Apache Ranger 2.3.0 was released on July 9, 2022. The release adds new key-store back ends for Ranger KMS, richer policy-condition macros, Amazon CloudWatch as an audit store, Swagger UI for the REST API, and removes the Log4j 1 dependency.
IS_IN_GROUP, IS_IN_ROLE, HAS_TAG (RANGER-3764) and IS_IN_ANY_GROUP, IS_IN_ANY_ROLE, HAS_TAGS (RANGER-3779), user and tag attributes in row-filter expressions (RANGER-3550), user attributes in policy resources (RANGER-3567), chained plugins support masking and row filtering (RANGER-3736)./public/v2 (RANGER-3475), get or delete policies by GUID (RANGER-3439), 403 for authenticated but unauthorized clients (RANGER-3619).memberof DNs in the user search filter (RANGER-3630).ranger (RANGER-3658).| Artifact | Location |
|---|---|
| Source tarball | apache-ranger-2.3.0.tar.gz (signature, SHA-512) |
| Release directory | https://archive.apache.org/dist/ranger/2.3.0/ |
| Git tag | release-ranger-2.3.0 |
| Maven Central | org.apache.ranger:*:2.3.0 |
| Archive | archive.apache.org/dist/ranger/2.3.0/ |
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The tables below list the 172 JIRA issues recorded in the release notes for this version (7 new features, 86 improvements, 79 bugs fixed). Each key links to the issue in the Apache JIRA.
| JIRA | Summary |
|---|---|
| RANGER-3569 | Support Ranger KMS integration with Google cloud HSM |
| RANGER-3580 | Support Ranger KMS integration with TencentKMS |
| RANGER-3603 | HDFS audit files rollover improvement to trigger rollover in monitoring thread |
| RANGER-3605 | Support macros in row-filter/condition expressions |
| RANGER-3630 | Support wildcards, group short names, and list of memberof attribute DNs for computing user search filter |
| RANGER-3764 | conditions to support macros IS_IN_GROUP, IS_IN_ROLE, HAS_TAG |
| RANGER-3779 | conditions enhancement to support macros IS_IN_ANY_GROUP, IS_IN_ANY_ROLE, HAS_TAGS |
| JIRA | Summary |
|---|---|
| RANGER-2846 | Add support for resource[volume, bucket, key] look up in ozone plugin |
| RANGER-2967 | Add support for Amazon CloudWatch Logs as an Audit Store |
| RANGER-3023 | Permission tab takes longer time to load with large number of users and group_users data |
| RANGER-3030 | Replace Findbugs with Spotbugs maven plugin |
| RANGER-3221 | Improve logging in Presto plugin |
| RANGER-3276 | Remove duplicate code from buildks.java |
| RANGER-3290 | ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException if solr is down |
| RANGER-3298 | Add coarse URI check for Hive Agent |
| RANGER-3299 | Upgrading the bouncycastle version for bcprov-jdk15on |
| RANGER-3389 | Swagger UI Support for Ranger REST API |
| RANGER-3435 | RANGER-3401 Add unique index on guid, service and zone_id column of x_policy table |
| RANGER-3439 | RANGER-3401 Add rest api to get or delete ranger policy based on guid |
| RANGER-3455 | [Logout-Ranger] Should either be disabled/ should redirect to knox logout page |
| RANGER-3459 | Upgrade Ranger's Kafka dependency to 2.8 |
| RANGER-3475 | Promote TagRest endpoints to /public/v2 |
| RANGER-3487 | Update underscorejs with latest version. |
| RANGER-3493 | RANGER-3490 Add unique index on service and resource_signature column of x_policy table |
| RANGER-3498 | RANGER : Remove log4j1 dependencies. |
| RANGER-3504 | Create framework to execute DB patch dependent on Java patch. |
| RANGER-3510 | Ranger upgrade spring framework version to 5.3.12 |
| RANGER-3515 | Enhance Ranger Java client SSL config to be configured using serviceType and AppId |
| RANGER-3518 | Limit the query size stored in Audit logs |
