All, Below is the draft Apache Ranger Board report for the quarter ending October 2026.
Please review and share any feedback, corrections, or additions. Thank you for taking a look. Thanks, Selva- === Selvamohan Neethiraj Apache Ranger PMC ================================================================== ## 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 (10 years ago) There are currently 41 committers and 19 PMC members in this project. The Committer-to-PMC ratio is roughly 2:1. Community changes, past quarter: - No new PMC members. Last addition was Pradeep Agrawal on 2026-05-19. - Vyom Mani Tiwari was added as committer on 2026-08-15 ## Project Activity: - Apache Ranger 2.9.0 was released on 2026-08-05 - updated policy model to support constraints such as maxRows, requireHumanAuthorization (to support human-in-the-loop scenario) - enhancement to support application supplied context attributes in in condition expressions - performance fixes in condition expression evaluation - added configurations for super users and superuser groups - fixes in Hive authorizer - Ozone plugin enhancements to support authorization based on action - updated Python client to support only Python 3+ - added Opensearch audit destination - introduce new UI for policy creation - added healthcheck APIs in Ranger admin server - improved unit test coverage - policy engine improvements - added blog: integrating applications with Apache Ranger - dependent component version updates: Tomcat, jersey-client, bouncycastle, graalvm, urllib3, requests ## Community Health: - [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> had 2,572 in this reporting period compared to 1456 emails in last report - 226 commits in this reporting period (74 in the last report) - 34 code contributors in this reporting period (18 in the last report) ## Most Recent releases: The project has maintained a regular release cadence over the past year. - Apache Ranger 2.9.0 was released on 2026-08-05. - 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.
