Posts made by kelleybrooks

@scottalanmiller Right back at you

@Breffni-Potter Many of the error messages are indeed bugs and have been added to the Enterprise repo in github. Hope to work them into the next release which will be several weeks out.

To address some questions raised here and elsewhere, please see http://mangolassi.it/topic/8425/owncloud-9-0-ubuntu-and-a-few-more-things. Thanks.

To address some questions raised here and elsewhere, please see http://mangolassi.it/topic/8425/owncloud-9-0-ubuntu-and-a-few-more-things. Thanks.

I know there was a fair amount of discussion on some recent threads about error messages, ownCloud 9.0 and supported configurations. I appreciate the time that @scottalanmiller and @JaredBusch shared earlier today with me and the head of products here at ownCloud, Inc. He has created the following update to help clarify some of the recent discussions. Thanks, -K

Given our new release of ownCloud 9.0, we wanted to answer some of the many questions folks have been asking all in one spot. First, we had a report of a few bugs in the ownCloud admin interface relating to internet connections, cURL, and PHP versions on some operating systems. We are working on these and other bug fixes and hope to have then updated in our upcoming releases. (thank you for the bug reports)

We also had questions about our recommended ownCloud configuration. Certainly ownCloud can (and does) run successfully in many environments, and just because our recommendation isn’t your environment, doesn’t mean you have to do anything about it – you should stick with what you know. We do, after all, provide packages for many OSes on owncloud.org and they work. Still, many have asked, so our recommended configuration for professional hosting of ownCloud Community Edition is the following:

CentOS 7 with REMI and EPEL repositories, PHP 5.6, Apache 2.4, MariaDB and ownCloud

As a note, with the ownCloud Enterprise Edition, we find most of our customers run their preferred and supported vendor, usually SLES, RHEL (CentOS) or Ubuntu. We mention this here only because these are the operating systems that we will spend time working with for the Enterprise Edition, and sometimes decisions to support packages (like PHP 5.4) are based on the support these platforms offer for these packages. We also mention it here because recent conversations have led to confusion about what we support – and these OSes are supported and critical to us. Of course we provide packages for other OSes, and one can even run ownCloud on other platforms, but these are the most tested, most often used choices.

We also wanted to address the question asked about the Ubuntu Community and Enterprise Edition appliances we provide. The use of Ubuntu is a commercial decision, because we want our customers who start with the Community or Enterprise Editions to be able to run in production. For many, production requires a fully supported stack. There is only one vendor that allows ISVs to package their OS as a virtual appliance and distribute it for free, and then also allow end customers to purchase an OS support license when they take the virtual appliance from a PoC into production: Ubuntu. For us to package ownCloud into a virtual appliance, and to not have to purchase an enterprise license for each downloaded appliance, we have to use Ubuntu. That is the only reason we distribute this appliance, the business terms match our need.

I'm working to get some clarification here and appreciate the perspectives on this. While I can't guarantee consensus, hoping to provide some more objective follow-up. Thanks for your patience.

@FATeknollogee said:

@kelleybrooks Not yet, the VHDX link is not quite alive

Yup, it's mostly dead. I'm working on it. Other five appliances listed are in good shape...more soon.

@kelleybrooks said:

@IRJ said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@IRJ said:

I am downloading the VHDX appliance. It is taking forever....

Isn't that v8.2.2?

Good call. I wonder when the 9.0 appliances will be available.

9.0 appliances are up...you can download them at https://owncloud.org/install/#instructions-server

@IRJ said:

@FATeknollogee said:

@IRJ said:

I am downloading the VHDX appliance. It is taking forever....

Isn't that v8.2.2?

Good call. I wonder when the 9.0 appliances will be available.

working to get you an answer on this one...sorry for any confusion

@scottalanmiller You were just a couple hours early...initial surge hobbled the site, but you should have no issues getting to it now

And straight from our Community Manager....

We're proud to make ownCloud server 9 available. This release delivers new collaboration features like comments and tags, improved scalability and better federation and sharing in general. You can find more information in our release blog https://owncloud.org/blog/owncloud-server-9-0-released

We're very proud of this release, as it introduces some massive features while still improving a LOT on stability and performance. You can find out about the big and small improvements on our website at https://owncloud.org/nine

We'd like to thank all the awesome ownCloud contributors and users for their hard work and support - without you, ownCloud wouldn't be as awesome as it is!

A blog post with instructions on upgrading will appear tomorrow on https:// owncloud.org/news

Get the latest version on https://owncloud.org/install and be sure to let us know what you think about it! If you're using the zip file with the built in updater, we'll release the new version some time next month. Of course you can always upgrade sooner by hand!

PS some packages, esp the older releases, are still building, so are the VM's so not everything is there yet. Don't despair, our build servers are working overtime and it is all coming ASAP!