oCIS is the future. But the present is thousands of deployments running ownCloud 10, with real users and real data, in production environments that don’t get replatformed on a blog post’s timeline.
ownCloud Classic has been continuously maintained through the acquisition:
- 10.14 shipped in Jun 2024,
- 10.15 in Aug 2024
- 10.16 in Feb 2026.
But PHP 7.4 reached end of life, and running a production system on an unsupported runtime is a compliance problem.
Especially in public sector. Especially in Germany, where auditors actually check.
The community kept asking for PHP 8.3 support.
So we built it. ownCloud Classic now runs on PHP 8.3 as pre-alpha. Check it out: https://hub.docker.com/layers/owncloud/server/11.0.0-prealpha
This isn’t a strategic pivot back to PHP. It’s a maintenance commitment to people who trusted us with their infrastructure. We’re not building major new features on the Classic codebase. We are keeping it secure, supported, and compliant while people plan their migration.
The migration story is the bridge. We’re building a migrator from OC10 to oCIS (in the pipeline, not shipped yet — I won’t oversell). Users, files, shares, spaces. When it’s ready, you’ll hear about it here.
Until then: PHP 8.3 is close. Your auditors can relax.
Tomorrow: what 108 repositories taught us about open source hygiene.
This is part 3 of this blog post series.
See the earlier posts:
