ownCloud 5 Features
herbrechtsmeier edited this page Feb 23, 2013
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This collects all the new features of ownCloud 5. This will be used for the release announcement.
- Improved gallery
- Improved media player
- Improved Bookmark app
- File undelete (planned)
- Improved versioning with intelligent expire
- External API Framework
- Provisioning API
- New server side encryption system (planned)
- Rewritten filecache for improved performance (planned)
- Improved external filesystem support for improved Performance
- New userinterface (planned)
- PHP apps framework
- Improved documentation
- Editable User Display Names
- LDAP now searches in attributes, not only in the ownCloud username. Search attributes can be configured
- Multiple User/Group bases can be configured in the LDAP backend
- LDAP backend supports paged results if the server offers it (requires PHP 5.4)
- An LDAP/AD backup resp. replica host can be configured
- Multiple LDAP / AD servers can be configured
- Improved Categories/Groups API
- Contacts app organizes contacts by groups + other UI changes
- Reverse SSL Proxy support
- New navigation design
- support for X-Sendfile / X-Accel-Redirect : https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/blob/master/admin_manual/xsendfile.rst
- with X-Sendfile/X-Accell-Redirect enabled pause and resume of download is now possible #409
- Security: Support for Content-Security-Policy, this seriously mitigates the risk of XSS attacks.
- Mount.php is now stored as JSON
- LDAP backend does not store the user home directories in user preferences anymore
- Support for Routed urls
- PDF viewer: Updated pdf.js version, better performance and search function.