Owncloud

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...

On Friday I arrived back from Berlin where I had the pleasure to work with my great colleague Danimo and our friends from Woboq, Markus and Olivier, in the Woboq Headquarter in Berlin Kreuzberg for a week. We thought that it might be fun to work together on csync, our sync engine under the hood of the ownCloud client. There were some issues that should be fixed and on the way we cleaned and improved quite some code in csync....

I spent the last weekend in Prague at the openSUSE conference 2012. It was a great opportunity to visit the wonderful city of Prague and meet old friends from the openSUSE community and get a bit more involved into openSUSE again. I gave a talk about ownCloud on Saturday where I tried to show some technical details. That could have gone even deeper was the feedback some people gave me so I promise to show more of for example app development next time....

Along with todays ownCloud 4.5 release we released the new ownCloud Client 1.1.0 with a new syncing concept. This blog will shed some light on the details. I apologize, it’s a long read. Time Issues ownCloud Client versions 1.0.x worked with csyncs traditional way of using the file modification times to detect updates between the two repositories that should be synced to each other. That works fine and conforms to our idea to ideally not use any other metadata in syncing than what the file system has anyway....

as you might know, ownCloud uses the Open Build Service (short OBS) to produce and distribute the binary packages for the various distributions we want to support. The OBS is a great system as it does not only build for various Linuxes but also lets the users download the binary packages utilizing a huge mirroring infrastructure. All for you, all for the good of free software. And there is even more: OBS offers a nice download page which can either be embedded into a projects webpage or be linked from it....

Akademy 2012 isn’t far any more and I just registered for a BOF at this years Akademy in Tallin. It will take place in Room 419 on monday, July 2nd, 2012 at 10:30. Subject of the BOF will be the integration between KDE and ownCloud. As onwCloud originated from the KDE project we should meet and think together again how we can provide useful integration for the users combining the power of both technologies....