The NetBSD project is pleased to announce the first update of the NetBSD 10 release branch
NetBSD 10.1!
See the release announcement for details.
This release includes 9 months of bug fixes and a few new features after the 10.0 release in March.
It also gives those still using older release a good reason to finally update
to the NetBSD 10 release branch, even if they avoid dot-zero releases by all means.
If you want to try NetBSD 10.1 please check the installation notes for your architecture and download the preferred
install image from the CDN or if you are using an ARM based device from the netbsd-10 builds from the bootable ARM images page.
If you have any issues with installation or run into issues with the system during use, please contact us on one of the
mailing lists or file a problem report.
The Docker Desktop 4.37 release brings incremental improvements that make developers’ lives easier by addressing common challenges in modern software development. With a focus on integrating AI resources and streamlining operational workflows, this update ensures developers can work faster, smarter, and more effectively.
Unlocking AI-driven development with Docker AI Catalog integration
AI/ML development is exploding, but many developers face hurdles accessing prebuilt AI models and tools. They often need to search across multiple platforms, wasting valuable time piecing together resources and overcoming compatibility issues. This fragmentation slows down innovation and makes it harder for teams to bring AI-driven features into their applications.
With Docker Desktop 4.37, the AI Catalog in Docker Hub is now accessible directly through Docker Desktop. This seamless integration enables developers to discover, pull, and integrate AI models into their workflows effortlessly. Whether you’re incorporating pretrained machine learning models or exploring generative AI tools, Docker Desktop ensures these resources are just a click away.
Figure 1: AI Catalog in Docker Hub is now accessible directly through Docker Desktop.
Key benefits:
Streamlined discovery: You don’t need to leave your development environment to find AI tools. The AI Catalog is built into Docker Hub and can be immediately accessed from Docker Desktop.
Faster prototyping: By eliminating friction in accessing AI resources, teams can focus on building and iterating faster.
Enhanced compatibility: Docker’s containerized approach ensures AI models run consistently across environments, reducing setup headaches.
Whether you’re developing cutting-edge AI/ML applications or just beginning to experiment with AI tools, this integration empowers developers to innovate without distraction.
Command-line operations: Control Docker Desktop your way
For developers who automate workflows or work heavily in terminal environments, relying solely on graphical user interfaces (GUIs) can be limiting. Starting, stopping, or troubleshooting Docker Desktop often requires GUI navigation, which can disrupt automation pipelines and slow down power users.
Docker Desktop 4.37 introduces robust command-line capabilities for managing Docker Desktop itself. Developers can now perform essential tasks such as starting, stopping, restarting, and checking the status of Docker Desktop directly from the command line.
Faster troubleshooting: Check the status and restart Docker Desktop without leaving the terminal, streamlining issue resolution.
Developer flexibility: A smoother, distraction-free experience for developers who prefer terminal-based workflows.
This new feature bridges the gap between GUI and command-line preferences, allowing developers to tailor their workflows to their needs.
Upgraded components: Keeping developers ahead
Docker Desktop 4.37 includes significant upgrades to its underlying components, bringing enhanced performance, security, and feature sets such as GPU- accelerated workflows.
Here’s what’s new:
Docker Buildx v0.19.2: Optimized multiplatform builds for faster, more efficient pipelines.
At Docker, we aim to provide a stable and dependable development platform so developer teams can focus on creating, not troubleshooting. Docker Desktop 4.37 also addresses several key bugs and usability concerns:
Default disk usage limit: New installations now default to a 1TB disk limit, offering additional flexibility for developers with large containerized applications.
Loopback AF_VSOCK connections: Fixed to ensure container communication reliability.
Dashboard synchronization: Ensures consistent behavior between the Docker Desktop Dashboard and the Docker daemon after engine restarts.
Resource Saver mode stability: Resolves issues with mode reengagement, improving power efficiency for resource-conscious users.
Wrapping up
Docker Desktop 4.37 offers a step forward in enabling developers to innovate. With a focus on AI-driven development and automation-friendly operations, this release aligns with the evolving needs of modern software teams.
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Due to a regression in creating multiple share links we had to pull NC 28.0.13 and 30.0.3. We will follow up with a hot fix release asap.
Please update to a new version to keep your data safe!
If you are using Nextcloud Hub 7, 8 or 9, we strongly recommend you to update to version 28.0.13, 29.0.10 or 30.0.3 respectively. Maintenance updates include important bug fixes, stability and security upgrades. It is a quick and safe process, as always!
About the updates
The updates include a number of important bug fixes and performance optimization, as well as other improvements in all supported Nextcloud Hub versions. You can find the full changelog on our website.
Nextcloud Hub 9 lets you stay connected like never before: federated calls, auto-magic with Nextcloud Flow, collaboration through a new medium with Nextloud Whiteboard, a big design redo and much more!
What’s new in Nextcloud Hub 9:
Federation: Edit documents and have video calls with users from other Nextcloud servers!
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.
When cables are cut, sanctions are put in place or privacy legislation prohibits the use of the service your entire organization depends on, what can you do?
Amidst geo-political changes, organizations face dependencies on large, centralized communication platforms. A major example of this is the SaaS-only communication platform Microsoft Teams. It is the only solution on the market which deeply integrates video calls, team chat and large group call features with real-time document collaboration and file sharing, and has become critical to the functioning of many organizations. Which, in turn, has allowed Microsoft to hike prices by 20 to 40% and not face an exodus of customers – as they and their data are fully locked in.
Organisations, small and large, need a way to ensure the resiliency and digital sovereignty of their operations – an open source, privacy respecting alternative to Teams. And today, we present that solution.
In this short webinar, Jos walks you through how Nextcloud Talk takes on Microsoft Teams!
Welcome to Nextcloud Talk
Today, live from our Enterprise day in Paris, we launch Nextcloud Talk „Paris“. It is the only open-source solution that integrates all key features – from chats and video conferencing to webinars, complete with file sharing and office document editing – into a single platform while avoiding vendor lock-in.
Our platform meets the highest standards of compliance with privacy legislations like GDPR or HIPAA and offers strict data security, ensuring full data control. Thanks to its open architecture, Talk can be seamlessly integrated into existing systems and tailored to individual needs.
Nextcloud Talk is designed to address three key use cases. Let’s go quickly over them!
Efficient team chat
The integrated chat in Nextcloud Talk is designed to help teams stay connected throughout the workday. With multiple chat rooms and the ability to edit files directly within the chat, Talk streamlines hybrid team collaboration and boosts efficiency. End-to-end encryption ensures that calls remain private and secure, while integrated real-time notifications keep everyone in the loop. All data stays under your control, meeting the highest privacy and security standards.
It features deep integration with a wide variety of content. Users can add documents – and edit them right there, inline, without having to open tabs or download the file. Locations, tasks, calendars and notes can all be inserted, viewed and edited without leaving Talk.
Video calls for seamless collaboration
Nextcloud Talk makes virtual meetings easy and accessible across devices. Whether it’s a quick check-in or a larger team meeting, our platform ensures powerful collaboration for hybrid working teams. Features like integrated whiteboards, screen sharing, and joint document editing make real-time collaboration easier than ever. Scheduling and joining calls is effortless, directly from the Nextcloud interface, integrated with the calendar app for easy scheduling of meetings.
