# what's new in Apache Airflow 2.6.0

DevFeed: [what's new in Apache Airflow 2.6.0](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-s-new-in-apache-airflow-2-6-0-32536.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://airflow.apache.org/blog/airflow-2.6.0/>)

Author: Apache Airflow

Published: 2023-04-30T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Apache Airflow Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/apache-airflow-blog.md>)

Topics: [airflow](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/airflow.md>), [releases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/releases.md>), [Release notes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/release-notes.md>), [Logging](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/logging.md>), [ui](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ui.md>), [notifications](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/notifications.md>), [configuration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/configuration.md>)

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## AI overview

Apache Airflow 2.6.0 has been released with 42 new features, 58 improvements, 38 bug fixes, and 17 documentation changes. Notable updates include trigger logs in the webserver, Grid view enhancements, a DAG-parameter trigger form, improved handling of stuck queued tasks, plugin-based cluster policy hooks, and notifications support for Slack.

## Source excerpt

I am excited to announce that Apache Airflow 2.6.0 has been released, bringing many minor features and improvements to the community. Apache Airflow 2.6.0 contains over 500 commits, which include 42 new features, 58 improvements, 38 bug fixes, and 17 documentation changes. Details: 📦 PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/apache-airflow/2.6.0/ 📚 Docs: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/2.6.0/ 🛠 Release Notes: https://airflow.apache.org/docs/apache-airflow/2.6.0/release_notes.html 🐳 Docker Image: "docker pull apache/airflow:2.6.0" 🚏 Constraints: https://github.com/apache/airflow/tree/constraints-2.6.0 As the changelog is quite large, the following are some notable new features that shipped in this release. Trigger logs can now be viewed in webserver Trigger logs have now been added to task logs. They appear right alongside the rest of the logs from your task. Adding this feature required changes across the entire Airflow logging stack, so be sure to update your providers if you are using remote logging. Grid view improvements The grid view has received a number of minor improvements in this release. Most notably, there is now a graph tab in the grid view. This offers a more integrated graph representation of the DAG, where choosing a task in either the grid or graph will highlight the same task in both views. You can also filter upstream and downstream from a single task. For example, in the screenshot above, describe_integrity is the selected task. If you choose to filter downstream, this is the result: Trigger UI based on DAG level params A user-friendly form is now shown to users triggering runs for DAGs with DAG level params. See the Params docs for more details. Consolidation of handling stuck queued tasks Airflow now has a single configuration, [scheduler] task_queued_timeout, to handle tasks that get stuck in queued for too long. With a simpler implementation than the outgoing code handling these tasks, tasks stuck in queued will no longer slip through the