ownCloud 9.1
22 August 2016
ownCloud version 9.1 is now available (major release).
Upgrading to ownCloud 9.1
ownCloud 9.1 can be upgraded to (or installed) using any of Installatron's products. Use Installatron's optional Automatic Update feature to automatically apply ownCloud updates as new versions are released, or use Installatron's Clone feature to duplicate an existing ownCloud install to test the 9.1 upgrade prior to applying it live. Get started managing your ownCloud installations with Installatron
What's New in ownCloud 9.1
General
- 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
Authentication
- 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.
Files app
- 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
Federated sharing
- 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
External storage
- 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
Minor additions
- 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
For developers
- 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
Technical debt
- 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)