Changes to the UI
This release includes new features for datasets and interactive environments. Along with minor improvements in the collaboration tab, the project page, user avatars, and minor bug fixes. This is still a work in progress, and there are further changes down the road in these areas, but this update gives a small taste of what is coming.
New features
Datasets can be created from the UI. This can be done by going to the dataset tab inside the project and heading to “new dataset”.
Files can be added to an existing dataset from the UI. A dataset can also be modified by clicking the modify button inside the dataset. For now we only support adding new files to the dataset, in the future we will keep working on this feature.
Support project-level default settings for interactive environments. This can be done by editing the renku.ini file inside the ./renku folder. After this, when a new interactive environment is started, the default setting will be pre-selected.
Datasets can now be exported to Dataverse
UI presentation improvements
Issues have an improved presentation
Merge Requests also have an improved presentation and new features. Renku provides support for discussions on merge requests and it also displays a summary of the changes and the commits.
Relevant project/namespace information is shown at /projects/user-or-group/ url.
For example for testingfeature user: https://renkulab.io/projects/testingfeature
For renku-qa group: https://renkulab.io/projects/renku-qa
Other notable improvements
Cleaner error messages for Renku CLI usage
Dataset importing is faster with Renku CLI
Our documentation has been restructured and cleaned up
Miscellaneous
- R-markdown rmd files can be visualized within Renkulab
- Group avatars are displayed
- Improved presentation for merge request and issues
- A Gitlab IDE link has been made available for working with Renku projects
- Link to see a project’s fork information
- Docker images and project templates now use Renku 0.9.1
- A Renku docker image with Bioconductor is now available
- R projects now have the directory structures fixed
- Python now comes with powerline to simplify the command line prompt
- Jupyterhub has been updated to version 1.1.0
- Prometheus metrics available for graph services
Bug fixes
- LFS data is now retrieved when the checkbox is selected
- Close the fork dialog after forking
- Various fixes for lineage including performance
Individual components
For changes to individual components, check: