Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Coming Soon: ownCloud Infinite Scale 3.0
Accessibility (WCAG 2.1) and compliance, notable enhancements to the Spaces feature, a much faster and more flexible webUI, improved administration and much more: Stay tuned for Infinite Scale 3!
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 200 million end users across thosuands of global enterprises and government agencies. The Kiteworks Open Source Program Office is the steward of ownCloud, the open-source platform for sovereign secure data exchange, file synchronization, and collaboration. Built from the ground up in Go with zero database dependency, ownCloud Infinite Scale scales from a single binary to million-user deployments. Guided by a published governance charter and Apache 2.0 licensing, the OSPO ensures ownCloud remains a transparent, community-driven digital commons.
Planning Process of ownCloud, Inc. is Now Open to All
For quite some time now, the ownCloud release planning and definition process has been largely hidden behind a curtain. On behalf of the entire ownCloud company, we are pleased to announce that as of today, this is changing. We are opening the planning process to all,...
ownCloud Contributor Community Grows 80% in One Year!
Wow, do we have a great community here at ownCloud. And I mean really great! In 2015, 5 years after the initial inception of ownCloud, we had a grand total of 550 contributors, which is awesome. However, in just over a year since that number was recognized, we are...
ownCloud Reaches 1000 Code Contributors, Grows 80% In One Year
Over the six years of ownCloud history, over 1000 different individuals contributed to our code! This amazing milestone was reached in the last few days and we're super proud of it. But not only did we add contributions from 450 people in the last year, our ecosystem...
MediaElement Vulnerability Prompts ownCloud Security Update
Last Friday WordPress published it's 4.5.2 security release. Our security team took a look at the fixed issues to determine whether ownCloud is affected by a similar vulnerability. Users with Flash enabled on releases older than ownCloud 9 are vulnerable to...
ownCloud Desktop Client 2.2.0 Available
Today the desktop team has made available version 2.2.0 which will notify you of server events and sync issues, while also introducing many performance and reliability improvements. Read on to learn what is new!
ownCloud Desktop Client 2.2.0 Available
Today we have released the latest version of the Desktop Client, 2.2.0. This release includes changes to the default chunk size (10MB) and refactored overlay icons for performance, improved error handling, improved UI, translation fixes and countless other bug fixes....
ownCloud and Google Summer of Code
Google Summer of Code is a program which enables students to spend their summer holiday working on an open source project, getting paid by Google. Unofficially, ownCloud has participated a few times in the GSOC program through other organizations including KDE and...
New Maintenance Releases Out, Time to Upgrade
We just made ownCloud 9.0.2, 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12 and 7.0.14 available. These bring improvements to sharing, stability, performance and security. We recommended an upgrade as soon as possible! changelog The 9.0.2, 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12 and 7.0.14 releases include the...
iOS Client Update
Today, we published version 3.4.9 of the iOS client. This release introduces an improved user experience with sorting options and remote thumbnails as well as sharing improvements with auto completion for Federation support and the ability to make publicly editable...
ImageTragick: Dangerous for ownCloud Users?
ImageTragick, the fancy nickname for a series of recent critical security vulnerabilities in the ImageMagick library, has gotten some attention in the press already. ImageMagick is a widely used library for image processing. If it is installed on the ownCloud server,...
Accellion’s Open Back Door to Facebook Helps Illustrate Open-Source’s Worth
Companies open-sourcing their code often incur delays while they ‘clean up the code’ and the argument of ‘poor or not acceptable quality code’ is given as reason not to make it available to the public in the first place. Customers may want to ask themselves how they...
ownCloud Connects Business Users on June 1st – Get Insight into Customer Use Cases
On June 1st in Frankfurt, Germany, ownCloud will be hosting an event for ownCloud Community Edition business users, Enterprise Edition customers and anyone else who is interested in using ownCloud for their business. The goal of this event is to connect businesses...
Softpedia: ownCloud 9.0.2 Released with Lower-Severity Security Patches and Hardenings
ownCloud Inc. announced the general availability of multiple maintenance releases for all of its supported branches of the ownCloud self-hosting cloud server. ownCloud 9.0.2, 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12, and 7.0.14 were made available for download for existing users, who are...
ownCloud 9.0.2, 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12 and 7.0.14 Available
The latest version of ownCloud 9, 9.0.2, is now available. In addition, ownCloud 8.2.4, 8.1.7, 8.0.12, and 7.0.14 are also all now available. The updates include a number of lower severity security patches and hardenings. Updating to the latest version is recommended,...
CMS Wire:Datto Seeks to Shake-Up the EFSS Space
Datto wants to shake-up the mid-market. “Datto is always looking for opportunities to disrupt large, legacy markets, specifically where the needs of SMBs are underserved. We view EFSS as a very large, highly commoditized, yet extremely expensive space where we can...