Getting started with Nextcloud 9 years ago, we had a small team and a big dream: give people control over their data. Now, Nextcloud is a community-driven project where our brilliant team of 150 works with thousands of contributors, and we became the most deployed privacy-focused collaboration platform in the world. Today we welcome our latest release, Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn.
Nextcloud Hub is where all your work comes together. It is modular and customizable, yet really well-integrated. Having all apps in one hub brings you a better user experience, makes your platform easier to run and maintain and reduces security risks. Did we forget anything? It’s also self-hosted, built for performance, scales to millions of people, and has a great, modern interface.
This release we made it easier than ever to regain control over your collaboration. We made many changes that help those new to Nextcloud. Part of that is the design work on the interface. We updated icons, added a splash of color and some nice backgrounds, and made adjustments to the look of buttons and other elements. We also worked on performance improvements and, like always, we introduced new technologies and many features.
Whether you are seeking a privacy-friendly solution for home or a secure, enterprise-scale setup for a large organization, your road to sovereignty is easy and fast. Roll out Nextcloud Hub on your own server or data center using the incredibly convenient, cloud-ready All-in-One container we have for home users or the enterprise version. You can also get started using a managed solution with few clicks from one of our trusted hosting partners.
We hope you enjoy our latest Nextcloud Hub. Let us unpack the most exciting new features!
Frank and the Nextcloud team 👋
It has been ten releases since introducing the Nextcloud Hub numbering and we felt the need to adopt a naming scheme that scales better. We got inspired by the seasons of our release cycle. Now Nextcloud Hub’s name contains a year and a season.
Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn is designed to immediately make you feel at ease, starting with the interface. Let’s begin with some design improvements in this release, from global UX changes to updates in applications.
The renewed design is meant to make you feel at ease in your digital workspace. The subtle changes made the interface of Nextcloud Hub lighter, more approachable and polished, while the new contrasting elevation and depth of clickable elements feels almost physical.
Jan C. Borchardt
Design Lead
We gave buttons a more clickable look by adding visual elevation to them. Similarly, the input fields are now inset.
The new outline icons feel lighter and more modern. And they bring a usability improvement — active elements are highlighted by using the filled-out version, like with favorite files and prioritized mails.
The app icons in the header got a gradient fade, making them appear more physical on the blue background. We also redesigned and cleaned up some sections in the Settings.
Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn design is crafted to be visually appealing and user-friendly, more welcoming as you begin your day and open your space. We did so by adding new design motifs that showcase what Nextcloud is all about through a new modern look and clear visuals.
We wanted to make it clear that Nextcloud Hub is easy to get started with and can be trusted. This was achieved through a mix of fluid designs, floating 3D shapes, an active and engaging style, abstract forms and patterns, and consistent branding with our beloved Nextcloud blue, but with a greater depth. The aim was to use positive, problem-solving images that convey sensible optimism.
Myoung Hee Jo
Brand Graphic Designer
To round out the design changes, we created a new default background, in tune with the Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn branding, that you see in the welcome screen and is the new default for your workspace. It is gorgeous, in both light and dark mode.
What’s more, we added new example content to Nextcloud Contacts and Calendar that help you onboard with these apps. Alongside example content in Nextcloud Talk, Deck, Collectives, Tables and Files.
To help you get started with new apps and find out what they can do, we have example content, like a few files in Nextcloud Files, a few cards in Nextcloud Deck and an example conversation in Talk. For this release, we added new example content to Nextcloud Contacts and Nextcloud Calendar.
We added 11 new file templates across documents, spreadsheets, and presentations, and reworked six older templates to cover the most common tasks with convenient, great looking templates. Users can add more themselves in their templates folder.
As admin, you can configure available templates and add new ones organization-wide. That way you can ensure everybody is using the company style in presentations, for example!
For Nextcloud Office, our goal was to really improve the user experience. We have received a lot of feedback, so we focused on two main areas here. First, user interaction design. And second, performance!
In a complex interface like an Office application, colors can make it easier to identify tools. So we paired our usual clean design with a new splash of color! You will see the new, colorful icons, helping you find what you are looking for.
Next, we gave each of the office applications a clear, different focus color. This helps you instantly distinguish different document types. You can see these colors in the selected content, in the icons, on the bar on top and other places.
The new style has usability benefits, but also brings a touch of joy to using Nextcloud Office!
Next, we focused on improving navigation and making the tools you need accessible instantly.
When you select a text, the new contextual popover will pull up the font tools and a quick option to add a comment. This is perfect for those mouse-users. If you’re more of a keyboard warrior that loves shortcuts, we have something for you, too — we made keyboard shortcuts easier to find!
To make it easier to find where you are in a large document, the navigation sidebar lets you browse the document structure, media, bookmarks and comments. With this release we introduce a search tool in the navigation sidebar.
Last, but not least, we had a look at the toolbars on top of all our applications in a very detailed way, making 3 major changes.
First, looking at statistics of how various functions are used, we re-ordered and optimized them. We introduced some grouping using menu’s, and made some items larger or smaller depending on their usage.
Second, we moved some functions into new toolbar tabs, optimizing the grouping of functionality.
