diff --git a/pytorch_forecasting/models/__init__.py b/pytorch_forecasting/models/__init__.py
index 6c88ca06f..5f98dd752 100644
--- a/pytorch_forecasting/models/__init__.py
+++ b/pytorch_forecasting/models/__init__.py
@@ -21,7 +21,11 @@
     PatchTST_pkg_v2,
     PatchTST_v2,
 )
-from pytorch_forecasting.models.rnn import RecurrentNetwork
+from pytorch_forecasting.models.rnn import (
+    RecurrentNetwork,
+    RecurrentNetwork_pkg_v2,
+    RecurrentNetwork_v2,
+)
 from pytorch_forecasting.models.scinet import SCINet_pkg_v2, SCINet_v2
 from pytorch_forecasting.models.softs import SOFTS, SOFTS_pkg_v2
 from pytorch_forecasting.models.temporal_fusion_transformer import (
@@ -41,6 +45,8 @@
     "PatchTST_pkg_v2",
     "TemporalFusionTransformer",
     "RecurrentNetwork",
+    "RecurrentNetwork_v2",
+    "RecurrentNetwork_pkg_v2",
     "DeepAR",
     "BaseModel",
     "Baseline",
diff --git a/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/__init__.py b/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/__init__.py
index 23af65106..cceed05d4 100644
--- a/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/__init__.py
+++ b/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/__init__.py
@@ -2,5 +2,12 @@
 
 from pytorch_forecasting.models.rnn._rnn import RecurrentNetwork
 from pytorch_forecasting.models.rnn._rnn_pkg import RecurrentNetwork_pkg
+from pytorch_forecasting.models.rnn._rnn_pkg_v2 import RecurrentNetwork_pkg_v2
+from pytorch_forecasting.models.rnn._rnn_v2 import RecurrentNetwork_v2
 
-__all__ = ["RecurrentNetwork", "RecurrentNetwork_pkg"]
+__all__ = [
+    "RecurrentNetwork",
+    "RecurrentNetwork_pkg",
+    "RecurrentNetwork_v2",
+    "RecurrentNetwork_pkg_v2",
+]
diff --git a/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/_rnn_pkg_v2.py b/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/_rnn_pkg_v2.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c1da1fe70
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/_rnn_pkg_v2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+"""RecurrentNetwork v2 package container."""
+
+from typing import Any
+
+from pytorch_forecasting.base._base_pkg import Base_pkg
+
+
+class RecurrentNetwork_pkg_v2(Base_pkg):
+    """RecurrentNetwork v2 package container."""
+
+    _tags: dict[str, Any] = {
+        "info:name": "RecurrentNetwork",
+        "info:compute": 1,
+        "info:y_type": ["numeric"],
+        "authors": ["jdb78", "Dev10-sys"],
+        "capability:exogenous": True,
+        "capability:multivariate": False,
+        "capability:pred_int": True,
+        "capability:flexible_history_length": True,
+        "capability:cold_start": False,
+    }
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_cls(cls):
+        """Get the model class."""
+        from pytorch_forecasting.models.rnn._rnn_v2 import RecurrentNetwork_v2
+
+        return RecurrentNetwork_v2
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_datamodule_cls(cls):
+        """Get the compatible DataModule class."""
+        from pytorch_forecasting.data.data_module import (
+            EncoderDecoderTimeSeriesDataModule,
+        )
+
+        return EncoderDecoderTimeSeriesDataModule
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_test_train_params(cls) -> list[dict[str, Any]]:
+        """Return testing parameter settings for trainer fixtures."""
+        from pytorch_forecasting.metrics import MAE, QuantileLoss
+
+        params: list[dict[str, Any]] = [
+            {},
+            {"cell_type": "GRU"},
+            {"rnn_layers": 2, "dropout": 0.2},
+            {"hidden_size": 8, "cell_type": "LSTM"},
+            {"loss": MAE()},
+            {
+                "loss": QuantileLoss(quantiles=[0.1, 0.5, 0.9]),
+                "hidden_size": 16,
+            },
+        ]
+
+        default_dm_cfg: dict[str, Any] = {
+            "max_encoder_length": 8,
+            "max_prediction_length": 3,
+        }
+
+        for param in params:
+            current_dm_cfg = param.get("datamodule_cfg", {})
+            param["datamodule_cfg"] = {**default_dm_cfg, **current_dm_cfg}
+
+        return params
diff --git a/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/_rnn_v2.py b/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/_rnn_v2.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..389032a5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pytorch_forecasting/models/rnn/_rnn_v2.py
@@ -0,0 +1,165 @@
+"""RecurrentNetwork (RNN / LSTM / GRU) model for PyTorch Forecasting v2."""
+
+from typing import Any, Literal
+
+import torch
+from torch import nn
+from torch.optim import Optimizer
+
+from pytorch_forecasting.metrics import Metric
+from pytorch_forecasting.models.base._base_model_v2 import BaseModel
+
+
+class RecurrentNetwork_v2(BaseModel):
+    """RecurrentNetwork is a sequential time-series forecasting architecture
+
+    built on standard PyTorch recurrent neural network layers (LSTM or GRU).
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    loss : Metric
+        Loss function used during training.
