New Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring with Euro-Office

This month marks the tenth anniversary of Nextcloud, which was founded to create a human-centric collaboration platform that gives its users real control. With its latest release, the Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring introduces a new desktop option and makes the user interface lighter and easier to use, and introduces Nextcloud Governance, a business compliance and data governance platform designed for organizations operating under strict regulatory requirements.

“In 2016, big tech companies dominated collaboration software and privacy was an afterthought. Nextcloud was our answer to that. Ten years later, it has become the world’s leading privacy-first collaboration platform. Our stewardship has evolved Nextcloud into an ecosystem, supported by thousands, from teams in public sector organizations and enterprises and technology partners to independent developers, working together under a shared vision of privacy and control. This community is what makes Nextcloud truly different,” says Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud.

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Euro-Office and Collabora: there is a real choice.

In recent months, as part of a European initiative, Nextcloud has been developing a new office suite that is fully open source and truly mainstream. With the release of Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring, Euro-Office has officially become part of the Nextcloud Office suite, alongside the well-known Collabora Office option.

Euro-Office is a complete office suite that features collaborative editors for text documents, spreadsheets, presentations and PDF files. The software features a familiar interface, offers critical compatibility with Microsoft Office files and uses local data processing that offers faster performance and a more flexible user experience and reduced server load.

Euro-Office is already integrated into the Nextcloud platform, offering the Smart Picker to import any type of resource from Nextcloud, such as tasks, data tables, file links, chat rooms and more. The Nextcloud Assistant brings AI features to Euro-Office, and the built-in document conversion feature in Nextcloud can be used by Euro-Office to convert different file formats.

Collabora is the traditional Nextcloud Office solution available to administrators. This release brings improvements to all editors to increase interoperability and provide a smoother experience. A new sidebar allows users to chat with the Nextcloud Assistant while working on a document, making it possible to create content and get help with spreadsheet errors. The status bar is now customizable, making the user experience much more productive.

In addition to the core Office suites, other productivity apps have also been improved. One notable improvement is the improved offline mode for Nextcloud Text. The word processor now has offline capabilities for up to five minutes when working on intermittent networks. Since Text is a global component used by other Nextcloud apps, these improvements make large parts of Nextcloud more resilient during network outages. The Collectives app, which also uses Text, even supports browsing knowledge bases while offline, provided the pages were previously opened.

The Nextcloud Deck app brings a long-awaited GANTT chart feature, adding start and end dates to tasks as well as dependencies, allowing for much more advanced project tracking and management.

The Nextcloud Tables app, a structured data management tool used to model and facilitate key processes by clients like Schleswig-Holstein , has been updated with new viewing options and the ability to share a table via a public link for collaboration with external participants.

More focus thanks to a lighter user interface

The Nextcloud Hub 26 Spring update brings a new waffle menu for switching apps, similar to other collaboration tools you’re already familiar with. Other interface elements have been updated to minimize distractions by reducing the number of visible buttons and simplified indicators for active tabs in the left and right sidebars.

Manage business compliance with Nextcloud Governance

For large organizations dealing with specific regulations, such as complex archiving rules or freedom of information requests, advanced data governance tools. This release brings Nextcloud Governance as a solution for larger enterprises. This platform provides improved oversight over access to classified data, information management throughout its lifecycle, and regulatory compliance.

It gives administrators a good overview of how their company is organized in terms of compliance, helping them monitor and control data. It offers sensitivity labels that control access rights, can be used to establish legal record retention and create rules that control when documents are deleted.

Hub 26 Spring also brings updates to Nextcloud Talk and Whiteboard, Nextcloud Files, Nextcloud Groupware, Nextcloud Flow, and Nextcloud Assistant, as well as mobile and desktop clients. All of these improve performance and user experience, and bring critical new features.

More information about these improvements on the blog:

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub26-spring

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