Thanks Selva for putting this together. +1 for the draft report.
Regards, Nixon On Wed, 11 Nov, 2026, 5:01 am Selvamohan Neethiraj via dev, < [email protected]> wrote: > 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. > >
