Neil Mather, writing at openrepair.org, has announced the 2026 release of the Open Repair Alliance dataset, timed for Repair Day. The dataset now holds over half a million records of repair attempts logged at community repair events worldwide, including Repair Cafes, Fixit Clinics and Restart Parties.

The electrical and electronics portion grew from 305,649 records last year to 416,284 this year, a 36% increase. For the first time, the full set of non-EEE items is available for download too, 203,591 of them. Malaysia and Liechtenstein appear in the data for the first time, and iFixit’s Community Repair Organizer has been added as a new data source.

Data quality work has started as well. Brand names in the raw data carry many typos, so the team made about 5,000 corrections covering 500 common misspellings of 50 brands in data from The Restart Project. Corrections for other providers are planned for next year.…