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Regain control over your time with Nextcloud Hub 8

Mikhail Korotaev — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Hi Nextcloud community!

as we are announcing Nextcloud Hub 8 here at the Nextcloud Enterprise Day in Munich, our customers and partners are presenting their own and unique use of Nextcloud. Tens of millions of users trust Nextcloud to protect their data.

These include private users, running their own Nextcloud, or using a hosted solution from the likes of América Móvil or Deutsche Telekom. Businesses, keeping data on their own servers or hosting at one of our official partners. And the public sector, with universities, cities, governments and international organizations like Amnesty International using Nextcloud to stay safe. They maintain their own servers or host with partners like Bechtle that offers tender-free Nextcloud for the public sector in Germany.

We build Nextcloud to give you control over your data. In terms of who has access, but also what. Our world is digital, and AI is digging through all its data. It can use that for good – create fun meme, summarize your mails or help medical research. But should it operate heavy machinery or be used in the courts or HR departments?

While society finds its way through these dystopian questions, we make sure you have control. Different options, plus transparency over what AI does and how helps you make informed choices. That aligns with our core values of transparency, community and collaboration.

This release introduces many abilities specifically for the public sector. Some of those are AI related, developed together with public sector partners like the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, presenting here today. Others tick off important requirements like our new European accessibility certification, improved scalability or federated chat. But all of these benefit every Nextcloud user, at home, in an office or working in a cafe somewhere!

This release is faster, scales further, and gives you more control over your data than ever before. Whether you watch our release video or read the blog, we are looking forward to your feedback, and, as always, hope Nextcloud serve(r)s you well!

Greetings,
Jos & the Nextcloud team

Performance is now

Nextcloud Hub is the place where everything you need to be productive comes together in a connected, user-focused platform. Working on the improvements in Nextcloud Hub 8, we set a goal to give you half of your day back so you can take a breather!

Nextcloud Assistant 2.0

The first change comes in the introduction of the Nextcloud Assistant version 2. Context awareness mechanics introduced with Context Chat and Context Write lets the Assistant know even more about your work than you do. Worry not about privacy — Assistant is itself a part of your Hub and doesn’t send your data anywhere.

Nextcloud Teams

Shifting gears to teamwork, meet Nextcloud Teams — the next evolutionary leap for Circles. Teams arrives in Hub with the new team overview, quick access to shared resources, and a dashboard widget. And we are only getting started!

Speedy new Mail

A hefty part of your day you spend in Mail. With Hub 8 we made it faster — so you can go home earlier. The background sync is now twice as fast, the improved UI ensures comfort for a smooth morning catching-up, while replying takes less time with the addition of AI-powered suggestions.

Advanced Talk

Reaching out to users from another Hub is a breeze with federated messaging in Talk. More on Talk features, we added message editing, sparing you the delete-and-rewrite dance. Many improvements come your way in conferencing too, making presenting and group calls more comfortable and efficient.

Optimized Files

Hub 8 gets you to your files faster. Enjoy your private, clutter-free space with a Personal files section. Share downloads with confidence using one-time links. Preview and edit files linked across Hub with new interactive widgets. Discover optimized navigation for photos.

And so much more in Hub 8!

BITV 2.0 certification, incredible improvements in Tables, more automation in Forms, major performance updates in Office, and many other news are waiting for you in Hub 8. Get it now to see for yourself, or buckle up as we lead you through every new feature you need to know about.

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Nextcloud Assistant 2.0

Build an efficient, sovereign, AI-powered workspace with Hub. Welcome Nextcloud Assistant 2.0, new integrations and new AI deployment mechanics.

AI features already available in Hub

Ask Assistant about your own assets

Hub 8 enables Nextcloud Assistant’s new context awareness features. One of them is Context Chat, a smart chat bot that can access your data and answer questions about your documentation, contracts, papers, reports or anything else. You can manually define the scope and even limit it to a specific folder or file for more precision.

Here you can enter your prompt.

You can optionally choose what documents should be used

And here are the results!`

And it’s not limited to Files: we developed an API that allows Assistant to look into Mail, Calendar, Talk, Deck and other apps to fetch info about important meetings, tasks received via emails and chats, and any other data from those apps. Over the coming weeks and months, we are going to gradually implement the Context Chat API across the Hub ecosystem, making Context Chat ever smarter.

Texts written your way with Context Write

Context Write is another new feature of Nextcloud Assistant powered by context awareness. It can derive context from existing files to convey their unique tone, wording, and even structure to create new texts with the data you provide. Tell the Assistant about your working experience and give it a nice CV file, and it will create a custom CV for you. Share meeting notes and ask it to write a formal report similar to your reference – done!

Generate Mail replies and automate events in Calendar

With Hub 8, we add more Assistant features to Groupware tools. Get reply suggestions based on your conversation history in Mail. Create Calendar events from emails without leaving the Mail app, automatically generate event titles and descriptions, and even an agenda. Go ahead – take an extra coffee break!

Chat summaries in Talk

Summarization of team meetings and spontaneous brainstorms in Talk chats makes it easy to get a refresher on previous discussions. The new AI Talk bot can recap your conversations, describe the discussed topics and define tasks based on chat activity. Give it a preferred time to deliver the summary, and it will send it in the chat when scheduled.

Prompt history and even more tools in Assistant

Assistant 2.0 gives you even more control. Access prompt history when you need to reuse your past prompts, and ask the Assistant to stop unfinished tasks if no longer needed. We also gave even more functionality to the Assistant, adding built-in image generation and speech to text features.

Synchronous tasks in Text

Text now supports running Nextcloud Assistant tasks in a synchronous way. If your AI provider is able to return the results fast enough, the Assistant can deliver them in the window right away. If it takes longer, you can choose to run the job on the background and get notified once it’s done.

Assistant on-the-go

Access Assistant from any device on the go to draft texts, compose mail responses and create social media messages — with Nextcloud Assistant now available in mobile clients.

Deploying AI

For these AI features to work smoothly, you will need some serious hardware. This unfortunately will not be a fun experience on your Raspberry Pi. But! Luckily, a number of businesses have started to provide AI-as-a-Service, running various open source models that Nextcloud supports in a way that you can connect to remotely. While this is great, unfortunately nearly all these companies are American-based, with a few in China. If you live in the USA, that is of course perfect – the data stays in your jurisdiction, and you have a choice of local providers. But for our users in Europe, this is less than ideal. The US jurisdiction unfortunately treats the data of European users with less than ideal respect for privacy, in no small part thanks to the CLOUD act signed into law by the former US president Donald Trump.

we have been working closely with several major European hosting companies including IONOS, OVHcloud and plusserver to integrate their upcoming AI-as-a-Service solutions. This will make them available to Nextcloud customers and users who wish to take advantage of the advanced AI functionalities in Nextcloud Hub but don’t wish to host AI services themselves.

OVHcloud is thrilled to collaborate with Nextcloud in delivering state-of-the-art Digital Sovereign AI solutions to our customers. We are aligned with Nextcloud’s commitment to offering secure, privacy-conscious AI functionalities that safeguard training data and adhere strictly to GDPR regulations. We are excited to announce that this integration will become available in Q2 2024, marking a significant milestone in our journey towards responsible AI innovation.

Germain Masse, AI Product Marketing Manager at OVHCloud

We are proud to offer Nextcloud customers a solution that complies with European data protection regulations. Reliable, trustworthy, and local AI services will be key to protecting their digital sovereignty for both the public and private sectors in Europe.
IONOS

plusKI brings cutting edge, open source AI technologies in a compliant and digitally sovereign service to the German market. We are excited to work with Nextcloud to make this available to their customers as back-end to the new generation of the Nextcloud Assistant.
Christian Schmitz, Director Open Source at plusserver

Ready for mission-critical deployment

We know that AI works miracles when it comes to automation: it can make your work easier, save your time and hopefully get you back to your family and friends sooner each day. But we’re also aware of its downsides, some similar to the challenges brought about by the big tech firms, some unique to AI.

They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. We want to offer you the best of AI, but also provide transparency and choice. You’re the one who decides where and how to use AI in Nextcloud and equally how to balance its benefits with privacy, environmental impact, and more.

More about our approach to AI and Ethical AI Rating

Building sovereign AI in collaboration with the German government

Nextcloud teamed up with the government of German state Schleswig-Holstein to build sovereign AI tools for state administration needs. This will allow the state office to amplify process automation, create value for domestic digital economy, and notably set an example for AI strategy building within public sectors in Europe and beyond.

More AI updates in Hub 8

Nextcloud releases Assistant 2.0 and pushes AI-as-a-Service

Jos Poortvliet — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Today, we bring you a major update to the Nextcloud AI Assistant with Context Chat, Context Write, GPU acceleration, the ability to split off the Nextcloud server & AI server, and MUCH more! And for those without $100K GPU’s (you know who you are), we have also incredible news: we are working with several prominent European hosting companies, including IONOS, OVHcloud and plusserver to deliver AI-as-a-Service solutions that respect your privacy and digital sovereignty! For our US users and customers, there are already several companies offering AI-as-a-Service and some we support (OpenAI in particular) while others are in the works.

