google.com/apis/docs/client-libraries-explained. PR: #5054
as a part of this replacement, the multipart & num_retries parameters for GoogleCloudStorageHook.upload method have been deprecated.

The client library uses multipart upload automatically if the object/blob size is more than 8 MB - source code. The client also handles retries automatically
the generation parameter is deprecated in GoogleCloudStorageHook.delete and GoogleCloudStorageHook.insert_object_acl.

Updating to google-cloud-storage >= 1.16 changes the signature of the upstream client.get_bucket() method from get_bucket(bucket_name: str) to get_bucket(bucket_or_name: Union[str, Bucket]). This method is not directly exposed by the airflow hook, but any code accessing the connection directly (GoogleCloudStorageHook().get_conn().get_bucket(...) or similar) will need to be updated.

Changes in writing Logs to Elasticsearch

The elasticsearch_ prefix has been removed from all config items under the [elasticsearch] section. For example elasticsearch_host is now just host.

Removal of `non_pooled_task_slot_count` and `non_pooled_backfill_task_slot_count`

non_pooled_task_slot_count and non_pooled_backfill_task_slot_count are removed in favor of a real pool, e.g. default_pool.

By default tasks are running in default_pool. default_pool is initialized with 128 slots and user can change the number of slots through UI/CLI. default_pool cannot be removed.

`pool` config option in Celery section to support different Celery pool implementation

The new pool config option allows users to choose different pool implementation. Default value is "prefork", while choices include "prefork" (default), "eventlet", "gevent" or "solo". This may help users achieve better concurrency performance in different scenarios.

For more details about Celery pool implementation, please refer to:

https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/workers.html#concurrency
https://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/userguide/concurrency/eventlet.html

Change to method signature in `BaseOperator` and `DAG` classes

The signature of the get_task_instances method in the BaseOperator and DAG classes has changed. The change does not change the behavior of the method in either case.

For `BaseOperator`

Old signature:

def get_task_instances(self, session, start_date=None, end_date=None):

New signature:

@provide_session
def get_task_instances(self, start_date=None, end_date=None, session=None):

For `DAG`

Old signature:

def get_task_instances(
    self, session, start_date=None, end_date=None, state=None):

New signature:

@provide_session
def get_task_instances(
    self, start_date=None, end_date=None, state=None, session=None):

In either case, it is necessary to rewrite calls to the get_task_instances method that currently provide the session positional argument. New calls to this method look like:

# if you can rely on @provide_session
dag.get_task_instances()
# if you need to provide the session
dag.get_task_instances(session=your_session)

Airflow 1.10.3

New `dag_discovery_safe_mode` config option

If dag_discovery_safe_mode is enabled, only check files for DAGs if they contain the strings "airflow" and "DAG". For backwards compatibility, this option is enabled by default.

RedisPy dependency updated to v3 series

If you are using the Redis Sensor or Hook you may have to update your code. See redis-py porting instructions to check if your code might be affected (MSET, MSETNX, ZADD, and ZINCRBY all were, but read the full doc).

SLUGIFY_USES_TEXT_UNIDECODE or AIRFLOW_GPL_UNIDECODE no longer required

It is no longer required to set one of the environment variables to avoid a GPL dependency. Airflow will now always use text-unidecode if unidecode was not installed before.

new `sync_parallelism` config option in celery section

The new sync_parallelism config option will control how many processes CeleryExecutor will use to fetch celery task state in parallel. Default value is max(1, number of cores - 1)

Rename of BashTaskRunner to StandardTaskRunner

BashTaskRunner has been renamed to StandardTaskRunner. It is the default task runner so you might need to update your config.

task_runner = StandardTaskRunner

Modification to config file discovery

If the AIRFLOW_CONFIG environment variable was not set and the ~/airflow/airflow.cfg file existed, airflow previously used ~/airflow/airflow.cfg instead of $AIRFLOW_HOME/airflow.cfg. Now airflow will discover its config file using the $AIRFLOW_CONFIG and $AIRFLOW_HOME environment variables rather than checking for the presence of a file.

Changes in Google Cloud Platform related operators

Most GCP-related operators have now optional PROJECT_ID parameter. In case you do not specify it, the project id configured in GCP Connection is used. There will be an AirflowException thrown in case PROJECT_ID parameter is not specified and the connection used has no project id defined. This change should be backwards compatible as earlier version of the operators had PROJECT_ID mandatory.

Operators involved:

GCP Compute Operators
- GceInstanceStartOperator
- GceInstanceStopOperator
- GceSetMachineTypeOperator
GCP Function Operators
- GcfFunctionDeployOperator
GCP Cloud SQL Operators
- CloudSqlInstanceCreateOperator
- CloudSqlInstancePatchOperator
- CloudSqlInstanceDeleteOperator
- CloudSqlInstanceDatabaseCreateOperator
- CloudSqlInstanceDatabasePatchOperator
- CloudSqlInstanceDatabaseDeleteOperator

Other GCP operators are unaffected.

