Debian with OwnCloud repositories experience

Posted Mar 13, 2016 14:12 UTC (Sun) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164)
In reply to: Debian with OwnCloud repositories experience by distances
Parent article: ownCloud 9.0 released

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.