ownCloud 9.1 Features

General

• List connected browsers/devices in the personal settings page. Allows the user to disconnect browsers/devices. https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24703

• Federated Sharing Meta Data - Share meta data (e.g. comments, tags) and file sharing permissions along with the file when sharing using federated cloud sharing. #1207 Flat federation reshares only in 9.1

• Externally renaming a file/folder in a files_external storage breaks the contained shares owncloud/core/#11533

• Improve Background Jobs - enable background jobs in parallel, required for workflow and search owncloud/core#23544 (partially completed, but multiple jobs can be run in the background)

• Invalidate Sessions - When a desktop sync client is authenticated with the server, and a user in LDAP / AD behind the scenes is removed, the desktop client keeps syncing even though the account is removed from LDAP / AD. owncloud/core#23558

• Update notifications in client via API - You can now be notified in your desktop client about available updates for core and apps. The notifications are made available via the notifications API. owncloud/core#24444

Authentication

• Pluggable authentication: plugin system that supports different authentication schemes: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/23458
• Token-based authentication
• Ability to revoke browser sessions: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24703
• Device-specific passwords/tokens, can be generated in the personal page and revoked: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24703
• Disable users and automatically revoke their sessions: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/23844
• Detect disabled LDAP users or password changes and revoke their sessions
• Log in with email address: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24389
• Config option to enforce token-based login outside the web UI: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/24779
• Two Factor authentication plugins system: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/24559
• Config option to disallow basic auth with passwords on API endpoints when two-factor auth is enabled: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/24768

Note: the current desktop and mobile client versions do not support two-factor yet, this will be added later. It is already possible to generate a device specific password and enter that in the current client versions.

Filesystem

• UTF-8 NFD encoding compatibility support for NFD file names stored directly on external storages (new mount option in external storage admin page): https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/21365
• New DAV endpoint with a new chunking protocol aiming to solve many issues like timeouts (not used by clients yet): https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/20118

Files app

• Ability to toggle displaying hidden files: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/2589
• Remember sort order: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/10788
• Permalinks for internal shares: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/11732

Technical debt

• PSR-4 autoloading forced for OC\ and OCP\, optional for OCA\ owncloud/core#13241 docs at https://doc.owncloud.org/server/9.1/developer_manual/app/classloader.html