Changes in Google Cloud Platform related hooks

The change in GCP operators implies that GCP Hooks for those operators require now keyword parameters rather than positional ones in all methods where project_id is used. The methods throw an explanatory exception in case they are called using positional parameters.

Hooks involved:

GceHook
GcfHook
CloudSqlHook

Other GCP hooks are unaffected.

Changed behaviour of using default value when accessing variables

It's now possible to use None as a default value with the default_var parameter when getting a variable, e.g.

foo = Variable.get("foo", default_var=None)
if foo is None:
    handle_missing_foo()

(Note: there is already Variable.setdefault() which me be helpful in some cases.)

This changes the behaviour if you previously explicitly provided None as a default value. If your code expects a KeyError to be thrown, then don't pass the default_var argument.

Removal of `airflow_home` config setting

There were previously two ways of specifying the Airflow "home" directory (~/airflow by default): the AIRFLOW_HOME environment variable, and the airflow_home config setting in the [core] section.

If they had two different values different parts of the code base would end up with different values. The config setting has been deprecated, and you should remove the value from the config file and set AIRFLOW_HOME environment variable if you need to use a non default value for this.

(Since this setting is used to calculate what config file to load, it is not possible to keep just the config option)

Change of two methods signatures in `GCPTransferServiceHook`

The signature of the create_transfer_job method in GCPTransferServiceHook class has changed. The change does not change the behavior of the method.

Old signature:

def create_transfer_job(self, description, schedule, transfer_spec, project_id=None):

New signature:

def create_transfer_job(self, body):

It is necessary to rewrite calls to method. The new call looks like this:

body = {
  'status': 'ENABLED',
  'projectId': project_id,
  'description': description,
  'transferSpec': transfer_spec,
  'schedule': schedule,
}
gct_hook.create_transfer_job(body)

The change results from the unification of all hooks and adjust to the official recommendations for the Google Cloud Platform.

The signature of wait_for_transfer_job method in GCPTransferServiceHook has changed.

Old signature:

def wait_for_transfer_job(self, job):

New signature:

def wait_for_transfer_job(self, job, expected_statuses=(GcpTransferOperationStatus.SUCCESS, )):

The behavior of wait_for_transfer_job has changed:

Old behavior:

wait_for_transfer_job would wait for the SUCCESS status in specified jobs operations.

New behavior:

You can now specify an array of expected statuses. wait_for_transfer_job now waits for any of them.

The default value of expected_statuses is SUCCESS so that change is backwards compatible.

Moved two classes to different modules

The class GoogleCloudStorageToGoogleCloudStorageTransferOperator has been moved from airflow.contrib.operators.gcs_to_gcs_transfer_operator to airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator

the class S3ToGoogleCloudStorageTransferOperator has been moved from airflow.contrib.operators.s3_to_gcs_transfer_operator to airflow.contrib.operators.gcp_transfer_operator

The change was made to keep all the operators related to GCS Transfer Services in one file.

The previous imports will continue to work until Airflow 2.0

Fixed typo in --driver-class-path in SparkSubmitHook

The driver_classapth argument to SparkSubmit Hook and Operator was generating --driver-classpath on the spark command line, but this isn't a valid option to spark.

The argument has been renamed to driver_class_path and the option it generates has been fixed.

Airflow 1.10.2

New `dag_processor_manager_log_location` config option

The DAG parsing manager log now by default will be log into a file, where its location is controlled by the new dag_processor_manager_log_location config option in core section.

DAG level Access Control for new RBAC UI

Extend and enhance new Airflow RBAC UI to support DAG level ACL. Each dag now has two permissions(one for write, one for read) associated('can_dag_edit', 'can_dag_read'). The admin will create new role, associate the dag permission with the target dag and assign that role to users. That user can only access / view the certain dags on the UI that he has permissions on. If a new role wants to access all the dags, the admin could associate dag permissions on an artificial view(all_dags) with that role.

We also provide a new cli command(sync_perm) to allow admin to auto sync permissions.

Modification to `ts_nodash` macro

ts_nodash previously contained TimeZone information along with execution date. For Example: 20150101T000000+0000. This is not user-friendly for file or folder names which was a popular use case for ts_nodash. Hence this behavior has been changed and using ts_nodash will no longer contain TimeZone information, restoring the pre-1.10 behavior of this macro. And a new macro ts_nodash_with_tz has been added which can be used to get a string with execution date and timezone info without dashes.

Examples:

ts_nodash: 20150101T000000
ts_nodash_with_tz: 20150101T000000+0000

Semantics of next_ds/prev_ds changed for manually triggered runs

next_ds/prev_ds now map to execution_date instead of the next/previous schedule-aligned execution date for DAGs triggered in the UI.

User model changes

This patch changes the User.superuser field from a hardcoded boolean to a Boolean() database column. User.superuser will default to False, which means that this privilege will have to be granted manually to any users that may require it.