Interactive webinars, education and training sessions
Talk enables you to host engaging webinars – bringing audiences like teams, students, or customers together. The platform supports live streaming, Q&A sessions and screensharing and comes with moderation features. Functions like the integrated chat, animated reactions, polls and breakout rooms make the learning experience more interactive and fun. All this, and more, is available wherever you are. Not only in the browser, but also with apps on iOS and Android! When your colleague calls you while you’re out, your phone will ring and you’ll be able to share your screen to show them a quick presentation you’re working on.
You can give participants a phone number to dial in to, and even pull them in by dialing out right from Talk. Need to add hundreds, even thousands of participants? Simply import a spreadsheet. After the call, you export the participant list and see who did and did not show up!
Break up big groups in breakout rooms, enabling everyone to be productive in a smaller team before coming back together to the big group. In your breakout room you can do a call, chat, work on a whiteboard, share documents and more!
Numerous new features for better collaboration
New desktop app
No more searching through browser tabs! The new app offers desktop integration and notifications, allowing users to communicate and join calls effortlessly.
New AI features
Tired of taking notes in long meetings? Enjoy our automatically generated summaries of video meetings! Dreading those 173 unread messages in the morning? The Nextcloud Assistant summarizes them for you. Less work, less stress!
Visual collaboration
The interactive whiteboard enables teams to brainstorm and develop ideas in real-time – ideal for workshops and project planning.
Plan your polls
You can now save a poll as a draft, for quick publishing when the class has started. Need to use the same poll in a different class? Simply export it as a file and import it in the new room. At the end, export the poll as image or spreadsheet. Easy as pie!
Simplified teamwork
Documents can be collaboratively edited directly within chats or video calls. No need to switch to another window or tab! You can easily find chat messages with the search, leave and join open chat rooms or archive the ones you no longer follow, so you stay as connected as you need to be.
Let colleagues know what you think with reactions to chat messages, or animated reactions during calls. And if you need to make a point, you can use bold, italics, headers and even tables in your messages.
Mindfulness features
To promote a healthy meeting culture, Nextcloud Talk has a series of small features that help you be mindful of yourself and others. You can send silent chat messages and even start silent calls which don’t send notifications to everyone. User status communicates to colleagues if you’re available or not – the status will automatically change when you are in a call or have an appointment in your calendar, and your time zone is visible for others.
Need to deal with something – but not right now? You can mark a chat as unread, but also set a reminder on an individual message. You’ll get a notification at the time you set! You can also send a message to a special ‘Note to self’ chat, or put notes there by hand. Keep things organized for yourself. Perhaps favorite your Note to self chat so it’s always on top with other important chats?
You can also set your work hours and enable do-not-disturb outside those hours. Calls give a warning at the 1h mark and can now automatically end after a set time. And, during calls, you can see how much each participant talked so you can make sure even the quiet team members get to have their say.
High-security communication
Nextcloud Talk meets the highest security standards and can even be deployed in airgap environments, keeping all communication strictly away from the internet.
Discover more new features
Calls:
Summarize Call recordings automatically with AI
Enforce a maximum call lenght
Option to always disable devices by default
Option to download a call participants list
Option to blur background by default
Chat:
Summary of chat histories when there are many unread messages
Option to directly download attachments
Highlight file and object shares with an icon in conversations list
Guests:
Identify and recognize guests invited via mail address
Allow inviting email guests when creating a conversation
Conversations:
Option to archive conversations
Automatically lock rooms after days of inactivity
Voice Messages:
Auto play voice messages which are grouped together
Polls:
Draft, import and export polls
A glimpse into the future of collaboration
With Nextcloud Talk, we empower companies and public institutions to work securely and productively – regardless of their location or infrastructure. The platform is ideal for on premise installations or hosting by local cloud providers, giving companies and organizations full control over their data.
Finally, the open source community has a real answer to Microsoft Teams.
Docker Desktop 4.36 introduces powerful updates to simplify enterprise administration and enhance security. This release features streamlined macOS sign-in enforcement via configuration profiles, enabling IT administrators to deploy tamper-proof policies at scale, alongside a new PKG installer for efficient, consistent deployments. Enhancements like the unified WSL 2 mono distribution improve startup speeds and workflows, while updates to Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) and Desktop Settings Management allow for greater flexibility and centralized policy enforcement. These innovations empower organizations to maintain compliance, boost productivity, and streamline Docker Desktop management across diverse enterprise environments.
Sign-in enforcement: Streamlined alternative for organizations for macOS
Recognizing the need for streamlined and secure ways to enforce sign-in protocols, Docker is introducing a new sign-in enforcement mechanism for macOS configuration profiles. This Early Access update delivers significant business benefits by enabling IT administrators to enforce sign-in policies quickly, ensuring compliance and maximizing the value ofDocker subscriptions.
Key benefits
Fast deployment and rollout: Configuration profiles can be rapidly deployed across a fleet of devices using Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions, making it easy for IT admins to enforce sign-in requirements and other policies without manual intervention.
Tamper-proof enforcement: Configuration profiles ensure that enforced policies, such as sign-in requirements, cannot be bypassed or disabled by users, providing a secure and reliable way to manage access to Docker Desktop (Figure 1).
Support for multiple organizations: More than one organization can now be defined in the allowedOrgs field, offering flexibility for users who need access to Docker Desktop under multiple organizational accounts (Figure 2).
How it works
macOS configuration profiles are XML files that contain specific settings to control and manage macOS device behavior. These profiles allow IT administrators to:
Restrict access to Docker Desktop unless the user is authenticated.
Prevent users from disabling or bypassing sign-in enforcement.
By distributing these profiles through MDM solutions, IT admins can manage large device fleets efficiently and consistently enforce organizational policies.
Figure 1: macOS configuration profile in use.Figure 2: macOS configuration profile in use with multiple allowedOrgs visible.
Docker now supports enforcing sign-in for more than one organization at a time, providing greater flexibility for users working across multiple teams or enterprises. The allowedOrgs field now accepts multiple strings, enabling IT admins to define more than one organization via any supported configuration method, including:
registry.json
Windows Registry key
macOS plist
macOS configuration profile
This enhancement makes it easier to enforce login policies across diverse organizational setups, streamlining access management while maintaining security (Figure 3).
Figure 3: Docker Desktop when sign-in is enforced across multiple organizations. The blue highlights indicate the allowed company domains.
Deploy Docker Desktop for macOS in bulk with the PKG installer
Managing large-scale Docker Desktop deployments on macOS just got easier with the new PKG installer. Designed for enterprises and IT admins, the PKG installer offers significant advantages over the traditional DMG installer, streamlining the deployment process and enhancing security.
Ease of use: Automate installations and reduce manual steps, minimizing user error and IT support requests.
Consistency: Deliver a professional and predictable installation experience that meets enterprise standards.
Streamlined deployment: Simplify software rollouts for macOS devices, saving time and resources during bulk installations.
Enhanced security: Benefit from improved security measures that reduce the risk of tampering and ensure compliance with enterprise policies.
You can download the PKG installer via Admin Console > Security and Access > Deploy Docker Desktop > macOS. Options for both Intel and Arm architectures are also available for macOS and Windows, ensuring compatibility across devices.
