What’s New for Admins in ownCloud 8.1

ownCloud Server and Enterprise Subscription 8.1 are shipping with a batch of improvements and new features, including:

  • Improved performance, with faster file transfers, much faster file deletion, improved scalability through improved handling of parallel requests, and up to 50% more users on each ownCloud server instance.
  • Better file locking
  • Updated encryption with support for multiple encryption backends and migration tools for 8.0 -> 8.1
  • Improved LDAP configuration wizard
  • WebDAV performance enhancements
  • SFTP external storage with SSH keys
  • SMB external storage is now based on libsmbclient
  • Improved performance and better storage space management of preview generation
  • UI improvements for configurating external storage
  • The ownCloud Appstore shows now different trust levels, and allows enabling experimental apps
  • Deleted files & folders now keep the share info after restoring from trashbin (local shares only and not external storage)
  • Many more links from the administration UI to the relevant documention
  • occ command updated to allow installing ownCloud completely from the command line
  • User avatars are displayed in share dialogs
  • Font preview, 3D pictures media type (previewed as JPEG) and raw media type support without previews
  • A new simple example theme is included
  • All shares now have at least read permissions, which prevents unpredictable server behavior
  • Support for shortened URLs
  • Users may not remove share expiration dates when the admin settings require them
  • Auto complete in share dialog works again when sharing is limited to groups
  • Developer changelog is available in the Developer’s Manual
  • File IDs are now persistent when moving files across storages, deleted to trashbin or restored as version
  • Ship ca-bundle.crt to work around issues on systems that experience failed connections to the Appstore
  • Introduce new “OC-ETag” header fixing issues with server configs stripping off ETags “No E-Tag received from server”