About this update

The updates include several bug fixes, enhancements in file handling, performance optimization, and other improvements in all supported versions of Nextcloud Hub. You can find the full changelog on our website.

Updates are available for:

• Nextcloud Hub 6 (version 27.1.9)
• Nextcloud Hub 7 (version 28.0.5)

Make the most of your platform with Nextcloud Hub 8

Even more automated and optimized all around, Nextcloud Hub 8 is here to give you back control over your time. Upgrade today to unlock multiple new features in your favourite platform:

• Nextcloud Assistant: Chat summaries, Nextcloud Mail reply suggestions, answers based on your data, and more!
• Interactive previews for files, folders, boards and events
• Federated chat and message editing in Talk
• Mini-apps based on Tables
• Public Collectives sharing, previews and QR-codes
• Manage your team resources like a pro with Nextcloud Teams
• Forms: automatically sync with a spreadsheet
• And much more

Get Nextcloud Hub 8

Download and install Nextcloud Hub 8 here!

Get Hub 8

Always keep your server up to date!

Nextcloud’s minor releases primarily focus on addressing security vulnerabilities and functionality bugs, avoiding major system overhauls that could jeopardize user data. Keeping your server up to date is vital, and our approach to testing and validation ensures that upgrading to minor releases is generally smooth and reliable.

For mission-critical Nextcloud systems in enterprise settings, consider switching to Nextcloud Enterprise. The tier provides you with ultimate deployment confidence: direct access to the Nextcloud engineering team, full assistance throughout deployment and integration, and peace of mind for system administrators. If you’re responsible for maintaining Nextcloud in your setting, this option may be the ideal solution for you.

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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!

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.

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.

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.

Interactive widgets

No more jumping between apps. With Hub 8, we introduce the ultimate shortcut.

Edit meeting notes in a Talk chat while video conferencing, scroll through a project Deck board on a Collectives page, or add a whole interactive calendar to your planning file in Text — you name it. With interactive widgets in Hub, you can quite literally embed one app into another.

View and edit files

Using widgets, you and other users with access can view the linked file contents and make edits without leaving the app. To prevent accidental edits, file widgets in Talk open in view-only mode by default.

Embedded Calendars

Now you can embed a full calendar in many Hub apps to quickly browse events, dates, and schedules. Respecting your privacy, Nextcloud only shows the embedded calendar to users with access, while for others it will remain blank.

Integrated Deck boards

Manage tasks and deadlines anywhere in Hub. Paste a Deck board to browse the contents, open and manage the cards, and even access search and settings.

Nextcloud Office

Better team and project management in Office. Even more automated, even more connected, and even more collaborative.

Manage like a pro with Teams

Nextcloud Teams is a new step for Circles, with a redesigned team overview, a Dashboard widget, and new features to streamline team management. Browse team resources like Deck boards, Talk rooms and Collectives in the team menu. Add new items to share them in an instant. Shared files and calendars are coming soon.

Publicly share Collectives pages

Sharing knowledge with Collectives is now easier, as we take a lot of extra actions off your shoulders. Share individual Collectives pages with included sub-pages via public links. Manage all link shares via sidebar Share tab. Create multiple links with individual permissions to improve security when sharing externally.

Link Forms to sheets

Link forms to spreadsheets to automatically submit collected data to ODS, XLSX, or CSV files. Re-export, create new sheet copies and edit the linked sheets to add more columns with comments, statuses and any other data you need.

Spreadsheets: cell protection, tooltips, and improved filtering

New features in spreadsheets aim to boost security and integrity of your spreadsheets and greatly improve overall usability. Cell protection allows preventing unwanted changes in selected cells, intentional or not, and managing individual permissions for cells. When typing a function name, a tooltip will show you relevant functions to assist you in search. Filtering has been improved with the AutoFilter feature and new filtering options like Color and Condition.

Documents: layout improvements, better navigation and change tracking

Keep the layout of your documents neat with dedicated section editing, separate headers and footers for pages under one style, and support for STYLEREF fields. Browsing tracked changes is now easier thanks to popover tooltips and improved change highlights in tables.

Manage users you follow when collaborating

It’s now easier to follow and unfollow users in your documents, spreadsheets and presentations. The currently followed user is directly visible, so you always know whom you are following. Unfollowing became more convenient too: just click on the list to resume independent browsing.

More than just Tables

Let’s talk about Tables, a versatile data processing app in the Hub ecosystem that elevates your workflow management. In Hub 8, we included improvements in Tables navigation and data imports, as well as introduce a complete new mechanic: no-code apps based on Tables.

Build custom Tables apps

Need a custom app in your Hub to manage a process, centrally access project data, or build a dedicated knowledge base? Now you can create custom Hub apps based on Tables, streamlining management of individual teams, projects, or processes. Aggregate and combine existing tables and views and add them as a new application to the menu bar for quick access.

Navigate your tables in a pinch

All tables are accessible from a single list that you can filter to find the most relevant items quickly. Add tables to favorites to keep them on top of the list at all times, or archive unused tables to clean your space without losing old data.

With Nextcloud Tables, we’re definitely getting to a point where we can replace traditional specialized software, (German: Fachverfahren), by storing the data structures in Nextcloud.

Sven Thomson, CIO Schleswig-Holstein

New ways to import data

Import tables from external files using the upload feature or from the right click menu from the Files app. We improved file parsing to automatically detect more items from CSV and spreadsheet files, such as dates, percentage, currency and decimals.

Transfer ownership with ease

Now users can change the owners of the tables themselves, making it easier to manage tasks without admin permissions. The setting is available in the Edit window.

Nextcloud Files

New Files, featuring your personal file management space, better navigation, and even more ways to share.

Files, your own

Getting lost in a massive amount of shared documents? Enjoy a clean space for yourself with the Personal files section to find all of your own files and folders. Accessible from the web and Nextcloud clients, your documents, drafts, photos, invoices and other items are always close at hand. Plus, we added file recommendations to help you get to recently edited files faster.

One-time links and QR-codes

Sharing is even more secure now with one-time download links. When you wish to share a download with a single user and don’t want the link passed around, check the corresponding box in the link settings. What’s more, now you can generate QR-codes on the spot to share links with ease on web pages, slides, printed materials, and more.

Pictures where you want them

In Hub 8, we added one of the most anticipated features for the Photos app: a dedicated Media folder for all your pictures. Your space no longer shows those annoying memes your colleague keeps sending over, and instead displays photos from the chosen folder. Previews also run smoothly now with ‘blur hash’ so you can scroll through your library more quickly.

Photos widget for Dashboard

While we were at it, we also created a nice Dashboard widget for Photos: it shows you a picture from the past. Good memories, we hope!

Nextcloud Talk

Meet an optimized Talk with much smoother team meetings, Federated chatting, new mechanics in messages including editing, Flavored Markdown and much more.

Message editing

Here’s to cleaner chat! Now you can edit messages in talk to correct typos, update information and add new lines without following up in a separate message. Edits are possible for 6 hours after the message is sent.

Federated chatting

Federated Hub becomes even more united. Now users from all teams can create group chats across federated Talk instances and use many Talk features like mentions, polls, and chat notifications. And even more to come in the future!