For example, open a Python shell and

from airflow import models, settings

session = settings.Session()
users = session.query(models.User).all()  # [admin, regular_user]

users[1].superuser  # False

admin = users[0]
admin.superuser = True
session.add(admin)
session.commit()

Custom auth backends interface change

We have updated the version of flask-login we depend upon, and as a result any custom auth backends might need a small change: is_active, is_authenticated, and is_anonymous should now be properties. What this means is if previously you had this in your user class

def is_active(self):
  return self.active

then you need to change it like this

@property
def is_active(self):
  return self.active

Support autodetected schemas to GoogleCloudStorageToBigQueryOperator

GoogleCloudStorageToBigQueryOperator is now support schema auto-detection is available when you load data into BigQuery. Unfortunately, changes can be required.

If BigQuery tables are created outside of airflow and the schema is not defined in the task, multiple options are available:

define a schema_fields:

gcs_to_bq.GoogleCloudStorageToBigQueryOperator(
  ...
  schema_fields={...})

or define a schema_object:

gcs_to_bq.GoogleCloudStorageToBigQueryOperator(
  ...
  schema_object='path/to/schema/object)

or enabled autodetect of schema:

gcs_to_bq.GoogleCloudStorageToBigQueryOperator(
  ...
  autodetect=True)

Airflow 1.10.1

min_file_parsing_loop_time config option temporarily disabled

The scheduler.min_file_parsing_loop_time config option has been temporarily removed due to some bugs.

StatsD Metrics

The scheduler_heartbeat metric has been changed from a gauge to a counter. Each loop of the scheduler will increment the counter by 1. This provides a higher degree of visibility and allows for better integration with Prometheus using the StatsD Exporter. The scheduler's activity status can be determined by graphing and alerting using a rate of change of the counter. If the scheduler goes down, the rate will drop to 0.

EMRHook now passes all of connection's extra to CreateJobFlow API

EMRHook.create_job_flow has been changed to pass all keys to the create_job_flow API, rather than just specific known keys for greater flexibility.

However prior to this release the "emr_default" sample connection that was created had invalid configuration, so creating EMR clusters might fail until your connection is updated. (Ec2KeyName, Ec2SubnetId, TerminationProtection and KeepJobFlowAliveWhenNoSteps were all top-level keys when they should be inside the "Instances" dict)

LDAP Auth Backend now requires TLS

Connecting to an LDAP server over plain text is not supported anymore. The certificate presented by the LDAP server must be signed by a trusted certificate, or you must provide the cacert option under [ldap] in the config file.

If you want to use LDAP auth backend without TLS then you will have to create a custom-auth backend based on https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/1.10.0/airflow/contrib/auth/backends/ldap_auth.py

Airflow 1.10

Installation and upgrading requires setting SLUGIFY_USES_TEXT_UNIDECODE=yes in your environment or AIRFLOW_GPL_UNIDECODE=yes. In case of the latter a GPL runtime dependency will be installed due to a dependency (python-nvd3 -> python-slugify -> unidecode).

Replace DataProcHook.await calls to DataProcHook.wait

The method name was changed to be compatible with the Python 3.7 async/await keywords

Setting UTF-8 as default mime_charset in email utils

Add a configuration variable(default_dag_run_display_number) to control numbers of dag run for display

Add a configuration variable(default_dag_run_display_number) under webserver section to control the number of dag runs to show in UI.

Default executor for SubDagOperator is changed to SequentialExecutor

New Webserver UI with Role-Based Access Control

The current webserver UI uses the Flask-Admin extension. The new webserver UI uses the Flask-AppBuilder (FAB) extension. FAB has built-in authentication support and Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), which provides configurable roles and permissions for individual users.

To turn on this feature, in your airflow.cfg file (under [webserver]), set the configuration variable rbac = True, and then run airflow command, which will generate the webserver_config.py file in your $AIRFLOW_HOME.

Setting up Authentication

FAB has built-in authentication support for DB, OAuth, OpenID, LDAP, and REMOTE_USER. The default auth type is AUTH_DB.

For any other authentication type (OAuth, OpenID, LDAP, REMOTE_USER), see the Authentication section of FAB docs for how to configure variables in webserver_config.py file.

Once you modify your config file, run airflow db init to generate new tables for RBAC support (these tables will have the prefix ab_).

Creating an Admin Account

Once configuration settings have been updated and new tables have been generated, create an admin account with airflow create_user command.

Using your new UI

Run airflow webserver to start the new UI. This will bring up a log in page, enter the recently created admin username and password.

There are five roles created for Airflow by default: Admin, User, Op, Viewer, and Public. To configure roles/permissions, go to the Security tab and click List Roles in the new UI.

