ownCloud 9.0 released

[Posted March 8, 2016 by ris]

Version 9.0 of ownCloud has been released, with many performance improvements, bug fixes, cleanup, and new features. "[Full Federation] is one of the main goals of ownCloud, since the beginning, to enable everyone to run their own server but still collaborate and share with others. Sharing between different ownCloud servers is possible for a while now. But this is easier than ever with cross-server user name auto complete, trusted servers and more. Once you’ve shared with another ownCloud server, it will be added as a trusted server, exchanging user names. This will enable ownCloud to auto complete names from users of all shared servers. Admins have control over these features, so they can add trusted servers manually and disable the automatic addition."

ownCloud 9.0 released

Posted Mar 9, 2016 0:32 UTC (Wed) by testsilicon (guest, #96703) [Link] (1 responses)

Unfortunately some popular apps are not supported in OwnCloud 9 yet. e.g. Tasks (https://github.com/owncloud/tasks/issues/296)

ownCloud 9.0 released

Posted Mar 13, 2016 14:53 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

Yeah, this is a bit of a pita - apps have to be updated. It depends a fair bit on the app, we've expanded and stabilized our API over the last few releases but the Tasks app used the Calendar app - which has been entirely rewritten (with the CalDAV code having been added to ownCloud Core and the web UI being rewritten in pure Javascript). Work in progress ;-)

ownCloud 9.0 released

Posted Mar 9, 2016 3:48 UTC (Wed) by dahveed311 (subscriber, #103741) [Link] (3 responses)

Also, be sure to follow proper upgrade procedures (https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.0/admin_manual/maintena...) rather than just apt-get update; aptitude safe-upgrade like me :)

Debian with OwnCloud repositories experience

Posted Mar 9, 2016 22:45 UTC (Wed) by dfsmith (guest, #20302) [Link] (2 responses)

It would be nice if they made an update-owncloud program so that the install doesn't just break after apt dist-upgrade. Or just make the upgrade process not break at all. While my upgrade went pretty smoothly, it did require about a half-hour of reading documents and debugging apache2 to get my system back up. Mostly I was typing highly automatable boilerplate; but some of it might interact negatively with modest Apache configurations.

Debian with OwnCloud repositories experience

Posted Mar 10, 2016 14:18 UTC (Thu) by distances (guest, #103785) [Link] (1 responses)

I run an ownCloud instance just for myself. At some point I was behind more than one major release [1], and the auto-upgrade didn't work. I just found it easier to remove the whole installation and reinstall. Wouldn't probably be a good idea in a multi-user setup though.

[1] It doesn't really help that ownCloud's interpretation of a "major release" isn't the widely understood semantic versioning scheme, as explained in https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.0/admin_manual/maintena.... It took me a while to realize this first.

Debian with OwnCloud repositories experience

Posted Mar 13, 2016 14:12 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link]

Yeah, that particular piece of confusion is very understandable - we do three major releases a year and didn't want our numbers to inflate too fast so we decided to go for this scheme. Kind of being between a rock and a hard place to be honest. We also discussed the year-based release numbers but that, similarly creates confusion (we've tried it once with an Enterprise release. Whadda ya know - seems like enterprise customers are as easy to confuse as anybody else).

In any case, yes, you can't skip major releases. We've introduced a separate upgrade routine with ownCloud 9.0, though, so perhaps this limitation can be lifted in the future. Automatic upgrading of apps is also high on our wish list. See this blog post about that.

In an attempt to be helpful I did write this blog post about upgrading to 9.0, same as with the previous few releases. If it isn't helpful or if something is missing, let me know and I'd be happy to amend or improve.