# 🔐 RenkuLab Update: Secrets management

**URL:** <https://renku.discourse.group/t/renkulab-update-secrets-management/1053>\
**Category:** What's New\
**Created:** [4 June 2024 06:25 UTC](https://renku.discourse.group/t/renkulab-update-secrets-management/1053 "2024-06-04T06:25:25Z")\
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The latest release Renku `0.52.0` continues with the development of Renku 2.0 and introduces two new features in RenkuLab, namely secrets management and culling times for sessions (relevant for administrators).

🔐 **Secrets management**  
You can now save and use secrets in RenkuLab sessions! For example, save your credentials for a database or external computing resource in RenkuLab to access those external systems from a RenkuLab session.

Save secrets via the new User Secrets page in the account drop down, and choose which secrets to mount in a session on the Start with Options page.

 ![Select User Secrets in the drop-down menu and add a New Secret](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/renku/original/1X/df342e80475a9bbec52593fa0f220b3e3762b3f6.jpeg)

More details on this feature can be found in the [documentation](https://renku.readthedocs.io/en/stable/topic-guides/secrets/secrets.html).

⏳ **Session culling times**

Thus, a new feature on session culling times is included. Administrators can customize the culling times (the length of time before an idle session is paused or a paused session is deleted) for different resource pools.

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📢 Please share any feedback or issues in #General, and read on for a full breakdown of improvements included in this [update](https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku/releases).