diff --git a/providers/openlineage/src/airflow/providers/openlineage/plugins/listener.py b/providers/openlineage/src/airflow/providers/openlineage/plugins/listener.py
index 2d4d74e828f09..c259eb2963e43 100644
--- a/providers/openlineage/src/airflow/providers/openlineage/plugins/listener.py
+++ b/providers/openlineage/src/airflow/providers/openlineage/plugins/listener.py
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import logging
+import multiprocessing
 import os
 import sys
+import threading
 from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor
 from concurrent.futures.process import BrokenProcessPool
 from datetime import datetime
@@ -819,59 +821,57 @@ def _on_task_instance_manual_state_change(
 
     def _execute(self, callable, callable_name: str, use_fork: bool = False):
         if use_fork:
-            self._fork_execute(callable, callable_name)
+            self._thread_execute(callable, callable_name)
         else:
             callable()
 
-    def _terminate_with_wait(self, process: psutil.Process):
-        process.terminate()
-        try:
-            # Waiting for max 3 seconds to make sure process can clean up before being killed.
-            process.wait(timeout=3)
-        except psutil.TimeoutExpired:
-            # If it's not dead by then, then force kill.
-            process.kill()
-
-    def _fork_execute(self, callable, callable_name: str):
-        self.log.debug("Will fork to execute OpenLineage process.")
-        pid = os.fork()
-        if pid:
-            process = psutil.Process(pid)
-            try:
-                self.log.debug("Waiting for process %s", pid)
-                process.wait(conf.execution_timeout())
-            except psutil.TimeoutExpired:
-                self.log.warning(
-                    "OpenLineage process with pid `%s` expired and will be terminated by listener. "
-                    "This has no impact on actual task execution status.",
-                    pid,
-                )
-                self._terminate_with_wait(process)
-            except BaseException:
-                # Kill the process directly.
-                self._terminate_with_wait(process)
-            self.log.debug("Process with pid %s finished - parent", pid)
-        else:
-            setproctitle(getproctitle() + " - OpenLineage - " + callable_name)
-            if not AIRFLOW_V_3_0_PLUS:
-                configure_orm(disable_connection_pool=True)
-            self.log.debug("Executing OpenLineage process - %s - pid %s", callable_name, os.getpid())
+
+    def _thread_execute(self, callable, callable_name: str):
+        """Execute callable in a daemon thread with timeout.
+
+        Replaces the previous ``os.fork()`` approach to avoid the
+        ``DeprecationWarning`` on Python 3.12+ about forking in
+        multi-threaded processes (which can also lead to deadlocks
+        when a thread holds a lock at fork time).
+
+        A daemon thread shares the parent's address space, so the
+        callable's closures (which capture non-picklable ORM models
+        and extractors) work without serialization.  ``join(timeout)``
+        provides the same timeout protection as the old fork path.
+        """
+        self.log.debug("Will execute OpenLineage callable in thread.")
+
+        def _target():
+            self.log.debug(
+                "Executing OpenLineage process - %s - thread %s",
+                callable_name,
+                threading.current_thread().name,
+            )
             try:
                 callable()
-                self.log.debug("Process with current pid finishes after %s", callable_name)
+                self.log.debug("Thread finishes after %s", callable_name)
             except Exception:
                 self.log.warning(
-                    "OpenLineage %s process failed. This has no impact on actual task execution status.",
+                    "OpenLineage %s thread failed. This has no impact on actual task execution status.",
                     callable_name,
                     exc_info=True,
                 )
-            finally:
-                # os._exit(0) bypasses Python's atexit/stdio flush. Explicitly shut down
-                # logging so buffered records (including any warnings above) are flushed
-                # before the process exits. Without this, the final log lines are silently
-                # dropped, making failures invisible.
-                logging.shutdown()
-            os._exit(0)
+
+        thread = threading.Thread(
+            target=_target,
+            name=f"OpenLineage-{callable_name}",
+            daemon=True,
+        )
+        thread.start()
+        thread.join(timeout=conf.execution_timeout())
+        if thread.is_alive():
+            self.log.warning(
+                "OpenLineage thread %r did not finish within %s seconds. "
+                "Continuing without waiting. "
+                "This has no impact on actual task execution status.",
+                callable_name,
+                conf.execution_timeout(),
+            )
 
     @property
     def executor(self) -> ProcessPoolExecutor:
@@ -879,6 +879,7 @@ def executor(self) -> ProcessPoolExecutor:
             self._executor = ProcessPoolExecutor(
                 max_workers=conf.dag_state_change_process_pool_size(),
                 initializer=_executor_initializer,
+                mp_context=multiprocessing.get_context("forkserver"),
             )
         return self._executor