Introducing Assistant 2.0

With a nearly complete overhaul of the user interface AND how our AI Assistant works on the back-end, plus a ton of new, big features, we decided that this is the moment to call this the Assistant 2.0. Let’s go over what’s new, but first a short summary of where we are today!

Nextcloud has a ton of AI features, some big and elaborate, others more basic. Some train a neural network on your data, on your own server to give you a smart inbox in Mail or warnings about unexpected logins from Suspicious Login Detection. Others rely on a pre-trained network that can recognize faces and objects in photos, generate a transcript of your video call or modify text. We can also generate images, translate text and chat messages, and much more. Many of the features are accessible through our easy to use Nextcloud Assistant interface!

Nextcloud Assistant in Text

Many of these features can help you, save you time, or improve your productivity. And best of all: as always we focus on making all these services available of running on your own server. Given even the US Congress doesn’t trust ChatGPT or Microsoft CoPilot, there are good reasons to want control over the data send to and from an AI service! Our Ethical AI Rating system provides you transparency about the AI used to generate your text, image or classify your photos:

Is it open source? Can I study how it works and re-train or optimize the model for my needs?

Is the model freely available? Can I run it on my own server?

Is the training data open and available so I can inspect it for issues and re-train or optimize the model?

Learn more in our blog post about our approach to AI.

Context Chat and Context Write

And now, let’s explore what’s new: The two biggest new features are Context Write and Context Chat. These both share a lot in common, both providing AI-assisted outputs for you, but they’re also distinctly different.

Context Chat, in short, is the ability for the Assistant to answer questions about your data. You can ask the Assistant questions about a document you have: Say, you have a PDF with the manual of your new digital watch… you’ll be able to ask the Assistant how to set it up, or how to replace the battery. And if your company has a nicely documented reimbursement process in its documentation in Collectives, you can ask the Assistant questions about this process. This is an absolutely amazing ability!

It is not just limited to your files either: we developed an API so apps like Mail, Calendar, Talk and Deck can make their data available too. You’ll then be able to ask “When do I have my next meeting with my boss?” (from the Calendar) and “What tasks did she ask me to work on as high priority this week?” (from Mail). Or “Give me a summary of the status of project X.” (Deck + chat perhaps?)

Context Write, on the other hand, lets the Assistant rewrite something in a certain requested context, or style. Say, you have a nice poem and want to write another in that same particular style. By providing the original poem, then new text of what you want to say, the Assistant will then create a masterpiece. But you can also give it a form, give it your data, and ask it to provide the text you would need to fill in the form. Impressive, and useful!

Big user interface overhaul

Over the last year and a half, we have introduced a wide range of AI features in Nextcloud. Translation, transcription of audio, text and image generation, and more. Then the Nextcloud Assistant came – and we’ve now integrated most of our AI features into the Assistant itself, all available from a unified interface. It is no longer limited to text, but can also generate images and transcribe audio.

Another improvement many of you will appreciate is that you can now see a history, a list of earlier generated images, text or audio transcripts in the Assistant interface. You can even go back and generate more based on your earlier prompts. It is now also possible to cancel a running operation, if desired.

Lastly, as possible inputs to the Assistant you can paste or type text or record audio, and now… select one or more documents as input too!

Behind the scenes

We also did significant work behind the scenes. We made it possible for administrators to make use of AI models we’ve not yet explicitly integrated into Nextcloud, giving more flexibility and versatility to your choice of models to use.

Especially for larger deployments, we have made it possible to run the LLM and other AI operations like Transcription and Context Chat on a separate server, using our new external app ecosystem for one-click, Docker-based deployments. You can also now use a GPU for text generation, transcription and context chat. This means transcribing an hour-long audio file could, on a CPU, take many minutes while taking only seconds on a GPU!

More coming soon

And, of course, this is not all. We have developed an API which can be used by apps like Deck, Calendar or Mail to support Context Chat. This will allow the Assistant to answer questions about your mail, tasks or upcoming appointments! We look forward to these and other apps implementing support for this feature.

Nextcloud Hub 8 – our next version out very soon – will also feature two more app integrations of the Assistant: First, Nextcloud Talk will be able to show you summaries of conversation in Talk rooms, and Nextcloud Mail will introduce email ‘suggested answers’! If you haven’t yet registered for our Nextcloud Hub 8 Launch Event on April 24, this is the time to do so to find out more!

How to get it

So now, you ask: When can I get it? We have good news! Nearly all these features have been backported to Nextcloud Hub 7, meaning they are available in the Nextcloud app store right now. All you need to do is update. If you have not yet tried out the assistant, perhaps this is the time to do it!

To run the AI locally, it’s easiest to use LocalAI. A community container exists for our All-in-one, so users of the AIO can simply go to this page to learn more about adding extra containers and then enable the LocalAI container. Be sure to check out our documentation and ask questions in the forums – you could just start below this post!

IONOS, OVHcloud, plusserver and others bring you…

This brings us to the final piece of the puzzle: For these AI features to work smoothly, you will need some serious hardware. This unfortunately will not be a fun experience on your Raspberry Pi. But! Luckily, a number of businesses have started to provide AI-as-a-Service, running various open source models that Nextcloud supports in a way that you can connect to remotely. While this is great, unfortunately nearly all these companies are American-based, with a few in China. If you live in the USA, that is of course perfect – the data stays in your jurisdiction, and you have a choice of local providers. But for our users in Europe, this is less than ideal. The US jurisdiction unfortunately treats the data of European users with less than ideal respect for privacy, in no small part thanks to the CLOUD act signed into law by the former US president Donald Trump.

But today, we announce that we have been working closely with several major European hosting companies including IONOS, OVHcloud and plusserver to integrate their upcoming AI-as-a-Service solutions. This will make them available to Nextcloud customers and users who wish to take advantage of the advanced AI functionalities in Nextcloud Hub but don’t wish to host AI services themselves. Several Nextcloud customers have expressed interest in these features and are preparing to or in the process of testing them. Here’s what our partners and customers have to say:

OVHcloud is thrilled to collaborate with Nextcloud in delivering state-of-the-art Digital Sovereign AI solutions to our customers. We are aligned with Nextcloud’s commitment to offering secure, privacy-conscious AI functionalities that safeguard training data and adhere strictly to GDPR regulations. We are excited to announce that this integration will become available in Q2 2024, marking a significant milestone in our journey towards responsible AI innovation.

Germain Masse, AI Product Marketing Manager at OVHCloud

We are proud to offer Nextcloud customers a solution that complies with European data protection regulations. Reliable, trustworthy, and local AI services will be key to protecting their digital sovereignty for both the public and private sectors in Europe.

IONOS

plusKI brings cutting edge, open source AI technologies in a compliant and digitally sovereign service to the German market. We are excited to work with Nextcloud to make this available to their customers as back-end to the new generation of the Nextcloud Assistant.

Christian Schmitz, Director Open Source at plusserver

We at SUNET are happy that that Nextcloud Assistant is 100% Free and Open Source, runs on-premise and provides useful features that we hope will benefit our users going forward. We enjoy the very productive collaboration with Nextcloud.

Mike Nordin, Sunet, the Swedish University Computer Network

In the future, we will make AI services available to colleagues in the state administration directly at the workplace. We want to drive the development of digitally sovereign and open solutions in addition to the use of existing AI services such as ChatGPT. Because, the administration of the future will work in an automated, algorithmized, cloudified and data-based way. To make this vision of the future a reality, we must provide the appropriate tools. This also creates value and jobs in our domestic digital economy.

Minister of Digitisation and Head of the State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

US technology firms have a large head start on European companies offering large language models and other AI services to smaller firms and end customers. There is a significant number of offerings either using their own models like OpenAI, or providing one or a choice of open models like Llama, Gemma or Mistral as a service. In Europe, Mistral and Aleph Alpha are still working on offering their own models while only a few large hosting providers are looking to offer various open LLM’s in an AI-as-a-service model.

At the same time, there is a growing demand from our customers and users for European AI services. Running AI locally is expensive, and AI-as-a-Service from foreign tech firms is not a solution for most Nextcloud customers in Europe, given the privacy and sovereignty risks inherent to shipping large amounts of crucial data overseas. For this reason, we have been working with a handful of providers to offer their AI services. To speed up the process, we connected them with potential customers. As you can imagine, offering a service when it is unclear who its customers might be is not easy. But several universities are interested in the ability to outsource some heavy AI operations, so there is now movement towards AI services. This means not only our users, but the wider European ecosystem will be able to benefit from this!

Public availability of the European AI services is expected in the course of spring and summer, with some even aiming for late April/early May!

Thank you!

We are super excited about this release and we’d like to thank everybody who contributed, with testing, reviewing code but also the universities who are willing to test the AI services, and of course OVHcloud, IONOS, plusserver and our other partners who’d like to provide these services!

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Nextcloud Hub 7: advanced search and global out-of-office features

Mikhail Korotaev — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:55:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YohQfObl3I8

Nextcloud Hub 7 announcement

Hello everybody

This year is nearly over and the last months have been busy! Our community, Nextcloud and Frank have been recognized for their accomplishments by the European Software Freedom award and, just last week, the Acteurs du Libre award. Meanwhile, our team keeps growing quickly; the company is on track to grow its customer base by over 60% with more than 5 million new users getting access to Nextcloud this year!

