Download Nextcloud 12.0.4

Version 12.0.4 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 12 includes the ability to communicate with other users via email, voice, or video, Push Notifications, and security enhancements. The complete release notes for this release are as follows:

Improvements
Maintaining a stable series means bringing fixes for small problems as well as security issues in so administrators can be sure that upgrades are safe and quick. For this update, nearly 60 changes were written, reviewed, tested and integrated into the server while several more were made for the various apps that are part of the core package.

The most notable improvements include:

• Several Object Storage fixes
• Better IPv6 handling
• Allowing a quota of 0, don’t reset quota
• Improved browser support
• Improve LDAP user cleanup
• Style and translation improvements (contrast/readability, adding missing icons)

Users of our updater will see a notification about the coming days. As we do staged roll-out it can take some time!

Migration now possible
A change many ownCloud users were looking forward to is that we made it possible to upgrade from ownCloud 10.0.4 and older to this Nextcloud release. If you want more information about the migration path, you can read our post from last May on how to upgrade. Last but not least, for users of the Nextcloud Snap like those using the Nextcloud Box or using it on their own server, the Snap will be upgraded to Nextcloud 12 with this update!

A subset of the changes has been made available for Nextcloud 11 as part of Nextcloud 11.0.6. This release was also made compatible with PHP 7.1. See the changelog for details and download links.