+1 for the report. Thanks Selva. Regards, Ramesh
On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 10:43 PM Selvamohan Neethiraj <[email protected]> wrote: > 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- > === > Selvamohan Neethiraj > Apache Ranger PMC > ======================================================================= > > ## 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. > > ======================================================================= > >