Start deploying Docker Desktop more efficiently and securely today via the Admin Console (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Admin Console with PKG installer download options.
Desktop Settings Management (Early Access)
Managing Docker Desktop settings at scale is now easier than ever with the new Desktop Settings Management, available in Early Access for Docker Business customers. Admins can centrally deploy and enforce settings policies for Docker Desktop directly from the cloud via the Admin Console, ensuring consistency and efficiency across their organization.
Here’s what’s available now:
Admin Console policies: Configure and enforce default Docker Desktop settings from the Admin Console.
Quick import: Import existing configurations from an admin-settings.json file for seamless migration.
Export and share: Export policies as JSON files to easily share with security and compliance teams.
Targeted testing: Roll out policies to a smaller group of users for testing before deploying globally.
What’s next?
Although the Desktop Settings Management feature is in Early Access, we’re actively building additional functionality to enhance it, such as compliance reporting and automated policy enforcement capabilities. Stay tuned for more!
This is just the beginning of a powerful new way to simplify Docker Desktop management and ensure organizational compliance. Try it out now and help shape the future of settings management: Admin Console > Security and Access > Desktop Settings Management (Figure 5).
Figure 5: Admin console with Desktop Settings Management.
Streamlining data workflow with WSL 2 mono distribution
Simplify the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) setup by eliminating the need to maintain two separate Docker Desktop WSL distributions. This update streamlines the WSL 2 configuration by consolidating the previously required dual Docker Desktop WSL distributions into a single distribution, now available on both macOS and Windows operating systems.
The simplification of Docker Desktop’s WSL 2 setup is designed to make the codebase easier to understand and maintain. This enhances the ability to handle failures more effectively and increases the startup speed of Docker Desktop on WSL 2, allowing users to begin their work more quickly.
The value of streamlining data workflows and relocating data to a different drive on macOS and Windows with the WSL 2 backend in Docker Desktop encompasses these key areas:
Improved performance: By separating data and system files, I/O contention between system operations and data operations is reduced, leading to faster access and processing.
Enhanced storage management: Separating data from the main system drives allows for more efficient use of space.
Increased flexibility with cross-platform compatibility: Ensuring consistent data workflows across different operating systems (macOS and Windows), especially when using Docker Desktop with WSL 2.
Enhanced Docker performance: Docker performs better when processing data on a drive optimized for such tasks, reducing latency and improving container performance.
By implementing these practices, organizations can achieve more efficient, flexible, and high-performing data workflows, leveraging Docker Desktop’s capabilities on both macOS and Windows platforms.
Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) improvements
Allow any container to mount the Docker socket: Admins can now configure permissions to allow all containers to mount the Docker socket by adding * or *:* to the ECI Docker socket mount permission image list. This simplifies scenarios where broad access is required while maintaining security configuration through centralized control. Learn more in the advanced configuration documentation.
Improved support for derived image permissions: The Docker socket mount permissions for derived images feature now supports wildcard tags (e.g., alpine:*), enabling admins to grant permissions for all versions of an image. Previously, specific tags like alpine:latest had to be listed, which was restrictive and required ongoing maintenance. Learn more about managing derived image permissions.
These enhancements reduce administrative overhead while maintaining a high level of security and control, making it easier to manage complex environments.
Upgrade now
The Docker Desktop 4.36 release introduces a suite of features designed to simplify enterprise administration, improve security, and enhance operational efficiency. From enabling centralized policy enforcement with Desktop Settings Management to streamlining deployments with the macOS PKG installer, Docker continues to empower IT administrators with the tools they need to manage Docker Desktop at scale.
The improvements in Enhanced Container Isolation (ECI) and WSL 2 workflows further demonstrate Docker’s commitment to innovation, providing solutions that optimize performance, reduce complexity, and ensure compliance across diverse enterprise environments.
As businesses adopt increasingly complex development ecosystems, these updates highlight Docker’s focus on meeting the unique needs of enterprise teams, helping them stay agile, secure, and productive. Whether you’re managing access for multiple organizations, deploying tools across platforms, or leveraging enhanced image permissions, Docker Desktop 4.36 sets a new standard for enterprise administration.
Start exploring these powerful new features today and unlock the full potential of Docker Desktop for your organization.
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We had to pull version 29.0.9 due to issues with PDF display. It will be fixed in December maintenance release for Nextcloud 29.
Please update to a new version to keep your data safe!
If you are using Nextcloud Hub 7 or 9, we strongly recommend you to update to version 28.0.12 or 30.0.2 respectively. Maintenance updates include important bug fixes, stability and security upgrades. It is a quick and safe process, as always!
About the updates
The updates include a number of important bug fixes and performance optimization, as well as other improvements in all supported Nextcloud Hub versions. You can find the full changelog on our website.
Nextcloud Hub 9 lets you stay connected like never before: federated calls, auto-magic with Nextcloud Flow, collaboration through a new medium with Nextloud Whiteboard, a big design redo and much more!
What’s new in Nextcloud Hub 9:
Federation: Edit documents and have video calls with users from other Nextcloud servers!
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.
Before the beta release of organization access tokens, managing developer access to Docker resources was challenging, as it relied heavily on individual user accounts, leading to security risks and administrative inefficiencies.
Organization access tokens let you manage access at the organizational level, providing enhanced security. This feature allows teams to operate more securely and efficiently with centralized user management, reduced administrative overhead, and the flexibility to scale access as the organization grows. For businesses, this feature offers significant value by improving governance, enhancing security, and supporting scalable infrastructure from an administrative perspective.
Organizational access tokens empower organizations to maintain tighter control over their resources and security, making Docker Desktop even more valuable for enterprise users. This is one piece of the continuous updates we’re releasing to support administrators across large enterprise companies, ensuring they have the tools needed to manage complex environments with efficiency and confidence.
Docker Home (Beta)
Sign in to your Docker account to see the release of the new Docker Home page (Figure 1). The new Docker Home marks a milestone in Docker’s journey as a multi-product company, reinforcing Docker’s commitment to providing an expanding suite of solutions that help developers and businesses containerize applications with ease.
Unified experience: The home page provides a central hub for users to access Docker products, manage subscriptions, adjust settings, and find resources — all in one place. This approach simplifies navigation for developers and admins.
Admin access: Administrators can manage organizations, users, and onboarding processes through the new portal, with access to dashboards for monitoring Docker usage.
Future enhancements: Future updates will add personalized features for different roles, and business subscribers will gain access to tools like the Docker Support portal and organization-wide notifications.
Figure 1: New Docker home page.
Terminal experience in Docker Desktop
Our terminal feature in Docker Desktop is now generally available. While managing containerized applications, developers have often faced friction and inefficiencies when switching between the Docker Desktop CLI and GUI. This constant context switching disrupted workflows and reduced productivity.
The terminal enhancement integrates a terminal directly within the Docker Desktop GUI, enabling seamless transitions between CLI and GUI interactions within a single window. By incorporating a terminal shell into the Docker Desktop interface (Figure 2), we significantly reduce the friction associated with context switching for developers.
Figure 2: Terminal shell in Docker Desktop.
This functionality is designed to streamline workflows, accelerate delivery times, and enhance overall developer productivity.