For federated chatting, we use the open standard Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) developed at CERN with the help of Nextcloud and other open source projects. The same standard is in use for federated file sharing. In the future, we are planning to expand this into federated Calendar sharing and other features.

Smoother team meetings

Now you can drag the speaker video to pick the best position to fit shared screen content. Current speaker is highlighted in the list for more visibility during large group calls. Call UI is greatly improved: access chat descriptions and post polls during calls, navigate chat messages without interruptions, and more.

New text styles

With Flavored Markdown now supported in Talk, you can make your messaging even more visually rich and informative. With syntax included in Flavored Markdown, you can create tables, add interactive check boxes and format text as a strikethrough.

About using Markdown in Talk

Nextcloud Groupware

In Hub 8, we focused on improving the performance of the whole Groupware bundle, delivering faster Mail with notable design adjustments, more automation and comfort in Calendar, better external compatibility, and more.

Faster, smarter, sleeker Mail

Find the right words with reply suggestions

Don’t have time to compose a well worded, professional reply? Hint: Use AI! Nextcloud Assistant in Mail now generates reply suggestions for you, so you can send a response to incoming mail based on your context in no time.

Enjoy a much faster sync

IMAP accounts without CONDSTORE extension can now sync 2x faster to enjoy a much more agile Mail experience.

Create events with automatic info

Enjoy even more automation! Now you can quickly create an event from the email thread using the More actions >> Create event action. Nextcloud Assistant will automatically pick the event title and description, and even create an agenda based on your conversation.

Save the date: Calendar improvements

Redesigned event window

We improved the event overview window and sidebar view, rendering a more comfortable layout and introducing two window modes: View mode and Edit mode.

Suggestions for free/busy times

In Nextcloud Mail, you can view the free/busy times of attendees to arrange the best time for your meeting. What if the time slot you picked doesn’t work for everybody? In Hub 8, Calendar automatically suggests the next suitable time slot on their availability and let’s you adjust the event in one click.

What’s more, in the redesigned availability window you can quickly manage the event: change the event time or add and remove the attendees.

Nextcloud ecosystem

Together with the Hub 8 release, we roll out new features for external apps, add new integrations, and amplify our whole app ecosystem with new mechanics.

Pop-up update summaries

The change log pop-up feature enables you to deliver update summaries straight to your users in a form of a notification. List new features, bug fixes and improvements and ship them in the appropriate format depending on the user’s role: admin or general user.

Discover in App Store

The new Discover section aims to create a more engaging experience for App Store users. It features curated app suggestions, themed collections, and various related content such as interviews, podcasts, and resources. To app developers, it is also an opportunity to greatly amplify visibility of their apps.

New integrations

Paperless-ngx is an open-source document management solution designed to help you organize and navigate your paperwork with a variety of complimentary features like OCR.

• Transform physical documents into a digital archive
• Organize and customize your library, enjoy advanced navigation
• Use a variety of extra features like OCR and Tesseract

Build apps for Nextcloud!

Whether you want to create mobile apps that connect to Nextcloud, integrate independent apps in Hub, or build dedicated apps, we’ve got you covered! You can build applications in any programming language, make use of our complete API documentation, and follow ready tutorials to get inspired.

Speaking of which, we are constantly extending our library of app tutorials, and this time we added two awesome new guides: a hello world app tutorial and a guide to using Github Codespaces as a developer environment.

New app ecosystem features

The app ecosystem update gives new liberties to app developers. With declarative syntax, now you can define custom setting screens for admins and end users. Opening opportunities for deeper integration with Nextcloud, we made it possible to inject a full user interface in Nextcloud. To aid the contributing developers in localization efforts, we also let you get help from our translator community using Transifex.

Nextcloud Clients

We worked on Nextcloud clients for all platforms, adding some great features to extend functionality and improve performance.

VFS support in macOS app

With Hub 8, we are releasing a new client for macOS that has support for the Virtual File System (VFS). The new sync engine adds more agility to file browsing, presenting all of the files available on the server without downloading them and taking extra disk space. These files will only be downloaded when you need to interact with them.

Easier app updates on Windows

Great news for our Windows users: new versions of the desktop client can now be installed without user intervention in most cases, making the update process smooth without disrupting your work.

MDM in the Android app

Enterprise customers will be glad to read that the Android app now has Mobile Device Management (MDM) integrated. The feature allows you to manage the mobile devices connected to your Nextcloud and therefore greatly improve security controls.

Design improvements for iOS client

iOS client for Files received major design rework in many areas:

• Cleaner navigation bar with new dropdown menu
• New account switcher
• Ability to show/hide the description
• Optimized action sheet
• Improved grid view for files
• Improved icons throughout the app

New level of performance

Organizations big and small rely on Nextcloud to supercharge their collaboration. That’s why we take performance and stability very seriously. Efficient software is not only about getting things done fast and serving a large base of users, it is also about reducing energy consumption and running on diverse infrastructures without losing efficiency.

With this release, we started working on the Database Sharding which lets you split Nextcloud database into several smaller databases and to distribute it among a few smaller servers. The basis for Database Sharding is already here, and we are planning to work on it moving forward to bring the opportunity to our users.

Another noteworthy improvement is in continuous work on the Read-After-Write behavior. Current architecture requires synchronous replication, which reduces the number of database cluster nodes to 4. In the future, we will support an unlimited number of Read nodes that are using asynchronous replication.

These efforts in boosting Nextcloud performance will allow us to accommodate up to 10x more users within a single cluster, moving the scalability of Nextcloud to a whole new level.

This, and numerous smaller but meaningful updates in the frontend make the Nextcloud experience much smoother, not only tackling the challenges of the large setups but also improving the performance for every user. After all, it’s all about giving you more time, achieved with scrutiny of every detail.

Ready to get the feel of the new Hub?

From continuous work on AI features and interface optimization, to various new shortcuts between apps and performance improvements — we tried to make Hub 8 worth your while. This is a result of the meticulous work of our growing team of engineers and designers, our contributors, and the whole of Nextcloud and its community.

Thank you for reading and sticking to the end! We took some of your time with this hefty blog, but we promise to give some of it back with Hub 8!

Get Nextcloud Hub 8

Download and install Nextcloud Hub 8 here!

Get Hub 8

You can download Nextcloud Hub 8 from our installation page. Among available options, you can use a zip file or the all-in-one image for fresh installation.

Over the coming weeks, we will make it available to our home users via updater using the usual staged roll-out process. You can switch to the beta channel temporarily if you want to try the new Hub right away. Don’t forget to switch back to stable after you’ve updated to Hub 8!

Note: Nextcloud caches the results coming from our updater server, so it can take some time for the new version to show up and you likely have to refresh the page, wait a bit, then try again.

How to update: AIO users

For new Nextcloud All-in-One (AIO) users, you can install Hub 8 directly by checking the “Install Nextcloud 29” box.

We have a dedicated setup guide for AIO users. Follow the guidelines to easily set up Hub 8.

The Nextcloud Enterprise version of Hub 8 will become available soon, once we successfully run the additional testing and complete certification.

Nextcloud One: a fully managed cloud platform

Nextcloud One is a fully managed Nextcloud offering from our new partner EpikShare. It is a comprehensive service where the hosting, maintenance and management of a Nextcloud instance are fully handled.

