The Renku blog

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 when someone clicks. Starting with this release, we also offer Renku project storage: a simple (and performant!) place to store your data in Renku - no external data connection required!

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.

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?

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.

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!