Volumes Export is GA
With the 4.35 release, we’ve elevated volume backup capabilities in Docker Desktop, introducing an upgraded feature set (Figure 3). This enhancement directly integrates the previous Volumes Backup & Share extension directly into Docker Desktop, streamlining your backup processes.
Figure 3: Docker Desktop Volumes view showcasing new backup functionality.
Although this release marks a significant step forward, it’s just the beginning. We’re committed to expanding these capabilities, adding even more value in future updates. Check out the beta of Scheduled Backups as well as External Cloud Storage backups, which are also available.
Significantly improved performance experience on macOS (Beta)
Docker Desktop 4.35 also includes a beta release of Docker VMM, a container-optimized hypervisor for Apple Silicon Macs. Local developer workflows rely heavily on the performance of the hypervisor layer for everything from handling individual timer interrupts to accessing files and downloading images from the network.
Docker VMM allows us to optimize the Linux kernel and hypervisor layer together, massively improving the speed of many common developer tasks. For example, iterating over a large shared file system with find is now 2x faster than on Docker Desktop 4.34 with a cold cache and up to 25x faster — faster than running natively on the Mac — when the cache is warm. This is only the beginning. Thanks to Docker VMM, we have many exciting new performance improvements in the pipeline.
Enable Docker VMM via Settings > General > Virtual Machine options and try it for your developer workflows today (Figure 4).
Figure 4: Docker VMM.
Docker Desktop for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of Docker Desktop for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). This feature marks a great milestone for both Docker and our growing community of developers.
By making Docker Desktop available on RHEL, we’re not only extending our reach — we’re meeting developers where they are. RHEL users can now access a seamless containerized development experience directly on the same OS that might power their production environments.
Docker Desktop for RHEL (Figure 5) offers the same intuitive interface, integrated tooling, and performance optimizations that you’ve come to expect on the other supported Linux distributions.
Figure 5: Docker Desktop for RHEL.
How to install Docker Desktop on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Did you know that you can get Premium Customer Support for Docker Desktop with a Pro or Team subscription? With this GA release, we’re now ready to officially help support you if you’re thinking about using Docker Desktop. Check out our pricing page to learn more about what’s included in a Pro or Team subscription, and if it’s right for you.
Explore the latest updates
With this latest wave of updates, from the security enhancements of organization access tokens to the performance boost of Docker VMM for Apple Silicon Macs, we’re pushing Docker Desktop forward to meet the evolving needs of developers and organizations alike. Each new feature is designed to make development smoother, faster, and more secure — whether you’re managing large teams or optimizing your individual workflow.
We’re continuing to make improvements, with more tools and features on the way to help you build, manage, and scale your projects efficiently. Explore the latest updates and see how they can enhance your development experience
Federation offers a solution to the challenges posed by centrally controlled public cloud applications by letting users communicate and collaborate between independent servers and even independent apps. In this article, we explain how federation works, what features you can use withfederation in Nextcloud, and discover how it can help businesses and governments achieve digital sovereignty.
Whether you’re new to federation features or already familiar with them, let’s start with the basics.
Understanding the federated internet
It’s a well-known fact that on-premises software offers more autonomy compared to public cloud tools in several ways, largely due to the level of control organizations have over their infrastructure and data. Self-hosting is a definition of decentralization in the realm of collaborative technologies. An important question arises when considering self-hosting: how can we collaborate effectively using decentralized software?
The answer lies in federation – it’s the key to making decentralized collaboration possible. To understand federation, you need to ask yourself – how does email work? Email is, in fact, federation in action: it operates through a network of independent servers connected via standard protocols and allowing users from different domains to exchange messages with ease via single client.
Or take Mastodon, a federated social network where each instance is a separate server run by an independent entity or community. Each user can sign up on an instance they prefer, and then follow, reply to, or message users on other instances, making communication across the entire network seamless.
In Nextcloud, user’s Federated Cloud ID works similar to an email address or a Mastodon handle, allowing them to exchange data across servers: share files and and collaborate on documents, communicate in group chats and make audio and video calls.
Federation and digital sovereignty
Federation enables private users, organizations, and their departments to use independent infrastructure, hosting their software locally with customized security and compliance measures. Each entity operates its own platform while staying connected to a larger network that supports cross-server collaboration. This decentralized architecture reduces reliance on a single service provider. It also frees you from vendor lock-in, allowing you to choose a trusted provider and work with the software that meets your needs, all while retaining the ability to collaborate seamlessly across different platforms.
Regulators are responding to a growing backlash against big tech firms from users who perceive their behaviour as market abuse, with the term ‘malicious compliance’ being used. This trend causes a growing interest in decentralization technologies.
Frank Karlitschek
Nextcloud founder
Finally, self-hosting with federated features gives you full ownership and control over your data. You choose your own encryption and own access controls, or get more flexible where others can’t, pursuing only your own compliance objectives. Companies and governments can avoid numerous risks by not having to store data under unfavourable regulations, break free from the privacy terms of large cloud providers, and enjoy freedom without being controlled by foreign entities.
Federation in Nextcloud
In Nextcloud Hub, it is already possible to do a lot when it comes to federated collaboration, as we mentioned above. For example, you can share files across servers and even collaborate on them, while federation in Nextcloud Talk enables you to join group chats and run meetings on another server.
Besides better security, easier compliance and more independence, there’s also convenience: you don’t need to send invites or create guest accounts, or set up your own on somebody’s instance. Just use your own account and stay within familiar interface of your home platform — you won’t even notice any difference.
Sure, there are certain limitations, for example, you can’t create private federated chats in Nextcloud Talk yet. But we already support many essential and handy features like polls, markdown and user mentions. And federation in Nextcloud constantly evolves as we explore more abilities of the Federated Cloud Sharing API.
OCM, a foundation for federation features in Nextcloud
Federated Cloud Sharing API in Nexctloud has been invented by Nextcloud founders Frank Karlitschek and Bjoern Schießle. It is a collaboratively developed standard that is a part of Open Cloud Mesh (OCM), an initiative of the GÉANT Association, a European collaboration on e-infrastructure and services for research and education.
Federated tools available in Nextcloud
Federated file sharing
Share documents and media to users in other Nextcloud Hub instances for viewing, editing and collaboration.
Federated chatting
Create group chats with users from different servers and use many essential chat tools.
Federated calls
Make audio and video calls with Nextcloud Talk among users from different servers.
How to configure federated features in your Nextcloud Hub
If you wish to configure and manage federation tools in your Nextcloud, you need to enable the Federation app and follow a few easy steps:
Enable the Federation app.
Allow your users to share and receive files from other servers.
Create a list of trusted servers to enable federation features for them.
Federated calls and more amazing features in Nextcloud Hub 9
With Nextcloud Hub 9, we introduced federated calls in Nextcloud Talk, as well as multiple other exciting features across the entire platform. The latest update lets you stay connected like never before — with new automation features, Nextcloud Whiteboard, new tools in Nextcloud Assistant, improved Nexcloud Mail and Nextcloud Calendar, and much more.
New to Nextcloud? There’s no better time to try it out! Get control over your data today with the most secure open-source collaboration platform.
Please update to a new version to keep your data safe!