+    cell_type : {"LSTM", "GRU"}, default="LSTM"
+        Type of recurrent cell to use.
+    hidden_size : int, default=10
+        Hidden size of the recurrent layers.
+    rnn_layers : int, default=2
+        Number of recurrent layers.
+    dropout : float, default=0.1
+        Dropout rate applied between recurrent layers.
+    logging_metrics : list of nn.Module, optional
+        Metrics logged during training, validation, and testing.
+    optimizer : Optimizer or str, default="adam"
+        Optimizer used for training.
+    optimizer_params : dict, optional
+        Additional parameters for the optimizer.
+    lr_scheduler : str, optional
+        Learning rate scheduler name.
+    lr_scheduler_params : dict, optional
+        Parameters for the learning rate scheduler.
+    metadata : dict, optional
+        Metadata from the data module. Used to derive ``input_size``,
+        ``max_encoder_length``, and ``max_prediction_length``.
+    """
+
+    @classmethod
+    def _pkg(cls):
+        """Package container for the model."""
+        from pytorch_forecasting.models.rnn._rnn_pkg_v2 import (
+            RecurrentNetwork_pkg_v2,
+        )
+
+        return RecurrentNetwork_pkg_v2
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        loss: Metric,
+        cell_type: Literal["LSTM", "GRU"] = "LSTM",
+        hidden_size: int = 10,
+        rnn_layers: int = 2,
+        dropout: float = 0.1,
+        logging_metrics: list[nn.Module] | None = None,
+        optimizer: Optimizer | str | None = "adam",
+        optimizer_params: dict | None = None,
+        lr_scheduler: str | None = None,
+        lr_scheduler_params: dict | None = None,
+        metadata: dict[str, Any] | None = None,
+        **kwargs: Any,
+    ):
+        super().__init__(
+            loss=loss,
+            logging_metrics=logging_metrics,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            optimizer_params=optimizer_params,
+            lr_scheduler=lr_scheduler,
+            lr_scheduler_params=lr_scheduler_params,
+        )
+        self.save_hyperparameters(ignore=["loss", "logging_metrics", "metadata"])
+
+        self.cell_type = cell_type.upper()
+        if self.cell_type not in ["LSTM", "GRU"]:
+            raise ValueError(
+                f"Invalid cell_type: {cell_type}. Supported types are 'LSTM' and 'GRU'."
+            )
+
+        self.hidden_size = hidden_size
+        self.rnn_layers = rnn_layers
+        self.dropout = dropout
+        self.metadata = metadata or {}
+
+        self.max_encoder_length = self.metadata.get("max_encoder_length", 10)
+        self.max_prediction_length = self.metadata.get("max_prediction_length", 1)
+
+        # Calculate input feature dimensions from metadata
+        encoder_cont_dim = self.metadata.get("encoder_cont", 0)
+        target_dim = 1
+        self.input_size = encoder_cont_dim + target_dim
+
+        self.n_quantiles = 1
+        quantiles = getattr(loss, "quantiles", None)
+        if quantiles is not None and hasattr(quantiles, "__len__"):
+            self.n_quantiles = len(quantiles)
+
+        self.output_size = self.max_prediction_length * self.n_quantiles
+
+        rnn_class = nn.LSTM if self.cell_type == "LSTM" else nn.GRU
+        self.rnn = rnn_class(
+            input_size=self.input_size,
+            hidden_size=self.hidden_size,
+            num_layers=self.rnn_layers,
+            dropout=self.dropout if self.rnn_layers > 1 else 0.0,
+            batch_first=True,
+        )
+
+        self.output_projector = nn.Linear(self.hidden_size, self.output_size)
+
+    def _build_input_tensor(self, x: dict[str, torch.Tensor]) -> torch.Tensor:
+        """Build combined input tensor from continuous features and targets."""
+        target_past = x.get("target_past")
+        if target_past is not None and target_past.ndim == 2:
+            target_past = target_past.unsqueeze(-1)
+
+        encoder_cont = x.get("encoder_cont")
+        if encoder_cont is not None and encoder_cont.size(-1) > 0:
+            if target_past is not None:
+                return torch.cat([encoder_cont, target_past], dim=-1)
+            return encoder_cont
+        elif target_past is not None:
+            return target_past
+        else:
+            raise KeyError(
+                "Neither 'target_past' nor 'encoder_cont' found in input dict."
+            )
+
+    def forward(
+        self,
+        x: dict[str, torch.Tensor],
+    ) -> dict[str, torch.Tensor]:
+        """Forward pass for RecurrentNetwork_v2.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        x : dict[str, torch.Tensor]
+            Dictionary containing input tensors from the DataModule.
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        dict[str, torch.Tensor]
+            Dictionary containing predicted output tensor under key ``prediction``.
+        """
+        input_tensor = self._build_input_tensor(x)
+        batch_size = input_tensor.size(0)
+
+        rnn_out, _ = self.rnn(input_tensor)
+        last_hidden = rnn_out[:, -1, :]
+
+        projected = self.output_projector(last_hidden)
+
+        if self.n_quantiles > 1:
+            prediction = projected.view(
+                batch_size, self.max_prediction_length, self.n_quantiles
+            )
+        else:
+            prediction = projected.unsqueeze(-1)
+
+        return {"prediction": prediction}