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New patch releases are now available for CKAN 2.11.x and 2.10.x, addressing four security advisories. Upgrade as soon as possible.
CKAN co-steward Steven De Costa makes the case for CKAN as the trusted data foundation for AI — providing provenance, machine operability, and the cold reasoning that keeps AI outputs grounded in reality.
Steven De Costa, CKAN co-steward since 2012, reflects on the reciprocal value at CKAN's core, the impact of AI on open data, and why CKAN is built to last another 20 years.
This month’s CKAN Monthly Live highlighted the Hale & Hearty project: Creating a Knowledge Base to improve the health and wellbeing of people living in Ireland. Hale & Hearty provide a comprehensive Health & Wellbeing knowledge base, available as Open Data on the National Open Data Portal data.gov.ie.
The latest patch releases for CKAN, packed with enhancements, bug fixes, and updates to improve your platform’s stability and functionality.
How a teenager's burning questions about the world's future became the open data infrastructure powering governments on every continent. Story 01 of 20.
Are you building systems that query open data portals with AI? How are you handling retrieval reliability, hallucinations, and grounding? Join a semi-closed technical session organised by the OKFN Tech Team around the CKAN Answers project — demo, code sharing, and community feedback.
After months of development, CKAN 2.12 is nearly ready — and it's more than just another release. As the last in the 2.x series, it lays the architectural groundwork for CKAN 3.0 while delivering meaningful improvements to file management, data store performance, and the user interface. Here's a full recap of what the core team shared at Monthly Live Session #40 on February 18, 2026.
A year of performance breakthroughs, community growth, and the foundations being laid for CKAN's next chapter — as the project approaches its 20th anniversary.
