Airflow 2.7.1.0 - 2310 (EEP 9.2.0) Release Notes

The following notes relate specifically to the HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric Distribution for Apache Airflow. You may also be interested in the Apache Airflow home page.
Airflow Version 2.7.1.0
Release Date October 2023
HPE Version Interoperability See EEP Components and OS Support.
Source on GitHub https://github.com/mapr/airflow
GitHub Release Tag 2.7.1.0-eep-920
Maven Artifacts https://repository.mapr.com/maven/
Package Names Navigate to http://package.ezmeral.hpe.com/releases/MEP/, and select your EEP(MEP) and OS to view the list of package names.
Documentation

New in This Release

  • This release updates the Airflow component to version 2.7.1.0.
  • The airflow db migrate command replaced db init and db upgrade as the command to create or upgrade the Airflow database.

Fixes

None.

Known Issues and Limitations

  • Airflow is not supported with FIPS-enabled nodes.
  • The Installer can install Airflow, but cannot set up MySQL as the backend database for Airflow. The default Airflow database is SQLite.​
  • Apache PySpark has many CVEs and is removed from the default Airflow dependencies. To use the Spark JDBC operator/hook from Apache, install PySpark as follows:
    1. Run <airflow_home>/build/env/bin/activate.
    2. Run pip install pyspark==3.3.2.
    3. Run deactivate.
    4. NOTE
      This process does not affect the Ezmeral Spark provider.

Resolved Issues

  • None.