Nextcloud 2.5.1 and 15.0.0RC3 are here!

We’ve made available the third release candidate for Nextcloud 15 as well as version 2.5.1 of our desktop client! Help us test Nextcloud 15 and upgrade to the new desktop client to get almost two dozen bugfixes.

15 RC3

We’re almost there, but the changes needed in RC2 was still longer than we wanted (almost 2 dozen fixes!) so another RC was decided on. A list of changes:

• Polishing of various modal dialogs (server#12784)
• Fix activatable/deactivatable 2fa provider interface typos (server#12805)
• Only run the AnonymousOptionsPlugion on Anonymous requests (server#12811)
• Fix the system address book (server#12816)
• PHP module is named mbstring (server#12825)
• Unshare from mail activity is missing (server#12828)
• Fix layout of „i“ in admin settings of federated sharing (server#12829)
• PHP 7.0 is end of life (server#12830)
• Do not update child all child shares on group share update (server#12833)
• Validate all rich objects (server#12836)
• Add setup check for recommended PHP modules (i.e. Imagick, intl) (server#12837)
• Make a button out of ‚What’s new‘ so it’s obvious it can be clicked on (server#12848)
• Fix missing click event on update button (server#12849)
• Add setup check for pending bigint conversion (server#12853)
• No user enumeration on DAV if disabled (server#12856)
• Only execute query in propagateChange once (server#12861)
• Fix password confirmation lib for ie11 (server#12863)
• Log and continue on Dav reader failure (repair uid) (server#12867)
• Emit write update only once on touch (server#12868)
• Do not show general warning on free space error (server#12880)
• Set 3rdparty to pr187 (server#12882)
• Fix named parameter detection on SQLite (3rdparty#187)

Desktop client 2.5.1

After the 2.5.0 release the desktop team decided to go for a quick release cycle, doing new releases every 2 weeks. This is the first of these and another can be expected before the end of the year! See the changelog below for what was fixed.

• Fixup the port in server notification URLs
• GUI: let Clang-Tidy modernize nullptr & override usage
• Improve the slide show
• Libsync: let Clang-Tidy modernize nullptr & override usage
• SettingsDialog: fix a little glitch in the account tool button size
• SettingsDialog: tweak color aware icons
• More verbose error and proper app name on configuration read error
• Fix cmake build using WITH_PROVIDERS=OFF
• Debian/Ubuntu target repository update
• Change man page names and contents for nextcloud
• Share dialog alignment
• Fixed typo
• Change link to docs for NC 15
• Do not fetch activities if they are not enabled
• Do not read system exclude list if user exclude is present
• Fix the activity loop
• Write the actual folder to the log
• Fix appname for Nautilus integration script