Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn: Your digital workspace, ready in no time

Welcome to Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn

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 👋

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

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.

Apps with character 🫧

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.

Start prepared: new templates and example content 📐

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!

Intuitive Nextcloud Office 🎨

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!

Faster access and improved navigation

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:

• Formulas tab in spreadsheets
• Slide Show tab in presentations
• Design Tab in presentations
• Transition tab in presentations
• Layout tab in documents
• Page Layout tab in spreadsheets

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.

New in Nextcloud Text

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.

A fresh look at Nextcloud Collectives

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.

Bottom bar in Nextcloud Talk 🕹️

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.

Webinar: Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn — redefining your digital workspace experience

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Locate any file in seconds 🔍

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.

Multitasking made easy, new UI and more in mobile apps 🤹‍♂️

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.

Nextcloud Talk: Threads, “Busy” status, and iOS updates 💬

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.

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.

Live AI subtitles in calls, chat stickers and images 🌅

Having difficulty understanding someone or need to work in silence? Use live AI transcription 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.

Faster and cleaner real-time sketching in Nextcloud Whiteboard 👩‍🎨

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:

• Grid view to align your shapes, drawings, and notes
• Presentation mode and presenter following
• Library to save your shapes and add shapes created by community
• Text search

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.

Say goodbye to an overflowing mailbox 📮

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.

Scheduling made simple with Nextcloud Calendar 📌

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.

Nextcloud Assistant: your privacy-first AI assistant, now with even more powerful agents ✨

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?

Taking the agent features further 🧠

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:

• Check tasks in calendar
• Create tasks and Deck cards
• Search YouTube videos
• List projects and create tasks in OpenProject
• Search in DuckDuckGo
• Read emails
• Plan routes on the map with different means of transport
• Generate documents

Create docs, sheets and slides with a simple prompt ✍️

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.

Ask, and you shall find 🕵️‍♂️

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.

“Nextcloud Assistant, give me a summary” 📋

Ask the Assistant to summarize your documents or get transcripts of audio files — directly from your file’s context menu.

Last but not least: voice input 🎙️

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!

Automate more with Nextcloud Flow 🏗️

We have expanded our automation tools in Nextcloud Flow by adding new building blocks for our Windmill-based process automation app:

• Getting users from a group
• Listening for tag assignments
• Creating/copying/moving files and folders
• Creating calendar events
• Listing folder trees
• Locating folders and files

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.

Streamlined file approvals ✅

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.

Maintenance work: the big clean-up 🧹

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.

Performance gains, measured 💪

We made many performance enhancements across Nextcloud Hub. Here are some numbers to give you an idea:

• Up to 6X faster uploads with Chunked Upload, now also available for public links.
• Snappier iOS and Android apps. 2X faster upload and 80% less instability issues measured on iOS.
• Optimized Virtual File System (VFS) on macOS and Windows.
  • For Mac OS, the VFS is now near-instant in setup, and during navigating folder, updates to folders are done in parallel with ongoing file syncing for instant navigation.
  • The VFS in Mac OS also has a massively reduced battery drain and network usage, syncing only the limited set of files and folders you have been using.
  • The VFS setup on Windows is about 30% faster, while Windows also introduces a “keep file locally available” menu option.
• 15% less database queries Nextcloud-wide
• And many more improvements in apps, especially Nextcloud Whiteboard, Mail and Calendar.

Assisted deployment with new setup checks ⚠️

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.

Config presets for simple setup 🎛️

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.

Lots of new admin tools 🛠️

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.

Nextcloud Teams 2.0 👥

With 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:

• New Nextcloud Teams Dashboard widget
• Redesigned user interface for the team and improved team management
• We added the ability to create a Guest account in a new dialog, directly from the Teams interface

New in integrations 🧩

We have updated integrations with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Discourse, and Google, and added new social sharing links for Mastodon, WhatsApp, and Bluesky.

New integration: Overleaf

Overleaf integration in Nextcloud lets you work with LaTeX files primarily used by scientists and researchers for creating and publishing technical documents.

How to start building apps for Nextcloud 🌱

Build applications for Nextcloud in any programming language using our complete API documentation and a growing library of ready tutorials. What’s more, you can subscribe to a dedicated developer newsletter and get all the relevant updates delivered to you.

Easy to start, easy to stay ✨

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.

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Explore all Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn features

Nextcloud Files

• Search in files
• Guests Improvements
• Photo albums based on filters
• Allow chunked public upload
• Support for multiple primary storage backends
• Replace X with Bluesky for social sharing
• Adjust date display in modified column to be more useful
• Allow uploading folders on file-drop shares
• Control e2ee folders via API (OpenAPI spec needed)
• Block uploads when the virus scanner is unavailable
• Allow to view .PDF / videos / images in internal share with download disabled
• Support more file-types for view-only
• Add support for secure Redis connections to the Files High Performance backend (notify_push)

Nextcloud Talk

• Threads in chats
• Event conversations
• Sensitive conversations
• Important conversations
• Nextcloud Talk Home dashboard
• SIP Dial-In
• Improved right sidebar in one-to-one conversations
• Quicker way to share the latest images from mobile apps
• Shortcuts / Automation support on Talk-iOS
• Allow selecting output device
• “Busy” user status
• Setup check to ensure notify_push is configured
• Adding participants to one-to-one calls
• iOS Talk Chat redesign (Bubbles and split own messages to the side)

