Owncloud

Last week Andreas did an upstream release of the file synchronization software csync. Frequent readers know that csync is the sync engine that is used in the ownCloud client, so this is a very important and special release for us. The new release contains a lot of features and changes me and my collegues worked on during the last 18 month: First we added the ownCloud module to csync upstream, so that csync now is able to sync local directories to an ownCloud server....

here is something new and eye candy in the ownCloud Client, so let me show a bit of what we have worked on recently. Many users of the ownCloud Client were asking for sync progress information, in fact there was none at all until today which is a bit boring. The reason why we hadn’t it was simply that csync, which is the file synchronizer engine we use, did not have an API to hand over progress information of an actual up- or download to higher levels of the application....

Again we’re meeting in Berlin at Woboq Intl. Headquarters to work on the ownCloud Sync Client again. One of our topics is the still not completely fixed problem with conflict files. There has been lots of troubles about false conflict files the client is generating in that situations were the ETag database is wasted. We revisited this problem and will come up with a better solution. The key changes will probably be...

We ownCloud Client devs were quite busy doing bug investigations and two releases the last couple of weeks. But that does not mean that nothing went into feature branches. It did, and now we can start to think of a release 1.3.0 with a couple of new features for the client. Here is a small overview of what went into ocsync master (actually the dav branch) and into mirall master....

Today is release day! We just release ownCloud Client 1.2.5, hurrah! It’s a small bug fix release, but it will make more people happy users! It fixes three ugly crashes we found with the help of encouraged bug hunters. One of them was an race between our thread which runs csync and the Qt SSL stack we’re obviously using. That caused a crash which happened after quite some run time, or also never… Hard to reproduce and debug, but finally Danimo and his mighty friends were able to nail that....

as you might have heard, we’re providing nightly builds of the parts of ownCloud, which is ownCloud community server as well as the ownCloud client on its supported platforms Linux, Windows and Mac. The nightly builds of the client for Windows and Mac and the source balls can be downloaded from the nightly directory on our download server. They are named after the last release, followed by a date time stamp, which is simply a concatentation of the year, month and day the nightly was built on....

Next week a part of the ownCloud team will meet in Nürnberg for a creative time and we thought a little meetup would be cool. Join us for a relaxed evening where we will give short talks about current state of ownCloud, new features and the near future. Let’s meet Wednesday, February 27th, 6:00 PM at the Nuremberg Coworking Space. Talks (short, don’t be afraid!): ownCloud overview by Holger Dyroff The updated ownCloud 5 User Interface by Jan-Christoph Borchardt Next steps for the ownCloud Desktop Clients by Daniel Molkentin The evening closes with a get-together, your chance to meet the team and discuss in a relaxed atmosphere....

Yesterday, ownCloud Client 1.2.0 was released. You can get it from here. We worked on this since end of november last year, you might have seen my other blogs about the beta versions we had for this release. What is interesting about the release from a more technical point of view? Here are a couple of examples. One of the things which often was complained about was the performance of the client....

Yesterday the ownCloud Client team released the ownCloud Client 1.2.0 beta 2. It includes a couple of improvements compared to beta 1 which was released before Christmas. The release of version 1.2.0 is planned for the next week if things go smooth. [caption id=“attachment_219” align=“alignright” width=“595”] New Sync Protocol Dialog[/caption] In particular, the the following improvements were added: Proxy authentication fixed (Basic auth, NTLM will not yet work) The status dialog now provides statistics on the last sync run (via the info button)....

2012 is slowly coming to an end and we all are looking forward to a few silent days around Christmas. But we did not want to leave to holidays without adding another thing to your vacation experience: I am happy to announce the first beta of the upcoming ownCloud Client release 1.2.0, ready now for you to test and enjoy under the tree. This is the first build with the new things we did in Berlin a couple of weeks ago, you will...