ownCloud 9.1

22 August 2016

ownCloud version 9.1 is now available (major release).

Upgrading to ownCloud 9.1

What's New in ownCloud 9.1

• Background jobs (cron) can now run in parallel
• 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.
• Multi bucket support for primary objectstore integration

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

• Ability to toggle displaying hidden files
• Remember sort order
• Permalinks for internal shares
• Visual cue when dragging in files app
• Autoscroll file list when dragging files
• Upload progress estimate

• Ability to create federated shares with CRUDS permissions
• Resharing a federated share does not create a chain of shares any more but connects the share owner's server to the reshare recipient

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

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

• New DAV endpoint with a new chunking protocol aiming to solve many issues like timeouts (not used by clients yet)
• New webdav property for share permissions
• Background repair steps can be specified info.xml
• Background jobs (cron) can now be declared in info.xml
• Apps can now define repair steps to run at install/uninstall time
• Export contact images via sabre dav plugin
• Sabre DAV's browser plugin is available in debug mode to allow easier development around webdav

• PSR-4 autoloading forced for OC\ and OCP\, optional for OCA\ docs at https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.1/developer_manual/app/classloader.html
• More cleanup of the sharing code (ongoing)