Nextcloud One ensures strict compliance with global data protection standards, including GDPR. This platform integrates workflow management tools, such as rule-based file tagging and access controls, with auditing capabilities, ensuring data oversight and security.

Nextcloud One is hosted within the stringent, privacy-focused jurisdiction of Germany and as such provides a secure, efficient and fully managed Nextcloud environment.

Discover the power of Nextcloud One! We invite professionals who work alone or in small teams to explore how Nextcloud One can help them collaborate in a digitally sovereign, compliant way. Visit their website today and start your journey for free with a fully managed Nextcloud solution.

Thank you to our community!

Nextcloud runs on community power. Users, contributors and developers who dedicate themselves to making Nextcloud better every day are the life force that drives our project. With our whole heart, we thank everyone involved in making the new Hub happen.

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What’s new

The updates bring several fixes and performance improvements in all supported versions of Nextcloud Hub. Version 26 meets its end of life and will no longer receive the updates. The Nextcloud desktop client has also been updated to version 3.12.3, and we highly recommend updating to this version due to important bug fixes.

Find the full changelog on our website, or read the update summaries below.

Version 26.0.13

This is the final update before the end of life of version 26. The update involves a mixture of enhancements and fixes across various components. Notable enhancements include:

• Collaboration, MailPlugin: Protect access to a potentially missing array component by ??
• Docs(config.sample.php): Warn that updatedirectory will break updates if set to a value within the installation folder
• Feat(share): save date and time for expiration
• Fix: Avoid clear cache with prefix
• Fix(api): Ignore “parsed” link and icon URLs when deleting
• Fix(caldav): add EXDATE and EXRULE to confidential object
• Fix(config): Make sure user keys are strings
• Fix(mail): Use parsed action label in email notification
• Fix(settings): posix_getpwuid can return false which should not be accessed like an array
• Fix(UpdateNotifications): Handle numeric user IDs

Note: There will be no more releases of Nextcloud Hub 4 (26.x.x and older). Upgrade to Nextcloud Enterprise to continue to get security and stability updates or move to Nextcloud Hub 6 or Hub 7. Don’t forget that running web-facing software without regular updates is risky. Please stay up to date with Nextcloud releases of both the server and its apps, for the safety of your data! Customers can always count on our upgrade support if needed.

Version 27.1.8

Recent updates encompass various improvements and fixes across different modules. Key enhancements affecting security, data integrity, user experience and overall performance include:

• Add recursive detection/prevention
• Docs(config.sample.php): Warn that updatedirectory will break updates if set to a value within the installation folder
• Fix: Avoid race condition that may initialize a document twice on the clients
• Fix: No password set for new mail shares
• Use the proper path to check if a file needs to be copied/moved to the actual target storage
• Fix: Allow to disable multipart copy on external s3 storage
• Fix: Avoid clear cache with prefix
• Fix: Fetch custom app store URL without internet connection
• Fix: Don’t return null for SharedStorage::getWrapperStorage with share recursion
• Fix: Ensure nested mount points are handled in the correct order

Version 28.0.4

The update includes multiple enhancements. Among those, the following focus on fixing issues related to security, data integrity, and functionality, ensuring smooth operation and improved user experience:

• Add recursive detection/prevention
• Fix: Avoid clear cache with prefix
• Fix: Avoid race condition that may initialize a document twice on the clients
• Fix: Catch exception from LogIteratorFactory, throw a clean error when log_type is not file
• Fix: No password set for new mail shares
• Fix(admin role): fix old and wrong way to determine whether user is admin
• Fix(backend): Accept pushes with only step1 messages by read-only clients
• Fix(config): Make sure user keys are strings
• Fix(settings): posix_getpwuid can return false which should not be accessed like an array
• Fix(UpdateNotifications): Handle numeric user ids
• Fix(user_ldap): Early failure for empty password login attempt
• Fix(user_status): Fix status update request not being sent
• Improve files version listing
• Use the proper path to check if a file needs to be copied/moved to the actual target storage

Desktop client 3.12.3

Recent updates 3.12.1 and 3.12.3 include several important bug fixes to tackle issues reported by customers.

In version 3.12.1, there are multiple improvements in end-to-end encryption functionality and a fix to a data loss issue that affects the users when group folders and files are moved from one location to another. Find the full changelog on GitHub.

The biggest part of version 3.12.3 is improvements for Windows users with a crash issue fixed and a much faster contextual menu performance. The crash could happen depending on the user workflow with the Windows file manager and its Nextcloud client integration. It also includes an important fix for users of group folders. Find the full changelog on GitHub.

Always keep your server up to date!

Nextcloud’s minor releases primarily focus on addressing security vulnerabilities and functionality bugs, avoiding major system overhauls that could jeopardize user data. Keeping your server up to date is vital, and our approach to testing and validation ensures that upgrading to minor releases is generally smooth and reliable.

For mission-critical Nextcloud systems in enterprise settings, consider switching to Nextcloud Enterprise. The tier provides you with ultimate deployment confidence: direct access to the Nextcloud engineering team, full assistance throughout deployment and integration, and peace of mind for system administrators. If you’re responsible for maintaining Nextcloud in your setting, this option may be the ideal solution for you.

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What’s new

The updates bring several important bug fixes and performance improvements in all supported versions of Nextcloud Hub. The Nextcloud desktop client has also been updated to version 3.12.0. Find the full changelog on our website, or read the update summaries below.

Version 26.0.12

In this update, several critical improvements have been made to enhance the system’s performance and security. The fixes tackle issues with partial cache entry in Files, auto-logout loop, brute-force protection for the federation endpoint, requests without read permission, and share status in WebDAV. These updates collectively contribute to a more robust and efficient user experience. Additionally, we handled issues with buffer chunked requests, storage background scanning, integer generation errors, preview generation, synchronization, file versioning. The capability for listing the root directory when using a case-insensitive option in SMB was also introduced.

Version 27.1.7

Several improvements and fixes have been implemented to enhance the overall functionality and security of the system. Noteworthy changes include logging when crypto session data is lost for better tracking and troubleshooting. Additionally, there are fixes in migration processes, checkbox functionality, auto-logout loop, brute-force protection for the federation endpoint, WebDAV, error handling, and a PHP codebase update. Other fixes include work on handling admin defaults in sharing, preview generation issues, video verification, errors in nextcloud/files, and storage background scanning.

Version 28.0.3

In the latest update, several enhancements and bug fixes have been introduced to ensure a smoother and more secure user experience. Notably, issues such as successful authentication detection in Kerberos tests and the slow logout problem on Chrome-like browsers have been addressed. There are fixes made in user status feature, disabling of SSL checks for JavaScript modules, visual enhancements for icons, PHP codebase update, webdav default header fix, and various performance improvements and bug fixes, ranging from quota warnings to cache issues in WebDAV.

Additionally, the release addresses buffer chunked requests, handling admin defaults in sharing, storage background scanning, URL pulse decoding, Photos picker, fixes related to file handling, and security enhancements including bruteforce protection to email endpoints.

Desktop client 3.12.0

Nextcloud desktop client update 3.12.0 includes several bug fixes and feature additions such as client status reporting and file-locking enhancements. Additionally, we made updates to workflows and dependency bumps, and ran a code cleanup.

