All,
Below is the draft Apache Ranger Board report for the quarter ending December
2025.
Please review and share any feedback, corrections, or additions before it is
finalized and submitted to the ASF Board.
Thank you for taking a look.
Thanks,
Selva-
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Selvamohan Neethiraj
Apache Ranger PMC
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## Description:
Apache Ranger is a framework for centralized, policy-based authorization,
auditing, and governance across multiple data processing and storage services.
## Issues:
There are no issues requiring Board attention at this time.
## Membership Data:
- Apache Ranger was founded on 2017-01-17.
- The project has 39 committers and 18 PMC members.
- The PMC remains active in releases, reviews, and project governance.
## Community changes, past quarter:
- No new PMC members.
- No new committers.
- Last PMC addition: Abhishek Kumar on 2025-09-18.
- Last committer addition: Fateh Singh on 2024-10-14.
## Project Activity:
- Ranger 2.8.0 release is in progress and targeted for Q1 2026, with the
release process proceeding normally under active PMC oversight.
- 2.8.0 release will address 35+ bugs and multiple functional and operational
improvements.
- Key improvements in 2.8.0 release
- Optimized role cache modification in Ranger Admin
- Upgraded to later version of Elasticsearch
- Improvements to Search Filters
- Improvements to AuditLogFilters to exclude based on resource names.
- Upgrades libraries (axios, bouncycastle, tomcat, ...)
- Support for Kerberized Solr in Ranger Admin Installation
- Update Docker setup for latest supported Trino release
## Community Health:
Community activity remains steady with a modest quarter-over-quarter
normalization across mailing lists, issue tracking, and code contributions.
Lower activity on user@ reflects reduced support traffic this quarter rather
than loss of adoption.
- 686 emails in [email protected] in this quarter (- 20% change from past
quarter)
- 0 emails in [email protected] in this quarter (-100% change from past
quarter)
- 77 issues opened in JIRA in this quarter (- 34% change from past
quarter)
- 60 issues closed in JIRA in this quarter (- 23% change from past
quarter)
- 88 PRs opened on GitHub in this quarter (- 5% change from past
quarter)
- 74 PRs closed on GitHub in this quarter (- 17% change from past
quarter)
- 62 Commits on the master branch in this quarter (- 13% change from past
quarter)
- 19 code contributors (authors) in this quarter (- 11% change from past
quarter)
## Most Recent releases:
The project has maintained a regular release cadence over the past year.
- Apache Ranger 2.7.0 was released on 2025-07-30.
- Apache Ranger 2.6.0 was released on 2025-02-15.
- Apache Ranger 2.5.0 was released on 2024-08-07.
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