| RANGER-3519 | Provide an option to optimize space needed by Trie objects |
| RANGER-3521 | Ranger KMS IS NOT ENFORCING HSTS ON SSL PORT DEFINED BY RFC 6797 |
| RANGER-3526 | policy evaluation ordering to use name as secondary sorting key |
| RANGER-3533 | Provide sorting on columns throughout the audits result set and policy listing page. |
| RANGER-3538 | Reduce the granularity of locking when building/retrieving a policy-engine within Ranger admin service |
| RANGER-3539 | Add jacoco-maven-plugin for code coverage |
| RANGER-3540 | Add support to read audit logs from Amazon CloudWatch |
| RANGER-3545 | Remove Logger Checks for Info Enabled |
| RANGER-3548 | Update performance engine test scripts |
| RANGER-3550 | support for using user/tag attributes in row-filter expressions and conditions |
| RANGER-3551 | Analyze & optimize module permissions related API |
| RANGER-3553 | Unit test coverage for XUserMgr and UserMgr class |
| RANGER-3556 | Ranger tagsync logs unnecessary messages |
| RANGER-3561 | Upgrade Storm version to 1.2.4 |
| RANGER-3562 | Redesign post commit tasks for updating ref-tables when policy/role is updated |
| RANGER-3565 | RangerRESTClient to support retry |
| RANGER-3566 | Update version in ranger-2.3 to 2.3.0-SNAPSHOT |
| RANGER-3567 | support for use of user attributes in policy resources |
| RANGER-3573 | Add vim in docker base image |
| RANGER-3577 | RANGER : Upgrade POI version to 5.1.0 |
| RANGER-3578 | Simplify code for policy label creation |
| RANGER-3585 | Docker setup to run Ranger usersync and tagsync |
| RANGER-3586 | Script condition expression to support csv of group/tag attributes |
| RANGER-3595 | Tar of KMS contains rubbish files |
| RANGER-3600 | Ranger service tags import request failure |
| RANGER-3606 | remove unnecessary static members from plugin class loaders |
| RANGER-3609 | option to add usergroup enricher automatically based on references in policies |
| RANGER-3620 | Ranger - Upgrade tomcat to 8.5.75 |
| RANGER-3621 | Optimise Tag/Policy iterator |
| RANGER-3624 | Update Ranger services Password Policy |
| RANGER-3628 | Support fine grain authorization for different solr objects |
| RANGER-3629 | RANGER - Handle solr permissions during upgrade |
| RANGER-3632 | Improve ranger logs, RENAME_ON_ROTATE and others |
| RANGER-3634 | Remove duplicate entries from usersync distribution file |
| RANGER-3646 | LOG.debug print content error |
| RANGER-3647 | Connection to DB fails for MySQL version above 8.0 |
| RANGER-3649 | Represent the Solr admin object types on the Ranger UI |
| RANGER-3651 | Remove jersey1.x version dependency for knox plugin |
| RANGER-3653 | Replace aws java sdk bom dependencies with bundled dependencies |
| RANGER-3658 | Docker: Ranger containers to run as user=ranger |
| RANGER-3660 | [Ranger Admin UI] Improvements in tooltip hints for better user experience |
| RANGER-3662 | There should be pause button for error popup |
| RANGER-3665 | “No Data Found !!” messages in Ranger admin UI alarm users |
| RANGER-3666 | Ranger UI improvement - Add warning popup if auto-complete for resource lookup is failing in Edit policy page |
| RANGER-3667 | Improve feedback in policy creation UI when resource does not exist |
| RANGER-3669 | Connection to DB fails for MySQL version above 8.0 |
| RANGER-3672 | Show better error messages during failed logins |
| RANGER-3673 | Need to enable cipher configuration for Usersync |
| RANGER-3675 | Upgrade tomcat due to intermittent READ TIMEOUT |
| RANGER-3686 | Docker setup to run Ranger with MySQL database |
| RANGER-3687 | Password Policy Best Practices for Strong Security |
