Announcing KNIME Analytics Platform 5.2

Dear all,

We are happy to announce that KNIME Analytics Platform 5.2. is now available. The new version features significant user interface improvements, a smarter and more transparent AI assistant, and a modernized scripting experience with AI.

Here are the release’s biggest highlights:

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The user interface has been significantly improved based on community feedback. It’s more convenient for both new and experienced users to find the nodes they need, navigate around the interface, surface relevant documentation, ask for help, and more.

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The KNIME AI Assistant, K-AI, has been upgraded. K-AI is now easier to install, is trained on more KNIME-related data, shows its sources, and recommends additional functionality. K-AI also learned to code. It not only makes Python script suggestions when prompted, but can also create custom interactive visualizations, based on Apache ECharts or well-known Python libraries.

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The scripting experience has been revamped. This release introduces a new editor with a totally modernized UI for the Python scripting node and a new Generic ECharts View node, giving you an enhanced scripting experience.

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You can now build AI powered data apps using LLMs hosted locally or in the cloud. LLMs can be accessed from OpenAI, via Azure, from HuggingFace or locally using GPT4All.

Get details about these and other major updates on our blog.

We would like to thank the participants of our Community Hacking Days. The first edition of this event was held in November and we invited active community members to participate in a pre-release evaluation of KNIME Analytics Platform 5.2.0. We are very grateful for the time they spent helping us deliver better software to the community. The list of Community Hacking Days participants goes as below (in alphabetical order):

@ArjenEX, @DiaAzul , @HaveF, @Kowisoft, @Lelloba, @Mlauber71, @Mwiegand, @Ralphkoerse, @Rfeigel, @Sw1336, @Takbb, @TosinLitics, @Umutcankurt.

You can find all the information and download links to this release here. We would love to hear your feedback on the new features! Please use this forum thread to tell us what you like, what could be improved, and if anything is missing that we don’t have on the list of known limitations below. If you run into any problems, please follow the Bug Reporting Best Practices.