Highlights of the version include client error reports in the server-like conflicts (data is available in the admin dashboard) and a restriction on moving the folders mounted in the external storage.

Find the full changelog on GitHub.

Make the most of Nextcloud with Hub 7

Nextcloud Hub 7 is the latest version of Hub. It brings even more synchronicity and comfort, introducing global features like Unified Search and cross-app out-of-office functionality, UX improvements and much more. What’s new:

• Unified Search to find anything, anywhere.
• Global Out-of-Office message in Mail, Calendar, and Talk.
• Phone dial-out, recording consent in Talk.
• iOS Live Photos, EXIF metadata support in Photos.
• Annotating and saving PDFs.
• Improved tag management and tag colors in Mail.
• Marking Deck cards as completed.
• New AI models for integration
• And more!

Get Nextcloud Hub 7

Download and install Nextcloud Hub 7 here!

Get Hub 7

Always keep your server up to date!

Nextcloud’s minor releases primarily focus on addressing security vulnerabilities and functionality bugs, avoiding major system overhauls that could jeopardize user data. Keeping your server up to date is vital, and our approach to testing and validation ensures that upgrading to minor releases is generally smooth and reliable.

For mission-critical Nextcloud systems in enterprise settings, consider switching to Nextcloud Enterprise. The tier provides you with ultimate deployment confidence: direct access to the Nextcloud engineering team, full assistance throughout deployment and integration, and peace of mind for system administrators. If you’re responsible for maintaining Nextcloud in your setting, this option may be the ideal solution for you.

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Update summary

We updated Nextcloud server, focusing on several key performance improvements, bug fixes, and security enhancements. Find a brief overview of the updates below and access the full changelog for each version on our website.

New in version 26.0.11

The version brings several updates, including fixes for a semaphore issue, enabling multiple organizers support, and ensuring proper Certificate Revocation List (CRL) updates. LDAP group formatting, shared lock TTL restoration, and improved performance in token login have been addressed.

Throttling mechanisms for restore processes and enhanced error handling for Exif metadata read errors are implemented. Furthermore, user timezone parsing for share expiration and subscription key validation for improved security are now part of the updated features.

New in version 27.1.6

Version 27.1.6 includes the enhancement of the Psalm configuration for improved static code analysis. A language-related issue affecting grammatical accuracy has been addressed in the Internationalization module. Fixes include preventing floating-point value truncation in Quota settings for non-English locales and optimizing Calendar Query Handling in the CalDAV module for increased efficiency.

Accessibility and user experience have been improved by ensuring sufficient contrast for app menu entries and dashboard welcome messages, as well as resolving issues with the reference picker in the Files module. Security measures include preventing writing .htaccess files on read-only file systems and introducing a Two-Factor Authentication Bypass in the AppAPI under specific conditions.

Additionally, service worker issues in the Files module have been addressed to enhance performance, and changes have been made to reduce memory consumption during scans.

New in version 28.0.2

The Hub 7 update includes enhancements like replacing input fields with password fields and adding password error messages, adjusting theming utilities for better color contrast, and adding a setup check for maintenance_window_start configuration. Various bug fixes address issues such as dragging previews in the Files module, handling calendar notifications, and fixing user status errors. Additionally, the release focuses on accessibility improvements, security updates, and performance enhancements.

Security measures and and dependency updates

In all maintenance releases, security measures have been implemented to prevent writing .htaccess files on read-only file systems, and additional configurations have been marked as sensitive. We also limited the validity of the authorization codes in Nextclud to 10 minutes.

The updates also cover dependency changes across various modules like activity, firstrunwizard, logreader, notifications, and more.

Desktop client 3.11.1

Version 3.11.1 of the desktop client includes several bug fixes and performance updates, such as interface improvements, various file management issue fixes, missing translations for AppImage, spelling improvement in end-to-end encryption messages, and more.

You can find the full changelog on GitHub to access the details of this update and the previous minor and major versions. To browse system reqirements for the latest version, refer to our client manual.

Upgrade to Hub 7

Nextcloud Hub 7 is our most integrated platform so far, bringing global features such as Unified Search and cross-app out-of-office functionality. New features include:

• Unified Search to find anything, anywhere.
• Global Out-of-Office message in Mail, Calendar, and Talk.
• Phone dial-out, recording consent in Talk.
• iOS Live Photos, EXIF metadata support in Photos.
• Annotating and saving PDFs.
• Improved tag management and tag colors in Mail.
• Marking Deck cards as completed.
• New AI models for integration
• And more!

Get Nextcloud Hub 7

Download and install Nextcloud Hub 7 here!

Get Hub 7

Keep your server up to date!

Nextcloud’s minor releases primarily focus on addressing security vulnerabilities and functionality bugs, avoiding major system overhauls that could jeopardize user data. Keeping your server up to date is vital, and our approach to testing and validation ensures that upgrading to minor releases is generally smooth and reliable.

For mission-critical Nextcloud systems in enterprise settings, consider switching to Nextcloud Enterprise. The tier provides you with ultimate deployment confidence: direct access to the Nextcloud engineering team, full assistance throughout deployment and integration, and peace of mind for system administrators. If you’re responsible for maintaining Nextcloud in your setting, this option may be the ideal solution for you.

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Why update your Hub 7

We have released a quick patch 28.0.1 to deliver even better Hub 7 experience. The update addresses various bugs and and enhances performance, user experience, administration, and accessibility.

For more details, find in the full changelog on our website. Here’s a summarized overview of the key changes:

Feature updates:

• User status automatically changes to ‚In a meeting‘ based on Calendar availability.
• New out-of-office status preset with a new emoji.
• Batch support for copying and moving files.
• OCC commands for admin delegation in settings.

Performance Boosts:

• Utilizing FileInfo’s metadata for hidden properties.
• Avoiding unnecessary queries for metadata props.
• Several other performance-related changes.

Accessibility Improvements:

• Global accessibility switch.
• Various accessibility fixes and enhancements, such as Unified Search headings, main page heading setting, and toggleable ARIA label.
• Improved color contrast on the dashboard widgets and login form.

Bug Fixes:

• Fixes for issues related to downloading files, encoded sources, navigation, and drag handlers.
• Regression fixes for files and copy-move batch support.
• Several bug fixes, including one related to out-of-office event time drifts in CalDAV.

Other:

• CA certificate bundle update.
• Legacy file_metadata table migrations commented to address technical debt.
• Prevention of floating-point value truncation when setting user quota with non-English local number schema.
• Dependency updates, including the bumping of @nextcloud/upload to version 1.0.4.

New to Hub 7? Time to try!

Our latest release contributes to even more connected, efficient, and productive collaboration. With features like Unified Search and global out-of-office message, we made Hub 7 our most integrated platform yet. Talk, Files, Groupware, Mail, and all other apps became even more intuitive and rich in functionality.

Read our release blog for more details, or upgrade today to try all the new features yourself.

Why keep your server up-to-date

Minor Nextcloud releases and patches bring fixes to the most common problems and improve platform security. Thoroughly tested, they are designed to be effortless and always keep user data safe in process.

