Coming this January 5th; and now available for early access to our Integration partners — We are thrilled to announce 

 — the most significant update in our platform's history. This release fundamentally reimagines how hardware teams collaborate, introducing enterprise-grade access controls, true multi-tenancy, and the foundation for a connected hardware engineering community.

These capabilities have been years in the making conceptually — ideas refined through countless customer conversations and deep reflection on where hardware collaboration needs to go. When we finally committed to building them, the result transforms Duro from a powerful PLM tool into a comprehensive platform for hardware collaboration.

Enterprise-Grade Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

 that gives administrators complete control over who can do what across your organization.

 combining scope (organization vs. library) and type (system vs. custom roles). With over 40+ individual permissions spanning Content Management, Change Order Workflow, Collaboration, and Administration, you can define access with surgical precision. The system uses hierarchical permission logic — granting delete access automatically enables read, update, and create permissions, reducing configuration complexity while maintaining security.

 provide six pre-configured options designed for common organizational structures. Admin grants full organizational access including settings management. Editor enables creating, editing, and managing components and change orders. Reviewer allows approving, rejecting, and releasing change orders without edit capabilities — perfect for quality and compliance teams. Viewer provides read-only access, while Supplier offers limited external partner access to shared content.

 let you build precisely the access model your organization requires. Create unlimited roles tailored to your workflows, starting from system role templates or building from scratch. Define exact permission sets for specialized team functions — ideal for compliance requirements, contractor access, or unique organizational structures.

 add another dimension of control. Assign different roles per library for the same user, grant external partners access to specific libraries without organization-wide permissions, and rest assured that library-specific roles take precedence over organization roles. This enables precise access boundaries for multi-product organizations or those working with external collaborators.

Multi-Organization & Multi-Library Architecture

, enabling users to work across organizations and libraries with distinct identities and permissions — much like you'd expect from GitHub or other modern collaboration platforms.

Your Duro identity is now truly yours. Maintain a single account across unlimited organizations, hold different roles in different contexts, and switch between them seamlessly. The redesigned home dashboard provides instant visibility into your entire Duro presence — every organization you belong to, your role in each, and quick-access cards to libraries complete with component counts and team sizes.

New guided workflows make expanding your footprint effortless. Create organizations with intuitive step-by-step wizards, spin up libraries with intelligent defaults, and configure part numbering schemes and revision strategies during setup — not after.

Every organization and user now has a permanent home on DuroHub. This is the foundation for something bigger — a connected hardware engineering community where discovery and collaboration extend beyond organizational boundaries.

. Showcase your organization with custom branding and descriptions, display key metrics like member count and component totals, and list libraries for visibility. It's your organization's public face on the platform.

 establish your professional identity in the hardware engineering community. The centerpiece is the 

 — a radial contribution graph inspired by GitHub's contribution calendar, but with a hardware twist, visualizing your engineering activity over the past year. Each spoke represents a week; longer and brighter spokes indicate more activity. Click any spoke to see exactly what you accomplished.

Your profile tracks meaningful contributions: components created or updated, change orders submitted, reviews completed, and comments left. It's a living record of your impact across every organization you belong to.

This release includes API contract changes that may require updates to existing integrations:

Duro 2.0.0 establishes the architectural foundation for everything we're building next. Organization and user profiles are just the beginning — we envision a future where hardware engineers can discover, share, and collaborate on components across organizational boundaries, creating network effects that accelerate innovation across the industry.

This release represents an extraordinary effort from our team, and we're immensely proud to deliver it as we enter 2026. We extend our deepest gratitude to our customers whose feedback shaped every feature.

Duro changelog

Duro 2.0, the big release