Rangers:
Here is the board report of Apache Ranger for the period, Quarter ending
Jan-2025:
Please review and let me know if you want me to add/change anything.
Thanks,
Selva-
Selvamohan Neethiraj,
Apache Ranger PMC
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## Description:
Apache Ranger is a framework to enable, monitor and manage comprehensive
data
security - consistently across various data processing services.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring board attention at this time
## Membership Data:
- Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (6 years ago).
- There are 39 committers and 17 PMC members in this project.
- The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3.
##Community changes, past quarter:
- Bhavik Patel was added to the PMC on 2024-09-04
- Fateh Singh was added as committer on 2024-10-14
## Project Activity:
- Ranger 2.6.0 version is being voted on by the community
-- Expected to be released in Feb-2025.
-- Contains 70 bug-fixes, 49 improvements and 2 new features
--- Ranger Base image on UBI9 with memory and build optimizations
--- Feature to import/export individual policies
- Ranger 3.0.0 version is progressing well
-- 38 open issues to be addressed
-- 21 patches to be reviewed to address open issues.
-- contains 608 bug-fixes, 487 new improvements and 22 new features
- Key features addressed in 3.0.0 release in the past quarter:
-- Enhanced KMS capabilities
-- Ranger Plugin Configuration to support to initalize kerberos identity
-- Docker setup to support SQLServer and Oracle database
-- key library upgrades to fix security and/or other issues
-- Improvements on HA implementation
-- Improvements to Ranger REST API for audit access logs to return
additional event times.
-- Log cleanup
## Community Health:
Traffic on some of the mailing lists were high due to release activities.
No other significant changes to mailing list traffic.
- 1651 emails in dev@ranger.apache.org in this quarter (+ 84% change
from past quarter)
- 27 emails in u...@ranger.apache.org in this quarter (- 58% change
from past quarter)
- 114 issues opened in JIRA in this quarter (+ 21%
change from past quarter)
- 125 issues closed in JIRA in this quarter (+ 38%
change from past quarter)
- 27 PRs opened on GitHub in this quarter (- 15%
change from past quarter)
- 13 PRs closed on GitHub in this quarter (- 35%
change from past quarter)
## Most Recent releases:
- Apache Ranger 2.5.0 was released on 2024-08-07
- Apache Ranger 2.4.0 was released on 2023-03-30
- Apache Ranger 2.3.0 was released on 2022-07-06
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