Though this isn’t all the news! Our yearly Nextcloud Conference was a great success and we just published a podcast interview with one of its keynote speakers: privacy lawyer Max Schrems.

In other really big news, open source email giant Roundcube also joined our wonderful Nextcloud community!

Today though, we’re diving into Nextcloud Hub as our 7th Hub release is shared with the world. We’re sure you are super excited to learn about all that is new, so let’s get to it!

Thank you all for your amazing support this year!

The Nextcloud team

Connected, efficient and productive

Today, we’re introducing our most integrated platform yet – Nextcloud Hub 7. Imagine your work space interconnected, with your files seamlessly accessible in Talk, your calendars integrated in Mail and your tasks visible in your Calendar.

Nextcloud is designed as a unified platform, bridging all the functionality you need to get your tasks done. With Hub 7 we improved our Unified Search which finds chat messages, emails, calendar items, documents and even external content like support tickets or memes. You can bring up search wherever you are in Nextcloud.

Another major improvement was done around your out-of-office status. This can now be configured in your availability settings. It is applied not only in an out-of-office email, but also in Calendar (with an automatic out-of-office Calendar item) and in Talk, where others get notified that you’re not around.

Are you the backup for your colleague that is on vacation? Covering for them has never been so easy. Find all items you two share in their profile via Contacts: files, tasks, events, emails, and more.

From new integration features to AI enhancements and a completely rewritten Files app, Hub 7 delivers the solutions you need to foster efficiency, collaboration and productivity. Read on to discover how you can transform your work through Nextcloud Hub 7.

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Search everywhere with Unified Search

Unified Search brings items from all core apps and even external locations at your fingertips. Now you can find every file, task, or communication related to your inquiry through a single search box with convenient filtering at your disposal — all in one window.

Unified Search is accessible through the magnifier icon on the toolbar’s top right corner. When searching for a popular item, it helps you stay in focused with adjustable date range. Filter search by people to find items belonging to selected authors.

Explore all of Hub…

Search and preview any items In Hub. Find apps and their contents, use multiple filters to narrow down or expand your search the way you need.

Where you can search

German state & Nextcloud build digitally sovereign AI for public sector

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:02:34 +0000

Nextcloud’s momentum continues strongly after last weekend’s announcement of the first private AI assistant embedded in its collaboration platform, with a first significant partnership announcement. As covered in the prominent German public sector-focused Tagesspiegel newsletter, Minister of Digitisation and Head of the State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter, and Nextcloud Founder and CEO Frank Karlitschek shook hands last Tuesday, on a collaboration to build digitally sovereign AI. As part of the AI strategy of the German state, the collaboration will create a generative language model for the state administration that is adapted to the specifics of administrative texts.

Minister of Digitisation and Head of the State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter and Nextcloud founder and CEO Frank Karlitschek shake hands after meeting to discuss collaboration on AI development.
Photo credit: Staatskanzlei SH

Opportunities and risks around AI

As Margrethe Vestager aptly remarked, “With artificial intelligence, trust is a must, not a nice-to-have.” The evaluation of AI should focus not only on its technology but also on its societal and environmental benefits.

The public sector across the EU faces questions around AI with regard to digital sovereignty and data leaks. The latest technologies enable AI’s to access troves of documents and then answer questions from them or generate content out of them. These functions would allow great advances in the speed of handling bureaucratic processes, but current solutions require large swaths of data to be handed over to third-party AI providers. This creates unacceptable risks for the digital sovereignty and security of government data. A digitally sovereign AI is needed.

AI strategy and Nextcloud at Schleswig-Holstein

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has made a strategic bet on Nextcloud’s on-premises content collaboration platform as part of its focus on digital sovereignty. The latest developments by Nextcloud in the area of ethical AI align strongly with the state’s commitment to digitization of its services. As one of the most innovative states in Germany, it is aiming to dramatically accelerate its bureaucratic processes so that, for example, the approval process for wind turbines or other economic developments can move forward much faster.

In the future, we will make AI services available to colleagues in the state administration directly at the workplace. We want to drive the development of digitally sovereign and open solutions in addition to the use of existing AI services such as ChatGPT. Because, the administration of the future will work in an automated, algortihmized, cloudified and data-based way. To make this vision of the future a reality, we must provide the appropriate tools. This also creates value and jobs in our domestic digital economy.

Minister of Digitisation and Head of the State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter

The plans: digitally sovereign AI

As the Minister points out, AI systems like ChatGPT are already integrated in Nextcloud and used at the state. For some limited use cases, these can be useful.

But Nextcloud has also integrated several open source large language models that can be run locally. These were released as part of Hub 6 last weekend, providing an integrated, private AI Assistant that can summarize, translate, or reword texts, summarize email threads, transcribe video calls, create project plans and so on. Hundreds of organizations in the private and public sectors are expected to deploy these in the coming months.

The next step for Nextcloud will be to develop large language models that can help in specific domains. This way, the Nextcloud AI Assistant will be able to help write specific government documents, answer questions about state processes, and so on, in the style and language used in the government.

Based on Nextcloud Hub, the State Chancellery will expand its current approach to providing artificial intelligence-based services at the workplace. Embedded in the state government’s AI strategy, Nextcloud and the State Chancellery will create a generative language model for the state administration that is adapted to the specifics of administrative texts. For this purpose, the state of Schleswig-Holstein will make anonymized training data available. The model will be available as Open Source.

Schleswig-Holstein and Nextcloud recognize that Europe needs reliable AI technology that protects Europe’s economic and digital sovereignty. Our strategic initiative will lead to the first digitally sovereign AI that can deliver insights based on sensitive government data, without the risk of third-party access.

Frank Karlitschek, Founder and CEO of Nextcloud

The future

The use of AI in the public sector comes with strict privacy, security, and digital sovereignty requirements. Together with Schleswig-Holstein, Nextcloud will develop local, private, digitally sovereign AI technology that can deliver on these needs, 100% open source and able to run locally.

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Nextcloud Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant

Mikaela Schneider — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:45:00 +0000

Our latest release supports a healthy meeting culture, introduces the Nextcloud Assistant and emphasizes user-centric design, transparency and user control.

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Thank you to our community!

Nextcloud would not be the same without our dedicated, encouraging community. A huge thank you to the thousands of community members for making this release the best it can be and continuing to show your talents and passion for Nextcloud.

To the millions of home users and the tens of thousands of companies, government entities, public organizations, schools and universities that have used Nextcloud to regain control over their data, thank you for trusting us as your digital workspace and collaboration platform. We hope you enjoy all this new release has to offer.

Build a healthy meeting culture with Nextcloud

An enormous part of our work life remains online today making it important to foster a healthy environment around it. Over are the days where the primary focus is supercharging productivity. What matters now is you and your well-being. Nextcloud has honed in on what makes a healthy online culture – from meetings to file storage. This release brings you accessible, helpful and powerful tools that allow your work life to be less stressful, cluttered and overwhelming in Nextcloud Hub.

With Nextcloud Hub 6, there are countless ways to support your mental health and keep a healthy work-life balance. Read on to hear what we did in Hub 6 to help you be more productive in a sustainable way!

Start fresh every day

When you start your day with Nextcloud, you first open your dashboard. It’s filled with all the highlights you need: see who’s messaged you, the files you recently worked on and important emails, allowing you to jump right back in.

Remind me… later please!

An important aspect of a healthy work life is eliminating distractions to avoid feeling overwhelmed. To help with this, we introduced a “remind me” feature in a few places:

Set a reminder in Talk

Set a reminder on a file or folder

Snooze emails

(they will return to your inbox after the snooze period is over)

Set a reminder on Talk messages

Talking time collected

Do you have a colleague that takes over the whole call, leaving no one else the chance to speak? Our new talking time feature shows how long participants speak during a call. We enabled this so people can be conscious of their own talking time, while giving others the opportunity to speak more in calls. We hope this little piece of social engineering makes a difference in your next call!

60-minute call popup

That’s a wrap! Nextcloud Talk now provides a warning message once your meeting reaches 1 hour. In an effort to avoid endless meetings and have a cap on your calls, this feature may be particularly helpful in using your time more efficiently.

Less switching.. use the Smart Picker

When you need a piece of information or data, you often have to switch to another app or website. This not only takes time, but also energy. We have a solution: the Smart Picker lets you pull in information from various sources while staying in the app you’re working.

For example, if you’re in a call and want to remember a new task you’ve just been given, you can use the Smart Picker to create a new Deck card for you – right in the chat! You avoid switching to another app – in this case Deck – and remain focused in your current context. Or, you remember a nice YouTube video you want to share – use the Smart Picker! Share a ticket, link to a file or a chat room – we got you covered.

There introduce some new Smart Pickers in Hub 6, like the super cool Sketch Picker which lets you draw on an image or blank canvas. There are a few more new Smart Pickers – read on to find out which ones!

Learn more about the Smart Picker

Notifications minimized

Notifications can really pull you out of focus. To be mindful about the attention of others, you can send a chat message ‘silently’ without causing notifications to others in a room, and you can even silently start a call which doesn’t ring everyone’s phone! Also, you can:

Set your status to Do-Not-Disturb mode. For example, you could put your status to “out for lunch” if you’re away from your desk. If you’re in a call, Nextcloud automatically updates your status so colleagues see you are busy.

