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Posts about new Renku features, platform design, reproducibility in data science, solutions to engineering challenges, and Renku use-cases.

Renku Release | September 2026 • Renku Apps, Project Storage and more connectors

· 5 min read
Elisabet Capon
Renku Community Manager
Rok Roškar
Renku Team Lead
Laura Kinkead
Renku Product Manager

Renku has always made it easy to build your project and share it with a collaborator through a simple link. This release takes that a big step further. With Renku Apps, you can now publish your work as a live, always-ready app that opens the instant someone clicks. Starting with this release, we offer Renku project storage: any project can get its own fast, persistent home for its data.

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Renku Release | July 2026 • Renku Jobs, Coding Agents & Custom Environments from Private Repos

· 5 min read
Elisabet Capon
Renku Community Manager
Rok Roškar
Renku Team Lead
Laura Kinkead
Renku Product Manager

This release extends Renku beyond interactive sessions. You can now submit a job that runs the same code, in the same environment, against the same data — without holding a browser tab open. Also in these releases: custom environments from private code repositories, coding agents in your sessions and dedicated pages for data connectors.

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Renku Users Meeting 2026

· One min read
Elisabet Capon
Renku Community Manager

Renku Users Meeting 2026

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 16:30 CET

Where: Online, via Zoom

Register here.

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?

Renku Release | June 2026 • Direct Zenodo Publishing, Smoother Integrations and Expanded R Support

· 4 min read
Rok Roškar
Renku Team Lead
Laura Kinkead
Renku Product Manager
Elisabet Capon
Renku Community Manager

Your data might live on Zenodo, your code on GitHub, and your compute in the cloud — but they shouldn't feel worlds apart. Renku is built to bridge these gaps, and our latest 2.16.0 and 2.17.0 updates make it much easier to work, share, and publish without the configuration headache.

Whether you are running data-intensive computations or preparing a project for public citation, these enhancements keep your project resources tightly connected.

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Streamlining data delivery: How ETHZ SwissCAT+ uses Renku to let clients focus on science, not setup

· 3 min read
Erwin Lam
Senior Scientist, ETHZ SwissCAT+
Kourosh Shariat
ML Engineer, ETHZ SwissCAT+
Laura Kinkead
Renku Product Manager

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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.