Tagged 2026-08-06 · repo: owncloud/client · tag: v7.1.1-rc.1 (pre-release) · GitHub release
ownCloud Desktop Client v7.1.1-rc.1 landed on August 6, tagged by maintainer erikjv. It’s a small release. Seven commits, 28 files changed, and honestly most of that is CI housekeeping. But there’s one fix in there worth knowing about if you or your users log in via Microsoft Entra ID (the identity provider formerly known as Azure AD).
Please note that this is a Release Candidate and should be used for testing purposes, not installed on production environments.
What broke, and what got fixed
The substantive change is PR #12597, “Load OIDC prompt from the right value,” merged July 28. The root cause is the kind of bug that’s easy to laugh at once you see it and easy to miss until then: a type mismatch in src/libsync/config/appconfig.cpp, where a config value was being read as quint16 when it needed to be qint64. The fix switches it to ushort. Small change, but it was enough to break the OIDC prompt parameter specifically for Entra ID logins, which is a good reminder that integer width mismatches in auth code don’t always fail loudly. Sometimes they just quietly break one identity provider’s login flow while everything else looks fine.
The PR also adds a Linux test in test/testappconfig.cpp that reads values from an actual config file on disk, rather than relying only on in-memory fixtures. That’s a meaningful addition on its own. It’s the difference between a test that catches “does the code compile” and one that catches “does the code do the right thing with real, persisted config,” which is exactly the class of bug that slipped through here.
Everything else in this release
The remaining six commits are CI and build maintenance, not user-facing changes:
- Windows GitHub Actions runner pinned to windows-2022
- macOS runner pinned to macos-15
- An oCIS Docker image bump used in the test pipeline
None of that touches client behavior directly, but pinning runner versions is generally a good sign. It means the team’s trying to keep CI results reproducible rather than at the mercy of whatever image GitHub rolls out next.
Should you install it?
This is a release candidate, not a stable build. Treat it as exactly that: something to test, not something to roll out fleet-wide. If you’re not affected by the Entra ID login issue, there’s no urgency here. If you are, this RC is worth grabbing to confirm the fix works in your environment before the stable v7.1.1 lands. Two build assets are attached to the GitHub release for this tag.