Set your working hours and enable Do-Not-Disturb mode. This means you won’t get notifications while someone is active in a Talk conversation outside your preferred working hours or time zone.

Gifs are cool, but can be distracting. Hide gifs sent in a Talk chat message to create a clearer space.

Efficiency administered

Making life easier, saving you time – much of Nextcloud is designed to do that.

Click on someone’s avatar anywhere in Nextcloud – even in Files or Deck – to start a chat, send a mail and more.

Book a meeting with someone from their profile – you don’t even need to open Calendar.

Instead of asking your whole team a question in a chat, you could speed up the process (and limit extra notifications) by just starting a quick poll!

See when someone’s typing in a chat and a read status – to know a colleague is engaged or not as to avoid extra explanations.

If the conversation has too many people you can use break-out rooms to split up in smaller groups.

Benefits of a Single Platform:

Seamless integration

Create a task or calendar item from an email

Hundreds more!

AI in Nextcloud Hub 6

AI features in Nextcloud already available in Hub 5

Artificial Intelligence is still quite ‘hot’. There’s hype, but also substance – there are a ton of ways in which AI features can help you get work done faster and easier. Nextcloud comes with tons of smaller and larger AI features, from a smart Mail inbox that shows you only relevant emails, to face recognition so you can find photos of a person across your entire collection.

But, AI also has issues. From its carbon footprint and issues with bias to data leaks and more existential risks, we totally get it when the term ‘AI’ doesn’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy!

For that reason, our approach to AI is built on flexibility, choice and especially transparency. Nextcloud Hub is the only self-hosted Content Collaboration Platform to provide AI features in an ethical and secure way!

Flexibility

Users have the flexibility to experiment with and try out our AI features, with a wide range of options. We offer self-hosted solutions like image generation with an on-premises StableDiffusion AI besides the integration of an external service from Dall-E. We offer self-trained voice recognition and translation services you can run on your own server as well as integrations from external services like DeepL for translations or ChatGPT for text generation.

Choice

The power rests in users to choose what type of AI features they want or choose to not use any at all. If at any point you decide you don’t want to use an AI feature anymore, you always have the option to uninstall it. By default, these functions are opt-in.

Transparency

To provide full transparency, we have created the Ethical AI Rating which rates every AI feature based on the risk you take with your data and its ethical implications.

You can choose how you want to provide an AI feature – and we made sure there’s an on-premises alternative for every ability we offer. Your Nextcloud – your data – your choice.

Want to learn more about what options we provide, how to install a feature or find its rating? We have an earlier blog covering just that!

All AI Features

Introducing the Nextcloud Assistant

Tons of companies are introducing text generation features courtesy of “large language models”. Typically, they just send your data to OpenAI or another big tech firm. We did offer a similar integration, but you know that’s not our way. So, we made a promise. We said we’d work on providing you these abilities, WITHOUT data leaks. And, today, just 3 months later, we deliver.

And, as always, we didn’t just replace the feature we had, but we did one better!

The on-premise Nextcloud AI Assistant is here! You can now call upon your Nextcloud Assistant at anytime, anywhere to assist you with your tasks. And, because we believe this can be so helpful, we integrated it in a very powerful way in Nextcloud.

As a start, you have the Assistant everywhere, with the icon in the top-right, as you can see in the animation above.

Next, we integrated the Assistant specifically in a few places where it would be super helpful.

Your Assistant with Text

First, we integrated the Assistant in Nextcloud Text. Select some pagragraphs and have the Assistant summarize, generate a headline, re-word or translate it! Just click on the star icon on the right for a pop-up with all the options to get the results you want.

Nextcloud Assistant in Text

Assistant in Mail

Do you have email threads that are way too long? We often find ourselves scrolling through them to find what someone said or refer back to something. With Nextcloud Assistant, you can now have your email thread summarized for you!

Of course you can also have text generated for you in Mail too, so you don’t need to come up with every subject line and content to send out.

And with all these, your AI can run locally meaning users can access the full power of large language models without having to worry about data leaks.

Assistant in Talk

Last but not least, the Nextcloud Assistant is coming to Talk! You’ll be able to ask it questions during your conversation(s), getting suggestions on content, headlines and more in a super easy way. This Talk bot should be available a few weeks from now.

100% on your server, without any leaks

The Nextcloud Assistant is the only integrated AI assistant in any collaboration platform that won’t leak data or use your activities to train a new AI. If you work at a company and are worried your competitor might find out about your new strategies and plans because the Zoom call you did was used to train an AI – this can’t happen with Nextcloud.

Keeping your data yours is in our DNA, and we’re definitely proud of this industry-first!

Nextcloud Files

Nextcloud Files is the premier file sync & share solution

Files is the core of Nextcloud Hub. It’s where you access and share your files all in one place. In this release, Files received improvements in two of its core functions: accessing and sharing.

Selecting files

Given Nextcloud Hub is a single platform that combines Talk, Office and Groupware functions in one interface, having everything you need all in one place makes it easy to achieve a cohesive workflow. Our new File Picker Selection Dialogue is the perfect example – in a chat, document or email you can easily select a file to share, insert, attach or link! The new file selection dialog has a quick filter on top, remembers your last sorting method, shows you recent files and favorites and is overall super easy to navigate.

In chat

In a chat, select ‘share from Nextcloud’ and a pop-up will appear with all your files. Easily share a file you’ve recently worked on or one you’ve favorited. The new dialog remembers sort order and the last file location making it so much more convenient to use.

Advanced file versioning

We’re constantly making edits to our documents and the more the edits, the more versions there are. Now, it’s easy to see older versions without having to download them: just click them and they load immediately. Even better, we made it possible to compare two versions with side-by side viewing. Notice the changes made in a snap, rename the version and don’t lose track of your file’s history again.

Simpler sharing

We always get a ton of feedback on Nextcloud. We got input from the millions of users at Magentacloud about our sharing dialog, and worked on improving the flow.

Now when you want to share a file, you enter the recipient’s name or email. Then, you set settings like a password and expiration date, or the note to the recipient – before you finally hit the share.

We also simplified the flow of sharing a public link. You can now set multiple options without having to re-open the menu.

Nextcloud Talk

Nextcloud Talk is the best chat and video communication tool that keeps your data yours!

Nextcloud’s video conferencing and chat platform is bringing some snazzy new features to the table! Inspired by on our goal of helping you maintain a healthy meeting culture, many of these features help to reduce work stress and create a more positive virtual environment. We already mentioned the 1-hour call pop-up and the speaking time features, to help keep meetings in check. What else does Nextcloud Talk offer you in this release?

Group system message

If you’re hosting or are part of a call with many participants, you’re used to seeing everyone’s name pop up one after the other stating that they joined the call. To reduce the flow of messages so you can focus on what matters, the call will now only state a few names and the rest as “others joined the call.” It’s sometimes the small things that make our time online stress-free and simplistic.

Conversation filters

Too many chats open? In your chat bar on the left, you’ll see a new filter icon. Here, you can filter unread mentions – when you’re tagged in a chat – or any unread messages that you haven’t gotten to yet. This helpful feature acts as a reminder to get back to someone that needs your assistance, without you needing to remember.

Text formatting in chats

Want your chat conversation to be more structured and organized? It’s now possible to use basic formatting in chat. Using markdown, try out **bold**, *italics*, –~~strike-through~~-, # headings, * bullet lists, “`code“` and more!

Task bot

During a conversation, you may want to write down a note or future task for a teammate. It’s now super simple: just type the note or future task in the chat with ‘todo’ or ‘task’ in front and at the end of the call they’ll all be summarized for you in a bullet list. Talk about working efficiency!

Find open conversations

If you haven’t joined a chat, you won’t see it. That’s why we’ve now created a search bar for you to find any available, open chat room easily. You can find the search bar in the left sidebar of Talk. This behavior keeps your interface clean of unneeded distractions that may be unimportant to your current work.

Nextcloud Office

Nextcloud Office brings collaboration to a whole new level, with several new features

Nextcloud Office is more than creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Our Office stack also consists off:

Tables

The impressive Microsoft SharePoint Lists or Airtables alternative

Collectives

The knowledge management space for your organization

Notes

The ideal note-taking app with simple features and markdown

Text

The editor extraordinaire integrated in Nextcloud Deck, Files, Collectives and Notes

With this release, we’ve got tons of improvements and new features for all corners of your office. Read on to learn about them!

What’s new in Nextcloud Tables?

Nextcloud Tables helps businesses and organizations manage their structured data. With Tables, you can manage your employees’ time off, customer data, health tracking and much more.

We developed Tables in response to requests from customers, especially in the Government sector, who were not happy that some prominent tech companies offering similar functionality are forcing their customers to the cloud. Many governments take digital sovereignty serious, and being completely dependent on the whims of some foreign cloud firm is of course not acceptable.

In this release, we’ve made key improvements to make it an even more powerful tool.

Selective viewing and filtering – Finally, Tables introduces a very powerful feature: views. You can create any number of views on a table, and share them with different people or groups with different access permissions. This way, for example, the employees can enter a vacation request and only see their own requests and their status, the manager can only see and approve requests from members of their team and HR has a full overview of all vacations.

