1-2-0

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. Performance is a very broad term, so we have to examine the details: Many people felt like its a performance problem that former clients polled the local file system for changes on the MacOSX and Windows platform. That was recommended from other projects which have experience with going through large file collections. QFileSystemWatcher seemed not to be designed for this usecase. ...

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). It will tell in detail which files have been synced, added or deleted. Client will go offline while the server in in maintenance mode (feature available with ownCoud master only) Improved SSL Certificate acceptance All sizes of the new icons are available. Support files > 2 GB on all platforms for uploading. Fixed some minor memory leaks and again saved some server requests through optimizations. Improved error reporting to the user. Remove legacy theming support. We would appreciate if you give this release a test ride. Note that because it is beta you should make extra sure to have have backups of your data. ...