Breaking changes

AWS Batch Operator renamed property queue to job_queue to prevent conflict with the internal queue from CeleryExecutor - AIRFLOW-2542
Users created and stored in the old users table will not be migrated automatically. FAB's built-in authentication support must be reconfigured.
Airflow dag home page is now /home (instead of /admin).
All ModelViews in Flask-AppBuilder follow a different pattern from Flask-Admin. The /admin part of the URL path will no longer exist. For example: /admin/connection becomes /connection/list, /admin/connection/new becomes /connection/add, /admin/connection/edit becomes /connection/edit, etc.
Due to security concerns, the new webserver will no longer support the features in the Data Profiling menu of old UI, including Ad Hoc Query, Charts, and Known Events.
HiveServer2Hook.get_results() always returns a list of tuples, even when a single column is queried, as per Python API 2.
UTC is now the default timezone: Either reconfigure your workflows scheduling in UTC or set default_timezone as explained in https://airflow.apache.org/timezone.html#default-time-zone

airflow.contrib.sensors.hdfs_sensors renamed to airflow.contrib.sensors.hdfs_sensor

We now rename airflow.contrib.sensors.hdfs_sensors to airflow.contrib.sensors.hdfs_sensor for consistency purpose.

MySQL setting required

We now rely on more strict ANSI SQL settings for MySQL in order to have sane defaults. Make sure to have specified explicit_defaults_for_timestamp=1 in your my.cnf under [mysqld]

Celery config

To make the config of Airflow compatible with Celery, some properties have been renamed:

celeryd_concurrency -> worker_concurrency
celery_result_backend -> result_backend
celery_ssl_active -> ssl_active
celery_ssl_cert -> ssl_cert
celery_ssl_key -> ssl_key

Resulting in the same config parameters as Celery 4, with more transparency.

GCP Dataflow Operators

Dataflow job labeling is now supported in Dataflow{Java,Python}Operator with a default "airflow-version" label, please upgrade your google-cloud-dataflow or apache-beam version to 2.2.0 or greater.

BigQuery Hooks and Operator

The bql parameter passed to BigQueryOperator and BigQueryBaseCursor.run_query has been deprecated and renamed to sql for consistency purposes. Using bql will still work (and raise a DeprecationWarning), but is no longer supported and will be removed entirely in Airflow 2.0

Redshift to S3 Operator

With Airflow 1.9 or lower, Unload operation always included header row. In order to include header row, we need to turn off parallel unload. It is preferred to perform unload operation using all nodes so that it is faster for larger tables. So, parameter called include_header is added and default is set to False. Header row will be added only if this parameter is set True and also in that case parallel will be automatically turned off (PARALLEL OFF)

Google cloud connection string

With Airflow 1.9 or lower, there were two connection strings for the Google Cloud operators, both google_cloud_storage_default and google_cloud_default. This can be confusing and therefore the google_cloud_storage_default connection id has been replaced with google_cloud_default to make the connection id consistent across Airflow.

Logging Configuration

With Airflow 1.9 or lower, FILENAME_TEMPLATE, PROCESSOR_FILENAME_TEMPLATE, LOG_ID_TEMPLATE, END_OF_LOG_MARK were configured in airflow_local_settings.py. These have been moved into the configuration file, and hence if you were using a custom configuration file the following defaults need to be added.

[core]
fab_logging_level = WARN
log_filename_template = {{{{ ti.dag_id }}}}/{{{{ ti.task_id }}}}/{{{{ ts }}}}/{{{{ try_number }}}}.log
log_processor_filename_template = {{{{ filename }}}}.log

[elasticsearch]
elasticsearch_log_id_template = {{dag_id}}-{{task_id}}-{{execution_date}}-{{try_number}}
elasticsearch_end_of_log_mark = end_of_log

The previous setting of log_task_reader is not needed in many cases now when using the default logging config with remote storages. (Previously it needed to be set to s3.task or similar. This is not needed with the default config anymore)

Change of per-task log path

With the change to Airflow core to be timezone aware the default log path for task instances will now include timezone information. This will by default mean all previous task logs won't be found. You can get the old behaviour back by setting the following config options:

[core]
log_filename_template = {{ ti.dag_id }}/{{ ti.task_id }}/{{ execution_date.strftime("%%Y-%%m-%%dT%%H:%%M:%%S") }}/{{ try_number }}.log

Airflow 1.9

SSH Hook updates, along with new SSH Operator & SFTP Operator

SSH Hook now uses the Paramiko library to create an ssh client connection, instead of the sub-process based ssh command execution previously (<1.9.0), so this is backward incompatible.

update SSHHook constructor
use SSHOperator class in place of SSHExecuteOperator which is removed now. Refer to test_ssh_operator.py for usage info.
SFTPOperator is added to perform secure file transfer from serverA to serverB. Refer to test_sftp_operator.py for usage info.
No updates are required if you are using ftpHook, it will continue to work as is.

S3Hook switched to use Boto3

The airflow.hooks.S3_hook.S3Hook has been switched to use boto3 instead of the older boto (a.k.a. boto2). This results in a few backwards incompatible changes to the following classes: S3Hook:

the constructors no longer accepts s3_conn_id. It is now called aws_conn_id.
the default connection is now "aws_default" instead of "s3_default"
the return type of objects returned by get_bucket is now boto3.s3.Bucket
the return type of get_key, and get_wildcard_key is now an boto3.S3.Object.

