Nextcloud Berlin has chosen, and specifically his Community Conference event, which brings together his community of collaborators, for the Presentation of the new version of NextCloud Hubits Open Source collaboration platform, focused on data protection and offers its users different collaboration options: document exchange, real -time edition, videoconferencing, calendar management or email, among other functions.
This new version, Hub 25 Autumnwithout losing sight of privacy and security for its users to maintain the sovereignty of their information, it has improvements centered mainly on performance and usability. In addition, it adds functions to those already existing for communication, collaboration and administration.
HUB 25 Autumn has also expanded the functions of the NextCloud assistant with several AI tools, which improve the intelligence of the support it can offer, while maintaining the privacy of users.
The company has also changed the nomenclature convention since this version. From now on, the versions will be appointed according to the year and season of its launch, with the aim of being easier to follow them, and their position is highlighted in the evolution of the platform.
NextCloud Hub 25 Autumn: Changes in design and usability
This new version of NextCloud Hub, as we have mentioned, has various novelties in terms of design and usability. Thus, its interface shows a cleaner aspect. Han also Optimized workflows to facilitate navigation by the platform, as well as the organization and collaboration.
The Office User Interface of NextCloud Hub 25 Autumn has improved in terms of colors, more vivid, and their tabs and navigation bars have been redesigned so that they are more intuitive.
The optimizations made throughout the platform have focused on the acceleration of loading times, as well as greater fluidity for everyday work.
Improvements in collaboration and communication tools
Nextcloud Talk It incorporates improvements that affect the improvement of clarity and structuring of communications thanks to discussion threads. In addition, live transcription improves the accessibility of calls. It also makes them search.
The tool now has a function dedicated to the conversations considered of importance, which means that when a conversation is marked as such, at the time the conversation is updated, the user who has indicated that the conversation is important will receive a notification about the novelties.
He Calendar It has a dates survey function, which allows the equipment to suggest and directly confirm the hours of the meetings. In this way, the equipment will reduce the sending of emails to adjust dates to meet.
Nextcloud Officein addition to adding colors to its interface, both in icons and in menus and options, it has more than a dozen new templates. Other of their new additions focus on improving access speed and navigation by documents when working.
This is the case of the new frequent options menu that appears when selecting a text. Also contextual eyelashes, which appear depending on the selection of text performed.
The search is another of the Components of NextCloud Hub 25 Autumn that has changed, thanks to the incorporation of a new interface, with facilities to locate documents, conversations and information in general.
Teams It has evolved to a 2.0 version within the platform, with improvements focused on flexibility. Guest accounts have won in agility of creation, and can be configured in a few seconds. In this way, partners and collaborators can be incorporated into teams and groups more quickly than in the previous version.
News in administration and developers
HUB 25 Autumn has new pre -established adjustments and new options for administrators focused on facilitating the platform configuration, in addition to its maintenance in case it is large implementations.
Changes for developers include Vue3 NextCloud step and the introduction of websockts for real -time interaction. In addition, it has expanded compatibility with Openopi, which offers a solid basis for personalized applications and integrations.
A commitment to sovereignty
During the presentation of NextCloud Hub 25 Autumn, the CEO and founder of the company, Frank Karlitschekhe did not want to put aside the current framework, in which the world geopolitical situation makes more and more companies, but also the organizations and governments of different European areas, which are proposed to use European solutions that not only comply with the laws of the region, but also offer complete sovereignty options to their clients and users.
Karlitschek gives great importance to Open Source software to move towards this European sovereignty, noting that «eThe open source has become the backbone of the digital economy and is essential for the future of Europe. If we want to protect our democracy, transparency and economic independence, we must invest in sovereign technologies. HUB 25 Autumn demonstrates that open source is not only an alternative, but the most innovative and sustainable solution for modern collaboration”.
Different public organizations and entities of all kinds have opted in recent years to totally or partially abandon Microsoft or Google systems and tools to move to Open Source solutions. Among them are several organizations and municipalities of Denmark, the City of Lyon in France or all the official agencies of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany.
