{"id":8079,"date":"2015-04-10T07:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T07:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2025-01-23T09:25:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T09:25:37","slug":"owncloud-development-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/owncloud-development-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"ownCloud development in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_8122\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/disclaimer-app.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8122\" class=\"wp-image-8122 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/disclaimer-app.png\" alt=\"disclaimer app\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8122\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The new Disclaimer app<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nWhere February topped the first month of this year with 362 pull requests merged, March broke the 400 pull request barrier, in no small part, thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=8074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">very active hackathon in Nuremberg<\/a>. As always, the following will summarize some of the happenings in ownCloud development during March 2015 based on what went on in github, development mailing lists, blogs and so on. Tips are very much welcome! Ping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/+JosPoortvliet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jos<\/a> with your input.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest items last month were the integration of \u2018update streams\u2019 in the Updater app, the merger of the first parts of \u2018Encryption 2.0\u2032 in core, improvements to the Gallery+ app, changes in the forums, ownCloud client 1.8 and the availability of enterprise support options from ownCloud, Inc. The ownCloud website also underwent an overhaul with improved front, install, and support pages and the <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/owncloud-contributor-conference-2015-dates-announced-registration-open\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ownCloud Contributor Conference was announced this week<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>You can read a report on February <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/owncloud-development-in-february\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Note that we only cover improvements integrated through the <a href=\"https:\/\/help.github.com\/articles\/using-pull-requests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pull request process<\/a> and most non-core ownCloud apps, including the desktop client, which have small enough development teams that the overhead of that process is not worth the benefits. The result is that we only track a part of ownCloud development in these reports! If you are active in one of the ownCloud apps or just keep an eye on development there, consider sending some information about noteworthy developments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/+JosPoortvliet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our way<\/a> or blogging about it occasionally yourself.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"western\">Development<\/h2>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_8124\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/max-upload-size.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8124\" class=\"wp-image-8124 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/max-upload-size-300x73.png\" alt=\"max upload size\" width=\"300\" height=\"73\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8124\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">the settings are now aware of your ability to modify the .htaccess file<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThough the focus of the 400+ pull requests this month was more on stability and refinement of ownCloud, there have also been several major improvements including the ability for the Updater app to track a specific major ownCloud release, the first steps of integrating Encryption 2.0 and much more:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Updater app <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/updater\/pull\/100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">now has \u2018channels support<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/updater\/pull\/100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">,<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/updater\/pull\/100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2019<\/a> allowing admins to choose to remain on a specific ownCloud stable series. <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/te-online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">t-online<\/a> has integrated the updater in the admin panel rather than a separate window, improved the user interface and made changes to show more and clearer feedback on state and progress of operations.<\/li>\n<li>The core of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/15234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Encryption 2.0<\/a> went in. The new generation encryption app still has a lot of work ahead, much of it being tracked <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14472\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in this pull request<\/a>. In other encryption news, code from <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jknockaert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">jknockaert<\/a> has made <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">encryption stream wrapper seekable<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/8390\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">original PR<\/a>), which makes reading big encrypted files more efficient.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/oparoz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">oparoz<\/a> introduced support for <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14927\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">previewing Raw files<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/13648\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">font previews<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>External storage can now have <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14925\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mount options, exposed in the GUI<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There is now a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/15083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tips &amp; <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/15083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/15083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ricks<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/15083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8222;<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/15083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> section<\/a> in the admin settings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Crote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crote<\/a> added a <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14672\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2013show-password option to ldap:show-config<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>As part of a big effort to improve performance of <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/issues\/13725\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sharing files with large numbers of users<\/a> (think a thousand or more), a fix was merged to only <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/13893\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check for cached dirs if cache is being used<\/a>, cutting time needed for sharing to a large number of users in half.