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!
We've been busy building, and we're thrilled to share what we've been working on! This release brings some of our most requested features to life, making it easier than ever to connect your data, share your work, and dive straight into collaborative research.
Are you a seasoned Renku user who is curious to know the key differences between Renku 1.0 and 2.0? Here's a summary of what's new.
We’ve been busy behind the scenes, and now it’s time to share some of the exciting updates we’ve rolled out over our last few releases. These features are part of the Renku 2.0 beta, designed to to empower collaboration and make it easier to connect and share data, code, and compute resources. Here’s a quick tour of what’s new.
Never lose track of important projects again! Pin a project by clicking the new pin icon in the top left corner of the project image. You can pin up to 5 projects, and these will stay at the top of the dashboard, above your recently viewed projects.
We are proud to release our completely redesigned landing page! Our new page better describes Renku and its capabilities, and features multiple entry points for getting started with the platform.
On RenkuLab you can now pause sessions and later resume them exactly where you left off. All of your work in progress, including files, data, and environment changes not saved to git, are resumed right as you left them!
The first thing you’ll notice in RenkuLab is that the session stop button has been replaced with a pause button.
Paused sessions will be maintained for 15 days, after which they (and any unsaved work) will be deleted permanently.
You can resume paused sessions from the Dashboard. Not sure if you have any work left un-committed from your last session? The un-saved work indicator on the Dashboard will let you know!
Session pausing replaces RenkuLab's branch-based auto-save mechanism. Most users do not have to do anything to transition from auto-saves to persistent sessions. However, if your last session went into an auto-save, you can still retrieve that work by using Start with Options and selecting your most recent auto-save branch. If your project contains auto-save branches that you do not need anymore, you can safely delete them.