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.

NextCloud is already used by many other SaaS applications such as Odoo, for file storage and more.  It is often described as a replacement for DropBox.  There are existing integrations with Odoo, so that fits with our overall principles.  Howevc, we add the ability to integrate with any other SaaS application including MatterMost and WordPress.