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Mage

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Velocity0.0

Open-source data pipeline and orchestration tool

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Feature releases every two months in 2024; one bugfix release in the last twelve.

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◆Current state
The release cadence has collapsed. Through 2024 Mage shipped roughly every two months with substantial features each time — memory management rework, dynamic blocks, new sources and destinations, Python 3.11 and 3.12 support. 2025 produced two releases. The most recent entry, 0.9.79 in January 2026, contains no feature section at all: it is dependency pinning, SQLAlchemy 2.0 compatibility, character escaping during code interpolation, and log file handle cleanup. Nothing has followed it in the six months since.
◆Where it's heading
The arc runs from expanding the product to keeping it compiling. The 2024 releases added capability — a canvas rework, multi-project support, streaming sinks, Kubernetes job parameters. The 2025 releases shifted toward integrations and CVE response, including a batch of path traversal fixes carrying assigned identifiers. The last release is entirely defensive, including vendoring croniter into the repository and locking scikit-learn to stop upstream changes from breaking builds. That is the profile of a codebase being kept viable rather than developed.
◆Prediction
The entries give no basis for predicting the next release — a six-month gap after a dependency-only patch is the only signal available, and nothing here indicates whether the line is paused or finished.

◆Recent moves

  1. 6mo ago

    Dependency pinning and SQLAlchemy 2.0 compatibility fixes

    The most recent release, and the first in this window with no feature section: croniter vendored into the repository, scikit-learn locked against breaking changes, SQLAlchemy 2.0 compatibility repaired, and log file handles closed properly. Defensive work aimed at keeping installs functioning.

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  2. 11mo ago

    Path traversal CVE fixes and cancellation callbacks

    Weighted toward security: a set of path traversal vulnerabilities with assigned identifiers closed, access revoked properly after user deletion, and a file traversal issue fixed. The feature side is thin — cancellation callbacks and a Sentry server_name option — marking the point where the release notes tip from capability to correction.

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  3. 1y ago

    Teradata, Doris and Airtable connectors, rotatable API tokens

    The last release in this window with a substantial feature list, and all of it is breadth rather than depth: Teradata and Doris sources and destinations, an Airtable IO class, dbt modules updated to 1.8, and support for hiding and rotating API trigger tokens.

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  4. 1y ago

    Airtable destination and Python 3.11 and 3.12 support

    Adds Airtable as a data integration destination and brings the runtime up to Python 3.11 and 3.12. Keeping current with the language and extending the connector catalog — the two things the 2024 releases did consistently.

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  5. 1y ago

    Google Cloud Storage source and Airtable integration

    Connector expansion: Google Cloud Storage configurable as a data integration source with Parquet and service account credentials, plus the first Airtable integration on the source side. The destination half arrives three months later.

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  6. 1y ago

    Memory management rework and dynamic blocks 2.0

    The most internally focused release of the 2024 run, reworking RAM allocation and deallocation and rebuilding dynamic blocks. The release notes describe both in general terms rather than specifics, so the practical effect on existing pipelines isn't determinable from this entry alone.

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