We highly recommend upgrading to Nextcloud Enterprise if your organization relies critically on data security and stability. Not because Nextcloud is not reliable as it is, but because a dedicated team will be there for you to provide insurance and confidence 24/7. On top of that, enjoy infinite assisted scaling, enterprise apps, and certified compliance.

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We’ve made available new minor releases for Hub 4 and 6. You can find the full changelog of fixes and improvements for these releases on our website.

New in version 26.0.10

Highlights in version 26.0.10 include security-related fixes, such as updating the CA certificate bundle and handling potential vulnerabilities in the WebDAV component. The release improves performance with SFTP enhancements and optimizations in components like the TemplateManager and brute force protection mechanism. And, as always, backports of fixes aswell.

New in version 27.1.5

Highlights in version 27.1.5 include updating the CA certificate bundle, addressing CSRF check failures at login, and handling potential vulnerabilities such as idn_to_utf8 returning false, and other security-related fixes. Performance improvements involve lowering the threshold for system address book sync, optimizing file-sharing logic, and avoiding file operations when disk space is low. Additionally, the release introduces various system stability and reliability fixes, such as proper version fetching from shared files and avoiding unnecessary deletions. And, as always, …backports!

Desktop Client 3.11.0

In other news, the Desktop Client team pushed out a minor release, 3.11.0, fixing bugs and improving performance. You can find the full changelog here.

Improvements include the ability to remove remotely deleted files locally in case of upload errors and Material icons used for folders. Plus, we added multiple improvements for macOS, such as better reply notifications in Talk and opening Nextcloud after installation.

Don’t forget the desktop client now requires macOS version 12.0+.

It’s time to move to Nextcloud Hub 7

Nextcloud Hub 7 was released one week ago, and we recommend that you check it out to see if you can benefit from its latest features. Here is a quick summary:

• Unified, advanced search to find anything, anywhere.
• Global Out-of-Office message that works in Mail, Calendar, and Talk apps.
• Phone dial-out to call participants directly from within Talk.
• Recording consent in Talk to comply with privacy laws.
• iOS Live Photo viewing and EXIF metadata support in the Photos app.
• Annotating and saving PDFs right in your Nextcloud.
• Improved tag management and tag colors in the Mail app.
• Marking Deck cards as completed to stay productive.
• On-premises Stable Diffusion by Stability AI for local image generation and the new Aleph Alpha model.
• Much, much more!

Check out the full release announcement here. Note that the AI features are optional – and updating is easy as Hub 7 is built on the same foundation as Hub 6, not requiring any heavy migrations.

Get Nextcloud Hub 7

Download and install Nextcloud Hub 7 here!

Get Hub 7

Stay safe: keep your server up-to-date!

Minor Nextcloud releases are security and functionality bug fixes, not rewrites of major systems that risk user data! We subject our codebase to extensive automated testing, followed by validation on a series of real-world systems before releasing them to the public. This ensures that minor release upgrades are generally painless and reliable. As the updates not only fix feature issues but also security problems, it is highly recommended to upgrade!

If you are maintaining a mission-critical Nextcloud system for your enterprise, we also highly recommended Nextcloud Enterprise. With a hotline to the core Nextcloud developers, it’s the best guarantee of reliable service for your users and peace-of-mind for system administrators – maybe that’s you!

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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.

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

• Files
• Tags
• Emails
• Contacts
• Talk conversations and messages
• Deck boards and cards
• Collectives
• Circles
• Tables
• Notes
• Events
• Apps

…and beyond

Search in integrated locations like GitHub, GitLab, Giphy, Reddit, and more. Once a service is connected to Nextcloud Hub, a new search filter will be available in the list of possible search locations under “Apps and Settings”.

The out-of-office message that everybody catches

Embark on your next vacation – stress free. Set a out-of-office status that will pop up around Hub, letting everybody know you are away and who to contact instead. Configurable in the “Availability” section of your personal settings, your absence status will automatically be updated throughout the platform, with an auto-responder in Mail and a dedicated calendar event for your selected dates.

Add a catchy user status

Use a short, custom message to notify everybody about your absence. It will work as a status message for your account visible everywhere under your name: user search results, profile, contact list, and more. Add an emoji to give it a personal visual twist!

Get the details right

Use the long description to give more details: absence period, status of your tasks, and a colleague or the team who will be your replacement. Even share some details about your vacation if you want to! Everyone is informed when you are back and whom to contact instead while you are away.

In Mail

Your out-of-office message automatically takes over auto-responder during your holiday period.

In Talk

Auto-responder also works in Talk chat, popping up to everybody who enters a private conversation with you.

In Calendar

A calendar event is also created for your absence period with your status as a title and full text in description.

So, next time you’re about to go on vacation, wrap up your work quickly with Nextcloud’s automated out-of-office features. Just provide a simple message and Nextcloud does the rest.

AI and Nextcloud Assistant

Our AI team at Nextcloud has an ongoing focus on research and a dedication to evolving our AI offerings thoughtfully with every release of Hub. With new challenges arising in AI, from privacy to Big Tech centralization and environmental considerations, we must not let users fear technology with such a great potential. Or worse — carelessly give away their data. Like everything else works in Nextcloud, we don’t stop with a cool feature — we keep bringing more to the table.

Welcome Aleph Alpha and local Stable Diffusion

We help our users make informed choices while expanding their options to power up the AI functionality in Nextcloud. In Hub 7, the available selection of models is updated with inclusion of Aleph Alpha, a Large Language Model developed in Germany that can be used by the Nextcloud Assistant. This option fits users who wish to use a remote AI services but be confident that confident their data remains in Europe.

Now, you can also run an on-premises Stable Diffusion model by Stability AI for local image generation.

All open source AI models available in Nextcloud

• Llama-2
• Gpt4ALL-J
• Stable Diffusion
• Airoboros
• Whisper
• Dolly
• Bark
• Piper
• Falcon
• Bert
• GPT-NeoX
• MPT

Costs under control

While running organization-wide AI is costly, we now give you more control over expenses with request limits. Define number of requests users can submit in the admin settings to make budget planning more accurate.

Task notifications

Depending on available resources, you may have a powerful AI engine delivering instant results or choose to limit its capabilities to reduce costs. Depending on your setup, the processing time varies. If instead of waiting the user chooses to be notified, they will receive a push notification on their mobile, desktop, or web interface letting them know that the task is complete.

What’s coming next? Context Chat

Our collaboration with the German state of Schleswig-Holstein is starting to deliver its first results. Today, we are releasing a tech preview of a powerful feature for the Nextcloud Assistant: Context Chat. This feature allows the Nextcloud assistant to refer to your emails, files, chat messages and more to answer your questions about these items. It allows you to query your own data, to present your personal and organizational context to an AI model and have it help you gain personalized, unique insights that are completely private, never sent to a third party unless you so choose. Storing the data in a local vector database, Context Chat works with most available large language models, both those you can self-host and some remote options.

Nextcloud Photos

Live Photo support on iOS

Want to save your Live Photos on your Nextcloud? Now it’s possible to upload and save live photos from your iPhone to Nextcloud, and view them in the Photos app. To enable this feature, just go to Settings → Advanced and select the “Live Photo” option. From there, you can upload any photo as normal and a live photo will appear with a special eye icon. The Live Photos can be seen on the Photos app where you’ll see a Play button in the photo.