If you are using any of these in your DAGs and specify a connection ID you will need to update the parameter name for the connection to "aws_conn_id": S3ToHiveTransfer, S3PrefixSensor, S3KeySensor, RedshiftToS3Transfer.

Logging update

The logging structure of Airflow has been rewritten to make configuration easier and the logging system more transparent.

A quick recap about logging

A logger is the entry point into the logging system. Each logger is a named bucket to which messages can be written for processing. A logger is configured to have a log level. This log level describes the severity of the messages that the logger will handle. Python defines the following log levels: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING, ERROR or CRITICAL.

Each message that is written to the logger is a Log Record. Each log record contains a log level indicating the severity of that specific message. A log record can also contain useful metadata that describes the event that is being logged. This can include details such as a stack trace or an error code.

When a message is given to the logger, the log level of the message is compared to the log level of the logger. If the log level of the message meets or exceeds the log level of the logger itself, the message will undergo further processing. If it doesn’t, the message will be ignored.

Once a logger has determined that a message needs to be processed, it is passed to a Handler. This configuration is now more flexible and can be easily be maintained in a single file.

Changes in Airflow Logging

Airflow's logging mechanism has been refactored to use Python’s built-in logging module to perform logging of the application. By extending classes with the existing LoggingMixin, all the logging will go through a central logger. Also the BaseHook and BaseOperator already extend this class, so it is easily available to do logging.

The main benefit is easier configuration of the logging by setting a single centralized python file. Disclaimer; there is still some inline configuration, but this will be removed eventually. The new logging class is defined by setting the dotted classpath in your ~/airflow/airflow.cfg file:

# Logging class
# Specify the class that will specify the logging configuration
# This class has to be on the python classpath
logging_config_class = my.path.default_local_settings.LOGGING_CONFIG

The logging configuration file needs to be on the PYTHONPATH, for example $AIRFLOW_HOME/config. This directory is loaded by default. Any directory may be added to the PYTHONPATH, this might be handy when the config is in another directory or a volume is mounted in case of Docker.

The config can be taken from airflow/config_templates/airflow_local_settings.py as a starting point. Copy the contents to ${AIRFLOW_HOME}/config/airflow_local_settings.py, and alter the config as is preferred.

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# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
# specific language governing permissions and limitations
# under the License.

import os

from airflow import configuration as conf

# TODO: Logging format and level should be configured
# in this file instead of from airflow.cfg. Currently
# there are other log format and level configurations in
# settings.py and cli.py. Please see AIRFLOW-1455.

LOG_LEVEL = conf.get('core', 'LOGGING_LEVEL').upper()
LOG_FORMAT = conf.get('core', 'log_format')

BASE_LOG_FOLDER = conf.get('core', 'BASE_LOG_FOLDER')
PROCESSOR_LOG_FOLDER = conf.get('scheduler', 'child_process_log_directory')

FILENAME_TEMPLATE = '{{ ti.dag_id }}/{{ ti.task_id }}/{{ ts }}/{{ try_number }}.log'
PROCESSOR_FILENAME_TEMPLATE = '{{ filename }}.log'

DEFAULT_LOGGING_CONFIG = {
    'version': 1,
    'disable_existing_loggers': False,
    'formatters': {
        'airflow.task': {
            'format': LOG_FORMAT,
        },
        'airflow.processor': {
            'format': LOG_FORMAT,
        },
    },
    'handlers': {
        'console': {
            'class': 'logging.StreamHandler',
            'formatter': 'airflow.task',
            'stream': 'ext://sys.stdout'
        },
        'file.task': {
            'class': 'airflow.utils.log.file_task_handler.FileTaskHandler',
            'formatter': 'airflow.task',
            'base_log_folder': os.path.expanduser(BASE_LOG_FOLDER),
            'filename_template': FILENAME_TEMPLATE,
        },
        'file.processor': {
            'class': 'airflow.utils.log.file_processor_handler.FileProcessorHandler',
            'formatter': 'airflow.processor',
            'base_log_folder': os.path.expanduser(PROCESSOR_LOG_FOLDER),
            'filename_template': PROCESSOR_FILENAME_TEMPLATE,
        }
        # When using s3 or gcs, provide a customized LOGGING_CONFIG
        # in airflow_local_settings within your PYTHONPATH, see UPDATING.md
        # for details
        # 's3.task': {
        #     'class': 'airflow.utils.log.s3_task_handler.S3TaskHandler',
        #     'formatter': 'airflow.task',
        #     'base_log_folder': os.path.expanduser(BASE_LOG_FOLDER),
        #     's3_log_folder': S3_LOG_FOLDER,
        #     'filename_template': FILENAME_TEMPLATE,
        # },
        # 'gcs.task': {
        #     'class': 'airflow.utils.log.gcs_task_handler.GCSTaskHandler',
        #     'formatter': 'airflow.task',
        #     'base_log_folder': os.path.expanduser(BASE_LOG_FOLDER),
        #     'gcs_log_folder': GCS_LOG_FOLDER,
        #     'filename_template': FILENAME_TEMPLATE,
        # },
    },
    'loggers': {
        '': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': LOG_LEVEL
        },
        'airflow': {
            'handlers': ['console'],
            'level': LOG_LEVEL,
            'propagate': False,
        },
        'airflow.processor': {
            'handlers': ['file.processor'],
            'level': LOG_LEVEL,
            'propagate': True,
        },
        'airflow.task': {
            'handlers': ['file.task'],
            'level': LOG_LEVEL,
            'propagate': False,
        },
        'airflow.task_runner': {
            'handlers': ['file.task'],
            'level': LOG_LEVEL,
            'propagate': True,
        },
    }
}