Employee – Requests vacation

Manager – Reviews/Approves vacation

HR personnel – Tracks vacation

The advanced filters make it possible for employees to only see the status of their own vacation request, while the HR manager has access to everything. That way, the information in the Table stays confidential while simultaneously having one space to manage all the separate processes.

Watch the video below to see these new features in action!

Share a view with the Smart Picker – With the Smart Picker, you can now can insert an interactive table or a view of a table in a document.

The Smart Picker can be enabled with a slash (/) in a Talk chat, Text document, Deck card, Collective, Notes and more. Some apps like Mail and Nextcloud Office have a menu item or a button to insert content from the Smart Picker.

Link column type – From within Tables, it is also now possible to search for and link to any type of content supported in Nextcloud search. This list goes on – chat rooms and messages, calendars and calendar items, YouTube videos, GitHub tickets, locations, and much more.

New in Collectives

Collectives is a convenient place to store and manage knowledge. It’s the knowledge base for your business where all the important information and know-how is. The new features include:

New landing pages!

For each new Collective you make, there will be a dedicated landing page for it. See pages you’ve recently worked on to jump right back to where you left off. See who’s part of the Collective, and more!

Easier to manage members

A pop-up now appears when you want to add, view or remove members in your Collective

Restore pages again!

Phew! If you accidentally delete a page you’ve been working on for hours, you can easily restore it

Create diagrams with Mermaid

Nextcloud now has powerful support for creating diagrams with a text-based syntax called Mermaid. In Nextcloud Text – which is the primary text support for Nextcloud Office, Deck, Collectives and some other apps – can now use Mermaid to produce simple, visually appealing and helpful diagrams with code!

There’s no better way to share an idea or workflow than in visual form with easily identifiable shapes, lines and text boxes.

Add-ons to the Smart Picker

Earlier this year, we introduced the Smart Picker – a tool to quickly insert content into a chat, document, task or email. New Smart Picker integrations regularly appear in our App Store and we wanted to highlight a few additions:

Draw a sketch! – Can’t put it into words? Sketch it out instead! In a Nextcloud Talk chat, activate the Smart Picker with a slash (/) to get started. Also available in Office, Deck, Notes, Collectives.

Formatting shortcuts – Do you sometimes forget the shortcuts or markdown codes for bold, italics or headings? Enable the Smart Picker and all these are just a slash (/) away!

Nextcloud Groupware

Nextcloud Groupware consists of Mail, Calendar and Contacts

Nextcloud Groupware, consisting of Calendar, Mail, Contacts and Deck, is a completely integrated client and the cornerstone of productivity. In the Hub 6 release, we’ve focused on automation of tasks with other clients like Talk to facilitate seamless collaboration.

Calendar

For instance, in Calendar, we’ve improved the one-step process to set up a remote meeting. As you can watch in the video, simply create a meeting in Calendar and click ‘create a Talk room.’ Not only does this automatically create a Talk room with the same name from the Calendar meeting! We now also set the description, and the link to the Talk room will be in the Location and clickable in your Calendar. We also add the participants to the Talk room, so when the meeting starts, they will get a notification – if they hadn’t seen it from their calendar. In just one motion, you’ve created a Calendar event, invited the team and organized and set up a meeting location.

Simple and stress-free!

Mail

In Mail, we bring you more automation so you don’t have to think about the small things. For example, spam mail will be marked automatically and moved to the spam folder, so you don’t get distracted by junk mail. Also, old mail that you’ve already thrown away in the trash will be auto-deleted. Just set up how many days you’d prefer so unwanted mail will be out of sight and out of mind. It’s also easy to forget about your running storage quota, so we now offer a quota depletion warning so you can take care of it on time.

Deck

Are you ever in a meeting and need to note down a new task for later? With the new Deck Card Picker, you can create a new Deck card directly in Talk without ever leaving your conversation. Just type a slash (/) in the chat box to activate the Deck Card Picker and you’ll be able to make your card – and even select the board or list it’s in. This new feature is an excellent example of how Nextcloud as a single, integrated platform can make your work life so much more efficient.

The Deck Card Picker works in Talk, Office, Notes and more so wherever you are in Nextcloud, you can create tasks and get them done faster. See the video below how the Deck Card Picker works in Nextcloud Talk!

For Developers: build apps in your favorite language!

We are happy to announce that all core apps are now fully documented with OpenAPI by OCS (Open Collaboration Services). With OCS, apps and integrations can be developed in other languages and are super stable. A great benefit of OpenAPI is that it can help you automatically generate code to help integrate the API into applications.

To make it even easier, we introduced the OCS Viewer app. With this app you can, in a super intuitive way, browse our API, try out a request with various parameters, and see the result or grab pieces of code that can request certain data or perform various operations against a Nextcloud server. For example, upload files, view a folder listing, create or modify a share, and so on. Just copy-paste in your app, whether you write in Python, Go or OCaml.

If you develop a server app and want YOUR app API to also be nicely documented through OpenAPI, we have good news: there’s a tutorial on our developer site now!

We also write 4 other, new tutorials, with tons of more advanced app development information, tips on debugging issues and much more.

We very much look forward to the apps you’ll built!

But, there is more. Something much BIGGER!

No more “just PHP”!

For a long time, PHP has been the only language you can use to have direct access to the Nextcloud code and develop apps. While PHP certainly scales well, it isn’t for everyone. Everybody has their favorite language, and we thought it was time to bring you some good news: In Hub 6, we are excited to announce that developers can now write server apps in other languages other than PHP!

Yes, that means you can use pretty much any programming language you like! To kickstart development, we’ve built a Python library and two example apps using Python. But you can use any language you like, of course!

These new apps will be independent from the Nextcloud core, by interacting with the Nextcloud through the Open Collaboration Services API. This brings 4 benefits:

Having a clear separation between apps and the Nextcloud core clients avoids any issues in the core of Nextcloud. For example, if there’s a bug in a new app, it won’t cause any damage to the rest of Nextcloud.

As we maintain these API’s independently, we can commit to keeping them stable for many, many years!

It’s also easier to distribute compute. For example, you could create a separate node in the server network that runs Nextcloud with special hardware for heavy AI operations.

Lastly, we have control over what data apps have access to, ensuring the utmost security.

With this new ecosystem, we hope it makes developing for Nextcloud more accessible for everyone and empowers user choice. Whichever programming language you prefer, whether it be for accessibility, stability or security reasons, we hope this opens major doors for you and your future contributions to Nextcloud!

Develop for Nextcloud

New integrations

Nextcloud Hub is a powerful application platform, closely integrating with tons of third party applications and tools. Take a look at what’s new!

Pexip

Manage and access Pexip calls from within Talk, Calendar, Mail and more
Activate with the Smart Picker to use anytime

Install the app

Slack

Share Nextcloud Files directly to a Slack chat room
Keep your files safe by storing them in Nextcloud and conveniently sharing to Slack

Install the app

The bots are coming!

Bots are an excellent way to connect various services and make life easier. They can take information from a monitoring service, an issue tracker or other applications and allow users to interact in chat. In Nextcloud Talk, we now support bots using web hooks which opens the door for greater chat integrations between Nextcloud and other tools.

What bots do we have so far?

Call Summary bot – At the end of a Talk call, this bot will compile all tasks that were written in the chat by participants and make a call summary.

Welcome bot in Talk – The Welcome bot, written in golang, responds to “Good morning” and “Hello” by welcoming new attendees into a Talk room. This bot was written as a basis for you to create your own bot.

Mobile/Desktop Clients: New features!

Nextcloud is available on Android and iOS, to make storing and sharing files from documents to images easy to manage on the go.

Image editing – on the go

Now it’s easy to edit images – wherever you are! Introducing image editing operations for Android and iOS. Rotate, resize, add color effects and so much more to any image!

Other new features & improvements:

Upload booster for S3. Operations have been sped up (move, upload, copy, rename) on S3 based storage by up to 10x!

Automatic locking for Office files while they are being edited on the Desktop

Store E2EE (End-to-End Encryption) key on hardware token

Enhanced image preview view

View location and other meta data of photos

Tighter integration on apps within Nextcloud ecosystem

How to install Hub 6

Ready to foster a healthy meeting culture in Nextcloud? Start developing apps in Python? Then we invite you to install Hub 6! For those new to Nextcloud, let’s make sure you know how to install it.

In general, we offer Hub 6 for download right away. Existing users will only be offered the new version in some time, as we do staged roll-outs. It can take 6-8 weeks, but you can always manually get the latest and greatest! See below for how:

Users of the Snap can switch to the testing channels to get the latest version. If you installed Nextcloud through the zip or tarball, you can switch the release channel to Beta to receive the latest version asap.

Note: Your Nextcloud caches the results coming from our updater server, so it can take a bit for the new version to show up and you likely have to refresh the page, wait a bit and do that again. Don’t forget to switch back to stable after you updated to Hub 6!

