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Ladies and Gentlemen,
we present you the update site URL for a KNIME 4 compatible Palladian (please see link below). This update ensures compatibility and does not include new features, however, we have a ton of them in the pipeline for the coming Palladian 2 (and also a new logo!), to follow after summer. Moving the update site to a new location and getting a new build environment running took a bit of time – thank you for your patience (and apologies for the “bitter taste” @mw 
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Please copy the following URL, go to KNIME preferences → “Available Software Sites”, click on “Add …” and paste it there. Then use the well-known procedure for updating resp. installing KNIME extensions:
http://download.nodepit.com/palladian/4.0
Palladian is no longer in the “KNIME Community Contributions”. How come?
Since 2011, when we introduced Palladian into the KNIME community, we have offered it under a so-called “Palladian Free for Science License” (see here). This license allows you to use the Palladian Nodes entirely for free with free versions of the KNIME Workbench. This implicitly means that commercial KNIME products are not covered by this free license. We think that this is a very fair model – if you’re able to afford a paid KNIME product, you can also afford a license for the Palladian nodes. A license change to the proposed GPL, BSD, or Apache is therefore not an option for us, so we’ll host and distribute the nodes through our own infrastructure from now on.
Will this affect you? Beside having to add an update site URL to KNIME – most probably not. If you’ve used the nodes in a KNIME Server environment without proper licensing so far, no worries either: This happens to the best, and we will not bite. However, now is the time where you should get in touch with us to find a solution (mail@palladian.ws).
Thanks for your attention, for your support, and for always keeping us busy with bug reports or feature requests. Thanks to KNIME for hosting the nodes in the last years. Thanks to @danielesser for helping to get the CI and update site up and running.
We trust there’ll be many more years with KNIME and Palladian.
– Philipp
[edit] All Palladian-relevant infos, including the changelog, are now available on the following page: