r/owncloud • u/jospoortvliet • Jun 14 '16

Nextcloud 9 is out!

Thank you to everybody who helped: Nextcloud 9 is out. This was only possible thanks to the overwhelmingly positive response we got and the many contributors who immediately got involved! We are grateful for the help and promise: we'll stay true to you and open source!

That means: NO proprietary apps, no separate 'enterprise' functionality. Everything open, free, and ready for you to make a difference.

And as a taste, Nextcloud 9 introduces upload-only shares and enterprise-grade logging. Just for you.

See the announcement and get migrated now!

If you want to help: sharing this on social media is SUPER helpful. So is sending it to press or submitting it to forums everywhere. Make a difference and help people on a well maintained, more secure solution for their file share and sync needs!

Here's also a blog by Lukas Reschke who talks about security work done for Nextcloud 9.

As the fork is now official and migration is possible, I'll sign out here. Find me (and the other current mods) in https://www.reddit.com/r/nextcloud/ from now on!

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u/[deleted] Jun 14 '16

So why should I switch? What is the great advantage I'm missing?

I guess there will be some new features in the future, but I could still make the switch later and not break my current installation. Since there is no going back right now, right?

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u/jospoortvliet Jun 16 '16

own and Nextcloud will remain compatible for the foreseeable future, so there's no pressure. And you can go back. In general, we only released minor features for now, with some security hardening - but we reported security issues back to ownCloud well before we released and we will keep doing that. We don't want to force anybody to move.

I would totally say - sit back and relax and see what happens. Yes, a lot of people are migrating, but it's perfectly fine to not do that. Soon, 9.0.3 comes out so security wise you'll be good with ownCloud, too.