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    Data & pipelines · Anywhere

    Data teams on Airflow 3 don't get their pipeline-level failure alerts, because the callback never runs.

    Solved looks like

    A test that reproduces the bug on current main, and a fix so a DAG-level failure callback fires exactly once when a run fails, including on timeout, checked with LocalExecutor and KubernetesExecutor.

    Proof1 source · 4 quoted claims · github.com/apache · Jul 2026

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