The Apache Sentry team is happy to announce the release of version 1.7.0. Apache Sentry is a system to enforce fine grained role based authorization to data and metadata stored on a Hadoop cluster. The release bits are available at: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/sentry The change list is available at: https://s.apache.org/FTD1 We would like to thank all contributors who made the release possible! Regards, Sentry team