Introducing EXIF metadata support

The Photos app now displays where and when your pictures were taken, if that data is available in its metadata. The EXIF metadata associated with each picture also contains information about photographs like the camera settings, time and date, and location, which we can show:

• The time and date the photo was taken
• A map of where the photo was taken (using OpenStreetMap)
• Information about the camera used i.e. type of camera and other technical details

In addition, your photos will be sorted according to the date each photo was taken, not when the Nextcloud file was created. This is especially helpful when you want to find a photo and can only remember when you took it. You can find your EXIF data once you’ve opened a photo and go to the sidebar under the tab „details.“

Nextcloud Files

Nextcloud Files is the premier file sync & share solution

Let’s explore what’s new in Nextcloud Files, where your documents, videos and photos live. Nextcloud Files is a powerful document management system, making it easy to access, share and work with your documents wherever you are.

Files – now backed by Vue.js

The Nextcloud Files app has been rewritten, thereby migrating to Vue.js, a popular, modern web toolkit packed with possibilities. This brings a number of performance benefits you’ll appreciate:

• The code is more modular, requiring less javascript to be loaded. That means faster loading times. The devs saw the Files app loading about 65% faster!
• Preview loading and caching was improved and large folders also render a lot faster.
• A more accurate progress indicator with more information when uploading files, with also improved error handling
• We can more easily add integrations with other apps, again requiring less code to be loaded

A ton of small improvements all over the place was done, from little animations when you drag and drop files to tons of accessibility improvements that should help users who rely on a screen reader or keyboard control. A few examples:

• Support more actions with selections (add to favorites, restore from trashbin…)
• Better selection handling (shift + select to select range)
• Better error handling (if you have a selection and some actions fails, the failures will stay selected and the error message will tell you that some files had an error)
• New tags view
• Grid view support in all views (favorites, trash, recent etc)
• Unified design across all views
• Support remembering files settings per view (like sorting)
• Improved dark mode

Our goal was to make Files easier to maintain but keep the same user experience you know and love. So, while you won’t immediately notice a big change, we hope you’ll appreciate all the little touches!

For developers, the improved documentation should also help add things like file actions for example.

We hope you enjoy the new and improved Nextcloud Files.

Annotate your PDF!

Special in this release is PDF annotation support! Thanks to one of our amazing community members, it’s now possible to fill out a form or draw directly on a PDF right in your Nextcloud.

The next time you need to annotate a PDF, enable the freehand drawing feature or use text boxes to add information. Once it’s complete, you can save the updated PDF to your Nextcloud.

Customize your navigation bar

When you login to your Nextcloud, is your dashboard the first stop for you? Would you prefer Talk, Calendar or Files? With our new app order configuration, you can decide which app is the default when you login and when you click on the Nextcloud logo. You can also order the apps to have your most used apps to the left. Admins can also set some key apps in this order to ensure the experience is consistent across the server.

You can customize the order of your applications in the main navigation bar so you have your most used apps first.

Just click on your profile icon in the top right corner of your Nextcloud and select “Appearance and accessibility” for the navigation bar settings. You can easily move your apps with up and down arrows or drag and drop to find the perfect order for all your apps.

Comments and activity tabs in sidebar merged

One of Nextcloud’s most unique features in Files is the sidebar where you can see any activity on the document – like when and who did the last edit, any comments about the file, internal and external sharing options, and a tab for all the files versions. In the Hub 7 release, we decided to merge the “activity” and “comments” tabs so it’s easy to see both.

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

QR code generation

One of the simplest ways to share a survey or landing page is through a QR code. QR codes can be easily scanned on the go and are hassle free for most audiences. So, next time you’re planning an event or simply need to share the wifi password in your office – you can create a QR code directly in your Nextcloud Office document. Simply go to “Insert” and click “QR and Barcode” where a pop-up window will allow you to add a link and generate a QR or barcode link, as well as add other details.

Conditional formatting in spreadsheets

Need to visualize a ton of data? Want to throw in some colors? Now in spreadsheets, you can select a single cell or range of cells of data and pair it with a color scheme to showcase your data more vibrantly and uniform. The conditional formatting feature is basically a way to adjust the style of a cell or range of cells based on its value. For example, if you have accounting data, easily visualize the ebs and flows of your expenses and profits by color. The conditional formatting feature is available through quick access menu in the menu bar with various presets to pick from.

Share your notes

We often brainstorm ideas individually and drop them in our notes for a quick fix. But what if you want to share those brilliant thoughts and ideas with a colleague or friend? You can now share of one of your notes in the media tab on the right hand side of your notes. Share with a colleague or with somebody externally through a link just like you do in Nextcloud Files. You can even work together on the note!

Besides, now you have access to activity and versions in Notes directly from the sidebar.

Improved re-connection experience

It can be frustrating when you’re working on a document and have connection issues. Sometimes you’re traveling on a train and lose connection or you take a break from your laptop with a document still open and come back to it having to re-load it. With this release, we’ve made significant improvements to providing you a better re-connection experience. This will allow you to get straight back to work without having to re-load your document with any further delay.

Accessibility improvements

We take accessibility seriously. Our goal is that everyone can enjoy the benefits of Nextcloud! For this release, we worked on much improved support for screen readers. This means more accurate reading of documents and access. Second, new keyboard shortcuts have been added that show up in yellow for easy access. Click on ALT to get hints for navigating though the menu with the keyboard.

For even more updates on new features, bug fixes and improvements, you can check out Collabora’s latest release.

New in Collectives

What’s new in the modern wiki-like knowledge base app Collectives? If you’re an avid user of Collectives, you’ll be glad to hear we’ve made some usability improvements.

Page in full width

Experience your Collectives pages in full width (like a full screen movie for effect!) to comfortably view bulky content like large tables.

Reorganize pages

Do you ever create a new page and find a better spot for it later? You can now move or copy pages to a new location, just like in Nextcloud Files. There’s super simple up and down arrows to reorder your pages just to where you like them.

Recent pages in Dashboard

In your Dashboard, you can add a new widget: Recent Collectives pages. Hop right back to a page you or others were working on in a flash.

Improved rendering of images and other files

• Improved image appearance and quality
• Improved preview and layout for printing

Nextcloud Groupware

Nextcloud Groupware consists of Mail, Calendar and Contacts

Teamwork in Hub is as efficient as ever with the new Groupware features. Those include both platform-wide improvements and app-specific ones.

New in Contacts: Automatic „Busy“ status and shared items

User profiles in contacts now display the items that you share with the contact — owned both by them and by you. Those include files, Calendar events, Talk rooms, and Deck cards. Quickly jump to any item by simply clicking on it.

User status also gets more automation and visibility. From now on, it is visible in the Contacts menu right away instead of the email. Statuses automatically change to “Busy” when a busy calendar event starts. If you have an absence period configured for a certain period of time, your status symbol and text will align with the out-of-office message you added.

Even more powerful Mail

Search in message body

Enable search in the body of Priority inbox emails to find everything you need in your communication history, even if it’s not mentioned in the title. Open Mail settings and tick the corresponding box on the very top to set up the feature. Quick search will include email body results as well as the title results.