Here is an overview of the new tabs:
Third, we introduced contextual tabs which are displayed based on selection: Sparkline, Picture and Shape.
With these changes, accessing the functionality of Nextcloud Office should be easier and more efficient, especially for new users.
Nextcloud Text is our easy to use markdown-based document editor, designed with a clean interface. Besides its use as stand-alone editor, it is used in various places in Nextcloud like Nextcloud Deck, Notes and Collectives.
Nextcloud Text, our markdown-based editor, has a lot of functionality that is perhaps a little hidden for people new to the app. To help them get started, we created a Suggestion Bar, shown in empty documents. It shows how you can add a link to a document, upload new files, create a table and add all kinds of other content using the Smart Picker.
The addition of easy drag handles make re-arranging large documents with many objects like maps, tables and documents much easier.
Nextcloud Collectives features a redesigned homepage. We also improved the templating system. Templates are now unique to a Collective and can be easily managed from a menu option. We also shortened sharing links, introduce colorful page tags to help you find content and made it easier to track different versions of a page.
We redesigned the call interface in Nextcloud Talk moving call controls to a bottom bar. Changing your background or raising your hand is now just one click away.
Talk benefited from more design work — on the home page, as well as in the left sidebar.
Join us on Thursday October 16, 2025, at 3:00 pm CEST (9:00 am EDT) to discover Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn and explore the latest features.
Register nowNextcloud Hub 25 Autumn is easy to get started with — for both admins that get it running and end users that get their work done with our tools. Lets explore some of the new day-to-day features that ease you in.
Discover the new Search in Nextcloud. Simply start typing the file name in your folder, and Search in Files will filter matching items for you. Did you not find the file? Expand your search by clicking “Everywhere” to search in other folders and locations.
In Photos, you can find photos by filtering, and now — create albums instantly based on your search filters.
The Nextcloud Files for iOS application was completely rewritten. The new version not only improves the reliability of background activities, it can upload up to twice as fast as before and is far more responsive when using it.
We also adopted our application to the new Liquid Glass design in iOS 26. For this, our interface was entirely reworked, giving more room for the content of the application so you can focus on what matters to you.
The application uses sleek, translucent interface elements that diffract light and dynamically respond to your movements. Its gorgeous animations bring in some visual magic, adding to a delightful user experience.
You’ll have to admit — when you control your data, Liquid Glass serves transparency in style! 🫧
We also took advantage of new iOS features. Need to reorganize files? You can open two instances of the Nextcloud Files iOS app on your ipad and use drag & drop to move documents between folders or even between two different accounts on different Nextcloud servers.
You can now also use the pinch gesture to zoom in and out smoothly in your media library, similar to your Camera Roll.
The Android app has some updates too. It inherited the new outline icons from Nextcloud Hub, and got an improved drawer menu for navigation.
Threaded conversations in Nextcloud Talk bring order to busy chats by tying side discussions directly to the original message, so context doesn’t get lost. Thread view lets you focus on a single topic even in the most lively conversations.
Talking about busy, there’s now the new “🔴 Busy” status to communicate your availability, in addition to other statuses that also got new easily recognizable icons. “🔴 Busy” activates automatically during calls and scheduled meetings.
We have now enabled iOS users with the familiar left-right layout of message bubbles, similar to iMessage and other chat apps.
Curious to learn more about Nextcloud Talk? Check out how Nextcloud Talk “Munich” ensures resilient communication and collaboration and brings more new features, with full data control and zero vendor lock-in.
Having difficulty understanding someone or need to work in silence? Use live AI transcription to read what your colleagues say in your Nextcloud Talk meeting.
Give your chat in Nextcloud Talk a cheeky extra by generating stickers with the Smart Picker. It works in other apps too! And in Nextcloud Files, generate images with a simple prompt from the “+” menu.
Your online whiteboard tool got smart new features to stay organized at all times, and now scales much easier with improved performance, for live editing in especially busy brainstorming sessions.
More new features:
With a bit of Nextcloud Assistant magic, you can now generate Mermaid diagrams on your whiteboards in seconds. Describe what you need, and the AI assistant creates the visual structure while Mermaid turns it into the right shapes.
With a couple of smart tricks in Nextcloud Mail, you can now keep control of your messages easier than ever. Quick Actions lets you handle common tasks in one go: mark a mail as read, move it into a project folder, or forward the email to a specified address.
You can now create a filter directly from a message, such as moving emails into a specific folder based on the subject or sender. Fewer clicks, more organization: Nextcloud Mail makes it happen.
You can also now save and reuse content blocks from emails, and switch off email threading.
Does finding a time slot for your next meeting feel like a juggling act? Especially with external people, you often have to ask for multiple slots, or give them yourself, wait for replies, see if you found a slot… It’s a lot of work.
We essentially automated this process! You can create a meeting proposal. Add your team members — you will see their and your availability. Then pick some slots that are suitable for you and them. Then, add the external people — and click “Create”.
The external invitees will get a nice poll where they can vote on the slots that work for them. Once everybody has shared their preference, you’ll get notified and can lock down the final meeting.