If you are using Nextcloud Hub 7 or 8, we strongly recommend you to update to version 28.0.11 or 29.0.8 respectively. Maintenance updates include important bug fixes, stability and security upgrades. It is a quick and safe process, as always!
About the updates
The updates include a number of important bug fixes and performance optimization, as well as other improvements in Nextcloud Hub 7 (28.X) and 8 (29.X). Update for Nextcloud Hub 9 (30.X) is coming soon! You can find the full changelog on our website.
Nextcloud Hub 9 lets you stay connected like never before: federated calls, auto-magic with Nextcloud Flow, collaboration through a new medium with Nextloud Whiteboard, a big design redo and much more!
What’s new in Nextcloud Hub 9:
Federation: Edit documents and have video calls with users from other Nextcloud servers!
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.
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We are launching Nextcloud Hub 9 in Berlin from the Nextcloud Conference, our yearly community contributor and user event. Being here always reminds me of why we started Nextcloud in the first place: putting you back in control over your data.
More and more of our digital lives are controlled by a shrinking number of big tech firms and their CEO’s. We believe there is a better way.
So we designed Nextcloud with decentralisation in mind. You can run it at home, in your business, your government agency or your local sports club. You decide who has access, and when the services of a big tech firm fall over, you can keep working.
But life isn’t about being alone on an island – it is about connecting people! Nextcloud Hub 9 is perfect for that, too. Our Federation features allows Nextcloud servers to talk to each other, bringing our tens of millions of users together from across the globe.
Of course, this release brings much more than federation. We help the public sector automate its processes so they can help you better; a chat mode in our AI Assistant; we introduce a brand new whiteboard to support your brainstorms and meeting notes; and there is a new more compact design with a fresh new background!
As always, we look forward to your feedback! Nextcloud is people, as much as technology, and if you want you can come say hi to us at the dozens of events we visit every year. Check out our event list and meet some fellow Nextclouders!
Greetings, Jos & the Nextcloud team
Decentralize your life!
Nextcloud Hub has grown into a leading open-source platform for collaboration, thanks to our tireless efforts to excel in privacy while bringing new cutting-edge features to the table with each release. Today, we launch Nextcloud Hub 9, a new iteration of our platform that pioneers automation tools, empowers teams, and drives digital transformation.
Sounds ambitious? We call it Tuesday!
A big design redo
To make Nextcloud more tidy and efficient while adding all the new features, we introduced countless design improvements around the entire platform and its applications.
Auto-magic with Nextcloud Flow
Our new Windmill-based app, part of Nextcloud Flow automation features, is an enterprise-focused process automation engine that is deeply integrated in Nextcloud Hub. It makes it possible to automate processes and flows: taking data from a form, parsing a PDF in an email, or processing a spreadsheet import, it kicks off actions like processing a payment through a third party provider, storing results in a table, notifying a user to approve the state and then generating and emailing a PDF.
A new creative medium
With the new Nextcloud Whiteboard, get creative together: even organize a drawing class in Nextcloud Talk! Now you have a limitless canvas to sketch, draw and plan collaboratively anywhere, even inside Nextcloud Talk calls.
Centralized? Let’s move on!
It is time to stop depending on big tech firms that control every aspect of our lives, and federation is the key! It means decentralising while letting separate systems interact with each other – exactly how email works. With Nextcloud Hub 9 we bring federation from files sharing and now to chats and video calls!
Your favorite cloud with hip new tools
We improved Nextcloud Hub with numerous new features throughout: Nextcloud Assistant’s Chat UI and support for hundreds of new languages for AI translations, a new wizard to request files in Nextcloud Files, AI-powered follow-up reminders and phishing detection in Nextcloud Mail, augmented reality calls with Nextcloud Talk, an easy way to fill in forms in Nextcloud Office, and so much more.
Collective innovation behind Nextcloud
Nextcloud is rooted in community, standing on the foundation of collective innovation. On behalf of the Nextcloud team, we want to thank everyone involved in coding, testing, sharing, providing feedback, supporting, and nurturing Nextcloud Hub, giving us a reason to celebrate this new release together.
Introducing Nextcloud Hub 9: a webinar
Join us live on September 26 to discover all the new features in Nextcloud Hub 9.
Can’t attend? You can still register and get the recording!
We believe that software should be accessible to everyone and everywhere, easy to use and always ready to work the way you expect it to. As new features and apps join Nextcloud Hub, we want to make sure we stay true to these principles.
If you have a feeling that something is different this time around, you are right! With more and more features being added every release, we want to prevent a sense of overwhelm in Nextcloud Hub’s interface. That’s why we gave our interface a make-over, letting the whole platform evolve while remaining highly accessible and user friendly.
More compact
First, we made everything more compact by downsizing various elements: input fields, buttons, links. This change lets us make use of the space more efficiently compared to our old interface. The new design is more cohesive and user-friendly, and we trust you’ll notice the difference once you experience it.
More tidy
Using rounded corners for various elements like buttons and fields, we achieved a more balanced aesthetic that maintains a relaxed visual experience without being overly stylized. It feels familiar across modern apps and devices, and it also allows for more efficient use of visual space.
And with a fresh new dynamic background
In Nextcloud Hub, you can also use any background you wish. The interface color scheme adjusts to match your background’s palette, giving your platform a cohesive and polished appearance — even on your mobile devices!
We are celebrating the new look of Nextcloud Hub with a new background style available in your Appearance settings. The new version supports dynamic backgrounds that adapt to your light or dark interface theme preferences. This background is the first to support themes in Nextcloud Hub 9, with more dynamic background designs coming soon!
Even more design improvements
Nextcloud Hub 9 brings multiple other feature- and app-specific improvements across various applications: Nextcloud Files, Nextcloud Calendar, our mobile and desktop clients, and more. We are going to discuss them in the dedicated sections of this blog in more detail.
Now let’s move to new features, starting with one particular app that enables a whole new dimension of functionality in your Nextcloud Hub.
Welcome Nextcloud Flow
For most of us, it is easy to imagine learning, shopping, and banking from your mobile phone no matter where you are. For some, even accessing a government service entirely from the comfort of their home is a reality. For others — hopefully a future.
Nextcloud offers an extraordinary platform to work in, fully digitally. Our apps let you effortlessly handle, share and work on documents with Nextcloud Files and Nextcloud Office or track and process structured data with Nextcloud Tables. Nextcloud Talk and Nextcloud Groupware help with planning and communication, and dozens of other apps help with tasks like processing forms, tracking tasks and more.
All this is built on an open standards based platform. The Open Collaboration Services API supported by Nextcloud makes it easy to connect with other systems, sending or receiving data and building new apps.
The introduction of our new Windmill-based application brings digitalization to a new level. It allows automation of processes, taking data from within and outside of Nextcloud, tying in with its communication and planning tools and thus acting as a conductor leading an orchestra of processes!
How to Flow?
Nextcloud Flow combines features that help Nextcloud automate a variety of processes in your organisation. It consists of several components, from our Open Collaboration Services API (OCS API) and our structured data management application Nextcloud Tables to our existing workflow tool to our brand new business process automation application based on Windmill.
