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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud presents Infinite Scale 3.0: The new and most secure version of its real-time content collaboration platform
ownCloud has released ownCloud Infinite Scale 3.0, the third version of its leading content collaboration platform for secure, real-time, enterprise-grade file sharing, written in Go with a future-proof cloud-ready microservices architecture. The new release further improves the Spaces feature for modern teamwork experience, offers even more security, is accessible and makes administration easier than ever.
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.
Announcing the ownCloud Foundation
Today we announce the creation of the ownCloud Foundation. The Foundation is a not-for-profit organization with the charter of stewarding the ownCloud ecosystem, and guaranteeing the viability and availability of free ownCloud now and in the future. I have had an...
Dropbox Up in Users’ Kernel
Did you hear the news? Yesterday Dropbox gave an overview of Project Infinite, which was officially released last month. According to the Dropbox blog, “Project Infinite is designed to enable you to access all of the content in your Dropbox—no matter how small the...
Enterprise Appliance for Production- For Linux and Non-Linux Experts
Interested in using ownCloud Enterprise Edition, but don’t know a lot about Linux? Do you have a small IT staff, or are you the IT staff in your spare time? The ownCloud Enterprise Edition Appliance is the answer to your need! The Appliance provides a pre-packaged,...
Dropbox Up in Users’ Kernel
Did you hear the news? Yesterday Dropbox gave an overview of Project Infinite, which was officially released last month. According to the Dropbox blog, “Project Infinite is designed to enable you to access all of the content in your Dropbox—no matter how small the...
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...