Hi all MangoLassians!!!
You can help test Nextcloud 12 beta today! Lots of good stuff coming, we've got a whole bunch of blogs and youtube videos...
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-12-beta-introduces-the-next-generation-of-secure-collaboration/

Youtube Video

Dear Mangolassians,

Today we are proud to announce the first integrated, enterprise-grade end-to-end encryption solution in the file share and collaboration industry.

You can learn more about it, check our design and try out our tech preview in our blog!

We look forward to your feedback. And share the news so we get as many people as possible look at and tell us what they think about our security design!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-introducing-native-integrated-end-to-end-encryption!

Now enjoy this gif. I know, no kittens, no dogs, but it does show E2EE in action!

https://nextcloud.com/media/optimized.gif

Hi Mangolassians!

It's been a while since I posted - been a crazy time. But I didn't want anyone to miss this!

Today, we announced THREE cool things:

Nextcloud 14

Introducing Video Verification and Signal/Telegram 2FA support, Improved Collaboration and GDPR compliance
Youtube Video

• blog post about Swiftv3 and systemd log support
• blog post about developer changes in Nextcloud 14
• release blog post

Nextcloud Simple Signup

Easy login flow makes signing up to a decentralized, federated file sync and share solution as simple as to established, centralized cloud services!

• Blog
• campaign page: https://nextcloud.com/yourdata
• link to sign up: https://nextcloud.com/signup

https://nextcloud.com/media/animation.gif

NEC will bring Nextcloud to millions of routers in Japan

blog

Check the blogs etc

you can follow the action live:
https://nextcloud.com/livestreaming

Lunch in 15 min, after lunch a keynote and some lighting talks. More tomorrow!

Hi all!

Been a while...

I wanted to share that we published NC Hub 22, with lots of good stuff.

The biggest improvements Nextcloud Hub 22 introduces are:

• User-defined groups with Circles that makes it easier to manage teams where you can share files or assign tasks to circles, or create chat rooms for a circle
• Integrated knowledge management Nextcloud puts knowledge available to everyone at a moments' notice, providing easy search, sharing, and portable access
• ️ Integrated chat and task management where you can simply share a deck card into a chat room or turn a chat message into a task
• Easy approval workflow, where an administrator can define a new approval flow in the settings and users can, on a document, request approval
• Getting your document signatures easy with integrated PDF signing with DocuSign, EIDEasy, and LibreSign
• Groupware improvements bringing a trash bin feature in Calendar, resource booking to facilitate the handling of resources in organizations. Nextcloud Mail features improved threading, email tagging, and support for Sieve filtering

There are many more new features and changes like notifications in the app navigation, integrated compression in the Files interface, and significant performance improvements to universal search.

Get it now!

Nextcloud Hub 22 is optimized for the modern, digital office. Get ready for the New Work with us!

We did a launch video, with screencasts and other stuff. Watch it on YT, with a live Q&A afterward. Well, that Q&A is no longer live, but you know, it was at some point live...
Youtube Video

Hi all,

I thought I'd leave a short link here to a blog about our Hackweek last week. We worked on our roadmap for Nextcloud 11 (and 10, coming soon) and there's a new app store coming!

I'll blog more extensively about the app store tomorrow, but for now you can read the blog about the entire week!

Now obviously, lots of companies use open source tools and incorporate open source libraries in their in-house software because it saves them a load of time and costs. Also obviously, you have to keep an eye out on vulnerabilities coming in that code.

So I read this scare-mongering title on CIO:
Open source code is common, potentially dangerous, in enterprise apps

And I think - wow. Is this another round of FUD, or? Reading the article, I don't think it's wrong per-se. It is just that all the dangers it talks about are double, if not triple true for proprietary libraries and code incorporated in an enterprise application... Those often have worse security policies - no disclosure, for example. Loads of vendors still think "if I just keep this secret, nobody will notice how insecure my software is" and while that's bad for applications, you'll at least update them at some point due to a bug fix release you need. With libraries - well, unless there's a REAL good reason (say a zero-day vulnerability?) you won't update them out of fear of breaking your app... Transparency is thus crucial and it's a core feat of open source.

Of course the article points out that it's not just open source even pointing to Windows XP as part of a 'product' that was problematic (duh!).

Still, the title makes it seem like a big anti-open-source-diatribe and claims: "Problem solved, at least in this instance. But the underlying issue – the routine practice of reusing open source code in new software – remains."

That's an issue!?!??!?

What do you think, is this a new way of making people afraid of open source or just a misguided title and a few stupid statements by the writer?

The latest ownCloud Server 8.2 brings improvements to the user interface and more control for admins. Learn more about what's new in our release blog!

I'd love to hear what you think of this release. If you're thinking about upgrading but am not 100% confident, wait for my upgrade-to-8.2 blog coming tomorrow. I'll share it here, OK?