Windmill integration in Nextcloud Hub automates repetitive tasks by integrating your Nextcloud Hub apps and related assets into cohesive workflows. For instance, vacation requests, payment confirmations, or approvals for accessing and sharing data. The app provides a graphic interface to design, manage, and monitor workflows, making it easier to automate processes and improve efficiency.
The automation, build with the open source team at Windmill, uses everything that makes Nextcloud such a powerful platform: file handling, chat, notifications, structured data in Nextcloud Tables, Nextcloud Office and much more. Dozens of API’s have been developed, all as part of the standardized Open Collaboration Services API, making it easy to connect Nextcloud to other systems.
Understanding the flows
Windmill identifies events in Nextcloud Hub and triggers custom ‘flows’ created by you to retrieve and exchange data and perform sequences of actions across various apps and assets. Each flow is composed of ‘bricks,’ or individual actions that you program using a script.
The new workflow automation app is very flexible. It can run consecutive flows, or execute multiple flows in parallel, trigger an approval request for an employee, interact with external services like payment systems, and much more.
Digitalize processes in the public sector
Windmill integration in Nextcloud Hub has been designed to help the public sector comply with legislation like The Online Access Act (Onlinezugangsgesetz, OZG), a law in Germany that mandates citizens’ ability to interact with government services online, or with the EMBAG legislation in Switzerland that requires the public sector to use and develop open source solutions.
You can learn more about the challenges the public sector faces and how Windmill integration in Nextcloud Hub can help in our earlier blog post.
“The Online Access Act obliges the public sector to provide all administrative services digitally going forward. Open source software should be prioritised here. We are therefore delighted that with ‘Open Collaboration Services’, a 100% open source solution has been created for the first time with which specialised procedures can be implemented quickly and easily. Open source enables the simple sharing of specialised procedures on Open CoDE, which saves costs and strengthens digital sovereignty.”
Markus Richter
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Community and Federal Government Commissioner for Information Technology
Decentralization through federation
Federated features allow users of self-hosted platforms like Nextcloud Hub to communicate, share files, and collaborate across instances while storing their data locally. Federation is a foundational tool for digital sovereignty, enabling the creation of decentralized yet interconnected ecosystems.
Prior to the Nextcloud Hub 9 release, federated features supported in our platform included file sharing and collaboration, as well as federated chatting in Nextcloud Talk. Today, we are excited to announce that federated video calls also become available to our users!
Introducing federated calls
Users can join group chats on another Nextcloud server with their Federated Cloud ID. While in federated chat, they can use many of the core features like user mentions, markdown formatting, or polls.
With Nextcloud Hub 9, we add federated calls to our growing array of decentralized features. Now you can organize audio and video meetings among users of different Nextcloud Hubs — to meet with colleagues from a different government agency, or maybe a partner who is using Nextcloud too!
Joining a call on another server feels as if you are still in your own Nextcloud Hub – using your own account and a preferred interface, without a need for creating guest accounts or public links.
OCM, a foundation for federation features in Nextcloud
Federated Cloud Sharing API in Nexctloud has been invented by Nextcloud founders Frank Karlitschek and Bjoern Schießle. It is a collaboratively developed standard that is a part of Open Cloud Mesh (OCM), an initiative of the GÉANT Association, a European collaboration on e-infrastructure and services for research and education.
Nextcloud Whiteboard
With Nextcloud Hub 9 , we are introducing a new collaborative app: Nextcloud Whiteboard. It gives you a limitless canvas and a range of tools to sketch, note, plan, or brainstorm together with your team.
Nextcloud Whiteboard works seamlessly with Nextcloud Talk. For example, you can brainstorm project structures and draw mind maps together in real-time while in a call. Or use it in a live workshop to illustrate concepts, create diagrams, and interactively engage participants.
Nextcloud Whiteboard is very intuitive and easy to use, ready to become your daily creative collaboration tool right away. It supports hand drawing with multiple colors and stroke types, shapes, images, arrows and other objects. Wide ranges of shapes like rectangles, circles, diamonds, arrows, lines and more, together with arrow-binding and labeled arrows, let you be flexible and creative without the need for an entire design suite.
Combine it with other media: draw on design mock-ups, building plans, schemes and other visuals by importing images of your own into the canvas.
Once ready, you can share your whiteboard and present it using the laser pointer feature, or invite users to collaborate with you, even from outside Nextcloud. Want to save or share your drawings as files? You can easily export them in PNG or SVG or copy to your clipboard.
Performance and scalability
We never stop working on Nextcloud Hub’s performance, realizing that it benefits not only end users and admins running our systems, but also the planet we all share. That’s why no matter how much more powerful we keep making Nextcloud, we allow it to use less resources with every update, considerably lowering its environmental impact. And of course, allowing it to run on more diverse hardware without loss in performance too.
Faster, more lightweight apps
One of the steps towards better performance in Hub 9 has been a switch to Vite, a tool to bundle the JavaScript. This reduced the size of our apps significantly, making some up to 5x smaller and thus load much faster fir everyone.
We also made numerous other improvements that make Nextcloud Hub more snappy overall:
Skip the time needed to set up a full filesystem for accessing public link-share DAV endpoints
Delay getting (sub)admin status until needed
Avoid queries during file share aggregation in Deck
More lazy app bootstrap
High Performance back-end
Since 2021, Nextcloud Files runs on the High Performance back-end written in Rust that reduced its network traffic consumption by up to 90%. It also made the app swifter for users, for example by enabling instant notifications.
With Nextcloud Hub 9, we introduced support for High Performance back-end to Nextcloud Text. It greatly reduces the server load and renders edits much faster with accelerated synchronization during collaborative sessions.
Server-side performance improvements
We also worked on the server-side performance, making improvements that reduce the load on your infrastructure:
Text: Reduce polling interval for read-only users
Nextcloud Assistant’s Context Chat: improved queuing, with smarter memory handling
Faster updates: avoiding duplicate repair steps, moving more repair/check steps out of update and to cron
Command to get information about database changes needed for an update
Database Sharding
In our last release, we introduced the foundation for Database Sharding, enabling the ability to split the Nextcloud database into several smaller databases and distribute the load across multiple servers. With Nextcloud Hub 9, we’ve continued to develop this feature, making it applicable for most use cases.
Read-After-Write behavior
Previously, Nextcloud required synchronous replication, limiting database clusters to a maximum of four nodes. Now, we added support for an unlimited number of Read nodes using asynchronous replication. Combined with database sharding, Nextcloud’s scalability has significantly advanced, allowing a single cluster to support up to 10 times more users.
AI and Nextcloud Assistant
Chat with Nextcloud Assistant, translate between hundreds of languages, work with Analytics and enjoy accelerated performance.
AI has become an integral part of Nextcloud Hub: Many core applications like Nextcloud Mail and Nextcloud Talk have their own built-in AI tools, while Nextcloud Assistant is getting more capable both feature-wise and in the back-end. At the same time, we integrate Ethical AI principles into our platform, enabling new AI features with a focus on privacy, transparency, and user control.
AI features available in Nextcloud Hub
Chat with Nextcloud Assistant
Nextcloud Assistant becomes even more convenient with a chat interface, where you can give prompts and ask questions in a dialog format. It will remember your conversations, making interactions more natural and smooth. Chat about your day, work on the next press release, or proofread your social media posts — locally on your server and without any data leaks!
