May 2026 monthly summary for astronomer/airflow focusing on health-check hardening and reliability of Celery worker lifecycle. Delivered a dynamic hostname resolution fix for the Celery worker liveness probe, added tests, and prepared release notes to support rollout. Resulted in more robust health signals, reduced false positives, and improved stability in production.

October 2025 — Astronomer/astro-cli: Focused on reliability, upgrade clarity, and regression coverage. Delivered two impactful changes with clear business value: (1) Correctness fix for updating the default_pool via UpdatePool using update_mask (slots, include_deferred) and added a regression test in airflow-client_test.go to prevent future regressions. (2) Deprecation of the --force-upgrade-to-af3 flag across CLI components (InputDeploy, buildImage, ValidRuntimeVersion) to reduce user confusion and guide upgrade paths. These changes improve deployment reliability, reduce support overhead, and align with upgrade roadmap.

September 2025 monthly summary for astronomer/astro-cli focusing on deployment polling feature delivery, its impact on deployment workflows, and technical execution.