The Renku blog

Join the 4th Renku Users Meeting to learn more about Renku, discover how others leverage it for collaborative research, and explore how to build smooth workflows for teaching and events.

We will share the features prioritized for the second half of 2026. We are also excited to host an open forum where you can voice your opinions, share challenges regarding collaborative open research, and discuss the evolving landscape of AI-driven data science.

When: July 2nd from 13:00 CET until 17:00 CET

Where: ETH Rat Bern, Room H403, 4th Floor and Zoom

Register here to get your link to the event.

Agenda​

• 13:00-13:15 Welcome and Introduction
• 13:15-14:00 Renku Update: Milestones, Demo & Roadmap
• 14:00-14:15 Break
• 14:15-15:30 Renku Lightning Talks: Presentations with Challenges and Solutions in Teaching and Collaborative Open Research projects
• 15:30-16:30 Open Discussion: What does collaborative agentic Data Science look like in the era of AI?
• 16:30-17:00 Networking and Refreshments

Our mission is to make collaborative data science seamless, regardless of where your data lives or how you choose to compute. Our latest release, 2.15.0, brings us a step closer to that goal with some highly requested data integrations and powerful tools for project admins.

As one of the projects within the first SDSC national call, ETHZ SwissCAT+ teamed up with the SDSC to utilize their Renku platform to unite data, code and compute in their OpenCatData project. In this blog post we describe how ETHZ SwissCAT+ fully utilizes the features that Renku offers to augment how data can be effectively shared across different parties.

New in Renku for the New Year: We have added new integrations with research data repositories for frictionless data reuse, made it possible to build images for arm architectures, and improved collaboration flows!

New in Renku this month: We've combined Renku's super-simple sessions with the power of supercomputing!

From technical local setup to one-click data exploration: How Renku simplifies researcher access to computational materials science data on the Materials Cloud Archive.

We're excited to share what's new in Renku this month, including a feature many of you have been asking for, plus some important reminders about the end of Renku Legacy coming up in only 2 months!

On August 21, our team executed a major maintenance on our production cluster running at renkulab.io - the entire platform was moved from the servers in Switch Engines to its new home in the Microsoft Azure Switzerland-North datacenter. This was a major operation that took many weeks to plan and in the end resulted in just a few hours of downtime - a huge congrats to our operations team on making everything work so smoothly!

We've been hard at work making Renku Groups more powerful and continuing the smooth transition from Renku Legacy. This release adds much-needed search functionality to groups and includes helpful updates for users migrating from Renku Legacy.

We're thrilled to announce that Renku 2.0 is now officially launched! We've rebuilt our platform from the ground up with a fresh approach to collaborative research computing, and we're excited to share what we've created.