Which nextcloud desktop client version is working with which server version (server version newer than client version)?)

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@ftlstw

And I found no list with a client+server version matrix. My hope was, that the older client version stop working with a certain server version to force the client user without admin rights to open a service request for updating the client.

As I said, it’s very unlikely that they will suddenly stop working with a particular server version. But of course it makes sense to keep the clinets reasonably up to date for other reasons, such as bug fixes and security fixes. However, this doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to upgrade to every single minor release immediately, and you may also skip certain releases.

@ftlstw

The main problem is the admin right requirement for nextcloud client updates, especially when every month a new client is published (what is really good for feature+security reasons). A solution is to deavticate the Auto Update feature and the client becomes more vulnerable to security. The user does not care, because their main thing that they can work, but for the admins it is a horror senario.

Well, for that we can’t offer a solution here in the forum. At the moment at least, it’s just the way it is.

The topic has also been discussed many times on GitHub, maybe you can search there for corresponding issues, or open a new issue if you have suggestions on how to improve it. But at least for now you have no choice but to manually update the clients. Or you could of course package it and distribute it via a software depolyment system such as SCCM.

Also, How do you solve this for other software? I can hardly imagine that the Nextcloud client is the only software that requires admin rights when installing/upgrading, at least in the past, when I still did Windows support, almost every software required admin rights.