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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Infinite Scale 8.1.0: MFA-Gated Vault Storage Arrives
oCIS 8.1.0 introduces MFA-gated vault storage as an isolated storage plane: its own provider ID, no public or federated sharing path, MFA propagated end to end, and a UI that makes the distinction obvious. Plus a public-share access control fix and roughly 60 other changes across indexing, LDAP, and connection recovery.
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 200 million end users across thosuands of global enterprises and government agencies. The Kiteworks Open Source Program Office is the steward of ownCloud, the open-source platform for sovereign secure data exchange, file synchronization, and collaboration. Built from the ground up in Go with zero database dependency, ownCloud Infinite Scale scales from a single binary to million-user deployments. Guided by a published governance charter and Apache 2.0 licensing, the OSPO ensures ownCloud remains a transparent, community-driven digital commons.
ownCloud Infinite Scale 8.0.7: Correct /me identity resolution and an opt-in LDAP connection pool
oCIS 8.0.7 fixes a real bug: /graph/v1.0/me was reporting your internal oCIS UUID instead of the OIDC sub in issuerAssignedId. If anything in your stack correlates users by external identity rather than oCIS’s UUID, this one’s for you.
ownCloud Infinite Scale MCP Server 1.1.0: Bearer-secret enforcement closes unauthenticated tool access on the HTTP transport
Release date: July 14, 2026 Repository: owncloud/ocis-mcp-server Release page: https://github.com/owncloud/ocis-mcp-server/releases/tag/v1.1.0 The ownCloud Infinite Scale MCP Server exposes oCIS to AI assistants and agent frameworks as a set of MCP tools, letting an...
Version History Just Got a Translator
Click Generate on any file version in oCIS, get a plain-English summary of what changed, in your language. On-demand diffing means cost matches actual usage, not pre-computed for every version of every file.
Your Documents. Summarised. By Your Model. In Your Language.
web-app-ai-doc-summary is the first AI extension to ship into the ownCloud web-extensions repository since we relicensed it to Apache-2.0 on June 15th. Lukas Hirt wrote it in a week. What It Does Open a PDF, TXT, or Markdown file in oCIS. A Summary tab appears in the...
Chat With Your Files. On Your Server. With Your LLM.
Chat with your files. Edit them in place. Never leave your server. That’s what shipped in this oCIS extension, on a web-extensions repo that went Apache-2.0 the same week.
ownCloud Server 11.0.0: PHP 8.3 baseline, G2 code signing, and 11 security fixes
After three release candidates and a month of testing, ownCloud Server 11.0.0 is stable. It’s the first release built for PHP 8.3, moves app signing to a stronger G2 scheme, and folds in 11 security fixes and 19 bugfixes along the way. Thanks to everyone who tested the candidates and filed issues.
ownCloud Web 12.5.0: Collabora Save-As Support and a New HTML Editor App
ownCloud Web 12.5.0 is out. Save-As inside Collabora Online now actually works (PR #13906 closes a long-standing gap in the postMessage handshake). Plus a new lightweight HTML editor app for .html, .htm, and .xhtml files, an ownCloud-branded default login background, and a Playwright-driven screenshot tool for docs. Four bugfixes underneath, including a security-relevant .psec URL validation fix.
ownCloud Infinite Scale 8.2.0 RC1: OIDC group sync becomes opt-in and WebDAV error-detail leakage is closed
oCIS 8.2.0 RC1 out for testing. OIDC group sync now opt-in (behaviour change), WebDAV error-detail leakage closed, IDP login moves to server-rendered pages. Six security fixes, 43 bugfixes, 36 enhancements. This is a Release Candidate made for testing: Existing deployments that rely on OIDC-derived group membership will need to opt in explicitly after upgrade.
ownCloud Android 4.8.2 and 4.8.3: Security and Bug fixes
ownCloud Android 4.8.2 + 4.8.3: cookie header redaction in HTTP logs, an “infinite edges” UI fix, a stray debug manifest cleaned up, and a broken Help URL corrected. Drop-in updates for anyone on 4.8.x.
oCIS 8.0.5 and 8.0.6: A Month of Patches on the Curie Series
oCIS 8.0.5 and 8.0.6 recap: two Go CVEs closed, NATS KV store now self-heals after connection loss, education user delete now actually deletes, and LDAP sign-in write amplification has an off switch. Drop-in upgrades.
ownCloud Web and oCIS Are Now One Codebase. All Apache-2.0.
Two codebases just became one. The ownCloud Web frontend now lives inside owncloud/ocis under web/, all under Apache-2.0. One repository, one licence, one CI pipeline, one contribution surface. Years of contribution history preserved, everything moved into a single home. This is what the OSPO relicensing programme looks like when it reaches the core product.
Alt Text for Every Image. No Manual Work. No Excuses.
Missing alt text is one of the most commonly flagged WCAG failures. EN 301 549 mandates it for public sector ICT across Europe. As of today, oCIS ships an extension that generates a credible first draft with your configured vision LLM, lets the user edit it, and writes it back to the file as a WebDAV property that survives the session. A meaningful compliance tool, not just a convenience feature.
ownCloud Server 11.0.0-rc1: First Release Candidate for the Next Major Version
The first release candidate for ownCloud Server 11 is out. This is the release that surfaces breakage: PHP 7 support dropped, deprecated database and group-management classes removed, major version bumps to Doctrine DBAL and Symfony, subadmin disabled by default. Three security fixes underneath.
Do not deploy in production. Do test against your apps and integrations.
ownCloud Infinite Scale 8.1.0: MFA-Gated Vault Storage Arrives
oCIS 8.1.0 introduces MFA-gated vault storage as an isolated storage plane: its own provider ID, no public or federated sharing path, MFA propagated end to end, and a UI that makes the distinction obvious. Plus a public-share access control fix and roughly 60 other changes across indexing, LDAP, and connection recovery.
The New ownCloud Marketplace: Git Is the App Store
The new ownCloud Marketplace is live. 13 Web Extensions, 42 apps, 324 releases, 36 publishers and counting. Zero backend. Zero database. Zero server-side processing. The Git repository is the source of truth. The catalogue is static JSON. Publishing an app is a pull request. Git is the app store.