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Introducing Hub 5: first to deliver self-hosted AI-powered digital workspace

Mikaela Schneider — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:35:00 +0000

Our mission is to help individuals, businesses and organizations achieve digital sovereignty and regain control over their data. Nextcloud Hub 5 marks a massive step forward towards achieving this mission, putting the power of AI into your hands – in a way that keeps you in control.

New release, new possibilities

Hub 5 builds on all the improvements we introduced earlier this year, including the Smart Picker and it’s AI integrations, the cool new Nextcloud Tables app and more. Read on or watch our launch video to discover what’s new!

1st self-hosted AI-powered digital workspace

The recent developments in AI show a huge promise to boost our productivity. Yet companies and governments all over the globe are worried about the risks, many blocking the use of these tools by their employees or looking into strict rules around it. Risk of data leaks, fake news and copyright infringements pose a real challenge.

Nextcloud is the first to offer an AI-integrated digital workspace that can run on your own server and give transparency about training model and data through our Ethical AI initiative.

While AI offers incredible opportunities to improve the productivity of employees, the risks are equally large. I’m extremely proud that Nextcloud is the first in the industry to offer these capabilities without compromising the security and confidentiality of sensitive data.

Frank Karlitschek

CEO at Nextcloud

AI features and integrations

Our AI features are easy to use. Many work with our Smart Picker which is seamlessly integrated in all major apps. They’re accessible through the menu or by the click of a slash (/). And the best part: the AI features run on your server, not leaking any data to a third party! The new AI features are optional and can be installed from the app store. We updated and improved existing AI features and added some new ones. A quick list:

Smart Inbox in Mail and Related Resources

Face and object recognition in Nextcloud Photos

Background images in addition to background blurring in Nextcloud Talk

Image generation based on a prompt

Translation with Nextcloud Translate, integrated in Nextcloud Talk and Nextcloud Text to translate your chat messages and text documents

Nextcloud Dictation for voice recognition integrated across Nextcloud Hub

Call transcripts of recorded video calls

These integrations are running entirely on the Nextcloud server and are completely optional. We continue to develop on-premises alternatives for other AI features, with further updates expected later this year.

For those looking to use external, online AI services, you can install apps from our app store that offer optional translation through Deepl and ChatGPT, DALL-E for image generation and ChatGPT for text generation.

Click below to watch a video of some of these AI features in action!

Note: All AI features are optional and can be installed or not just like any other app.

If you’d like to learn more about our ethical standards around dealing with AI features, check out our blog on our Ethical AI initiative.

Webinar about Hub 5 – join us!

Join our Marketing Director – Jos Poortvliet as he provides insights on how Nextcloud Hub 5 can revolutionize the way you work and collaborate. Don’t miss this opportunity to ask questions in real time and gain a comprehensive overview of Nextcloud Hub 5. Unlock the potential of a self-hosted AI-powered digital workspace for your organization!

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A collaboration platform designed for you

We’ve built Nextcloud so you can make it your own, to fix your needs.

We focus on 4 design principles to make that happen.

Focus on content

Your data is at the center of everything. Nextcloud’s design allows you to focus on your work with all you need at your fingertips

Easy to use

Nextcloud can be configured to automate tasks and every product is integrated, so we get out of your way

Accessibility

Since we want everyone to be able to use Nextcloud, we offer accessibility options like supporting a screenreader and font preferences

Personalization

Make Nextcloud a home for your data and customize it however you like with backgrounds

We recently introduced some new backgrounds to Nextcloud Hub. For the next release, we’d like to solicit your input on what would be the best wallpaper to use! So get involved!

Submit background here

Watch our video on Design in Nextcloud Hub 5

New features, updates, and improvements in Nextcloud Hub 5

Over the last months, we’ve worked to add a series of improvements for teams that work together using Nextcloud. Many of you use Nextcloud as a digital workspace and this is exactly where we put our efforts.

Read on to discover the new features in Nextcloud Files, Talk, Office and Groupware that will help you and your team be more productive than ever!

Nextcloud Files

Nextcloud Files is the premier file sync & share solution

Nextcloud Files is the best self-hosted file sync & share solution offering you access anytime, anywhere to your files, to be shared, synced, searched and managed by you.

Files is also the core of Nextcloud Hub, our integrated single platform solution which optimizes the flow of collaboration and puts you in control. In our last release, we introduced several new features like advanced versioning so you can identify and name older versions of a file, security improvements including File Drop with E2EE and much more. This release, we focused on online collaboration.

Managing a collaboration workspace

If you start a project at your university, municipality, business or charity, a first step is to assemble a team and create some space to work in. To help you do that, we put together two popular collaboration tools: Circles and Groupfolders. Let’s walk through this!

In Nextcloud, the project manager user would go to their Contacts and create a new Circle, a custom group. Next, they would add new members, write a description for the project and set permissions for instance, ‘members need to accept an invitation’ to be added to the Circle. The project manager then asks the admin to create a Groupfolder with some assigned storage space for their Circle.

So a Circle is a custom group. Any user can create them, adding members or handling permissions. They can be open, visible on the server – or invite-only. All without needing an admin.

A Groupfolder, as the name implies, is simply a folder owned by a group instead of an individual. It has its own storage quota and in Hub 5, group folders can be accessed from the side bar in Files and are easy to find in the mobile apps as well.

With a Groupfolder assigned to a Circle, you have your user-managed digital workspace!

Managing your digital workspace

We made a series of improvements to make it easier to find and manage your digital workspace. You might know you can put information on top – a great way to make sure everybody knows what to do, where and when. With the Smart Picker you can super easily link to other resources like Deck boards or your related knowledge base.

Related Resources

We’ve improved our Related Resources feature, making it easier to find other things shared with the same team. If you created a workspace as a Circle with a Groupfolder, you’ll find Deck boards, Talk rooms and other files and folders shared with the same Circle in the Related Resources section.

Tagging files – supercharged

If you love organization, then you’ll love our tagging feature. You can create and set tags to any file, which in Hub 5 show up in the normal Files view. Similar to how you can set tags in Nextcloud Deck, files can be organized by subject, project name etc. Tags are also available now on the mobile apps, easily visible and configurable!

Automate work with tags

Tags are more than just a handy tool to find your files. A while series of actions can be automated based on tags and other factors. Say, you want a chat message posted when a file in a specific folder is changed? You want to turn files with a certain tag to be turned into a PDF? Can be done!

Secure your data

There is one more thing where tags can help: protecting your files. You can use tags and other factors like who owns the file or where it is accessed from to create policies that result in limiting access to files when the access does not fit with the rules that are set. Or, instead of blocking access, you can enforce watermarks on documents.

As manually tagging files with sensitive data is error-prone, so we are introducing a way to automatically tag file based on their content: Files Classification. An administrator can define what sensitive data it should look for, say, credit card data or bank account details. And when found, a pre-defined tag gets set on the file.

Together, these features allow Nextcloud to be used in organizations that deal with security classifications like VS-NfD in Germany and similar ones in other countries.

Updates in Clients

iOS

Files in iOS has gotten several improvements including a new video and audio viewer to maximize your streaming capabilities.

Play movie by URL

Group folders

Play movie by file

Play movie by URL: Play a video directly through a URL

Support for Group folders which can be seen in the ‘More’ tab

Play movie by file: Watch any video type including MKV / AVI videos and more – find a video on any cloud through Nextcloud

Android

Similarly, the Android app now supports group folders, tagging and brings a new and improved file view for all your folders and files. Take a look below!

Detailed view of file

Detail view of folders

Tags on files

See the activity and sharing options for any file in the new detailed view

View all your folders in the new detailed view as well

Set tags to any of your files or folders to better organize your work

Desktop client

The Desktop Client introduces automated file locking, where it will locally locks files that are open on the server to avoid editing conflicts. When the server app stops editing the file, it is unlocked again. There are also a lot of UI improvements, like the addition of some share settings (hide download, upload only and more) and a number of performance improvements.

File drop and sharing for End-to-end Encryption in all clients

These client improvements are all in addition to the recent introduction of support for sharing and file-drop that was added to our End-to-end Encryption. From all clients you can now share end-to-end encrypted files to others in your organization, and you can share a file-drop link to an end-to-end encrypted folder where eternal people can drop files that will be encrypted right away.

Tables adds advanced column handling and search

The push of big tech companies towards the cloud leaves many organizations stranded without a secure, on-premises solution for their internal and sensitive data. These developments around SharePoint in particular have caused Nextcloud customers and prospects to request some additional capabilities to facilitate migration. Nextcloud Tables is designed to empower users managing structured data, simplifying many processes in the organization.

The new release introduces a series of UI and feature improvements. Some include improved column selection and redesigned table and column dialogs, front-end sorting, filtering and search and the integration of rich text fields for comments. Advanced CSV and XLS import as well as API access to tables makes it easier to get data into Tables and manipulate it from other applications.

See how easy it is to import a table – even if it has a row extra!

Outlook and Teams integrations

Together with our partner Sendent, we continue to work to improve the integration with Microsoft environments. Three big updates are coming:

a rewritten Outlook integration, bringing with it Mac OS and Outlook web interface support

A Exchange connector which can sync your calendars and contacts between Outlook and Nextcloud

Microsoft Teams integration, making it easy to share from Nextcloud in a Teams chat

You can learn more about these in the dedicated blog we published today.

