Today the new version of Nextcloud 16 was released, with which this new version improves security and sharing with the help of machine learning, introduces ACLs to replace old file servers and introduces projects.
With Machine Learning, Nextcloud 16 you want to advertise not only malicious logins but also partition recommendations. These apply to groups and people with whom users share content most often.
Also a new reference app is on board. Points users to files and folders they may find interesting. These recommendations are based on your current activities.
For those who still do not know Nextcloud, you should know that with this program, it is possible to run cloud storage internally. Nextcloud came about after a large number of developers at ownCloud dropped out of it and started over.
Nextcloud is the fork of ownCloud, which is a fully open source Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) with some Platform as a Service (PaaS) services.
Main news of Nextcloud 16
With the release of this new version of Nextcloud 16, the new login alerts that also appear in mobile applications.
The login protection works in such a way that the application “Suspicious Login Detection ”tracks default of successful login attempts for 60 days and train a model like this.
Based on these experiences, the trained model subsequently writes the entries of suspicious login attempts in a log and informs the affected user and the system administrator.
The application was continuously tested on three instances and this works more accurately, the more often the user logs in from the same place.
ACL
Also, Nextcloud 16 adds new ways to share files in companies provide access control lists.
As allow the network administrator to retain control over access rights to individual files and directories through detailed rights assignment for files, folders, and subfolders.
Nextcloud 16 introduces access control lists for groups
Nextcloud 16 introduces this option for group folders: the administrator can use ACLs to grant specific access rights to all files and folders in them. Modifiable rights include read, write, generate, delete, and share.
The way administrators use the new feature in detail can be read here as soon as the project activates the link.
Project following
When many files are hosted on Nextcloud, it may be noticed that the files are in different locations on the file system, but actually belong to the same project.
Projects now make it easier to determine which files and which chats belong to a specific customer.
To do this, the user creates a project and then assigns the various files and folders to this project as needed.
This is accomplished through the area on the right side of the user interface, where the sharing options can be found.
NextcloudTalk 6.0
Last but not least, Nextcloud also has its own chat program "Nextcloud Talk 6.0 " that comes with some improvements.
For example, the administrator can configure user actions that allow users to embed Wikipedia articles or hackernews in the chat by prefixing the search term with "/ wiki" or "/ hackernews".
For the integrated Chat Talk 6.0, actions can be defined.
Privacy Center
In the recently introduced Privacy Center, it is possible to check where user data is located, who has access to it, and what data users are currently sharing.
Download Nextcloud 16
Finally, for those who are interested in downloading this new version of Nextcloud, they can go to the following link.
You can install it on your own Linux server or on a server at many hosting companies.