Nextcloud: update to v19

[kyrofa]

Nextcloud 19 isn't released yet, but it's time to start testing its RCs at least.

[kyrofa]

I've got 19.0.0RC2 out in the 19/candidate/rc2 channel. This is not ready for production use, but I'd love some help testing this to see if we need to log any bugs before it comes out. I'd very much like to upgrade to v19 when it's released (ish) instead of waiting several point releases (cc @pachulo):

$ sudo snap install nextcloud --channel=19/candidate/rc2

Or if you already have it installed (not recommended for production installs):

$ sudo snap refresh nextcloud --channel=19/candidate/rc2

[kyrofa]

Testing fresh install first (without recommended apps):

• A quick glance at the overview page in the settings leads me to believe we'll need to build in the bcmath PHP module, which seems fine.
• When I tried to install the calendar app I got "Exception: could not download app calendar" which worried me. But then I was able to install the contacts app no problem. Then I tried installing the calendar app again and it worked. That error was also accompanied by a warning "Could not connect to appstore: cURL error 35: Unknown SSL protocol error in connection to apps.nextcloud.com:443 (see https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/c/libcurl-errors.html)". Sounds like a temporary network issue, but I'll poke at it again and make sure.
• Calendar app appears to work well
• Contacts app won't let me create a new contact. Turns out I need to go to settings and create a new address book before I can do that. Sounds like a fairly typical hooks problem (the calendar app has this every other release or so, too). Logged as 19.0.0RC2: no default address book created nextcloud/contacts#1635 . Probably not blocking for us though.

[kyrofa]

When I tried a fresh install with recommended apps, I ended up not having onlyoffice. I hopped into the apps settings and I see that the document server isn't marked as being compatible with v19, so that probably isn't surprising. @kesselb can you confirm? Will the "recommended apps" support v19 before release? When I enabled the document server and onlyoffice anyway, things seemed to look sane.

[kyrofa]

Upgrade from stable (18.0.4) seems to be fine as well without the recommended apps. With them and you end up with onlyoffice getting disabled because it's not compatible, which again is not a surprise.

[kesselb]

Will the "recommended apps" support v19 before release?

I think so.

[pachulo]

Let's see if I cant test this this week, I'm quite busy right now...

[kyrofa]

@szaimen do you know of any v19 blockers?

[szaimen]

@szaimen do you know of any v19 blockers?

@kyrofa no, none that I am aware of.
We should nonetheless wait for the release and see if some new major bugs get reported.
Also some apps haven't got updated yet for NC19 (e.g. the onlyoffice app) and I would wait probably until 19.0.1 is out.
https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/onlyoffice-nextcloud/releases
https://github.com/nextcloud/documentserver_community/releases

BTW: for the new passwordless login is a new PHP module required:
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/installation/source_installation.html
it is called bcmath
Edit: it seems you have already seen that.

[kyrofa]

Alright, RC3 is out in the 19/candidate/rc3 channel:

$ sudo snap install nextcloud --channel=19/candidate/rc3

Or if you already have it installed (not recommended for production installs):

$ sudo snap refresh nextcloud --channel=19/candidate/rc3

Note that this one is built with the bcmath module enabled.

[kyrofa]

Also, thanks for that @szaimen :) .

[szaimen]

BTW: is the old ResourceLocator can not find a web root error finally resolved on NC19?

[Surenthiran]

v19 is released in production when we can expect it in snap.

[kyrofa]

Please see #1353 for current status. You're welcome to help test it as well.