To customize the logging (for example, use logging rotate), define one or more of the logging handles that Python has to offer. For more details about the Python logging, please refer to the official logging documentation.

Furthermore, this change also simplifies logging within the DAG itself:

root@ae1bc863e815:/airflow# python
Python 3.6.2 (default, Sep 13 2017, 14:26:54)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from airflow.settings import *
>>>
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from airflow.models.dag import DAG
>>> from airflow.operators.dummy_operator import DummyOperator
>>>
>>> dag = DAG('simple_dag', start_date=datetime(2017, 9, 1))
>>>
>>> task = DummyOperator(task_id='task_1', dag=dag)
>>>
>>> task.log.error('I want to say something..')
[2017-09-25 20:17:04,927] {<stdin>:1} ERROR - I want to say something..

Template path of the file_task_handler

The file_task_handler logger has been made more flexible. The default format can be changed, {dag_id}/{task_id}/{execution_date}/{try_number}.log by supplying Jinja templating in the FILENAME_TEMPLATE configuration variable. See the file_task_handler for more information.

I'm using S3Log or GCSLogs, what do I do!?

If you are logging to Google cloud storage, please see the Google cloud platform documentation for logging instructions.

If you are using S3, the instructions should be largely the same as the Google cloud platform instructions above. You will need a custom logging config. The REMOTE_BASE_LOG_FOLDER configuration key in your airflow config has been removed, therefore you will need to take the following steps:

Copy the logging configuration from airflow/config_templates/airflow_logging_settings.py.
Place it in a directory inside the Python import path PYTHONPATH. If you are using Python 2.7, ensuring that any __init__.py files exist so that it is importable.
Update the config by setting the path of REMOTE_BASE_LOG_FOLDER explicitly in the config. The REMOTE_BASE_LOG_FOLDER key is not used anymore.
Set the logging_config_class to the filename and dict. For example, if you place custom_logging_config.py on the base of your PYTHONPATH, you will need to set logging_config_class = custom_logging_config.LOGGING_CONFIG in your config as Airflow 1.8.

New Features

Dask Executor

A new DaskExecutor allows Airflow tasks to be run in Dask Distributed clusters.

Deprecated Features

These features are marked for deprecation. They may still work (and raise a DeprecationWarning), but are no longer supported and will be removed entirely in Airflow 2.0

If you're using the google_cloud_conn_id or dataproc_cluster argument names explicitly in contrib.operators.Dataproc{*}Operator(s), be sure to rename them to gcp_conn_id or cluster_name, respectively. We've renamed these arguments for consistency. (AIRFLOW-1323)
post_execute() hooks now take two arguments, context and result (AIRFLOW-886)

Previously, post_execute() only took one argument, context.
contrib.hooks.gcp_dataflow_hook.DataFlowHook starts to use --runner=DataflowRunner instead of DataflowPipelineRunner, which is removed from the package google-cloud-dataflow-0.6.0.
The pickle type for XCom messages has been replaced by json to prevent RCE attacks. Note that JSON serialization is stricter than pickling, so if you want to e.g. pass raw bytes through XCom you must encode them using an encoding like base64. By default pickling is still enabled until Airflow 2.0. To disable it set enable_xcom_pickling = False in your Airflow config.

Airflow 1.8.1

The Airflow package name was changed from airflow to apache-airflow during this release. You must uninstall a previously installed version of Airflow before installing 1.8.1.

Airflow 1.8

Database

The database schema needs to be upgraded. Make sure to shutdown Airflow and make a backup of your database. To upgrade the schema issue airflow upgradedb.

Upgrade systemd unit files

Systemd unit files have been updated. If you use systemd please make sure to update these.

Please note that the webserver does not detach properly, this will be fixed in a future version.

Tasks not starting although dependencies are met due to stricter pool checking

Airflow 1.7.1 has issues with being able to over subscribe to a pool, ie. more slots could be used than were available. This is fixed in Airflow 1.8.0, but due to past issue jobs may fail to start although their dependencies are met after an upgrade. To workaround either temporarily increase the amount of slots above the amount of queued tasks or use a new pool.