| RANGER-3689 | Ranger : ranger-2.3 Port missing commits. |
| RANGER-3693 | Ranger - Upgrade tomcat to 8.5.78 |
| RANGER-3698 | Ranger - Upgrade kylin to 3.1.3 |
| RANGER-3699 | Ranger - Upgrade poi to 5.2.1+ |
| RANGER-3704 | remove semicolon from c3P0 preferredTestQuery |
| RANGER-3725 | Update atlas default audit filter to filter Atlas entity-read events by Nifi user. |
| RANGER-3736 | Update RangerChainedPlugin to support masking and row-filtering |
| RANGER-3738 | Restructure ranger Dockerfile to use multi-stage builds |
| RANGER-3743 | Add isDenyAllElse mapping to addCustomRangerDefaultPolicies method |
| RANGER-3744 | Produces annotation ordering should be consistent: json, xml |
| RANGER-3759 | Add default logback configuration file for trino plugin |
| RANGER-3760 | Make trino plugin configurable for trino environment running in docker |
| RANGER-3768 | RangerBasePlugin configuration to optionally disable userstore refresher |
| JIRA | Summary |
|---|---|
| RANGER-2426 | ranger-plugins-audits should depend on kafka-clients not kafka server |
| RANGER-2704 | Support browser login using kerberized authentication |
| RANGER-2847 | Add support/Fix Test connection with Ozone service |
| RANGER-3091 | Upgrade solr version in Ranger to Solr 8.6.3 |
| RANGER-3285 | expose user source details in ranger UI |
| RANGER-3403 | Ranger usersync role based rules not working as expected |
| RANGER-3427 | Null Dereference in PublicApis.java |
| RANGER-3433 | Null Dereference in ServiceREST getPolicyByName method |
| RANGER-3442 | Ranger KMS DAO memory issues when many new keys are created |
| RANGER-3468 | When multiple Ranger tabs are opened, Some tabs are not redirecting to Knox Logout page |
| RANGER-3484 | Ranger usersync directory is being created as root owner |
| RANGER-3490 | Make policy resource signature is unique in a service |
| RANGER-3502 | Make GET zone APIs accessible to authorized users only |
| RANGER-3505 | Ranger usersync fails to sync users when a duplicate user exists in ranger |
| RANGER-3507 | Handle trailing slash in the ranger Hive URL policy authorization |
| RANGER-3509 | update role fails for role admins |
| RANGER-3511 | RANGER-3490 Create Java patch to update policy resource-signature to unique value. |
| RANGER-3512 | RANGER-3401 Create Java patch to update policy guid to unique value. |
| RANGER-3514 | Fix updates to sync source post upgrades |
| RANGER-3516 | Java patch ‘J10045’ taking more time during upgrade. |
| RANGER-3522 | Improve Tagsync authentication error reporting |
| RANGER-3527 | Create Apache Ranger next maintenance release branch 2.3 |
| RANGER-3528 | Ranger Group creation audit is not shown during service creation |
| RANGER-3535 | A delegate admin user should be able to add another user with all or subset of permissions they have |
| RANGER-3542 | Invalid HTTPS Check |
| RANGER-3543 | Remove spotbugs-annotations-3.1.9 from classpath |
| RANGER-3544 | Security zones listing will be in alphabetical order. |
| RANGER-3546 | Update Spotbugs plugin Executions cycle |
| RANGER-3547 | Upgrade to use log4j 2.16.0+ version to ensure that we are using supported version of log4j |
| RANGER-3554 | [Intermittent] API call to fetch the list of policies for a particular service repo returns a deleted policy in the response |
| RANGER-3557 | Upgrade to use log4j 2.17.0+ version to ensure that we are using supported version of log4j |
| RANGER-3559 | RANGER KMS - Metric details for kms are not getting collected |
| RANGER-3563 | [Docker] plugin installation fails with error: XAAUDIT.AMAZON_CLOUDWATCH.ENABLE not defined |