This feature is not enabled by default as it sends the search request to your email server – and some can unfortunately be quite slow to respond.

Sorting by date

Need to sort your emails from oldest to newest for quicker access to older correspondence? With the new sorting setting, you can switch between two sorting modes to fine-tune your search results. Find the switch in the Mail settings on the top left of the Mail app interface.

Improved tag management

Edit tag colors to visually categorize emails by your personal preference. Feel safe from accidental clicks: if you attempt to delete a tag, you will see a pop-up letting you know that it will disappear across the whole mailbox.

Smart picker and emoji picker

Create rich emails without leaving the message editor. Now you can use the Smart Picker feature and add emojis to your mails, just like you do in Text. To summon Smart Picker, just type “/” and choose from available options to insert: Talk rooms, Deck cards, Calendar events, GIFs, Files, Collectives pages, and much more. Start typing “:” to add an emoji — add an option from recent emojis or continue typing the full emoji name to find the one you need.

Smarter and brighter Deck

Card images, Completed status, and keyboard shortcuts: working with tasks in Deck becomes muck more intuitive and informative. Besides, we polished the card design to make them more compact and less distractive.

Card cover images

Deck boards have just become richer with cover images! An image will be picked automatically from the first image attached to the card. If there are no images, add one and it will be used as a cover without any need to put it in the description text. Enable cover images in Deck’s display settings on the top right.

“Completed” status

You can also now mark cards as “Completed” to let yourself and others know that the work is done. When there’s a due date set for the card, it will keep you stress-free and your task planning transparent. You can then add the completed cards to archive if you wish to keep your board clean.

Keyboard shortcuts

In Deck, we also introduced keyboard shortcuts to helping you perform quick actions with cards and boards. To use a shortcut for a card, hover your mouse over it. To use board shortcuts, you only need the board page to be active.

Nextcloud Talk

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

Talk meetings and chats became much more alive and capable. We added many popular features based on user requests: from recording consent and ability to call phone numbers, to screen sharing speaker picture-in-picture and file captions.

Get personal with speaker video feed

Personal connection is always there during the stream with a speaker picture-in-picture present on the screen even when screen sharing. Once your video is on, participants will be able to see you while you are showing your screen or running a slide show.

Recording consent

Nextcloud Talk: Recording consent

Recording consent for a meeting is a nice gesture to your guests’ privacy, but often it is also necessary to comply with your and their company regulations. Now you can request recording consent for your meetings, streams and online events to help everyone feel safe and secure.

Configure it in the conversation settings to apply the rule for all meetings in the current room. Participants will not be able to join the call unless they grant their consent via the pop-up window whether the call is currently being recorded or not. An administrator can export a list of people that consented with the recording from the command line.

Upon starting a call, you can enable the recording right away.

Invite to calls via phone number

Now you can let everybody participate in Talk calls even without a camera, browser or even internet connection. Call one or multiple phone numbers right from the Talk room using Telephone dial-out.

This adds to the existing dial-in feature, where people can dial a specific phone number to join a Talk room.

You remain in full control to save money and keep your meeting organized. You can add users to the room using their mobile numbers, hang up or mute them during the call. The feature can be restricted to selected user groups to keep the costs under control.

The telephone dial-out and dial-in features requires an enterprise SIP setup.

Guest names in meetings

Avoid awkwardness and the struggle to find call participants with custom guest names during large calls and webinars. Talk now asks external users to give a name before joining so everybody in the room knows who is who.

Link to call in notifications

When a meeting including you starts in Talk, you will get a direct call link in the Notifications, so you can join immediately without navigating rooms and buttons. Stress-free communication is what we designed Talk for!

Animated reactions

Animated reactions in video calls adds a little magic to your meetings. React with an emoji from the toolbar and see what happens!

Note to self

The new “Note to self” chat in Talk is your personal safe space in Talk. Use it as a diary or a place to store links and assets, or forward important messages from colleagues to quickly find them later. What’s more, you can add bots, change the avatar and pick a new name, just like in any other Talk room.

File captions

Sharing files in chats is more convenient with file captions. When uploading media, you can write a message describing what it is or what tasks are associated with it. It works the same with text messages — add a file while writing and it will be attached to the message.

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!

Aleph Alpha

• Use this German alternative to OpenAI with Nextcloud Assistant
• Get results with this multi modal large language model (LLM)

Install the app

Memegen

• Easily generate the perfect memes for your chats, emails and documents
• Fill in custom text captions using the Smart Picker functionality

Install the app

New app ecosystem – examples provided!

In our last release, we introduced our new app ecosystem and all the new possibilities to create apps in any programming language of your choice. To take it a step further, in this release we’re providing some example apps to help anyone get started.

Besides everything currently supported in the Open Collaboration Services API, like accessing and sharing files for example, you can now also implement these 3 features in your new app:

Note: we are working on more capabilities and you can suggest more on GitHub.

How to get Hub 7

Get Nextcloud Hub 7

Download and install Nextcloud Hub 7 here!

Get Hub 7

You can download the latest Nextcloud Hub 7 from our install page right now! There you can find a zip file or the all-in-one image for fresh installation.

Over the coming weeks we will make it available to our home users via updater using the usual staged roll-out. If you can’t wait you can switch to the beta channel temporarily. Don’t forget to switch back to stable after you updated to Hub 7!

Note: Your Nextcloud caches the results coming from our updater server, so it can take some time for the new version to show up and you likely have to refresh the page, wait a bit and do that again.

AIO users

For new Nextcloud All-in-One (AIO) users, you can install Hub 7 directly by checking the box “Install Nextcloud 28”

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

The Nextcloud Enterprise version of Hub 7 will become available in about 4 weeks, once the additional testing and certification are complete.

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.

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Please update to 25.0.13, 26.0.7 or 27.1.3, plus – desktop client 3.10.1

We’ve made available new minor releases for Hub 3, 4 and 6. As always, minor releases include stability and security improvements that are designed to be a safe and quick upgrade.

You can find the full changelog of fixes and improvements for these releases on our website. Some highlights include some LDAP and other user management improvements, minor improvements in Text, some UI fixes and many other small bug fixes.

Note: With 25.0.13 we are at the end of the road for Nextcloud Hub 3. Upgrade to Nextcloud Enterprise to continue to get security and stability updates or move to Nextcloud Hub 4 or Hub 6. Don’t forget that running web-facing software without regular updates is risky. If no upgrade to 26 was offered to you yet, please check your PHP version! Nextcloud 25 was the last release still supporting PHP 7.4 (which also is unsupported for roughly a year now), so upgrading to PHP 8.x is necessary. Please stay up to date with Nextcloud releases of both the server and its apps, for the safety of your data! Customers can always count on our upgrade support if needed

Note²: PHP 7.x is no longer officially supported by the PHP community. Nextcloud has supported PHP 8.0 and newer versions for some time now, and we strongly recommend you move to a newer version of PHP. Version 8.0 is already out of active support (!) and has only a few months of security updates left. Nextcloud Hub 3 (25.0.x) deprecates PHP 7.4 but still works with it. We recommend you use PHP 8.1 or newer. Hub 4 and newer support PHP 8.2.

