Thereās a new version of the client coming, 2.3. The Owncloud client team (or rather, their contractors, the guys at Woboq) asked us to help them test the client as there has been little community testing on their side. I have built the client with Nextcloud branding and Iād like to ask you all to help try it out and report bugs!
Right now, only the Windows client is ready, it can be found on the download server: https://download.nextcloud.com/desktop/prereleases/Windows/Nextcloud-2.3.0.1-beta1-setup.exe
Iām working on getting the Mac version built and Iād like to ask the Linux packaging contributors to create packages for testing! Of course, you can also built the sources yourself, there are some pretty good tutorials out there.
Of course, you can ask questions and discuss here as well.
@JasonBayton . I use both, webdav when I want to browse everything / save something on a folder that I havenāt synced. And I use the sync functionality in the app to select what I want to have available offline.
@tbrasser thanks for elaborating. I guess the offline aspect is the only difference Iād notice. Iām happy with WebDAV (unless the client is proven faster/more reliable).
WebDAV is fast but always needs network access - the client means your files are local so always instant. It allows you to share files and create share links with a right-click, that is nice. And that is about all the benefits I can think off. It does have downsides, like a delay (max 30 sec) when changes are made on the server, cpu/memory and disk space usage etc.
We have reached out to give you an opportunity to do early testing, rather then bring bug reports after the fact. This gives you a chance to test any server changes you have made as well. If you reject this open hand by bitching that the reach out is based on a lack of testing which is otherwise provided you are wrong and hostile.
ownCloud continues to invest heavily in the development of the Desktop Client, the ownCloud Server, Android, iOS and documentation which Nextcloud has decided to fork - ok. But please appreciate that and in that sense I and my team do welcome your participation to triage.
Mac and Linux users are welcome to dowload a testpilot client from www.owncloud.org!
Looking forward to any thanks you have in regards of progress made with the 2.3 version.
I could also compile the latest version of the client inside the Nextcloud theme. I mean, I replaced the āclientā directory from āclient_themingā by the latest version from ownCloud client branch. I got a few warnings from CMake, but it compiled the main client finally. A screenshot is below:
Hopefully the next Mac client will fix this known issue. I guess the current Nextcloud Mac client was compiled against an older OpenSSL library, or something like that.
