ownCloud 8.2.1
19 November 2015
ownCloud version 8.2.1 is now available.
Upgrading to ownCloud 8.2.1
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What's New in ownCloud 8.2.1
Sharing improvements:
- Show path to file in error message about sharing with owner
- Replaced error numbers with details in the sharing error message
- Fix pagination on public link share page
- Deal with NoUserException in sharing code
- Fix cannot change share info after switching sections
- Fix changing expiration date of shared link breaks password
- Various other fixes
Performance improvements:
- Optimize multiple shared locks for a single process
- Don't lock if we're only reading cache metadata
- Escape like parameter in cache operations
Storage improvements:
- Improve dealing with Dropbox and Google Drive
- Moving files makes them disappear (SWIFT object store)
- Transactional file locking database backend warning is only shown when there is another warning.
- Don't lock /$user/files
- Include the final update in the transaction when moving a folder in the cache
- WebDAV MOVE on a non existing file results in Internal Server Error #20069
- Catch all exception if table doesn't exist #19884 #19893
- Various other objectstore fixes
Usability and UI:
- Made error message about file not found more specific in federated sharing
- Improved CSS, fonts, text color on various buttons, login screen, menu and settings
- Hide strength indication after password change and hide notifications after time-out or on delete
- Fixes to inconsistent language and translation support, show language code for unknown languages
- Fix icons for share/public folders, fix spinner positions in share tab
- Close user menu when clicking on other menus
- Sidebar fixes and hiding sidebar for trashbin view
- Move alt text for favorite action to image
- Sidebar should not open, when renaming a file on mobile
- Do not register sidebar panels when no sidebar
- Update process: state which step we are going to start and warn if it might be slow
User Management and LDAP fixes:
- LDAP fixes for quota, user mapper, initial user creation and connectivity
- Fix group admin settings, group assignment when group name is a number
- Enable proper CardDAV cookie authentication
Documentation, reliability and stability fixes:
- Expose syslog tag in the configuration
- Update list of deprecated methods (documentation)
- Fixes to text editor
- Fixes to activity app
- Create several repair steps in update process to clean up shares
- Update certificate bundle
- Fix multiple issues for IE 8 and 9
- Memcache warning with memcached
- Fix File versioning with encryption
- Update the unencrypted size for versions
- Fix mtime PROPPATCH to be "lastmodified" instead of "getlastmodified"
- Make sure that remote shares use the correct uid casing
- Variables don't have a class, so we can't use toString() on it
- Use IRequest's `getScriptName` functionality instead of $_SERVER
- Don't trigger the scroll event of every single item we filter in the file list