Status of testing of Apache Airflow 2.8.4rc1

[jedcunningham]

We are kindly requesting that contributors to Apache Airflow RC 2.8.4rc1 help test the RC.

Please let us know by commenting if the issue is addressed in the latest RC.

• Fix few typos in image documentation (#37714): @potiuk
• Limit pandas to <2.2 (#37748): @Taragolis @aa-matthias
  Linked issues:
  • SQLAlchemy / Pandas incompatibility (#37742)
• Fix hash caching in ObjectStoragePath (#37769): @Taragolis
• Add padding to prevent grid horizontal scroll overlapping tasks (#37942): @bbovenzi
• Fix a bug where scheduler heartrate parameter were not used (#37992): @kosteev @potiuk
  Linked issues:
  • Scheduler uses [scheduler]job_heartbeat_sec property for heartbeats instead of [scheduler]scheduler_heartbeat_sec (#37971)
  • Decouple "job runner" from BaseJob ORM model (#30255)
• Workaround optional typing error detected by new typing-docutils (#38012): @potiuk
• Update documentation about recent image changes (#38085): @potiuk
• Limit importlib_resources as it breaks pytest_rewrites (#38095): @potiuk
• Fix task instances list link (#38096): @bbovenzi
• Fix incorrect serialisation of the FixedTimezone (#38139): @millin
• Fix excessive permission changing for log task handler (#38164): @BretaGlac @potiuk
  Linked issues:
  • Airflow changes permissions of home directory (#38137)
• bump croniter to fix an issue with 29 Feb cron expressions (#38198): @lanhhv84 @hussein-awala
  Linked issues:
  • DAGs scheduled on February 29th are not executed. (#38174)
• Minor fixup on docker-stack changelog (#38293): @jedcunningham
• Lift the limit on importlib_resources library (#38294): @potiuk

Thanks to all who contributed to the release (probably not a complete list!):
@kosteev @BretaGlac @jedcunningham @bbovenzi @Taragolis @hussein-awala @potiuk @millin @lanhhv84 @aa-matthias

[Taragolis]

• Limit pandas to <2.2 #37748: Check Apache Airflow extras and Docker Images looks fine
• Fix hash caching in ObjectStoragePath #37769: Works as expected

[potiuk]

Tested / verified all my changes. Particularly tested well the propagation of permissions (#38164) and the scheduler heartrate change (#37992) - in various scenarios and those fixes are working as expected.

[jedcunningham]

Thanks for testing! Release is in progress now 🍺