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/kampka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">kampka<\/a> made it possible to <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14615\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">configure the background job mode from the console<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The ocdev tool, which helps new app developers get up and running with their new app in no time, was <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/ocdev\/pull\/30\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated for ownCloud 8.1<\/a>, as was the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/news\/pull\/751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ownCloud News app<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_8126\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/before.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8126\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8126\" src=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/before-300x142.png\" alt=\"before\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">menu style before<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>Design and polish<\/h3>\n<p>As for the more minute details, there <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14962\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is now some white space<\/a> to the right of the file list so you are less likely to accidentally delete a file when you just wanted to scroll through the files list. Work by <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/rullzer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rullzer<\/a> has made it so that the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">admin panel always show<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">s<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14133\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> the max upload size<\/a>, however it is greyed out if it can\u2019t be changed by the user. He also further <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14582\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">refined<\/a> the share dialog. A new <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14958\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pop over style for apps and user drop down menus<\/a> was merged and in the app store; <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/owncloud\/core\/pull\/14737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">app descriptions are now collapsed<\/a> by default to shorten the list a bit.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to get involved in coding on ownCloud \u2013 check out <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/contribute\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this page<\/a> to get started!<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"western\">Apps<\/h2>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_8125\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/after.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8125\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8125\" src=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/after-300x142.png\" alt=\"after\" width=\"300\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8125\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">menu style after<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nOn apps.owncloud.com, 28 apps were new or updated in March. Some notable updates include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The brand new Dotclear app <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Dotclear?content=169364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">integrates Dotclear blogging<\/a> into ownCloud.<\/li>\n<li>The Files Tree app is also new and <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Files+Tree?content=169096\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shows files in a tree view<\/a>. The app still has some issues and gives very little information on what it is or how to use it for now, but hopefully updates will be available soon.<\/li>\n<li>For those wanting their apps visible in the top bar rather than in the menu, there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Direct+Menu?content=169148\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Direct Menu 0.2<\/a>, while fans of a sidebar with apps can enjoy <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Old+menu?content=166872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Old Menu 2.0.1<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Gallery%2B?content=169116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">great Gallery+ app<\/a> by oparoz continues to get both small and large improvements. 2.0.6 made the app much, MUCH faster, especially on large collections, while it also fixed a series of smaller issues and 2.0.7 improved on IE11 compatibility.<\/li>\n<li>If you\u2019re a user of the Groupoffice CRM and groupware tool, you\u2019ll love the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/groupoffice?content=169375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ownCloud integration<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If your company uses Slack, you can benefit from the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Slack+Notification?content=169219\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Slack Notification app<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/restricted+acces?content=169489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Restricted Access app<\/a> (at 0.3) can be used to prevent some users to have private data.<\/li>\n<li>If you need your ownCloud to show a disclaimer at login, you\u2019ll love the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/disclaimer?content=169150\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disclaimer app<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/dashboard?content=160265\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dashboard app<\/a> has recently seen a big rewrite and is much improved.<\/li>\n<li>QOwnnotes <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/QOwnNotes?content=168497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">introduced links support in Markdown files<\/a>, including the ability to link to other notes<\/li>\n<li>One of ownCloud\u2019s chat applications, User Conversations, now has a settings menu and works with ownCloud 8.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/grauphel+-+Tomboy+sync+server?content=166654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">grauphel<\/a>, a tomboy REST server for syncing notes is at 0.5, bringing ReStructuredText rendering and a standalone HTML mode for notes, case-insensitive search and more.<\/li>\n<li>Shorty, a service to store, manages and uses a collection of shortened links pointing to resources in the web, and it\u2019s associated tracking app <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Shorty+Tracking?content=152473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ha<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Shorty+Tracking?content=152473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">s<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Shorty+Tracking?content=152473\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> been updated, bringing user interface and visualization improvements and ownCloud 8 compatibility.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/user_sql?content=155512\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">user_sql<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.owncloud.com\/content\/show.php\/Password+Policy+Enforcement?content=167207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pasword Policy Enforcement<\/a> were updated for ownCloud 8.