ownCloud 6 Features

This collects all the new features of ownCloud 6. This will be used for the release announcement.

Main Features

• New Doctrine based database layer
• User Avatars
• Previews in files app and other places

Minor Features

• Plural translations
• Refactored OC.dialogs (both code and design wise)
• Priorize often used languages in personal-settings language selection
• Update jquery to 1.10.0 and add jquery-migrate 1.2.1
• Show a summary as the last filelist entry
• Improve app-management (more verbose error-messages)
• Users Management in Settings, Rewrite.
• Show 'More apps' link to app administration directly in app navigation
• templates for newly created files
• New design for the login and installation screen
• More whitespace in the user-list and the app-menu
• Add MB indicator to size column
• Google Drive external storage uses a new library - requires new authentication setup: https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/blob/stable5/admin_manual/configuration/custom_mount_config_gui.rst#google-drive
• New icons for shared and external folders

And many more

Shipped apps

• Contacts (WiP)

Schedule

• Sep. 20th Feature freeze. All new features has to be merged by then. Please submit your pull requests as soon as possible so that the reviewers have time to review and to give you feedback. If you are working on bigger features please inform me as soon as possible.
• Sep. 23th Release ownCloud 6 alpha 1
• Sep. 30th Release ownCloud 6 alpha 2
• Oct. 7th Release ownCloud 6 beta 1 Only important bugfixes are allowed from now on.
• Oct. 14th Release ownCloud 6 RC 1 Only showstopper bugfixes are allowed from now on.
• Oct. 22th Release ownCloud 6 final.

The final release date might be moved depending on the quality that we reached until then.