Desktop Client 3.10.1

In other news, the Desktop Client team pushed out a minor release, 3.10.1, fixing a small number of bugs and minor issues. You can find the full changelog here. Improvements include a fix for chunked upload.

WARNING: This version is known to crash on legacy (no longer maintained) releases of macOS. We have raised the requirements at install to macOS 12+. In the future we may be able to lower the requirement back to 11+, however we of course strongly recommend against running unsupported (and thus likely insecure) versions of Mac OS or any other software.

We had some delays in the release due to build changes and another minor release might already come relatively soon.

Ready to move to Nextcloud Hub 6?

Nextcloud Hub 6 was released 2 weeks ago and we recommend that you check it out to see if you can benefit from its latest features. A quick summary:

100% local, private AI assistant that can summarize your mail threads and help you write, translate, dictate and more
Show speaking time, 1 hour call warning for a healthy meeting culture
File, chat & mail reminders so you don’t always have to JUMP immediately on what’s new
Bots in Talk to help you summarize meetings and bring content from other tools in Talk
New file selector to make navigating your files easier, and updated share flow to simplify sharing
NEW: developers can now write apps in ANY language, not just PHP!
Much, much more!

Check out the full release announcement here.

Note that the AI features are, of course, optional – and updating is easy as Hub 6 is built on the same foundation as Hub 5, not requiring any heavy migrations.

Stay safe: keep your server up-to-date!

Minor Nextcloud releases are security and functionality bug fixes, not rewrites of major systems that risk user data! We also do extensive testing, both in our code base and by upgrading a series of real-world systems to the test versions. This ensures that upgrades to minor releases are generally painless and reliable. As the updates not only fix feature issues but also security problems, it is a bad idea to not upgrade!

If you are maintaining a mission-critical Nextcloud system for your enterprise, it is highly recommended that you get yourself some insurance (and job security… who gets blamed if the file handling system isn’t working as expected?). A hotline to the core Nextcloud developers is the best guarantee for reliable service for your users, and the job safety of you as a system administrator.

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September 21st we published minor releases for Hub 3 and 4, and decided to also push out the first fixes for the freshly released Hub 6. Perhaps we were a little too eager to bring you these fixes, as a new problem slipped in: the style sheets for the new file picker were not properly compiled. In short, it didn’t look very good at all, though it was functional. Our standards exceed „barely functional“, so we decided to bring you another minor update.

A few other fixes also made it in giving this release about 20 small improvements, from the mentioned fix for the file selection dialog to a fix that ensures user quota are counted in binary, not base 10 (we don’t sell disk drives after all). A small feature also made it in, let’s quote from the pull request by R0Wi:

Let occ trashbin:restore restore also from groupfolders and add additional filters.

• Using the TrashManager allows access to all deleted files
• Add ’scope‘ parameter to choose where to restore from (user or groupfolders)
• Add ‚restore-from‘ and ‚restore-to‘ date parameters to filter files to be
  restored by their deletion date
• Add ‚dry-run‘ flag to be able to see which files would be restored and being
  able to adjust the filter parameters accordingly

This can be incredibly helpful if a user accidentally deleted a ton of files on a certain day – for example, because they were trying to clean up space on their disk drive in a folder synced with the server, not realizing their colleagues would now also have more free disk space. These things happen!

You can find the full changelog of fixes and improvements for these releases on our website.

After this, we intend to go back to our regular schedule, with the next minor releases coming in 2 weeks, on October 19. Note that Hub 3 (25.x) will then get its final update, meaning no more security fixes. We strongly recommend you update to Hub 4 or newer, or move to Nextcloud Enterprise for up to 5 years of updates.

If you are on Hub 5 (27.0.x) you will get 27.1.x offered by updater, in other words – you will move to Hub 6. As the core version number indicates, the changes were limited to apps, meaning your update should be quick and smooth, and Hub 5 is effectively superseded by Hub 6.

Desktop client 3.10

As a reminder, the Desktop Client team made 3.10 available together with the release of Nextcloud Hub 6. This is a major release with a ton improvements. The biggest is that, in addition to locking files that are being edited on the server, the client can now also detect files being opened locally in Microsoft Office and LibreOffice, and lock the files on the server (and other clients). This can help avoid conflicts between multiple users editing the same file.

Here is a list of other, smaller improvements:

• Files that are deleted on the server can now optionally go to the trash on the client. This was available for Linux but now also on Windows and MacOS.
• There is now a warning when a new folder goes over the folder size limit, so you can choose to stop syncing it.
• Sync issues are now always on top of the activity list, so conflicts for example can be resolved even easier.
• Share dialog now has ‚allow resharing‘ option and suggests a password when passwords are set as mandatory on the server
• File locking works better with virtual files
• Improved migration from ownCloud to Nextcloud

A lot of other improvements to network and conflict handling, dealing with notifications, end-to-end encryption and bulk upload have been made as well. Support for uploading multi-part chunks to S3 will make the use of object storage much faster, especially with large files, but only when S3 is used as primary storage.

You can find the full changelog here.

Note: There will be no more releases of Nextcloud Hub 2 (24.x.x and older). Upgrade to Nextcloud Enterprise to continue to get security and stability updates or move to Nextcloud Hub 3 or Hub 4. Don’t forget that running web-facing software without regular updates is risky. Please stay up to date with Nextcloud releases of both the server and its apps, for the safety of your data! Customers can always count on our upgrade support if needed.

Note²: PHP 7.x is no longer officially supported by the PHP community. Nextcloud has supported PHP 8.0 and newer versions for some time now, and we strongly recommend you move to a newer version of PHP. Version 8.0 is already out of active support (!) and has only a few weeks of security updates left. Nextcloud Hub 3 (25.0.x) deprecates PHP 7.4 but still works with it. Still we recommend you use PHP 8.1 or newer. Hub 4 and newer support PHP 8.2.

Ready to move to Nextcloud Hub 6?

Nextcloud Hub 6 was released 2 weeks ago and we recommend that you check it out to see if you can benefit from its latest features. A quick summary:

100% local, private AI assistant that can summarize your mail threads and help you write, translate, dictate and more
Show speaking time, 1 hour call warning for a healthy meeting culture
File, chat & mail reminders so you don’t always have to JUMP immediately on what’s new
Bots in Talk to help you summarize meetings and bring content from other tools in Talk
New file selector to make navigating your files easier, and updated share flow to simplify sharing
NEW: developers can now write apps in ANY language, not just PHP!
Much, much more!

Check out the full release announcement here.

Note that the AI features are, of course, optional – and updating is easy as Hub 6 is built on the same foundation as Hub 5, not requiring any heavy migrations.

Stay safe: keep your server up-to-date!

Minor Nextcloud releases are security and functionality bug fixes, not rewrites of major systems that risk user data! We also do extensive testing, both in our code base and by upgrading a series of real-world systems to the test versions. This ensures that upgrades to minor releases are generally painless and reliable. As the updates not only fix feature issues but also security problems, it is a bad idea to not upgrade!

If you are maintaining a mission-critical Nextcloud system for your enterprise, it is highly recommended that you get yourself some insurance (and job security… who gets blamed if the file handling system isn’t working as expected?). A hotline to the core Nextcloud developers is the best guarantee for reliable service for your users, and the job safety of you as a system administrator.

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