A new Cloud Composer release has started on September 18, 2024

## Announcement A new Cloud Composer release has started on **September 18, 2024**. Get ready for upcoming changes and features as we roll out the new release to all regions. This release is in progress at the moment. Listed changes and features might not be available in some regions yet. ## Feature **Airflow 2.9.3** is available in Cloud Composer images. ## Fix _(Cloud Composer 2)_ Fixed the issue where environment create and update operations could fail in rare cases because of the scheduler probe timeouts. ## Fix _(Cloud Composer 3)_ Fixed the issue that caused KubernetesPodOperator tasks to fail if they ran for longer than 15 minutes. ## Change New [Airflow builds](https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/concepts/versioning/composer-versions#images-composer-3) are available in Cloud Composer 3: * composer-3-airflow-2.9.3-build.0 * composer-3-airflow-2.9.1-build.7 (default) * composer-3-airflow-2.7.3-build.16 ## Change Cloud Composer 2.9.4 [images](https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/concepts/versioning/composer-versions#images-composer-2) are available: * composer-2.9.4-airflow-2.9.3 * composer-2.9.4-airflow-2.9.1 (default) * composer-2.9.4-airflow-2.7.3 ## Change Support dates for previous Cloud Composer 3 builds are available. All Cloud Composer 3 builds with Airflow 2.9.1 are supported until September 18, 2025. ## Deprecate Cloud Composer versions 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 have reached their [end of support period](https://cloud.google.com/composer/docs/concepts/versioning/composer-versioning-overview#version-deprecation-and-support).