Translate with Nextcloud Assistant
Translate app is now available directly from Nextcloud Assistant menu. Translation options are now almost limitless, as we added support for hundreds of languages that app can detect, read and translate to. The app can be deployed as an ExApp on a separate server, and now supports CPU and GPU, increasing performance and efficiency significantly.
Access Analytics with Nextcloud Assistant
Analytics, an application for processing and managing analytics data developed by our community, added supprt for Nextcloud Assistant’s Context Chat. This means that you can now ask it about the data from Analytics, and Context Chat will give you an answer if the app has relevant figures.
New API and a performance boost
We developed a new API that significantly improves the performance and scalability of the AI in Nextcloud, while also enabling the creation of new AI features. For example, it allows Assistant’s responses in the chat to be nearly instant, provided your back-end is sufficiently performant.
Nextcloud Files
Nextcloud Hub 9 makes file navigation easier, introduces the File Request feature, and keeps you up-to-date on your shares.
Request files
Need to collect files in a secure way from one or more users? Meet File Request, a feature that lets you request files with configurable security settings and tracking features.
To get started, click Create file request from the “+” menu of Nextcloud Files. Set a title and a description of your request and pick a drop folder. Set an expiration date and a password for your share, if you need an extra security layer.
When ready, you can simply share a link anywhere you prefer or add email addresses of recipients to share them right away via email. Every recipient will be asked to enter a name before dropping a file, to keep things on track.
Pasted a link in the wrong place? We’ve got you! To keep your requests under control, you can browse and manage active requests in the right sidebar and close them as needed.
We also added a push notification option to help you keep track of your files and folders. Now you can get notified if a user uploads a file you requested or downloads one you shared with them.
Filter files and folders
When you keep a lot of files in your system, navigating your library can become cumbersome, and time-consuming too. If you add just two more files daily, that’s already 60 more per month! To help you find what you need faster, we introduce file filters.
You can filter your files by file type, modification date and people. Fine-tune your browsing by combining different filters and filter types, and success is guaranteed.
Browse folders with tree view
Navigating complex folder paths is now easier with the folder tree view. The left sidebar in the new Nextcloud Files offers a classic tree-style display of your folders, making it simple to browse intricate project folders.
More improvements in Nextcloud Files
Ability to keep the folder structure when uploading
Group folders ACL: visual feedback when ACL update fails
Small Group folder improvements
Ability to enforce windows-compatible file names on the server
Server-side DAV pagination
Account management: sorting by last login
Possibility to upload a complete folder from a “+” menu
Delegate “Super-Admin” for user management
Allow to specify the token of a public share / share renaming
Improved grid view UI in Files
Nextcloud Office
PDF templates and forms, 3D transitions in slides, better interoperability and security, and more in the new version of Nextcloud Office.
PDF templates and form filling API
A new feature in Nextcloud Office for this release is the ability to handle document templates with forms. When a template document has a form, Nextcloud will provide a nice, easy-to-use interface for the user to fill in details. Then, the document will be created and opened, and the user can check if everything was added correctly and if they want to make any changes.
The form system is very powerful, yet easy to use. For example, you can fill in time-sheets, complete feedback forms, and do much more. And it’s not only limited to text: you can even create charts based on data from your documents. Organisations that use a lot of forms can use this to make the life of their team members a lot easier!
Developers can use the new document API in Nextcloud Office to create multiple documents from a central database or template, or collate information from multiple documents.
It is possible to streamline automated document creation by linking a database to a template using scripts. With templating, you can automate many interactions like reporting, proposal generation, client on boarding, or even production of marketing collateral.
Of course, the new Office API is available in the new Nextcloud Flow, which can automate a variety of things, from extracting data from documents to filling them in.
Presentations: 3D transitions and quicker loading
The presentation editor now supports fancy 3D transitions between slides that make your slideshows more dynamic and catchy. These use WebGL, putting the GPU in your laptop or desktop to work for buttery smooth animations.
You can access transitions via the transitions widget located in the editor’s sidebar. And the widget itself has been revamped too!
Presentations also became much faster all around, with swifter document opening and slide loading, and overall smoother scrolling and rendering of the elements.
Better security and interoperability
Rootless containers in Nextcloud Office now operate without requiring special privileges from the user, thanks to Linux Namespaces. This optional feature enhances security by isolating container processes more effectively.
Our Office suite in Nextcloud Hub 9 features improved security with several new features. The newly introduced Wholesome Encryption for ODF files offers enhanced performance, better tamper resistance, metadata hiding, and increased resistance to brute-forcing with the Argon2id key derivation function.
Nextcloud Office also became more interoperable. Work with metric-compatible Microsoft fonts has been improved together with compliance with ISO/IEC 29500 standard. New Excel-compatible functions were added like FILTER, SORT, and SORTBY, along with a smart justify feature.
Nextcloud Tables
Our no-code platform for data management gets new export and import features, optimized performance and more in Hub 9!
New column type: Users and groups
Assign a colleague or a team to a task in a table by adding their clickable name with a new column type Users and groups.
Export table schema
Export the table schema and import it as a new table to quickly create tables with a similar structure and populate them from scratch. This handy templating feature helps you quickly move tables from testing to production when you build environments based on Nextcloud Tables. And, of course, you can exchange these between organizations: Each city needs to handle things like a dog tax or registering a new citizen!
More in Nextcloud Office, Nextcloud Tables, and Nextcloud Collectives:
New functions in spreadsheet editor: FILTER, SORT, SORTBY, UNIQUE, SEQUENCE, RANDARRAY, XLOOKUP, XMATCH
Support of importing and exporting OOXML pivot tables (cell) format definitions
“Copy Cells”, or “Fill Series” options when autofilling by dragging from a corner of cells in Calc
Correct usage of ordinal suffixes 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on
Right click to insert and delete comments in Calc
Formula wizard interface improvements
PPTX files with heavy use of custom shapes now open faster
Pressing Enter in an empty list item ends the list
Transitions widget located in the sidebar has been revamped (it now uses iconView)
Admin warnings to display if you have mis-configurations
Firefox performance optimization and reduced garbage-collection giving snappier browser experience closer to that of Chrome / WebKit
Continued accessibility improvement and widget annotations
Nextcloud Talk
Improved moderation features, offline browsing on mobile, and Apple Vision Pro support in one of the most secure apps for online meetings.
Keep your chats healthy
Inside public conversations or during online events, it’s important to have a firm way to moderate the conversation, uphold your community guidelines and deal with potential spam. Nextcloud Talk features many moderation tools that help you maintain a safe and healthy environment like role management in chats, time tracking of who’s speaking, voice muting, and more.
Remove participants
With Nextcloud Hub 9 we introduce the ability to ban users who show disruptive behavior, publish spam links or abuse other participants.
Browse conversations even offline
Users of Nextcloud Talk on Android devices can now browse past conversation lists and chat messages offline, to quickly get back to important information even without needing an internet connection.
Don’t miss calls: add a second speaker!
Away from your laptop? Not an excuse to miss a call! Now you can choose a secondary device, like your Bluetooth headphones or a kitchen speaker to notify you of incoming calls. To activate the feature, head to notification settings and select a second output device.