Good news! CentOS RPM's are coming, see https://github.com/nextcloud/server-packages

Expect a blog about it soon, perhaps even today still. If I get it finished

We just introduced public link editing of office documents in Nextcloud 11 - that is, you can share a folder with a public link and if you give it write permissions people can just click a document and edit it together with you, no accounts needed.

How useful is this, should I promote the bananas out of it or do you feel it's not worth much effort??

See my blog

and this yt video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8iuSFKVl-xQ

EDIT: reworded "anonymous editing" to 'public link editing"... Same thing, different words

We just made updates for ownCloud Server 8.1.4, 8.0.9 and 7.0.11 available

@Ambarishrh said in Testing help welcome: NextCloud NC 10 RC1 is out.:

Admin page shows a message with a clickable link for security tips but is not linked.

Now I am punished for not more frequently reading up on Mangolassi - this is a tiny, easy to fix issue but it sadly made it into 10 final because we didn't notice and I didn't copy from here!

I created an issue, we're fixing this now but it'll be in 10.0.1

Sadly, other sections have similar issues.

https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/1048

Thanks and - yeah, submitting things to github ensures we notice

@nerdydad said in Nextcloud 14 now available:

@scottalanmiller said in Nextcloud 14 now available:

Mine still shows 13.0.6 as current

Me too.

Switch to the beta channel, switch back after upgrading

We roll out incrementally.

Seems some caching is biting some ppl, showing apps as not available while they are... going to app mgmt and disabling/enabling them fixes it. We have some other weird issues, seems like I should have asked here for you all to help test the RC's so we had a more stable end result

Hi all!

I think a lot of you will be interested in two news items we pushed the last days:

• Collabora brings LibreOffice Online to ownCloud about LibreOffice Online integration in ownCloud
• Western Digital And ownCloud Team Up To Bring ownCloud to Home Users inviting people to join a project building ownCloud software for a Raspberry Pi 2 based, ownCloud-branded Western Digital developed self hosting device - you can get a prototyp if you participate!

We will be at FOSDEM and SCALE and I look forward to seeing many of you there! In other conference news, we've picked the dates for the ownCloud Contributor Conference 2016: September 9-15. Save the dates, we'll open registration in March.

in case you're interested in joining or haven't thought about it yet

here.

@dustinb3403 said in Nextcloud 14 now available:

I honestly am curious why more software houses don't ask us to beta for them. . . Any time I make changes to my public GH I ask people here to test to make sure I'm not the only one seeing it "work".

We announce and ask for help in testing every beta and release candidate. For anyone who finds upgrade bugs in the last beta or any of the RC's we even offer a t-shirt

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-14-rc1-announced-with-video-verification-and-signaltelegram-2fa-support-improved-collaboration-and-gdpr-compliance/

Hi awesominals,

We've published our last updates for the year just before christmas and if you've got your ownCloud server, it is time to update. We only publish CVE's 2 weeks after availability of updates but I can already tell you that there are good reasons to upgrade, though nothing groundbreaking.

If you are still on 8.0 or older, I'm going to publish a blog early in the new year about why you should upgrade, but trust me: stay on the latest or latest-1, further back really offers few benefits other than "if it works, don't break it". Now that last IS a good, valid reason to keep things but if you do run in problems: upgrade before spending too much time on fixing the problem is the smart thing to do.

In different news, we've got a new app approval process. Your feedback is very welcome, we'd like to hear from app developers if this is an improvement for them.

btw, if you want to be kept up to date on ownCloud news, we've got a newsletter.

Have a great new years' party

We continue to improve the Nextcloud mobile apps. After the Android client introduced major features during the Nextcloud Conference, the iOS team worked hard to also bring a slew of improvements to their app. Today we release a client with improved up- and download performance, better HTTPS X.509 based security, UI improvements and more. Read about it in our blog and update!

Meanwhile, Nextcloud Mail 0.6 is also out.

Be sure to look at PHPList, just for newsletters it's perfectly fine! We use it for quite a while already. I'm afraid development isn't super fast lately, but it's open source and does the trick.

Upgrading ownCloud will become easier and more reliable according to this development blog. Learn more and help out!

See also a blog about why you should upgrade your ownCloud and whether to use packages/zip files/etc from earlier.

If you have questions, ask!

Guys, on the outlook integration - we introduced integration with Outlook for Calendar and Contacts last week, and we actually have what @agarcia-wier asks for available for customers. It is not announced so don't make noise about it yet (I will probably announce this or next week, but possibly move it to next year as just before Christmas ain't a great time for announcements).

So if you need this, it is a typical enterprise setting thing - contact [email protected] and we'll get you going. Sadly, no, it isn't open source, it is developed by a partner and just like with the iOS app - maybe in the future