Download Nextcloud 10.0.0

Version 10.0 of Nextcloud has become available. With this program it is possible to run cloud storage in-house. Nextcloud was created after a large number of developers left ownCloud and started over. All components, including the enterprise functionality, are offered as open source and the revenue model is similar to what Red Hat does, which is to provide paid support for large customers. Nextcloud also promises a so-called drop-in replacement, which makes it possible to easily switch from ownCloud to Nextcloud.

Version 10 also introduces a Server Information app that monitors health and performance. Furthermore, security has been tightened and, for example, two-step authentication is possible, and improvements have been made to the user interface. The first Nextcloud clients for Windows, macOS and Linux should also be available within a few days.

General

• Background jobs (cron) can now run in parallel owncloud/core#24696
• Update notifications in client via API – You can now be notified in your desktop client about available updates for core and apps. The notifications are made available via the notifications API. owncloud/core#24444
• Multi bucket support for primary object store integration owncloud/core#24760
• Automated Tagging of files: An app for Nextcloud that automatically assigns tags to newly uploaded files based on some conditions
• Retention of files: App to delete files after N days
• Server monitoring

Security

• brute force protection nextcloud/server#479
• Advanced File Access Control

Authentication

• Pluggable authentication: plugin system that supports different authentication schemes: owncloud/core#23456
• Token-based authentication
• Ability to invalidate sessions: owncloud/core#24703
• List connected browsers/devices in the personal settings page. Allows the user to disconnect browsers/devices. owncloud/core#24703
• Device-specific passwords/tokens, can be generated in the personal page and revoked: owncloud/core#24703
• Disable users and automatically revoke their sessions: owncloud/core#23844
• Detect disabled LDAP users or password changes and revoke their sessions
• Log in with email address: owncloud/core#24389
• Config option to enforce token-based login outside the web UI: owncloud/core#24779
• Two Factor Authentication Plugins System: owncloud/core#24559
• OCC command added to (temporarily) disable/enable two-factor auth for single users owncloud/core#24559

Note: the current desktop and mobile client versions do not support two-factor yet, this will be added later. It is already possible to generate a device specific password and enter that in the current client versions.

Files app

• Ability to toggle displaying hidden files: owncloud/core#2589
• Remember sort order: owncloud/core#10788
• Permalinks for internal shares: owncloud/core#11732
• Visual cue when dragging in files app: owncloud/core#20150
• Autoscroll file list when dragging files: owncloud/core#22576
• Upload progress estimate: owncloud/core#24605

federated sharing

• Ability to create federated shares with CRUDS permissions: owncloud/core#23918
• Resharing a federated share does not create a chain of shares any more but connects the share owner’s server to the reshare recipient: owncloud/core#24603
• transform public links into real federated shares nextcloud/server#379

External storage

• UTF-8 NFD encoding compatibility support for NFD file names stored directly on external storages (new mount option in external storage admin page): owncloud/core#21365
• Direct links to the configuration pages for setting up a GDrive or Dropbox app for use with ownCloud owncloud/core#22214
• Some performance and memory usage improvements for GDrive, stream download and chunk upload: owncloud/core#23517 owncloud/core#23323
• Performance and memory usage improvements for Dropbox with stream download: owncloud/core#23516
• GDrive library update provides exponential backoff which will reduce rate limit errors: owncloud/core#20481

Minor additions

• Support for print style sheets: owncloud/core#16857
• Command line based update will now be suggested if the instance is bigger to avoid potential timeouts: owncloud/core#23922
• Web updater will be disabled if LDAP or shibboleth are installed owncloud/core#24201
• DB/app update process now shows better progress information: owncloud/core#24305
• Added occ files:scan –unscanned to only scan folders that haven’t yet been explored on external storages owncloud/core#24702
• Chunk cache TTL can now be configured: owncloud/core#24812
• Added warning for wrongly configured database transactions, helps prevent “database is locked” issues owncloud/core#24889
• Use a capped memory cache to reduce memory usage especially in background jobs and the file scanner owncloud/core#24351 owncloud/core#24869 owncloud/core#24405 owncloud/core#24403
• Allow login by email owncloud/core#24389
• Respect CLASS property in calendar events owncloud/core#24080
• Allow addressbook export using VCFExportPlugin owncloud/core#23893
• Birthdays are also generated based on shared addressbooks owncloud/core#23510

For developers

• New DAV endpoint with a new chunking protocol aiming to solve many issues like timeouts (not used by clients yet): owncloud/core#20118
• New webdav property for share permissions owncloud/core#22789
• Background repair steps can be specified info.xml owncloud/core#24274
• Background jobs (cron) can now be declared in info.xml owncloud/core#24392
• Apps can now define repair steps to run at install/uninstall time owncloud/core#24322
• Export contact images via saber dav plugin owncloud/core#25081
• Saber DAV’s browser plugin is available in debug mode to allow easier development around webdav owncloud/core#23368

Technical debt

• PSR-4 autoloading forced for OC\ and OCP\, optional for OCA\ owncloud/core#13241 docs at
• More cleanup of the sharing code (ongoing): owncloud/core#22209