Summon Smart Picker easily
You can now summon the Smart Picker in Nextcloud Talk via the attachment menu to add GIFs and videos, generate images with AI, link conversations and Deck cards, and even send map locations. For quick access to Smart Picker, you can type a “/” shortcut in the message box as usual.
Use Nextcloud Talk with Apple Vision Pro
When we say you can have your meetings anywhere, we mean it! Now you can join calls even in a virtual environment using our Nextcloud Talk app for your Apple Vision Pro headset
Nextcloud Groupware
Discover multiple security, usability, and navigation improvements across Nextcloud Groupware apps.
Nextcloud Mail
Smart follow-up reminders
The Nextcloud Assistant can already summarise email threads and generate meeting agendas from the your email content. With Nextcloud Hub 9, the Assistant can also check emails to see if the sender expects a reply: If it determines an email needs a follow-up, it will place it in a Follow up section to make sure you don’t forget!
Advanced search filters
Filter your inbox based on various conditions, such as subject line, sender, or tags with new email filtering mechanism. Unlike most other mail clients, Nextcloud Mail installs these filters as sieve scripts on the server, meaning the filters work regardless of which client you’re using. No need to set up the filters on your desktop and also your laptop, and then be annoyed they are not applied when you check mail on your phone!
Phishing detection
Some modern phishing emails are becoming exceedingly sophisticated, and therefore dangerous! And sometimes you’re moving quickly through your day, without an eye on potential dangers. In this case, Nextcloud keeps you alert about risky links and phishing or impersonation attempts by showing you a warning message.
End-to-end encryption with Mailvelope
Want to encrypt your mail using PGP? We’ve worked with the team behind Mailvelope to make sure the plugin works reliably with Nextcloud Mail, and also introduced a simplified domain registration feature for your convenience.
Nextcloud Calendar
More informative event window
The new sidebar in Nextcloud Calendar groups events, showing if they are your personal calendars, shared, which app they come from, and groups all hidden calendars together.
Availability display for rooms and resources
Before creating a new event, you can check the availability of Talk conversations and resources. Easier planning of all online meetings with less risk of anything going not-quite-as-planned.
Setting calendar as free or busy
Now you can decide if Nextcloud Hub shows your status as free or busy during events in your calendar. For example, you can set a calendar as transparent so it never changes your status to Busy.
Upcoming events in Nextcloud Talk conversations
Now every Nextcloud Talk conversation shows upcoming events happening within, reminding you of future meetings and making room availability more transparent.
Nextcloud Contacts
Delete or rename groups
Easily delete or rename groups with actions from the group menu, saving some of your precious time.
Set out-of-office replacements
When setting a Nextcloud-wide out-of-office status, you can assign another user or colleague to be your replacement during your absence. Their name will be visible in other apps like Nextcloud Talk, Nextcloud Mail, Nextcloud Calendar, and other locations throughout Nextcloud Hub.
Other improvements in Nextcloud Groupware:
Mail signatures and encryption with S/Mime
Mail: Add OCS API endpoint to send emails with automation
Mail: print out email
Mail: fix misplaced action menus
Mail: fire workflow events for incoming messages
Mail: API to read mails
Mail: simplified domain registration for Mailvelope
Mail: Fileviewer application
Allow enforcing strict email format
Contacts: migrate from Webpack to Vue
Contacts: migrate from Webpack to Vite for faster loading
Contacts: birthday and biography support for the system address book
Calendar: set start day of the week
Calendar: improve sidebar display of calendars
Calendar: auto refresh
CalDAV: invitations for shared calendars
CalDAV: fix unclear event update email for recurring events
DAV: hide CalDAV settings if no calendar-dependent apps are enabled
Calendar/CalDAV: delta sync for subscriptions and adaptive sync rates
CalDAV: send invitation emails via Nextcloud Mail
Even more security in Nextcloud Hub 9
Nextcloud Hub 9 lets you strengthen your security and administrative controls even further with several new fine-grained security tools and mechanics:
Ability to set up a PIN code for passwordless authentication to additionally secure your account should anybody obtain your security key.
Ability to restrict admin actions to internal IP addresses, disabling admin settings for users outside of trusted IP ranges.
More flexible admin rights delegation: option to enable user management rights for users without granting admin permissions
Ability to enable E2EE and SSE in Nextcloud Hub together
Enhanced metadata extraction capabilities including PDF files
Support for Azure Information Protection file tags
Nextcloud Clients
Refined design, optimized synchronization and more improvements in Nextcloud apps for desktop and mobile.
More native UI
We revised the design of Nextcloud clients for Windows and iOS to make them look more native in many ways, including transparency, buttons, spacing, and more.
New release channels for desktop app
New release channels are now available for the desktop client. Use the Daily channel to stay ahead with the latest features and improvements in the making, or Enterprise channel with updates for enterprise customers.
Two-way sync for Android
With two-way sync enabled for a folder, files added or updated on device automatically sync to your cloud, and the other way round. Currently, only internal folders created in Nextcloud are supported.
Other improvements in Nextcloud clients:
Improved handling of multi-monitor setups on macOS
Desktop client: Multiple Proxy Settings.
Login Flow v2 on Android and iOS.
Ability to enforce Windows-compatible file names on the server.
Improve notifications of file changes from notify_push server app.
Nextcloud ecosystem
New integrations join Nextcloud Hub, while our App Store receives a donation mechanism and gets more informative.
New in integrations
LLama 3
A third iteration of the popular open-source LLM with significant improvements in data quality and scalability.
XWiki
Open-source enterprise wiki and knowledge management platform. Integration? Partnership?
Enterprise support for new apps
Dovecot
Full-service email platform by OpenExchange
Stalwart Mail Server
Modern, high-performance email SMTP and MTA solution
Mailvelope
PGP for end-to-end email encryption.
All these open source technologies are available with our community edition, but we also partnered with the projects and companies behind them to offer an enterprise solution for our customers.
Nextcloud App Store
Donations
We want to give app creators an opportunity to spend more time on their apps for Nextcloud. So, we introduced donation links in our app store, allowing users to provide a tip to the developer of their favorite app. We support links to PayPal, Stripe and other solutions. Nextcloud keeps no commission — 100% of the funds goes to the developers. You can read more about donations in our documentation.
Enterprise apps
While donations are great, we believe the best approach to monetization for open source are enterprise subscription services when possible. So we offer app and integration developers the chance to work with us to offer an enterprise subscription from our app store – making it easy for prospective customers to request a quote.
Improved search and more
We also made a number of UI improvements, including a better search and the ability for app developers to signal needs about their app or notify about their update policy.
Take Nextcloud Hub 9 for a spin!
If you’re still with us, it means we’ve successfully brought you to the most important part of this journey.
Nextcloud is not a craft of marketing, it is a craft of engineering with true passion for privacy, transparency and humanity. That’s why we keep bringing the results of our work to you for free. Click below and start using the latest and greatest of Nextcloud Hub today!
You can download Nextcloud Hub 9 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 Nextcloud Hub 9!
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 9 directly by checking the “Install Nextcloud 30” box.
We have a dedicated setup guide for AIO users. Follow the guidelines to easily set up Hub 9.
The Nextcloud Enterprise version of Hub 9 will become available soon, once we successfully run the additional testing and complete certification.
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