Less forgiving scheduler on dynamic start_date

Using a dynamic start_date (e.g. start_date = datetime.now()) is not considered a best practice. The 1.8.0 scheduler is less forgiving in this area. If you encounter DAGs not being scheduled you can try using a fixed start_date and renaming your DAG. The last step is required to make sure you start with a clean slate, otherwise the old schedule can interfere.

New and updated scheduler options

Please read through the new scheduler options, defaults have changed since 1.7.1.

child_process_log_directory

In order to increase the robustness of the scheduler, DAGS are now processed in their own process. Therefore each DAG has its own log file for the scheduler. These log files are placed in child_process_log_directory which defaults to <AIRFLOW_HOME>/scheduler/latest. You will need to make sure these log files are removed.

DAG logs or processor logs ignore and command line settings for log file locations.

run_duration

Previously the command line option num_runs was used to let the scheduler terminate after a certain amount of loops. This is now time bound and defaults to -1, which means run continuously. See also num_runs.

num_runs

Previously num_runs was used to let the scheduler terminate after a certain amount of loops. Now num_runs specifies the number of times to try to schedule each DAG file within run_duration time. Defaults to -1, which means try indefinitely. This is only available on the command line.

min_file_process_interval

After how much time should an updated DAG be picked up from the filesystem.

min_file_parsing_loop_time

CURRENTLY DISABLED DUE TO A BUG How many seconds to wait between file-parsing loops to prevent the logs from being spammed.

dag_dir_list_interval

The frequency with which the scheduler should relist the contents of the DAG directory. If while developing +dags, they are not being picked up, have a look at this number and decrease it when necessary.

catchup_by_default

By default the scheduler will fill any missing interval DAG Runs between the last execution date and the current date. This setting changes that behavior to only execute the latest interval. This can also be specified per DAG as catchup = False / True. Command line backfills will still work.

Faulty DAGs do not show an error in the Web UI

Due to changes in the way Airflow processes DAGs the Web UI does not show an error when processing a faulty DAG. To find processing errors go the child_process_log_directory which defaults to <AIRFLOW_HOME>/scheduler/latest.

New DAGs are paused by default

Previously, new DAGs would be scheduled immediately. To retain the old behavior, add this to airflow.cfg:

[core]
dags_are_paused_at_creation = False

Airflow Context variable are passed to Hive config if conf is specified

If you specify a hive conf to the run_cli command of the HiveHook, Airflow add some convenience variables to the config. In case you run a secure Hadoop setup it might be required to allow these variables by adjusting you hive configuration to add airflow\.ctx\..* to the regex of user-editable configuration properties. See the Hive docs on Configuration Properties for more info.

Google Cloud Operator and Hook alignment

All Google Cloud Operators and Hooks are aligned and use the same client library. Now you have a single connection type for all kinds of Google Cloud Operators.

If you experience problems connecting with your operator make sure you set the connection type "Google Cloud Platform".

Also the old P12 key file type is not supported anymore and only the new JSON key files are supported as a service account.

Deprecated Features

These features are marked for deprecation. They may still work (and raise a DeprecationWarning), but are no longer supported and will be removed entirely in Airflow 2.0

Hooks and operators must be imported from their respective submodules

airflow.operators.PigOperator is no longer supported; from airflow.operators.pig_operator import PigOperator is. (AIRFLOW-31, AIRFLOW-200)
Operators no longer accept arbitrary arguments

Previously, Operator.__init__() accepted any arguments (either positional *args or keyword **kwargs) without complaint. Now, invalid arguments will be rejected. (apache#1285)
The config value secure_mode will default to True which will disable some insecure endpoints/features

Known Issues

There is a report that the default of "-1" for num_runs creates an issue where errors are reported while parsing tasks. It was not confirmed, but a workaround was found by changing the default back to None.

To do this edit cli.py, find the following:

        'num_runs': Arg(
            ("-n", "--num_runs"),
            default=-1, type=int,
            help="Set the number of runs to execute before exiting"),

and change default=-1 to default=None. If you have this issue please report it on the mailing list.

Airflow 1.7.1.2

Changes to Configuration

Email configuration change

To continue using the default smtp email backend, change the email_backend line in your config file from:

[email]
email_backend = airflow.utils.send_email_smtp

to:

[email]
email_backend = airflow.utils.email.send_email_smtp

S3 configuration change

To continue using S3 logging, update your config file so:

s3_log_folder = s3://my-airflow-log-bucket/logs

becomes:

remote_base_log_folder = s3://my-airflow-log-bucket/logs
remote_log_conn_id = <your desired s3 connection>

