Rangers,
Please review the draft report for this quarter. Thanks, Madhan ## Description: The mission of Apache Ranger is the creation and maintenance of software related to a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent access to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud architectures. ## Project Status: Current project status: Ongoing, with moderate activity Issues for the board: none ## Membership Data: Apache Ranger was founded 2017-01-17 (9 years ago) There are currently 40 committers and 19 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 5:3. Community changes, past quarter: - Pradeep Agrawal was added to the PMC on 2026-05-19 - No new committers. Last addition was Vikas Kumar on 2026-01-16. ## Project Activity: - Apache Ranger 2.8.0 was released on 2026-02-26 - Ranger authorization support for Apache Polaris added in Polaris 1.5.0 release - community is working on 2.9.0 release, tentatively around end of June - added Ranger policy decision point (PDP) server, making it easier for non-Java services to use Ranger authorization - added audit server to reduce library dependencies in Ranger plugins and make configurations simpler - added HTTP header-based authentication to support K8S deployments - master branch requires JDK17 i.e., JDK8 is no more supported - updated ranger-plugins-commons library to eliminate several dependent libraries - updated tagsync module to Trino entities - fix in KMS modules - docker setup improvements - performance improvements in policy CRUD - dependent component version updates: commons-configuration2 ## Community Health: - [email protected] had a 13% increase in traffic in the past quarter (1117 emails compared to 987) - 126 JIRA tickets opened and 74 closed in the past quarter. - 74 commits in the past quarter (82 in the past quarter) - 18 code contributors (authors) in this quarter (23 in the past quarter) ## Most Recent releases: The project has maintained a regular release cadence over the past year. - Apache Ranger 2.8.0 was released on 2026-02-26. - 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.
