oC 7 in action!
This is the bi-weekly ownCloud community update for the weeks of June 30 to July 13. These updates pull together activities from development mailing lists, blogs, coding work and everything else community members share with us. Tips are very much welcome! Ping Jos with your input.
Biggest items last week were the work leading up to the release, with sneak previews on the ownCloud blog and further stabilization work. There was also activity in the ownCloud app area.
Read the report on week 25 and 26 here.
Development
As we’re getting ready for the release of ownCloud 7 (tomorrow!), most changes are related to improving stability and behavior as well as fine-tuning the user interface and interaction. On July 3rd, Frank created the stable 7 branches, opening development for new features, a bit of which has already started to happen.
Core and apps
- Lots of small interface improvements like mobile UI improvement to the text editor, making the birtday picker in the calendar app default to dates in the past and a fix for a visual issue with the controls bar
- Addition of an activity notification mail template
- Also new is support for AD primary groups
- Our first-run wizard now asks users to help promote ownCloud
- Webhooks now tell apps who owns a share
- The gallery app now has a white background when you share files, fitting with the normal view
- The Android app can now show files shared with you by other users
- There now is webapp support for android and iOS
Build your ownCloud app!
- The Javascript XMPP Chat app was updated to 0.8, adding a Spanish translation, VCard view, more emoticons, some ui and bug fixes, preparation work for ownCloud 7 and much more
- The Embedded Videostream app now supports shared files
- The Collaboration app was updated with some fixes and you can now easily do pull requests on github if you have any input
- Incidentally also at 2.4.1. Storage Charts uses real names instead of the user name
- Roundcube updated to 2.4.1 with some bug fixes.
- The CAS user and group backend was updated to 1.1 bringing ownCloud 7 compatibility and some bug fixes.
- APK Info was updated to version 1.2 with changes far larger than the version jump seems to indicate. Rewritten core library and fixes for many issues.
- Over social media, we were notified that aykit released version 1.3.1 of MyOwnNotes. Get the app here for Android
Other development updates
help promote ownCloud 7!
The release of ownCloud 7 is Wednesday the 23rd (yep, that’s tomorrow) You can join us for a live release hangout!
Over the last week Frank released a series of release candidates and calls for testing, see the mailing list archive of the ownCloud test pilots. If you want to help test ownCloud in the future, join this list!
There has been quite a bit of discussion on the ownCloud Read Later design mockups, triggered via the mailing list. If you are interested in application user interface design, consider joining the design team.
Other ownCloud happenings
Muktware wrote about WebODF integration in ownCloud.
On the ownCloud community blog we featured a series of sneak previews of the upcoming ownCloud 7 release:
- ownCloud 7 for developers
- ownCloud 7 for system administrators
- online collaboration with Documents
- Performance and Ease of use
- More sharing!
- Improved sharing
We also proposed to organize release parties and asked for help promoting ownCloud 7.
There are ownCloud events taking place! You can meet fellow ownCloud users and developers at ownCloud meetups or see us at conferences. We are also organizing an ownCloud Contributor Conference for existing and interested potential contributors to ownCloud. It takes place from August 26 to 31 in Berlin, Germany. Find a calendar of ownCloud on owncloud.org/events.
ownCloud meetups are a chance to learn more about ownCloud or even to get coding work done. If you know of other (regular or not) meetups or are interested in organizing one yourself, check out this page on how to get involved.
