Renku

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Renku ``0.38.0`` improves the Knowledge Graph API, with a new Project Creation functionality and a Project Update enhancement.
There is also a new version of the core service with multiple bug fixes and a few new features.

User-Facing Changes
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**✨ Improvements**

- **CLI**: allow disabling automated parameter detection in renku run
(`3548 <hhttps://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3548>`_).

**🌟 New Features**

- 🖼️ **Knowledge Graph**: New `Project Create API <https://renkulab.io/swagger/?urls.primaryName=knowledge%20graph#/default/post_projects>`_
to create a project in GitLab and Knowledge Graph
(`1635 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/issues/1635>`_).

**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **Knowledge Graph**: Improves quality of the results returned by the Cross-Entity Search API.
- **Knowledge Graph**: The `Project Update API <https://renkulab.io/swagger/?urls.primaryName=knowledge%20graph#/default/patch_projects__namespace___projectName_>`_ to work for non-public projects
(`1695 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/pull/1695>`_).

Internal Changes
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**Improvements**

- **Core Service**: replace/refactor internal repository cache
(`3534 <hhttps://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3534>`_).

**Bug Fixes**

- **CLI:** do not freeze/unfreeze plan view model
(`3599 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3599>`__)
(`3c48cff <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/commit/3c48cffe116db5c246beca2003c2f282fc38b465>`__)
- **CLI:** simplify ssh setup and key usage
(`3615 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3615>`__)
(`3fa737a <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/commit/3fa737ab6cd6126047098957ff2e5f179e939339>`__)
- **Core Service:** setting a non-existing config property to null more than once results in error
(`3595 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3595>`__)
(`e0ff587 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/commit/e0ff587f507d049eeeb873e8488ba8bb10ac1a15>`__)
- **Core Service:** skip fast cache migrations check for anonymous users
(`3577 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3577>`__)
(`9ee3176 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/commit/9ee3176ce379dd80d2955e858f5e11e1fb32b464>`__)
- **Core Service:** normalize git url to avoid duplicate cache entries
(`3606 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3606>`__)
(`19142c6 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/commit/19142c6f58713cb9990b71f9ed738990987c3e16>`__)
- **CLI:** adapt to changes in Knowledge Graph API for importing datasets
(`3549 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3549>`__)
(`020434a <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/commit/020434a7dd6449755644a2e9ca849b8821900f72>`__)
- **Core Service:** add branch to service cache path
(`3562 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3562>`__)
(`3800a38 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/commit/3800a3823515763c207b1b15f348df3b0cdd9831>`__)
- **Core Service:** add support for using default values in template parameters
(`3550 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/issues/3550>`__)
(`d162392 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-python/commit/d162392b3dc20dd3433be78b08f101e7f268ed7d>`__)
- **Knowledge Graph**: Various issues preventing Grafana dashboards not working.
(`1717 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/pull/1717>`_)
(`1719 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/pull/1719>`_).

Individual components
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Renku ``0.37.0`` introduces a new feature to 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.

This feature 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.

User-Facing Changes
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**🌟 New Features**

- ⏸️ **Renku Notebooks** and **UI**: Support for pausing (i.e. hibernating) and resuming sessions
(`1518 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-notebooks/pull/1518>`_)
(`2686 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2686>`_).

**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **UI**: restore adding files by URL to datasets
(`2800 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2800>`_).

Internal Changes
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**New Features**

- **Renku Notebooks**: Use a new version of Amalthea which adds fields for culling
hibernating sessions in the CRD.
- **Renku Notebooks** - **Helm chart breaking change**: ``notebooks.culling.idleThresholdSeconds`` in the values file
was renamed to ``notebooks.culling.idleSecondsThreshold``.

Individual components
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projects and datasets.

User-Facing Changes
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**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **UI**: fix render loops in creating new projects; they were occasionally creating
problems based on the specific fields filled in by the user.
(`2788 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2788>`_).
- **UI**: restore adding files to datasets on an outdated but supported metadata version
(`2788 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2788>`_).
- **UI**: do not error on dataset thumbnails pointing to an external URL
(`2791 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2791>`_).
- **UI**: prevent failures when unzipping files with a large number of elements on dataset
creation
(`2786 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2786>`_).

Individual components
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session sidecars.

User-Facing Changes
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**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **Renku Notebooks**: Fix a problem that prevented users from saving data via the UI in a session
(`1620 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-notebooks/issues/1620>`_).

Individual components
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Renku ``0.36.1`` is a bug-fix release that includes the fixes from ``0.35.2``.

It also includes a few changes behind the scenes on how the UI interacts with backend components.

Internal Changes
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**Improvements**

- **UI**: Take advantage of Core Service API versions
(`2764 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2764>`_).

**Bug Fixes**

- **UI**: Fix bootstrap icons
(`2772 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2772>`_).

Individual components
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the platform for the first time. Thus, it implements a few bug fixes for the UI and Knowledge Graph.

User-Facing Changes
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**🌟 New Features**

- 🖼️ **Knowledge Graph**: Project Update API can update description, keywords and image
(`1631 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/issues/1631>`_).

**✨ Improvements**

- 📐 **UI**: Update the landing page for non-logged users to simplify discovering
the platform
(`2741 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2741>`_).

**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- **UI**: Fix the Renku version on the footer
(`2776 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2776>`_).

Internal Changes
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**Bug Fixes**

- **UI**: Prevent using different repository URLs for the same project
(`2766 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/issues/2766>`_).

Individual components
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