Nextcloud Mail

• Quick actions
• Text blocks
• Improved Mail frontend performance
• More smooth perceived frontend performance
• Disable email threading
• Create a filter from a message
• Link to OAuth admin documentation from the Mail admin settings
• Suggest recipients from own identities in Mail
• Remember preferred composer state per Mail account
• Warn when sending an email without a subject in Mail
• OCS API to list accounts and aliases of a user
• Setup check for php-mail in Mail
• AVIF contact avatars
• Detect emails that need translation
• Allow AVIF content type in PhotoCache
• HTML source editing for Mail signatures and the composer
• Option to disable/enable the system address book from the admin settings UI

Nextcloud Calendar

• Calendar invitation time proposals
• Change view and colors of the find a time modal (free/busy)
• Full screen event detail view
• Outline icons in Calendar
• Calendar API to retrieve availability of attendees
• Example event
• Fix, update and optimize automated timezone updates for @nextcloud/timezones used in Calendar and other components
• Use browser-native UUID function in calendar-js
• Send custom default headers with each request in cdav-library
• Serialize namespaced attributes consistently across browsers in cdav-library
• OCC command to list and delete calendar subscriptions
• Read-only calendar federation

Nextcloud Office

• Secure view for Nextcloud Talk shares
• Ability to switch to OOXML as default formats
• Ability to generate documents/spreadsheets/slide with AI
• Reduce loading time by asynchronous script loading
• WOPI proof validation
• More updates from Collabora Online’s latest version and COOL 25.04

Nextcloud Text

• Viewing E2EE markdown files in the browser
• Suggestion bar to inspire writing new documents
• Keyboard shortcut for links
• Drag handle for text nodes
• Typography insert rules
• Improved image loading performance

Nextcloud Deck

• Board import and export via WebUI
• OCC commands for global calendar feature opt-in and opt-out

Nextcloud Collectives

• Template improvements
• Landing page design improvements
• Page tags
• Enhanced version support
• Short URLs for Collectives and pages
• OpenAPI support / Migration to OCS API

Nextcloud Tables

• Inline editing
• Remove rows in view after edit when they no longer match filter

Nextcloud Whiteboard

• Library support
• Grid support
• Text search within a whiteboard
• Presentation mode
• Integration of Nextcloud Assistant to generate Mermaid diagrams
• Whiteboard: Local centric architecture

Nextcloud clients

• Desktop: Performance enhancements for Virtual File System on Windows and macOS
• Android: Use only webdav for sharing information
• Android: Re-order and group drawer items
• Android: Ui overhaul: outline icons
• Android: Glide v4 migration
• Notes for Android: Share a note
• iOS: Elevating iPad app with a tab bar and sidebar
• iOS: performance improvements
• iOS: Trashbin
• Notes for iOS: Enhance login view
• iOS: allow using default sorting order
• iOS and Android: Speed up sync of metadata
• Use default sharing permissions from server
• CRUD permissions – set permissions
• CRUD permissions – handling

AI and Nextcloud Assistant

• Nextcloud Assistant: a range of new agents supported
• Document generation
• Context Chat: search files using natural language
• Live AI transcription in Nextcloud Talk
• Voice as input and output in Assistant
• Usability improvements
• IBM Watsonx integration
• Image generation: generate images with different resolutions
• Sticker generation through a Smart Picker
• Integration of Assistant features in Nextcloud Files via context menu
• Assistant & AppAPI: big performance optimizations; no more additional overhead for Nextcloud instance.
• Assistant: improved support for fully green models
• Assistant: API for the ChatUI is now an OCS API, so other developers can easy integrate the ChatUI in their apps or clients.
• Integration OpenAI: added support for the TogetherAI service, and added text-to-speech functionality

Nextcloud ecosystem and integrations

• Overleaf integration
• Integration Jira: filter project notifications, get Jira alerts, and see link previews – inside Nextcloud.
• Direct sharing of files via WhatsApp or BlueSky, using shared links.
• Mastodon Integration feature: share file
• Discourse integration: show read and unread notifications
• GitHub integration improvements
• GitLab integration improvements
• Google integration: easier to connect account
• WebSockets support in the AppAPI ecosystem
• MCP server for Nextcloud
• Using Nextcloud as identity provider through user_oidc
• User OIDC: nested-claim support and smart fallback fields mapping – broader compatibility with more identity providers

Nextcloud Flow

• New blocks: getting users from a group, listening for tag assignments, creating/copying/moving files and folders, starting flows on calendar events, listing folder trees, and locating folders.
• Approval app: general improvements, ability to unapprove files, admin delegation

Contacts

• Multiselect contacts
• Outline icons in Contacts
• Create an example contact
• Address book sync truncation
• Migrate Contacts to Vue 3
• OCC command to clear dav photo cache
• AVIF contact avatars

Other features

• Teams 2.0
• Notable maintenance, especially in 3 repositories: App Store, Approval app, Assistant
• A set of config-defaults for operational modes
• Global Scale with OIDC
• Implement OCM v1.1 + 1.2
• Migrate two-factor Webauthn to Vue 3
• Migrate @nextcloud/timezones to typescript
• Add user and file details to antivirus detection logs
• Welcome app: multilanguage support so users see messages in their own language, like Swedish.
• Account retention: avoid immediate re-expiration of re-enabled eccounts
• Harmonize user name display in a Global Scale setup
• Setup checks for recommended config and hardware values for differently sized Nextcloud instances
• Re-enable the update notification app in Nextcloud AIO in order to send statistics to the statistics server
• Add a Cancel button when editing a user
• Allow group admins to assign existing users

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