Old path	New path
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.cancel_query	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.cancel_query
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.create_empty_dataset	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.create_empty_dataset
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.create_empty_table	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.create_empty_table
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.create_external_table	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.create_external_table
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.delete_dataset	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.delete_dataset
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.get_dataset	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.get_dataset
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.get_dataset_tables	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.get_dataset_tables
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.get_dataset_tables_list	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.get_dataset_tables_list
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.get_datasets_list	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.get_datasets_list
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.get_schema	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.get_schema
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.get_tabledata	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.get_tabledata
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.insert_all	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.insert_all
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.patch_dataset	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.patch_dataset
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.patch_table	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.patch_table
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.poll_job_complete	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.poll_job_complete
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.run_copy	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.run_copy
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.run_extract	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.run_extract
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.run_grant_dataset_view_access	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.run_grant_dataset_view_access
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.run_load	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.run_load
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.run_query	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.run_query
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.run_table_delete	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.run_table_delete
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.run_table_upsert	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.run_table_upsert
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.run_with_configuration	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.run_with_configuration
airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryBaseCursor.update_dataset	airflow.providers.google.cloud.hooks.bigquery.BigQueryHook.update_dataset

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Updating Airflow

Airflow Master

Weekday enum has been moved

airflow.contrib.utils.log has been moved

Deprecated method in Connection

BaseOperator uses metaclass

Not-nullable conn_type column in connection table

DAG.create_dagrun accepts run_type and does not require run_id

Standardised "extra" requirements

Skipped tasks can satisfy wait_for_downstream

Use DagRunType.SCHEDULED.value instead of DagRun.ID_PREFIX

Ability to patch Pool.DEFAULT_POOL_NAME in BaseOperator

Change signature of BigQueryGetDatasetTablesOperator

Unify hostname_callable option in core section

Changes in BigQueryHook

Added mypy plugin to preserve types of decorated functions

Use project_id argument consistently across GCP hooks and operators

GCSUploadSessionCompleteSensor signature change

Rename pool statsd metrics

Remove SQL support in base_hook

Changes to SalesforceHook

Rename parameter name in PinotAdminHook.create_segment

Rename parameter name in HiveMetastoreHook.get_partitions

Remove unnecessary parameter in FTPHook.list_directory

Remove unnecessary parameter in PostgresHook function copy_expert

Change parameter name in OpsgenieAlertOperator

Use NULL as default value for dag.description

Assigning task to a DAG using bitwise shift (bit-shift) operators are no longer supported

Deprecating ignore_first_depends_on_past on backfill command and default it to True

Custom executors is loaded using full import path

Removed sub-package imports from airflow/__init__.py

Added airflow dags test CLI command

Drop plugin support for stat_name_handler

Move methods from BiqQueryBaseCursor to BigQueryHook

Standardize handling http exception in BigQuery

Remove airflow.utils.file.TemporaryDirectory

Chain and cross_downstream moved from helpers to BaseOperator

Change python3 as Dataflow Hooks/Operators default interpreter

Logging configuration has been moved to new section

Simplification of CLI commands

Grouped to improve UX of CLI

Cli use exactly single character for short option style change

Remove serve_logs command from CLI

dag_state CLI command

Remove gcp_service_account_keys option in airflow.cfg file

BranchPythonOperator has a return value

Removal of airflow.AirflowMacroPlugin class

Changes to settings

Change default aws_conn_id in EMR operators

Removal of redirect_stdout, redirect_stderr

Removal of XCom.get_one()

Changes to SQLSensor

Idempotency in BigQuery operators

Migration of AWS components

AWS Batch Operator

Additional arguments passed to BaseOperator cause an exception

Simplification of the TriggerDagRunOperator

Changes in Google Cloud Platform related hooks

Fernet is enabled by default

Changes to Google PubSub Operators, Hook and Sensor

Removed Hipchat integration

The gcp_conn_id parameter in GKEPodOperator is required

Normalize gcp_conn_id for Google Cloud Platform

Changes to propagating Kubernetes worker annotations

Changes to import paths and names of GCP operators and hooks

Remove provide_context

Changes to FileSensor

Change dag loading duration metric name

Changes to ImapHook, ImapAttachmentSensor and ImapAttachmentToS3Operator

Changes to SubDagOperator

Variables removed from the task instance context

Moved provide_gcp_credential_file decorator to GoogleBaseHook

Changes to S3Hook

Changes to Google Transfer Operator

Unify `hostname_callable` option in `core` section

Removed sub-package imports from `airflow/init.py`

Added `airflow dags test` CLI command

Changes to `SubDagOperator`

Unification of `do_xcom_push` flag

Make behavior of `none_failed` trigger rule consistent with documentation

Add new trigger rule `none_failed_or_skipped`

Changes to `aws_default` Connection's default region

Removal of `non_pooled_task_slot_count` and `non_pooled_backfill_task_slot_count`

`pool` config option in Celery section to support different Celery pool implementation

Change to method signature in `BaseOperator` and `DAG` classes

For `BaseOperator`

For `DAG`

New `dag_discovery_safe_mode` config option

new `sync_parallelism` config option in celery section

Removal of `airflow_home` config setting

Change of two methods signatures in `GCPTransferServiceHook`