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"western\">Ongoing conversations<\/h3>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_8040\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/avatars-in-sharing-dialog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8040\" src=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/avatars-in-sharing-dialog-300x206.png\" alt=\"avatars in sharing dialog\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8040\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">first version of avatars in sharing dialog<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe ownCloud forum team has been <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.owncloud.org\/viewtopic.php?f=16&amp;t=26785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working on some changes to the forums<\/a> by introducing new sub forums for The Project, Hosting, cleaning up old subjects, updating the forum software and more. There was also a <a href=\"https:\/\/forum.owncloud.org\/viewtopic.php?f=34&amp;t=27112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">survey about ownCloud setups<\/a>. On the mailing list the following topics were most interesting:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The positive responses from users at SCALE and FOSDEM prompted <a href=\"https:\/\/mailman.owncloud.org\/pipermail\/devel\/2015-March\/001106.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this nice email to the devel list<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>There was a <a href=\"https:\/\/mailman.owncloud.org\/pipermail\/devel\/2015-March\/001132.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">conversation about logging and login errors<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A conversation about <a href=\"https:\/\/mailman.owncloud.org\/pipermail\/devel\/2015-March\/001154.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">apps in the app store<\/a>, with the conclusion that ownCloud 8.1 will improve the app store situation.<\/li>\n<li>If you would like to present ownCloud 8.0 or ownCloud in general at an event or meetup, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/mailman.owncloud.org\/pipermail\/devel\/2015-March\/001107.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">use these ready-made presentations<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Last but not least, ownCloud Desktop Client 1.8.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/mailman.owncloud.org\/pipermail\/devel\/2015-March\/001145.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was released<\/a>, bringing a boatload of improvements!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can join the discussions on the development lists on <a href=\"https:\/\/mailman.owncloud.org\/mailman\/listinfo\/devel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this page<\/a>.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_8123\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/share-dialog.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8123\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8123\" src=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/share-dialog-300x181.png\" alt=\"share dialog\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">share dialog after first design refinements (still not final version)<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"western\">ownCloud news and blogs<\/h2>\n<p>On <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Planet ownCloud<\/a> there was quite a bunch of articles in March. Among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>An ownCloud Hackathon <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/owncloud-hackathon-in-nuremberg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">was announced<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You were notified of a <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/owncloud-8-0-1-snafu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">snafu with the 8.0.1 release<\/a> and the subsequent availability of <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/owncloud-releases-updates-for-supported-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updates to ownCloud 5 through 8<\/a>. Note that this was the last update to ownCloud 5 and if you still run this release, you should really update to 6, 7 or 8!<\/li>\n<li>The release of 8.0.2 came with availability for the <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/owncloud-offers-new-support-subscriptions-for-its-open-source-enterprise-file-sync-and-share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">enterprise support options from ownCloud, Inc.<\/a> and introduced you to <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/owncloud-release-model-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">some changes in the ownCloud release model<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>ownCloud <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/owncloud-development-in-january\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">development in January was covered<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>An interview with ownCloud Founder Frank and the team lead of the server team at ownCloud, Inc., Thomas, <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/owncloud-and-php\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discussing the PHP language<\/a> was published.<\/li>\n<li>The release of the desktop client was covered by the <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/owncloud-desktop-client-1-8-released\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">org blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>A post about <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/blog\/contributing-to-the-owncloud-mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contributing to the ownCloud mobile apps<\/a> was published. Over at ownCloud, Inc. Frank blogged about <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/why-enterprise-organizations-should-care-about-open-sourced-applications\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sharing some statistics and pointing out how important community contributions are<\/a> for ownCloud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On the ownCloud website we have a <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/install\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">much improved install page<\/a>, as well as a <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new support page<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">updated <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> front page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that if you\u2019re an ownCloud contributor, you should get your blog aggregated on <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">owncloud.org\/news<\/a>! Ping <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/+JosPoortvliet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jos<\/a> with your RSS feed.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\">Get in touch with ownClouders!<\/h3>\n<p>If you\u2019re looking for ways of getting in contact with fellow ownCloud users in order to discuss ideas for improvements in ownCloud or even to learn how they use it, <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/promote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out this page<\/a> and you can find places to ask <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">questions on our support page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to meet in person there are a number of ownCloud events taking place! You can meet fellow ownCloud users and developers at ownCloud meetups or see us at conferences. Find a calendar of ownCloud events on <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">owncloud.org\/events<\/a>. ownCloud meetups are a chance to learn more about ownCloud or to get coding work done. If you know of other (regular or not) meetups or are interested in organizing one yourself, <a href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/events\/meetups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">check out this page<\/a> to see how to get involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where February topped the first month of this year with 362 pull requests merged, March broke the 400 pull request barrier, in no small part, thanks to the very active hackathon in Nuremberg. 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