Nextcloud Hub 20 debuts Dashboard, unifies search and notifications, integrates with other technologies

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Description

At the Nextcloud Conference in Berlin, Nextcloud CEO Frank Karlitschek introduced a big release of Nextcloud Hub with a wide range of improvements in the core file handling, communication and groupware areas.

In a major shift, integration with over a dozen third party platforms including Moodle, Microsoft Teams, Gitlab, Slack and many more was announced.

Users can download the latest release from our website or use the beta channel of our updater to get the new release.

The three biggest features we introduce are:

  • 🏁 Our new dashboard provides a great starting point for the day with over a dozen widgets ranging from Twitter and Github to Moodle and Zammad already available

  • 🔍 Search was unified, bringing search results of Nextcloud apps as well as external services like Gitlab, Jira and Discourse in one place

  • 🗨 Talk introduced bridging to other platforms including MS Teams, Slack, IRC, Matrix and a dozen others

There is more

  • 📢 Notifications and Activities were brought together, making sure you won’t miss anything important

  • We added a ‘status’ setting so you can communicate to other users what you are up to

  • 🗨 Talk also brings dashboard and search integration, emoji picker, upload view, camera and microphone settings, mute and more

  • 📅 Calendar integrates in dashboard and search, introduced a list view and design improvements

  • 📫 Mail introduces threaded view, mailbox management and more

  • 🗂 Deck integrates with dashboard and search, introduces Calendar integration, modal view for card editing and series of smaller improvements

👾 Some other app improvements we want to highlight include:

  • ↕ Flow adds push notification and webhooks so other web apps can easily integrate with Nextcloud

  • 🗒 Text introduced direct linking to files in Nextcloud

  • 🗄 Files lets you add a description to public link shares

Integrations!

But before we get to the long feature list with many details, we want to talk about something else we are working on.

Frank talked about this in his keynote (see our live stream from the conference). To become an even more useful platform for collaboration, we will be working towards deeper integration with third party platforms.

The results of the first efforts in this direction are part of this release.

Integrations in Nextcloud 20 include well known technologies like Slack, MS Online Office Server, SharePoint and Teams, Jira and Github as well as open source contenders like Matrix, Gitlab, Zammad and Moodle among many others.

Nextcloud Hub 20 builds on an open API, the Open Collaboration Services, making integration efforts transparent and well documented.

The release introduces over 3 dozen integrations with a wide range of other technologies.

Gitlab

With Nextcloud 20, an integration app provides Dashboard widgets with a GitLab todo overview and support for finding GitLab repositories and other content using Nextcloud’s new unified search.

The integration features make it easier for Nextcloud users to track the state of GitLab work, improving response times and efficiency.