Ram, Thank you for volunteering to be the release manager for 2.9.0. Please review release process details at https://apache.github.io/ranger/project/release-process/. Let's target the release by July-17, which would require the release branch to be locked by end of this week.
Thanks, Madhan On 7/3/26, 9:52 AM, "Ramachandran Krishnan" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi, If the 2.9 release lead is not yet decided then I would like to take this opportunity. I want to learn about the background process of a release. Regards, Ram On 2026/06/08 17:15:56 Madhan Neethiraj wrote: > Rangers, > > I propose we target 2.9.0 release for June-30. Please share your thoughts. > > Thanks, > Madhan > > On 4/28/26, 12:35 PM, "Madhan Neethiraj" <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote: > > > Rangers, > > The community has added 30+ commits since 2.8.0 release couple of months > back, including the following: > > - PDP (policy decision point) server implementation > - PDP client in Python and Java > - support for HTTP header-based authentication > - reduced library dependency for ranger-plugins-common library > - tagsync update to support Trino > - Polaris service-def updates > - dependent components version updates > > I propose we get started on next release, Apache Ranger 2.9.0, to include > above updates, with tentative release date of May-15. If you would like to > include any fixes or enhancements in this release, please align with this > timeline. > > Thanks, > Madhan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