For simple internal meetings, we improved the free-busy view as well.
In Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn, even complex tasks can become easier. Sometimes you just need more advanced tools for that. Read on for updates in Nextcloud Flow automation features and AI in Nextcloud.
With the Nextcloud Assistant, we enabled you with the industry-first Ethical AI assistant that runs on your own server: a fully integrated and large language model that never sends any data to third parties.
This time around, we improved Nextcloud Assistant’s responsiveness and UI. And we already told you about live transcriptions and sticker generation in Nextcloud Talk. Besides that, what’s next for your AI assistant?
Agents make Nextcloud Assistant even more like your personal assistant. We expand the agents, adding new abilities and give you more control over performance in settings.
New tasks the Nextcloud Assistant can perform through agents:
Save time and effort by having the Nextcloud Assistant get you started! For instance, make a spreadsheet for your next product meeting, or get a quick overview of all your support tickets. Give it a rough idea or outline of a presentation and it’ll create a great start for you! The Assistant can generate documents, spreadsheets, slides and PDFs.
Find any document super quickly thanks to the Nextcloud Assistant’s Context Chat search. Ask it what you are looking for, and get the relevant documents.
Ask the Assistant to summarize your documents or get transcripts of audio files — directly from your file’s context menu.
All of these features are accessible through typing a prompt as well as through voice input. Say what you’d like to do, and the Assistant will start working on it — and even reply with its own voice!
We have expanded our automation tools in Nextcloud Flow by adding new building blocks for our Windmill-based process automation app:
For example, you can set a flow triggered by a “meeting agenda” tag on a file: automatically file it in the meetings folder, share the agenda in a team chat, and then create a calendar event for the meeting.
The Approval app lets you set up an easy approval system for your files, without the back and forth between parties. We improved the app both in the back-end and in functionality, adding options to unapprove files and delegate the approval workflow to other people and groups.
Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn carries many back-end improvements and maintenance, boosting stability, performance and security of the entire platform.
Typically, around 90% of our work is maintenance and hardening, and only 10% of the changes in each release are features. In Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn, the numbers are similar: For example, Files had 2725 pull requests, of which 225 were feature related and for Mail it was 625 and 45. Across a number of repositories we looked at only about 6% were related to features.
This time around, we’ve done a particularly big issue clean-up in Nextcloud Groupware, Nextcloud Assistant and the Approval app.
We made many performance enhancements across Nextcloud Hub. Here are some numbers to give you an idea:
If you are the one keeping the Nextcloud server running, this part is for you. Let’s see how Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn helps you do your admin magic with precision.
Setup checks guide you through configuration and installation options that need adjusting. We added checks on the push notifications setup in Talk, a check for Mail and a check for the Assistant. New Adaptive Setup Checks are available in Nextcloud Guard for enterprise users.
Kickstart a customized instance with one of the config presets that apply a number of default settings depending on what you use Nextcloud Hub for.
Whether you are looking to automate things or want to make life of people on your server easier, we give you a host of new tools and commands to do that.
info:file outputinfo:fileuser:setting can retrieve/manipulate user profile properties--unscanned option to files_external:scanschema:export and schema:expectedfiles_external dependenciesWith Nextcloud Teams, people on your instance can self-organize in groups to work on common tasks, share and track team-related resources easily. Teams integrate into the Nextcloud Hub ecosystem, a self-sustaining layer of user management.
What’s new in Nextcloud Teams:
Hundreds of apps and integrated external services extend the functionality of Nextcloud Hub beyond its core products. Here’s what Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn brings to ecosystem and tools for developers.
We have updated integrations with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Discourse, and Google, and added new social sharing links for Mastodon, WhatsApp, and Bluesky.
Overleaf integration in Nextcloud lets you work with LaTeX files primarily used by scientists and researchers for creating and publishing technical documents.
We are steadily moving Nextcloud’s big ecosystem to Vue3 framework. As many apps are moved, we urge the app developers to look into migration: get started at our Developer portal.
Nextcloud’s Android app has already migrated to Glide 4 framework, and the new iOS client supports the new design guidelines of iOS 26.
We have implemented web sockets support in the AppAPI ecosystem, enabling real-time communication between apps and the server for faster updates, affecting collaborative tools, notifications, and more. Read documentation
Key API updates in this release:
Find the documentation for our APIs at docs.nextcloud.com.
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Nextcloud Hub is a product not just of our great team’s work, but also numerous contributions by our community: to features, integrations, translations, testing, and documentation. Thank you for being a part of Nextcloud, creating it with us and putting it to the test in all the many ways.
With Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn, you stay in control over all your data. Choose your preferred method of deployment: run it on your own server or set up Nextcloud Hub with one of the providers — or take a peek into the new version with an instant trial.
Download the latest version of Nextcloud Hub here. Or if you are new – start your instant trial right away!
The Nextcloud Enterprise version of Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn will become available soon, once we successfully run the additional testing and complete certification.
For new Nextcloud All-in-One (AIO) users, you can install Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn directly by checking the “Install Nextcloud 32” box. For active AIO users, we have a dedicated setup guide. Follow the guidelines to easily set up Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn.
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