What’s New for Admins in ownCloud 8.2¶

See the ownCloud 8.2 Features page on Github for a comprehensive list of new features and updates.

Some of the improvements of interest to ownCloud admins are:

• New ownCloud package repositories (admins must manually change to these, see Upgrading Your ownCloud Server)
• Configurable temporary directory
• Many new occ commands for logging, encryption, and apps
• Unavailable external storages are not rechecked every request; rather, their failed state is saved and they are tried again after 10 minutes
• External storages now support modular authentication mechanisms
• Transactional file locking prevents data corruption and race conditions on concurrent access
• Files app new sidebar shows details about files
• Admins can define custom mimetype mappings and aliases
• Mimetypes in the database can be updated when changed
• Downgrades are prevented because they are unsupported
• Admin page warning for EOL PHP version
• Show apps that will be updated on the DB update page

There are many security enhancements, including:

• $.get and $.post cannot be used to execute remote JavaScript
• Referers are not sent anymore to prevent leaking of potential sensitive information within the URL such as the filename
• Autoloader will only allow loading files from enabled apps
• Encrypt session data to ensure that sensitive data such as remote storage passwords or encryption keys are not written on disk
• If the shareAPI is disabled link shares no longer work