Nextcloud Talk

Nextcloud Talk is the best communication tool with chat or by video call

What’s new in Nextcloud Talk? Whether you’re communicating via chat or by video call, there’s a ton of new features that will improve communication and collaborating in Talk.

In chat

Malik is typing…

Now see who is typing when in a chat! In order to make collaboration stronger, we need to be able to work with colleagues in real-time – as if they were sitting right next to us. This feature can be turned on/off in the Talk settings (bottom left corner of your Nextcloud).

Group chat icon

Easily identify and personalize your favorite chat groups by setting an image or avatar to the icon!

@Team Project

Mention a group chat in your chat – for instance, @Team Project – so you can quickly notify a whole group.

Instant message translation

Do you work in an environment where communication is in your 2nd or 3rd language? Then this feature may be useful for you! If you set up a translation provider app on your Nextcloud instance, this feature can be enabled. We provide an AI translation service app that runs fully on your server.

In video

Virtual background images

Set a custom background image in your next video call! Choose from a set of default backgrounds, the blur effect or add your own! Background images seamlessly set the mood of a video call all while enabling privacy so your personal life isn’t exposed.

Calls reactions

React during video calls with an emoji! Sometimes it’s easier to express excitement or show your thanks with an emoji reaction instead of interrupting the call.

Transcriptions for call recordings

If you install a transcription provider app, your call recordings can be automatically transcribed through the Speech-to-Text feature. This can be done using 100% on-premises AI, so no data leaves your server!

When mentioning a colleague, perhaps the other team members don’t know them. Don’t sweat it: you can use the Smart Picker to link to their profile! Easy peasy.

Nextcloud Office

Nextcloud Office brings collaboration to a whole new level, with several new features

Nextcloud Office is more than creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Our Office team also maintains the brand new Nextcloud Tables – the impressive SharePoint Lists or Airtables alternative. Nextcloud Collectives – the knowledge management space is also part of Office, as are Notes – the ideal note-taking app we now ship with Nextcloud and Text – the editor extraordinaire integrated in Nextcloud Deck, Collectives and Notes! With this release, we’ve got tons of improvements and new features for all aspects of Office. Read on to learn about them!

Mentioning in a document

Let’s say you’re getting ready for an important product launch at your company. You’ve written up a meeting agenda for your team to inform all team members about the new product features, timeline, etc. You have a virtual meeting on Talk, and then afterward want to share the agenda notes with each team member in real-time, so you tag them in the document. Instead of opening up Mail to send each team member an email with the agenda notes in an attachment, you just notify them directly in the document. It saves time and hassle, and provokes stronger team collaboration.

Beyond mentioning a colleague, you can now also easily insert a link to a team member using the Smart Picker. This works in Office – but also in Talk, Text and all other apps that support the Smart Picker! See how easy the Smart Picker is to use below.

Office templates

Need a quick, go-to template? We’ve got you covered with brand new document templates! Here’s some examples:

Photo book, Invoice, Letter, Resume, Party invitation and much more

In the case of the previous example, you could create a template for future product launch agendas, so next time the launch preparation will seem like a breeze and be much more efficient.

Find and deep link

This release of Nextcloud Office comes with an easy way to browse large, complicated documents: a navigation sidebar. There you can see the structure based on the headings, but also objects like tables and images.

What if you want to save your colleagues the trouble of finding such a section in a document, even with the new navigation sidebar? Why not link directly to it! A new Smart Picker lets you link directly to such sections in an Office document and is super easy to use.

This release also introduces Dark Mode, and improved recently added features like the Zotero citations management. And as usual, many updates were made to improve performance and document compatibility.

Document section Smart Picker

navigation sidebar

Dark mode in action

Nextcloud Text with self-hosted translation feature

Nextcloud Text is an app that delivers simple writing functions for everyday use. Text is integrated within Nextcloud Deck cards, Collectives and Notes. In this release, there have been improvements in syncing robustness and performance. The most prominent new feature is Nextcloud Translate which allows on-the-fly translating of text within the editor without leaking data to a external service. See the AI features on top of the blog.

Notes new design

In Hub 4, we announced we would ship Nextcloud Notes, the easy and nicely integrated Note taking app with Nextcloud. We also made the mobile apps freely available! For this release, Nextcloud Notes received a new three column layout and a note list that separates notes by the month they were created. It also has an improved settings dialogue.

Notes app with new 3 columns design

Notes settings

Notes shared to a Circle

Notes on iOS

Collectives

Collectives is the one-stop-shop for storing and organizing knowledge. For example, an HR team could create a company handbook storing dozens of pages about company policies like vacation and sick leave. Now, the HR team can attach documents too – which are accessible in the new side bar. Attachments can be viewed within Collectives, downloaded or shown within Nextcloud Files.

In addition, Collectives now supports server side encryption in its storage.

Nextcloud Groupware

Nextcloud Groupware consists of Mail, Calendar and Contacts

Nextcloud offers a completely integrated Groupware client, meaning you can work with Nextcloud Files, Talk and more products directly within Groupware. That’s because all applications in Nextcloud Hub work together to make your life easier and your workflow more efficient.

An example is how you can easily create a talk room when creating a calendar appointment. We now also bring this feature to appointments!

Create a Talk room with each Appointment

Booking a meeting with a colleague or external can be a pain. You can mail back and forth 5x until you got a date, but with Nextcloud Hub there is a better way. Calendar allows you to create an appointment link where others can book a meeting with you, directly in your calendar. You can see how easily others can then book a meeting with you in the short video below.

With this release, you can configure the Calendar to automatically create and include a Talk room link with each meeting.

This is just one of hundreds of examples of integration possibilities within Nextcloud Hub. You can discover more about the advantages of working with a Single Integrated Platform here.

Now let’s take a look at more new features in Groupware!

System Address Book in Contacts

If your entire organization uses Nextcloud, you can now benefit from the system wide user address book. In the System Address Book, a contact is created for every user in your organization based on a users personal settings. This contact shows a users name, job title, email and more, plus new in Hub 5 – their manager. The contact is editable by sys admins (and the user if they have permissions), while it is read-only for all other users. If you would not like some users to see a contact, there are privacy settings to adjust this feature detailed here.

The System Address Book also automatically creates an organizational chart so especially if you are a larger company, it’s now much easier to find and learn more about your colleagues.

Holiday calendars

Do you have a colleague or team in another country?

Do you sometimes forget about upcoming holiday’s?

To best keep track of holiday’s around the world and be conscientious of your international team, you can now set up holiday calendars. The new feature supports hundreds of countries and seamlessly integrates into your calendar.

Data was gathered from the Thunderbird community here. Thanks to them for their fantastic work!

New design in Contacts

Hub 5 brings a new single column design to Contacts for a more simple, approachable look. Each contact can easily still be edited and returned back to view mode. We hope you enjoy the new style!

New Mail features:

Enterprises need secure communication and both PGP and now also S/MIME encryption are supported in Nextcloud Mail. Big organizations also often use shared email folders and with this release, sending email in name of a colleague or team has become easy to configure. A series of further improvements was made:

updated auto-responder that supports place holders

minimize mail composer so users can look at other emails while working on one

one-click unsubscribe to newsletters

turn email into a Deck card or task (in addition to adding appointments and travel itineraries to the calendar)

New integrations

Notion

Search on Notion from the Nextcloud search bar
Use the Smart Picker to search for Notion pages, databases and links

Install the app

GPTZero

Detects AI-generated content from files
Send text or files to GPTZero API

Install the app

A big thank you to our community!

Nextcloud would not be the same without our dedicated, encouraging community. A huge thank you to all community members who made this release the best it can be and continuing to show your talents and passion through Nextcloud.

For all our consumers, companies, government entities, public organizations, schools and universities that aspire to progress, thank you for trusting Nextcloud as your digital workspace and collaboration platform. We hope you enjoy all this new release has to offer.

For developers

For developers, Nextcloud Hub 5 introduces some big improvements that make it easier to develop apps. First, our documentation is now OpenAPI based – you can find it on our website.

Second, to make it even easier to use, we developed an OCS Viewer app which makes it easy to browse and even test out the Open Collaboration Services API Nextcloud supports for third-party application integration. In the app, you can choose an API endpoint, enter some test data and see what Nextcloud returns.

Last but not least, the introduction of four Developer Toolkits for Rust, Python, TypeScript and Go dramatically ease development of integrations with apps using these languages! You can find these, together with tutorials and more, on our developer page.

How to install Hub 5

Ready to use all the cool, new features in Hub 5? Then let’s make sure you know how to install it!

In general, we offer Hub 5 for download right away. Existing users will only be offered the new version in some time, as we do staged roll-outs. It can take 6-8 weeks, but you can always manually get the latest and greatest! See below for how:

AIO users

For new Nextcloud All-in-One (AIO) users, you can install Hub 5 directly by checking the box “Install Nextcloud 27.”

For existing AIO users, we have a guide for you! Follow along to set it up today!

Note: your Nextcloud caches the results coming from our updater server, so it can take a bit for the new version to show up and you likely have to refresh the page, wait a bit and do that again. Don’t forget to switch back to stable after you updated to Hub 5!

Enjoy!

We hope Hub 5 will treat you well – and we look forward to your feedback!

