Renku

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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>`_)

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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>`_).

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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>`_).

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and in the data services API.

**A note to Renku administrators**: this release includes breaking changes in our Helm chart values file.
For more details on the Helm chart values changes please refer to the explanation in ``helm-chart/values.yaml.changelog.md``.

User-Facing Changes
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**✨ Improvements**

- **KG**: Performance improvements to the Cross-Entity Search API.
(`1666 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/issues/1666>`_).
- **KG**: The Cross-Entity Search API to allow filtering by a ``role``.
(`1486 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/issues/1486>`_).
- **KG**: Improved search to return results where the search keyword is separated by underscores.
(`1783 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/issues/1783>`_).
- **KG**: A new ``GET /knowledge-graph/version`` API.
(`1760 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/pull/1760>`_).
- **KG**: Token service and Webhook service can now accept an AES token that is not base64 encoded.
(`1774 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-graph/pull/1774>`_).

**🐞 Bug Fixes**

- 🔽 **UI**: Prevent showing wrong options on the Session dropdown menu when the project
namespace includes uppercase letters
(`2874 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2874>`_).
- 🔲 **UI**: Restore the switch between creating and importing a dataset, and restyle the
buttons
(`2857 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2857>`_).
- 🔨 **UI**: Address visual glitches on many pages
(`2883 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2883>`_).
- 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 **UI**: Prevent occasionally duplicating last visited projects on the Dashboard
(`2892 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2892>`_).
- **KG**: Prevent CLI's Dataset Import from failing when the Dataset belongs to a project with more than 20 datasets.

Internal Changes
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**Improvements**

- **KG**: KG services to work with both ``Base64`` encoded and ASCII secrets read from configuration.
- **KG**: Java upgraded to 21.0 and Jena to 4.10.0.

**Bug Fixes**

- **UI**: Correctly handle Statuspage down
(`2871 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2871>`_).
- **CRC**: Do not create new quotas when updating existing ones
- **CRC**: Use one database connection pool with limited number of connections

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- creating new resources in the ``data-services`` API
- properly enforcing access controls to the default resource pool
- accidentally removing the git repository directory from hibernated sessions
- properly templating node affinities and tolerations from the ``data-services`` into user sessions

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Renku ``0.42.0`` allows RenkuLab administrators to easily manage user resource pools via an Admin Panel built into RenkuLab.
User resource pools are a way to manage the compute resources accessible to groups of RenkuLab users for interactive sessions.
From the new Admin Panel, admins can create resource pools, set their max resource quotas, customize the session classes
available within pools, and add users to pools. Admins can access the new Admin Panel by navigating to the account icon
in the top right in RenkuLab and selecting 'Admin Panel'. To access the Admin Panel, a user must have the `renku-admin` role
delegated to them in Keycloak.

In addition, the login screen was updated to better space components on smaller screens and fix minor
visual glitches.

User-Facing Changes
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**🌟 New Features**

- 🖼 **UI**: Admins can configure compute resources available to groups of users for interactive sessions.
(`2752 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2752>`_).

**✨ Improvements**

- 💾 **UI**: Show a confirmation text when saving a session
(`2856 <https://github.com/SwissDataScienceCenter/renku-ui/pull/2856>`_).

Internal Changes
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- ``renku-gateway`` can now proxy to Keycloak endpoints

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