ownCloud Community Edition 6 enhances user experience, simplifies app development and deployment and adds innovative collaborative editing feature
Lexington, MA – December 11, 2013 – Improved design, advanced integration with enhanced APIs and the ability to create, share, download – and now collaboratively edit -- documents online lead the list of impressive enhancement and additions in ownCloud’s latest Community Edition, the world's most popular open source, on-premises file sync and share.
With more than a million users worldwide, ownCloud offers the ease-of-use, flexibility, privacy and security unmatched by consumer-grade services. ownCloud installs easily on a web server, enabling users to host their own file sync and share, giving them complete control of their data whether using their own storage or cloud storage.
“ownCloud 6 is the fastest, easiest-to-use ownCloud yet,” said Frank Karlitschek, founder and leader of the ownCloud project, as well as CTO of ownCloud, Inc. “It has a ton of cool new features that the community can use to safely and privately sync and share files – under their control. And ownCloud Documents gives small groups the ability to edit documents together in real-time.”
ownCloud Documents
ownCloud Documents enables online, live, collaborative editing of standard documents. Documents stored in ownCloud can be created within a web-interface or existing documents can be uploaded. Sharing and editing can be done securely in the browser and be shared inside ownCloud or via a public link. The editing works on top of normal ODF files that are stored in ownCloud and can be privately and securely stored on-premises.
ownCloud Community Edition 6 Features
In addition to ownCloud Documents, the ownCloud Community Edition 6 includes many new and enhanced features:
User Interface
- Activity feeds. A real-time list of recent activity so users can see what is going on in their ownCloud account with the files they own.
- Improved design. Updated interface, new elements, and other improvements provide less visual clutter and more space for better user focus and more intuitive interactions.
- Avatars. New user pictures visible through the interface that augment sharing and collaborative interactions.
- Previews. Thumbnail previews for file types and pictures enabling a user to see a quick summary of their files without having to open them.
- Conflict handling. A new web conflict dialog providing the user multiple options if a file is uploaded that already exists on the server.
- Share file notification. Optional emails sent to users and groups when sharing a file or folder with other users of the system.
- Example files. Pre-set files that an admin can select that appear in new user accounts when they log in for the first time, such as a tutorial on how to use ownCloud.
- Enhanced performance. Improved performance across the board, including encryption, external system integration and file sync.
- Sharing REST API. A new API that enables app developers and partners to externally access all ownCloud sharing functions from, for example, a mobile app or desktop application.
- ownCloud App API. An enhanced API for easier development of 3rd party apps and easier access to core functions for app development.
- App management. A new framework that improves management of 3rd party apps and the installation of these apps into ownCloud.