| RANGER-3564 | Installation of Ranger plugin for HDFS fails due to missing libraries |
| RANGER-3568 | Services of one zone are seen in other zone from UI |
| RANGER-3571 | Typo in GrantRevokeRoleRequest.java |
| RANGER-3576 | service creation is failing intermittently due to DB unique key constraint violation |
| RANGER-3579 | Upgrade Log4j2 to 2.17.1 due to CVE-2021-44832 |
| RANGER-3584 | ServiceTags are not computed correctly by applying incremental changes to existing ServiceTags |
| RANGER-3589 | Ranger java patches failing due to admin privilege checks. |
| RANGER-3591 | Upgrade protobuf-java to 3.19.3 |
| RANGER-3592 | Upgrade Spring framework to 5.3.15 |
| RANGER-3593 | the hive table owner who create the table can not have the full priviledge |
| RANGER-3594 | mysql setup scripts failed with binlog-enabled mysql |
| RANGER-3597 | RANGER-3590 User role should not be able to modify the Policy |
| RANGER-3610 | Docker: Skip service creation for ranger components during ranger container restart |
| RANGER-3611 | Uncatched NullPointerException when missing lastKnownVersion in ServiceREST::getServicePoliciesIfUpdated |
| RANGER-3613 | RANGER KMS : Check if master key with the given alias exists or not if LUNA HSM is enabled. |
| RANGER-3617 | incorrect deny for _any access due to tag policy |
| RANGER-3619 | REST API should return 403 when authenticated client is not allowed to access API. |
| RANGER-3625 | Update isDebugEnable condition in RangerHiveAuthorizer |
| RANGER-3638 | Solr Ranger document level security breaks solr if collection is reloaded |
| RANGER-3642 | Ranger - Upgrade jquery-ui to 1.13.1 |
| RANGER-3644 | tagsync: FileTagSource to retry if Ranger is not reachable |
| RANGER-3652 | update resource-matcher unit tests to include wildcard=false |
| RANGER-3659 | Ranger Admin goes to OOM when usersync is trying to delete existing group mappings from ranger DB |
| RANGER-3663 | RangerBizUtil.checkAdminAccess() should return false if user-session is not available |
| RANGER-3674 | Fix PMD issue |
| RANGER-3676 | tag-based policies don't recognize {OWNER} in users as resource owners |
| RANGER-3677 | Update Password Policy validation at WEB-UI |
| RANGER-3678 | Update password validation criteria |
| RANGER-3681 | Ranger Database deadlock when createPolicy is running parallel |
| RANGER-3690 | Fix NullPointerException in java patch 054 |
| RANGER-3691 | Upgrade spring to 5.3.18 CVE-2022-22965 |
| RANGER-3692 | Ranger cannot connect to the DB when the DB is outaged for a long time |
| RANGER-3702 | RANGER - Export policy in excel is failing. |
| RANGER-3709 | Fix NullPointerException in getSecureServicePoliciesIfUpdated call of ServiceRest |
| RANGER-3730 | log4j dependency is not completely removed |
| RANGER-3735 | RANGER : Behaviour change in external user status. |
| RANGER-3737 | Usersync is broken due to NullPointerException |
| RANGER-3747 | Fix failing sql patches |
| RANGER-3750 | RANGER : PatchForSolrSvcDefAndPoliciesUpdate_J10055 failing with ‘duplicate key value violates unique constraint’ |
| RANGER-3753 | Hive masking policies don't recognize {OWNER} user |
| RANGER-3755 | Build Plugin-Trino artifacts only with JDK 11 |
| RANGER-3765 | tag-based policy masking to override resource-based policy |
| RANGER-3769 | Removing a tag-service association from a service does not update policy engine |
| RANGER-3773 | maven can not build ranger-2.3.0 because commons-cli is duplicated in pom |
| RANGER-3777 | Fix execute permissions for all docker init scripts |
| RANGER-3778 | Kerberos Login cause NullPointerException |