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Nextcloud complaint precedes investigation into Microsoft market dominance by German antitrust authorities

Jos Poortvliet — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:52:00 +0000

After a complaint filed by Nextcloud on behalf of a coalition of dozens of European cloud tech providers in November 2021, the German Bundeskartellamt (federal antitrust authorities) has now begun an official investigation into Microsoft to assess if the company has a dominant position in the market.

We welcome this development, as this is a first step towards investigating the anti-competitive behavior of Microsoft with regard to OneDrive bundling and other gatekeeping actions. Rapid developments in AI only serve to strengthen the need for oversight, as the Bundeskartellamt itself also points out.

Since the initial complaint to the European Commissions’ Directorate-General for Competition, Microsoft has continued to limit on the freedom of choice for consumers. Bundling of software with its operating system continues to expand, while on-premises solutions are eliminated, decreasing the control organisations have over their data. Microsofts’ influence on openAI has already resulted in a decrease in openness about AI research, coinciding with Microsoft firing its ethics team, increasing societal risks regarding artificial intelligence. While Nextcloud has responded to these developments, introducing a Microsoft SharePoint migration service to enable organisations to keep data on-premises, and introducing an Ethical AI solution with integration across its products, anti-competitive behavior limits access of customers to these services.

With even a well-known comedian like John Oliver addressing the challenges with big tech, there is growing awareness. But real action still has not been taken and the tech giants continue to push out the competition by all means available to them.

Dozens of European SMEs organisations support these efforts to push back against Big Tech and create a level playing field, supporting innovation and local (European) businesses. A full list of these companies as well as non-profits and industry consortia can be found on https://antitrust.nextcloud.com.

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EU Governments bet on Nextcloud to replace SharePoint

Jos Poortvliet — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 08:01:00 +0000

Privacy and compliance conscious government organizations won’t be forced in the cloud, settle on on-premises solution that protects independence.

Proprietary SaaS plaforms like Sharepoint and MS 365 have become major cash cows, and on-premises solutions get discontinued across the tech sector to force customers into vendor-locked clouds. Organizations dealing with critical or sensitive data respond by looking to maintain their strategic autonomy by deploying on premises solutions. In collaboration with a number of European government organizations, the market leader in the open source, on-premises collaboration space today announces the expansion of it’s offering to provide a full SharePoint replacement, complete with migration services. Showing the strong trend towards digital sovereignty, the announcement comes shortly after the highest EU Data Protection authority, the EDPS, announced they deploy and recommend Nextcloud.

We believe that development based on real world requirements and demand, rather than a strategy of forcing customers into a vendor lock-in, results in better products. Demand for an open, on-premises structured data platform as part of Nextcloud has been huge, and several customers have already signed up to deploy our technology.

Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud GmbH

The imminent end of SharePoint Server support has created a huge demand for solutions that offer similar functionality without compromising user control over data and meta data. The risks around data sovereignty and vendor lock-in is particularly pronounced for government agencies, many of which for reasons of autonomy, cost and compliance, tend to rely on on-premises tools for collaboration and document management.

Nextcloud Tables complements the document management features in Nextcloud.

A number of customers from the public sector has worked with Nextcloud to integrate a structured data management application into Nextcloud Hub. German state Schleswig-Holstein already announced their intention to replace SharePoint with Nextcloud in 2020 and since then several government organizations have already committed to the platform. Even more are providing feedback and information on their requirements with an eye to adopting Nextcloud as their on-premises SharePoint replacement.

Nextcloud’s initiative to offer a digitally sovereign, open-source alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint is to be welcomed. That’s why we work together with Nextcloud to optimize Nextcloud Tables.

Ralf Sutorius, Leitender IT-Architekt, Stadt Köln

Nextcloud Hub is well established as a collaboration platform, providing easy document collaboration and sharing for teams and work groups, as well as integrated knowledge management. The introduction of Tables rounds the platform out with management of structured data. It allows customers to build, manage and work with data structures, putting together easy ‘apps’ and connecting them to various other components in Nextcloud for automation.

Users will be able to create a table to track any other type of data that is relevant to their organization, such as expenses, projects or sales leads. The flexibility of Tables allows users to tailor the table to their specific needs.

The first release of Tables is available now on the Nextcloud app store.

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EU data protection supervisor sets the standard for data protection with Nextcloud

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:11:18 +0000

Practicing what it preaches, the EDPS deploys Nextcloud for internal collaboration and makes it available to other EU institutions.

Photo by Guillaume Périgois on Unsplash

The European Data Protection Supervisor is an independent organisation responsible for monitoring and ensuring EU institutions respect the right to privacy and data protection of citizens. A year ago, in a report on personal information management systems, the EDPS already mentioned Nextcloud as an example of a great solution to manage personal, privacy sensitive data in a responsible way.

Today we are proud to tell you that the EDPS have themselves deployed Nextcloud, and even more, are working with our partner TAS Cloud Services to make it available to all EU institutions! This means the EU now has a powerful, complete collaboration platform that is compliant with EU’s data protection laws and not just endorsed, but used and offered by the EU’s independent data protection supervisor. Let us quote the European Data Protection Supervisor himself, Mr. Wojciech Wiewiórowski:

Wojciech Wiewiórowski

Open Source Software offers data protection-friendly alternatives to commonly used large-scale cloud service providers that often imply the transfer of individuals’ personal data to non-EU countries. Solutions like this may therefore minimise reliance on monopoly providers and detrimental vendor lock-in. By negotiating a contract with an EU-based provider of cloud services, the EDPS is delivering on its commitments, as set out in its 2020-2024 Strategy, to support EUIs in leading by example to safeguard digital rights and process data responsibly.”

Wojciech Wiewiórowski, EDPS

As many of you know, many EU government organisations like in Sweden, France and Germany who are concerned with privacy and security, have been recommending and deploying Nextcloud for years. It is great to see the highest privacy compliance authority in the EU lead this effort now!

The EDPS has deployed Nextcloud to “share share files, send messages, make video calls, and allows collaborative drafting, in a secured cloud environment.” (emphasis in original quote). To enable the adoption of Nextcloud in the EU, the EDPS worked with us at Nextcloud and our great Partner TAS Cloud Services to improve the integration of Nextcloud with EU login, the European Commission’s user authentication service. The EDPS and TAS Cloud Services will offer other EU institutions, bodies and agencies the same solution as was deployed at EDPS.

That means any EU institute, from the court of justice to the parliament, can now easily have a secure, easy to use, and fully compliant communication and collaboration platform. There is no more need to risk data sovereignty by relying on non-EU cloud platforms!

Nextcloud offers the easiest way to achieve control and digital sovereignty over data and communication for organizations that deal with sensitive or business critical content. As an open source, on-premises collaboration platform it offers transparency and control no non-EU SaaS plaform can deliver. Quoting from the EDPS press release:

By procuring the Open Source Software from one single entity in the EU, the use of sub-processors is avoided. In doing so, the EDPS avoids data transfers to non-EU countries and allows for a more effective control over the processing of personal data.

Interested parties can contact Nextcloud or our partner TAS Cloud Services to deploy a proof of concept of the collaboration platform the EDPS has deployed.

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Shadow first to connect remote PC technology with content collaboration

Jos Poortvliet — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:01:11 +0000

As covered in Tech Crunch, next-gen collaboration is coming to global cloud computing service

Shadow is probably best known for their remote gaming PC platform described as “the only fully realized cloud gaming service out there” and “the definitive cloud gaming experience” by cloudwards. It boasted 100.000 gamers in 2020 and has extended its platform since being bought by OVHcloud founder Octave Klaba. Shadow is now announcing the immediate availability of the Nextcloud based Shadow Drive in all European countries where Shadow services operate. This includes France, UK, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Italy, Sweden, and Denmark. Spain will launch on December 7th.

Shadow Drive will allow users to store their data while keeping it accessible from anywhere. Data will be accessible via its web interface and through Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS (still in Beta) applications.

Our ambition to liberate technology from its hardware limitations also passes through Shadow Drive, our cloud storage solution, with the help of our prestigious partner Nextcloud, a partnership for which I thank Frank. We are particularly excited about this joint European project

— Eric Sèle, CEO of SHADOW

Initially soft launched this summer, Shadow Drive already counts nearly 25 000 users ahead of its general launch. The service will also be available on December 7th in Spain, and in 2023 in North America.

Shadow is free for up to 20 GB of storage. And by free, they do not mean freemium: “our users’ data will never be sold or used, and we will never integrate ads”, shares Shadow. A premium version of the service offers storage up to 2 TB.

Check the Downloads page for more details. As for all SHADOW services, it’s a non-binding offer, and it’s independent of any Shadow PC subscription.

We live in an age where all of our digital life, all of our communications are now in the cloud, and most of it is hosted overseas. I have no desire to live in a world where five giants own all the files in the world. That’s why I’m excited that we work together with SHADOW, as our two companies share values of excellence, openness, and European sovereignty.

— Frank Karlitschek, CEO of Nextcloud

Shadow Drive is a European-owned and based service, meaning European users’ data will always remain in Europe, through European sovereign solutions. You can discover more of what digital sovereignty means for Shadow and Nextcloud in a previous blog post.

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