With Nextcloud, users can share, discuss, and collaborate on documents, track and coordinate work, or host video calls.
The launch of the platform is presented Nextcloud Hub 3 featuring a new improved user interface, as well as great improvements in the messaging system, photos, optimization improvements and more.
For those who are not familiar with Nextcloud Hub, they should know that this platform provides a self-sufficient solution to organize collaboration between employees of companies and teams that develop several projects.
It is worth mentioning that at the same time, the Nextcloud cloud platform underlying Nextcloud Hub was released, which allows you to implement cloud storage with support for data synchronization and sharing, providing the ability to view and edit data from any device anywhere on the network (using a web interface or WebDAV).
In terms of tasks to be solved, Nextcloud Hub looks like Google Docs and Microsoft 365, but it allows you to implement a fully controlled collaboration infrastructure that operates on your own servers and is not tied to external cloud services. Nextcloud Hub cCombine several open add-on apps on the Nextcloud cloud platform in a single environment, allowing you to work together with documents, files and office information to plan tasks and events.
Main news of Nextcloud Hub 3
In this new version of Nexcloud Hub 3 presented a new user interface design has been proposed, that allows to change the style and background of all the applications according to the user's preferences, use the dark mode and assign keyboard shortcuts.
Another important change in this new version is that added a new edition of the Photos 2.0 image gallery, which featured: an overview mode for browsing through existing photos, as well as a support for creating albums to group photos of a certain theme, the possibility of sharing albums, integrated interface for uploading local photos, photo editing mode with a set of filters and typical editing tools, label binding system based on automatic recognition of faces and objects.
In addition to this, it is also highlighted that the interface of the Nextcloud Talk messaging system was significantly improved. Links inserted in messages now turn into widgets that allow you to immediately view a video, web page thumbnail, or task.
in the mail client Mail 2.0 has significantly improved performance and updated interface, plus an added email preview in the sidebar, as well as quick action buttons, simplified account setup, and the built-in ability to respond to invitations in the calendar-scheduler.
On the other hand, it is also highlighted that performance optimization has been carried out, page load time and fetching data from the database has been reduced by 25-30%, which significantly speeded up application loading and property searching. End-to-end encryption performance increased by 75%.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- Added settings to the admin interface to define which users will be end-to-end encrypted. With server-side data encryption, disk space consumption is reduced by 33%.
- Blocks with recently updated statuses, modified files, received messages, and created notes have been added to the mobile apps for Android and iOS.
- The Android app offers a new interface for the image gallery.
- Expanded integration tools with Zimbra, Cisco Webex, NUITEQ Stage, OpenProject, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive.
- Added the ability to send a message or make a call without generating a notification.
- Provided the ability to determine working hours, outside of which the “do not disturb” mode is set automatically. Added support for limiting message lifetime.
- Added the ability to send documents, presentations, and spreadsheets directly from the chat panel.
- Improved permission controls.
- The address book provides a hierarchical view of users, taking into account participant interaction and employment relationships.
- A sidebar has been added to the file manager with resources related to the selected document.
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