ownCloud 6 Releaseparty in Nuremberg

The ownCloud community released ownCloud 6 a couple of days ago. That was another big release and we want to celebrate! Please, everybody who is interested in ownCloud, like to learn more, give feedback or just want to meet other people from the community, you are invited to show up at Coworking Space in Nuremberg, Josephsplatz 8, on december 18th, 6pm. We will have a relaxed evening with a little discussion, maybe short demos, cakes and stuff, and fun....

December 13, 2013 · 1 min · 92 words · Me

openSUSE to Develop

Have you ever wondered why openSUSE is the platform for development? Because it offers all that is needed for professional development, also if development goes beyond the basics. A nice proof that openSUSE has more than others was posted here by our friend Thomas, a convinced Debian user. He writes about setting up openSUSE in vagrant to be easily able to build (master build) the ownCloud Client for Win32 in it....

December 6, 2013 · 1 min · 110 words · Me

openSUSE on RaspberryPi with ownCloud

This morning during a cup of coffee I wanted to do something adventurous. I put the raspberry which I bought recently (without having very much played with it because of my light apt-* allergy) on the table and thought I will try to install the openSUSE distribution. I remembered awesome Bernhard was blogging about that topic recently. On that page one can find this link where raspberrypi images can be found....

November 19, 2013 · 2 min · 383 words · Me

Kraft Release 0.53

Only short time after Kraft’s release 0.51 I am announcing version 0.53 today. Kraft is the KDE software that helps you to handle your daily quotes and invoices in your small business. The new release fixes a problem with the tarball of 0.51 which contained a wrong source revision. That did not cause any harm, but also did not bring the announced fixes. That was brought up by community friends, thanks for that....

October 12, 2013 · 1 min · 122 words · Me

DAV Torture

Currently we speak a lot about performance of the ownCloud WebDAV server. Speaking with a computer programmer about performance is like speaking with a doctor about pain. It needs to be qualified, the pain, and also the performance concerns. To do a step into that direction, here is a little script collection for you to play with if you like: the DAV torture collection. We started it quite some time ago but never really introduced it....

September 27, 2013 · 3 min · 593 words · Me

ownCloud Client Release 1.4.1

I am happy to announce that we today were able to release version 1.4.1 of the ownCloud Desktop Client on the three platforms Linux, MacOS and Windows. You find suitable download links as usual at: http://owncloud.org/sync-clients/ Version 1.4.1 is a bugfix release for the 1.4.0 version released a few of weeks ago which brought a lot of new features. This one solves a couple of problems that were coming up during the last few weeks....

September 26, 2013 · 1 min · 158 words · Me

Kraft Release 0.51

I am happy to release Kraft 0.51 today. Kraft is the KDE solution to handle daily business documents like quotes and invoices in your small business. This is a bugfix release which brings a handful of useful fixes against bugs which were reported by Kraft users since the last release. In the catalog view, now drag and drop is working to sort templates. Removing of sub chapters is also working now....

September 22, 2013 · 1 min · 164 words · Me

After the 1.4.0 ownCloud Client Release

You might have heard, ownCloud Client 1.4.0 was released last week. It is available from our sync clients page for all major desktop platforms, investigate the Changelog. Danimos Visual Guide has outlined the new stuff in the release already, so no need to repeat it here. You should install and try it, that seems to be the opinion of many people who tried it. Also people who shared their critical view on the client very publically in the past are much more pleased now with 1....

September 11, 2013 · 3 min · 437 words · Me

ownCloud Client 1.4.0 beta 2

We released a ownCloud Client 1.4.0 beta 2. Sources and binaries are availabe at the client download page for you. We kindly ask for more testing. First and foremost, beta 2 fixes a severe bug on the windows platform which was the root cause for a lot of other bug you might have experienced, such as infinite sync loops and similar. Please urgently prefer the beta2 over beta1 for testing....

August 17, 2013 · 1 min · 145 words · Me

Csync Upstream Release 0.50.0

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....

August 5, 2013 · 2 min · 356 words · Me