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OwnCloud 7 is out

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It would be great to see OAuth added to OwnCloud. Currently, the external API only supports Basic auth [1], which is not ideal. It would make integrating it with https://kloudless.com (single cloud storage API) easier and more secure.

I am happy to see web hooks in this release though! Definitely a useful feature.

[1] http://doc.owncloud.org/server/7.0/developer_manual/core/ext...

How is the file syncing these days, especially for large files? I know I tried it way back when (OwnCloud 4 I think?) and failures where frequent and conflicts kept popping up in files that hadn't been modified. I finally went with btsync for that purpose, but I'm tempted to give OwnCloud a go again since the Calendar, Contacts, and versioning are compelling features for me.

So far I've been very underwhelmed by btsync; I couldn't seem to get it to actually start syncing between my devices. I've gotten it to sync test data and the like just fine, but as soon as I ask it to sync large folders of real data, it fails to connect, and it doesn't have any real logging or debugging features, nor any 'force' buttons, so there doesn't seem to be anything to be done about it.

I started with Owncloud 6. I'm syncing about 300MB of files which are mostly text documents, scripts and various collected bits of stuff. It's only about 400 files altogether, but it changes quite a bit and the syncing has been flawless.

Same here, I'm running btsync across multiple machines / servers, would love to give OwnCloud a go but the Android / Windows offerings for the syncing of files was terribly lacking.

And especially for tiny files! It would run a new process for each file, creating and tearing down a TCP connection, and it did this completely serially.

And another release of a software that is relatively niche and has only the version number in the release title, instead of any description of what new, exciting and valuable things the release brings; thus missing out entirely on the chance of making other people interested or excited about the software.

I really don't understand why software developers keep neglecting the easiest bit of marketing possible.

This is a post on a developer's blog. I think what you're looking for is https://owncloud.org/blog/owncloud-7-released-with-more-shar...

I think that was posted to HN earlier and it seemed a bit underwhelming.

If server-sharing is not of value to someone, what else is in this release? That page doesn't say very much.

This seems to have more:

https://owncloud.com/get-public-cloud-flexibility-files-self...

The OwnClous website has a nice marketing blurb - [0]

[0] - http://owncloud.org/seven/

I tried ownCloud out very recently and was astonished at the simple things you couldn't do. For example, via the 'sharing' function, you only can share to an image, wrapped in HTML, or via direct download. I just want to... share it without that, like imgur.com/exampleimage.png

The other was the inability, to sort. This confused me as, I thought the latest things are supposed to be at the top or bottom, with a clear way to choose some sorting option.

(perhaps with the above, I'm simply blind to the easy answers?)

Hopefully this version is better. I definitely agree with another commenter saying this could become very large one day, but not at the current rate -- way too much unnecessary complexities in the project.

I however, haven't had much experience with smaller open source projects so I'm not sure if that a good vision, with a good team sticking to that could turn it into a great piece of software.

You shouldn't want to share direct links, the directory where the actual content resides shouldn't even be publicly accessible, owncloud does this very well.

I don't think that's what he meant. Let's say you have a document that you want to share with your friends who don't have an Owncloud account on your instance. You click on share and get a publicly accesible link like "example.myowncloud.com/ji7H2i". I don't know if Owncloud is able to do this, but it works with pyd.io.

Yeah, this is what I meant - thanks for clarifying for me.

Good job, webdav mapping works on Windows 8.1 out of the box at last! Can't wait for the apps...

I've to say that it's an impressive product. I've implemented Owncloud6 in the past for two clients and they're very happy with it. I can't wait to upgrade to this new version!

To try this new version, I've installed Owncloud7 on a Terminal.com container. You can check my shared snapshot at: https://terminal.com/tiny/i8vunoPtPu

Anyone checked out pydio? it was formerly called ajaxexplorer. http://pyd.io/

I have it running on my VPS and the built in sync is terribly slow for me. It's really fine as a frontend though.

I'm really excited about this. The last time I used Owncloud was v5 on a Raspberry Pi and it was painfully slow. Since then I've gotten a much, much faster plug computer (Odroid U3) and have gotten a lot better at nginx config. I'll be installing this tonight.

Yeah, OwnCloud 6 was slow (not painfully slow, but annoyingly sluggish) even on my average-grade personal VPS. They say that v7 features speed improvements, so I will definitely give it a shot.

I don't read anything about hotlinks though. The ultimate reason why I don't use OwnCloud, besides the sluggishness (which is hopefully fixed), is the missing hotlink feature. I want to send people links to actual files, not to pointless gateway pages.

Pyd.io will do that just fine. Though I would'nt use pydios sync, since I found it terrible slow. I use btsync as a sync backend and pydio as the file front end.

The Swift integration looks really neat. It's especially useful since organizations are likely to run it if they have an in-house or aaS OpenStack deplyoment.

IMHO ownCloud will become as big and succesfull as WordPress in its own niche.

Stopped reading at "arse-sum"

Or the author's description: 'The published the “User Data manifesto” and is a regular speaker at conferences.'

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