Ranger community,
It has been 15 months since the last release of Apache Ranger, 2.4.0. During this time, the community has added 500 commits with several improvements, fixes, and new features. I propose we start preparing for the release of Apache Ranger 2.5.0 to include all these enhancements by end of July 2024. The branch ranger-2.5.0 will be used for this release. If you would like any improvement or fix to be included in this release, please ensure the fix-version is set to 2.5.0 in JIRA. Here are few key improvements: New UI implemented using React, replacing Backbone UI Performance improvements in several modules HDFS plugin, user-store loading, admin audits storage, reduced plugin memory footprint HA support for user-sync and tag-sync services Introduction of Metrics API Security zone supports admin-roles and auditor-roles Option to use user-groups associations in Ranger during authorization in plugins Support to grant time-bound accesses at policy-item level Python client API to manage users, groups, user-group associations Kafka authorizer updates for KIP-504 API to purge x_policy_export_audit, x_trx_log tables Docker setup for Trino configured with Ranger authorizer Dependent libraries version updates The Apache Ranger PMC would appreciate your contributions and feedback in getting 2.5.0 release out. Thanks, Madhan Apache Ranger PMC Member
