# 3 reasons to upgrade your ownCloud instance to Nextcloud and how easy it is

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**Created:** [May 30, 2017, 11:03am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/3-reasons-to-upgrade-your-owncloud-instance-to-nextcloud-and-how-easy-it-is/13353 "2017-05-30T11:03:25Z")\
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There hasn’t been a new version since the end of September, so probably not yet. NC 13 should probably work (expected end of this year). If you can set up a test system, it would be great to run some tests with the beta version: [85% faster LDAP, 10x read/write speed of Windows Network Drive: Welcome to Nextcloud 13 Beta](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/85-faster-ldap-10x-read-write-speed-of-windows-network-drive-welcome-to-nextcloud-13-beta/23600) but don’t use this in production yet.

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