Renku

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This release expands Renku's cloud storage functionality in two key ways: First, mounted storages
are now read **and write**, so you can use mounted storage as an active workspace for your data in a RenkuLab
session. Second, we have expanded the cloud storage services you can integrate with RenkuLab. You can now
mount not only S3 buckets, but also WebDAV-based storages and Azure Blobs.

If you use SSH sessions via the CLI, you can use cloud storage there too! Configure cloud storage for your
project on RenkuLab.io, and those storages will be mounted in your remote session. Support for cloud
storage in local Renku sessions is still on our roadmap.

This release also adds the ability to change which resource class your session uses when you unpause the
session, in case the original resource class is now full.

User-Facing Changes
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**🌟 New Features**

- 🖋 **Notebooks,Data Services,CSI**: Support for read and write storage mounting in sessions using a new rclone based storage driver
(`1707 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-notebooks/pull/1707>`_,
`92 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-data-services/pull/92>`_,
`1 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/csi-rclone/pull/1>`_).
- 🔌 **UI**: add support for more storage services
(`2908 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2908>`_,
`2915 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2915>`_).

**✨ Improvements**

- 🖌️ **UI**: Improve the look and feel of the home page
(`2968 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2968>`_,
`2937 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2937>`_,
`2927 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2927>`_).
- 🔐 **UI**: Use password fields for credentials
(`2920 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2920>`_).
- 🔧 **UI**: Allow users to modify non running sessions
(`2942 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2942>`_).
- 🛑 **UI**: Improve feedback when starting sessions on outdated projects
(`2985 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2985>`_).
- 🖌️ **UI**: Update the Renku logo and Renku browser icons
(`2848 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2848>`_).

**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **UI**: Resize the feedback badge on the session settings page
(`2953 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2953>`_).
- **UI**: Fix the environment dropdown on the Start session page
(`2949 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2949>`_).
- **UI**: Improve string validation when trying to upload a dataset file by URL
(`2834 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2834>`_).

Internal Changes
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**Improvements**

- **UI**: RenkuLab admins can now add tolerations and node affinities to resource classes
(`2916 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2916>`_).
- **UI**: RenkuLab admins can add multiple users to a resource pool at once via a list of emails
(`2910 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2910>`_).
- **UI**: Use the renku-core API for session options
(`2947 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2947>`_).
- **UI**: Specify a branch every time a renku-core API is invoked
(`2977 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2977>`_).

Individual Components
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Renku ``0.46.0`` contains a bugfix for issues some users are facing when migrating projects to the newest metadata version.

User-Facing Changes
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**✨ Improvements**

- **UI**: Improve feedback when starting sessions on outdated projects
(`2985 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2985>`_).
- **CLI**: Allow specifying storage to mount when launching Renkulab sessions from the CLI
(`3629 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/pull/3629>`_).
- **KG**: Remove the Free-Text Dataset Search API as improved functionality is offered by the Entities Search.
(`1833 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/pull/1833>`_).
- **KG**: Add support for specifying ``templateRef`` and ``templateParameters`` on the Project Create API.
(`1837 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/pull/1837>`_).

**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **Core Service**: Fix migrations not working when the Dockerfile needs to be migrated as well
(`3687 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/pull/3687>`_).

Internal Changes
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**✨ Improvements**

- **Core Service**: Allow passing commit sha on config.show endpoint for anonymous users
(`3685 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/pull/3685>`_).

Individual Components
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- `renku-python 2.9.1 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/releases/tag/v2.9.1>`_
- `renku-python 2.9.0 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/releases/tag/v2.9.0>`_

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User-Facing Changes
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- **Core Service**: Removed support for metadata v9 projects in the UI. Migration to v10 is now required.
- **Core Service**: Fixed a bug where projects weren't cloned shallowly, leading to large projects not working properly on the platform.

Internal Changes
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**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **KG**: The process removing expiring Project Access Tokens not to be locked on the date of rollout.
- **UI**: Use the default branch on all the core datasets API to prevent cache conflicts
resulting in broken or missing datasets
(`2972 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2972>`_).

Individual components
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- `renku-python 2.8.2 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/releases/tag/2.8.2>`_

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This is a bugfix release that updates the helm chart to work with new
prometheus metrics in the renku core service, which was preventing it from
starting properly if metrics were enabled. In addition this release
also addresses problems with expiring Gitlab access tokens when sessions
are paused and resumed which caused resumed session to not be able to push to Gitlab
or also it caused some sessions to not be able to resume after they have been paused.

Internal Changes
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**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **Helm Chart**: update core-service deployment to allow service and rq
metrics to run side-by-side (`3303
<https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku/pull/3303>`_).
- **Notebooks**: use a larger /dev/shm folder in sessions
(`1723 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-notebooks/issues/1723>`_)
- **Notebooks**: properly renew expiring Gitlab tokens when hibernated session are resumed
(`1734 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-notebooks/issues/1734>`_)
- **Gateway**: properly renew expiring Gitlab tokens for hibernating sessions
(`692 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-gateway/issues/692>`_)

Individual components
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project image when initializing a project from the CLI. Additionally, this release brings coherent usage
of Dataset `name` and `slug` across all Renku APIs.

User-Facing Changes
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**✨ Improvements**

- **Core Service, CLI**: Add support for specifying a project image during
project initialization
(`3623 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3623>`_).
- **CLI**: Add support for pausing & resuming remote sessions from the cli
(`3633 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3633>`_).

Internal Changes
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**✨ Improvements**

- **Core Service, CLI**: Make slug and name consistent with rest of platform
(`3620 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3620>`_).
- **Core Service**: Add prometheus metrics
(`3640 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3640>`_).
- **UI**: Adapt dataset APIs to the new naming convention used in the backend
(`2854 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2854>`_).
- **KG**: All APIs to return Dataset ``slug`` and ``name`` and no ``title`` property
(`1741 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/pull/1741>`_).
- **KG**: Clean up process removing project tokens close to their expiration date
(`1812 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/pull/1812>`_).

Individual components
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in RenkuLab for easy access. Additionally, it features a redesigned landing page that
provides information about Renku, its key features, and the development team behind the
platform, plus entry points for getting started with the platform.

User-Facing Changes
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**🌟 New Features**

- 📌️ **UI**: Users can now pin projects to the dashboard, up to a maximum of
5 projects (`2898 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2898>`_).
- 🎨 **UI**: Introduce a redesigned landing page to enhance the user experience for new users exploring the platform for the first time
(`2925 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2925>`_).


**✨ Improvements**

- 🖼 **UI**: [Keycloak] Enhance UX for registration and authentication in the platform (`26 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/keycloak-theme/pull/26>`_).

**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **UI**: Correctly update progress of project indexing (`2833 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2833>`_).
- **UI**: Change icons in the Nav bar to use Bootstrap icons (`2882 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2882>`_).
- **UI**: Fixed bug that caused Dashboard to reload frequently by handling errors from the ``getSessions`` query in the Dashboard (`2903 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2903>`_).
- **UI**: Adjust dropdown menus with anchors nested in buttons (`2907 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2907>`_).
- **UI**: Update the workflows documentation link (`2917 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2917>`_).
- **UI**: Add whitespace after author name in session commit details (`2921 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2921>`_).

Internal Changes
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**✨ Improvements**

- **Data services**: New API endpoints to store and retrieve user
preferences have been added to support the projects pins (`85 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-data-services/pull/85>`_).

Individual components
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