Infrastructure Enhancements - May 26, 2021

The following fixes and enhancements were implemented as part of our scheduled maintenance downtime on May 26, 2021:

General Maintenance

Operating system patches
Firmware patches for physical and virtual servers

WRDS Cloud Improvements

Python updated to version 3.9.5
R updated to version 4.0.5
RStudio Server updated to version 1.4.1106

New Items

RStudio Server now using grid-installed R

WRDS News

06

Jan

Downtime Scheduled for January 13, 2026 January 6th, 2026
17

Dec

Platform News: June–December 2025 December 17th, 2025

Events

01

Feb

AACSB Americas Annual Conference 2026 Orlando, Florida
03

Feb

EFMD Deans Conference Vienna, Austria

New Data

28

Oct

Infraclear Infrastructure Data October 28th, 2025
23

Jul

Markit is now part of S&P Global July 23rd, 2025