+1 for 2.9.0-rc4
- verified the signature and checksums - verified successful build with unit tests - verified all Ranger services started successfully with Postgres, MySQL and Oracle databases - verified plugins enforcement of Ranger policies in HDFS, Ozone, Hive, HBase, Kafka, Knox services - verified plugins create audit logs in Solr and HDFS - verified usersync successfully reported new users, groups, and changes in user-group association - verified tagsync successfully reported tags defined in file source - verified pdp server successfully authorizes access requests and creates audit logs Go Rangers! Madhan From: Ramachandran Krishnan <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Saturday, August 1, 2026 at 10:27 AM To: ranger <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: [VOTE] Apache Ranger 2.9.0-rc4 Hi Rangers, Apache Ranger 2.9.0 release candidate #4 is now available for a vote within the dev community. RC4 is built from a fresh git clone of ranger-2.9 at 0aad6958e. Links to all the release artifacts are given below. Please take some time to review and vote. The vote will be open for at least 72 hours or until necessary votes are reached. [ ] +1 approve [ ] +0 no opinion [ ] -1 disapprove (and reason why) Changes since RC3 (release-2.9.0-rc3 @ f39599d78): - RANGER-5718: Add gson to PDP server lib classpath (backport of #1122) https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/RANGER-5718 Link of all Issues/Improvements addressed in this release: https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=project%20%3D%20RANGER%20AND%20fixVersion%20%3D%202.9.0%20ORDER%20BY%20summary%20ASC%2C%20priority%20DESC%2C%20updated%20DESC Git tag for the release: https://github.com/apache/ranger/releases/tag/release-2.9.0-rc4 Release Notes: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Apache+Ranger+2.9.0+-+Release+Notes The release artifacts consist of the source package and associated signature and checksum files. The artifacts can be downloaded from: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/ranger/2.9.0-rc4/ The release artifacts are signed with the following key: https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/release/ranger/KEYS SHA256: 4ae5fcfa3e405bc01ab840532a1f10f002d4092e809cae6d65ae312926238422 Please download, verify the signature and checksums, and test the release candidate. In particular, please verify the PDP server starts cleanly (no GsonBuilder NoClassDefFoundError). Thanks, Ramachandran Krishnan Apache Ranger Release Manager
