Dear Ranger Community members,
There are many features and fixes done in Apache Ranger Project since the release of Apache Ranger 2.1.0. These features enhance the quality and improve the user experience of Apache Ranger overall. Some of the key enhancements/features in this release are - Schema changes to improve performance of chained plugin features. RANGER-3067 - Support delegation-admin for specific permissions.RANGER-3122 - Kafka Client improvement to use Kafka AdminClient API instead of Zookeeper. RANGER-3001 - GET API service/xusers/users response time improvement. RANGER-3027/ RANGER-3024 - Improvement in Ranger Latest UI's Edit Policy Page. RANGER-3130 - Ranger UI Search by object name in page /reports/audit/admin. RANGER-3052 - Enhancement to trace additional information on resources. RANGER-3065 - Improve audit log for Role operations in Ranger Hive authorizer. RANGER-3170 - Audit-filter feature implementation to help reduce volume of audit logs generated. RANGER-3000 - Need feature to make the access log file name configurable for user. RANGER-3242/RANGER-3241 - Upgrade the solr version in Ranger to Solr 8.6.3 for better performance. RANGER-3091 - Enhance Ranger admin REST Client to use cookies for policy, tag and role download. RANGER-3283 - Audit Filter default policies for reducing verbosity in auditing. RANGER-3260/RANGER-3283 - Auditing for HDFS chmod and chown operations. RANGER-3148 - Ranger HiveAuthorizer improvements to handle uncharted hive commands. RANGER-3368 - Ranger Access audit page improvement. RANGER-3109 - Dockerfile to support building from local repository. RANGER-3012 - Performance improvement for Ranger usersync. RANGER-2986 Bug Fixes: - In this Apache Ranger release there are around 119 bug fixes done. There are 324 commits with 219 resolved JIRAs in the release branch ranger-2.2.0 and with these improvements it is time to do the next Apache Ranger release. Planned timeline to release Apache Ranger 2.2.0 is end of September 2021. Please review and give your comments. Thanks, Ramesh
