already existing installations have informed some time ago that there is a new client version for Windows (3.4) and did automatically upgrade.
Since I have to roll-out a whole bunch of new clients, Iād like to install them with 3.4 too but at the Nextcloud-Website 3.3.6 is still named the latest release!???
How to get version 3.4?
Hi Jochen,
I guess your clients had update channel ābetaā, not stable.
(You can change this in the client settings).
Version 3.4 is not a final release yet.
If you really want pre-releases, you can find them on the github page (click āassetsā under the desired release)
something seems to be mixed up. The impressum of my client says: āVersion 3.4.0stable-Win64 (build 20211129)ā
STABLE!
And thatās the download channel setting which my client is configuered as far as I remember (I canāt find this setting in 3.4.0 anymore ).
@tdoerschel - no Torsten. I can confirm: 3.4 was announced as STABLE for many, many clients. Thatās ONE CORE reason, many have got issues now (like me).
Man, Nextcloud really goes downhill with release quality.
My recent favourite: Make press releases for Hub II (23.0.0) collabora integration aka āNextcloud Officeā, but then this:
I do see this as a consequence of the rapid release cycles.
There is a conflict between established users whose priorities are first and foremost āstabilityā and then, and only then, performance and functionality. Whereas Nextcloud itself is positioning itself to expand into more innovative markets and has reversed the priorities.
The bottom line is I donāt expect to have to update more than once or twice a year barring security fixes. I really donāt need to be wasting time spinning up Test VMs and suspending use at what is becoming monthly or worse occurrences.
I was an ownCloud user who followed the fork. Iām now wondering, with hindsight, whether that was the right decision.
Have to say that I too would prefer to upgrade as little as possible. I want rock solid performance over bells and whistles. I can think of a few code slinging companies who valued bells and whistles over security and usabilityā¦
Yes, but it was 3.4 some time ago since I am sure, that I didnāt use the beta channel. My installation says 3.4 stable.
Up to now I donāt seem to have any problems so Iāll stay on 3.4, waiting for the update to 3.4.1
Yep, that is exactly my opinion that there is feature, feature, feature. Stabilty is lackingā¦
3.4 was released as stable! Then they found that data breaking bug and pulled it without so much as an announcement as to why or even that it happened. This is really bad for those who were unfortunate to download it as they are none the wiser. As it does mess with any of your data that had been synced through it. Just going back to 3.3.6 doesnāt fix the issue with your data, and will continue to constantly sync the corrupted files. The only fix is to pull from a backup from before you installed 3.4. Honestly its a been a real failure on multiple levels and the lack of accountability or a public service announcement or so even much as an apology is really off putting. A person shouldnāt have to go to a random forum thread to find that, oops, that constant sync quirk iāve been noticing is actually data loss! Iām only fortunate that I found a thread about it before I ran out of my allotment of daily backups.
I apologize you issues, I had to restore my system as wellā¦ but this forum is not a ārandom oneā but the official support forum. and here has been a warning about the issue pinned on top, it was removed after Nextcloud confirmed 3.4. was removed from download channelsā¦ maybe show this warning for longer time would have been good ideaā¦
It is of course still in many repositories, such as the āofficialā inofficial PPA for Ubuntu or in the Arch Repos, from which I got the client on my PC. I havenāt had any issues with it so far. And I do houerly ZFS snapshots of the VM where my Nextcloud lives, so a restore would be pretty fast in case anything happens and I didnāt bother to downgrade the client on my machine. Nevertheless, the situation is of course less than ideal. And in the corporate environment with many users and clients, I would definitely uninstall version 3.4 everywhere and roll out an older version or temporarily refer the users to the web interface.
I can confirm that 3.4 for windows desktop got installed with settings set for stable updates.
Another bug with this version is that when sharing a folder, the expiration date cannot be set.
Can anyone give instructions how to roll back to version 3.3.6? I donāt have the time right know to try it.