About the updates

The maintenance updates include a number of important bug fixes and improvements in all supported Nextcloud Hub versions. You can find the full changelog on our website.

Found an issue? Please report any issues you find in our GitHub repositories.

Updates are available for:

• Nextcloud Hub 10 (version 31.0.12)
• Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn (version 32.0.3)

Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn: Your digital workspace, ready in no time

It’s here! Say hello to Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn — Your digital workspace, ready in no time. Explore all the new features of our latest release and take it for a test drive:

• Global redesign and usability lift
• New Office UI: Colors, tabs, bars
• Performance and stability boost
• New AI Agency tools unlocked
• Talk threads & live transcription
• Calendar: Date poll for participants
• Intuitive file search
• Teams 2.0 & quick Guest accounts
• Quick presets & many other admin updates
• Vue3, WebSockets and more OpenAPI for devs
• … and much more!

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Always keep your server up to date!

Nextcloud’s minor releases primarily focus on addressing security vulnerabilities and functionality bugs, avoiding major system overhauls that could jeopardize user data. Keeping your server up to date is vital, and our approach to testing and validation ensures that upgrading to minor releases is generally smooth and reliable.

For mission-critical Nextcloud systems in enterprise settings, consider switching to Nextcloud Enterprise. The tier provides you with ultimate deployment confidence: direct access to the Nextcloud engineering team, full assistance throughout deployment and integration, and peace of mind for system administrators. If you’re responsible for maintaining Nextcloud in your setting, this option may be the ideal solution for you.

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2025 is wrapping up, so let’s hit the “pause” button and look back at what we’ve been up to, where it got us, and what lies ahead.

Millions of people started using Nextcloud in 2025. This big jump only happens for a reason, and we are here to find it. If you spent this year with Nextcloud, as a user or customer, admin, contributor or a technology partner or provider, you will certainly enjoy this written journey.

We remembered every small detail for you: every release, every event, the headlines that were especially sharp, what you liked reading and watching.

And if you are reading this only by chance, it’s a great opportunity to see how important privacy and digital sovereignty have become, and the progress being made towards a better and safer digital world.

Enjoy!

Nextcloud Team

We are dreaming bigger

Let’s begin with how the impact of Nextcloud has grown in 2025. With over 500K servers running worldwide, it is very motivating to see our work make meaningful impact. Big government projects giving national ministries and institutions control of their data back, small teams using Nextcloud for valuable initiatives in the world, or home users choosing privacy when storing and sharing files away from Big Tech clouds.

With the rising global uncertainty this year, the interest in Nextcloud from potential customers has tripled. We have demonstrated that sovereign alternatives to Big Tech, and an end to global digital dependency, are not only possible, but already available.

In some of the countries, the digital sovereignty momentum is especially high. For example, in the Netherlands, we’ve had two record-breaking Nextcloud Enterprise Days this year. The inquiries from local businesses and the public sector have increased eightfold. In France, numerous organizations in the public sector boast 6-figure Nextcloud deployments.

And there are even more countries waking up to the need for digital autonomy, choosing Nextcloud as their online workspace solution. In 2025, we’ve shaken hands with many new customers in Europe’s public sector, such as at Austria’s Federal Ministry of Economy, Energy and Tourism (BMWET) and the administration of the City of Stuttgart in Germany.

People’s project: Growing international team and culture

This global success can only scale with the growth of our collective. In 2025, the Nextcloud team grew by 27%, and we have many more members joining next year.

With its strong roots in the open source community, Nextcloud is a people’s project, which is reflected in our core values. Coming from 26 countries and incredibly diverse walks of life, our team has shaped our culture to be fundamentally democratic, dialogue-driven, and inclusive.

We know that investing in people is the best way to use our resources. That’s why we hire from our community, support and encourage our employees to participate in the open source life, and to grow professionally.

We are growing further and looking for new people in some of the key positions, for example, Senior C++/Office Engineer and Content Marketing team lead. If you are inspired to join Nextcloud and help bring autonomy and freedom to even more people, let’s talk!

At the forefront of digital freedom, as always

Introducing the Digital Sovereignty Index

Digital sovereignty topic is getting more and more recognition in the world. At the same time, it’s actively becoming a marketing buzzword and, even worse, getting appropriated by tech giants.

So what does digital sovereignty really mean? And in how far is your country digitally sovereign?

Numbers always bring clarity. By launching the Digital Sovereignty Index, we could show how countries compare in actual digital independence.

You can also dive into our methods and check how our tracker works. And of course, there are some limitations and caveats. Do you have some ideas on how to overcome them? We love a good contribution or suggestion, so get in touch right away!

€250M for digital sovereignty by 2030

Achieving digital sovereignty is a long game. We support numerous political initiatives that aim to create digitally sovereign offerings for Europe, yet we believe that support from private projects can have a quicker impact. So this year, we announced our own “Sovereign 2030” initiative to invest €250 million in digital sovereignty by 2030.

Our key investment areas:

• Growing our international workforce
• Empowering the broader open source community as well as our own Nextcloud community
• Strengthening partnerships and expanding the ecosystem
• Educating and informing the public about privacy, security, and digital sovereignty

Channel Partner Program

Access to local resellers and service providers is the first step to making digital sovereignty an actionable plan for people, companies, and governments. Alongside our investment initiative, we launched the Channel Partner Program to enable local companies with expert support and sovereign solutions on fair, beneficial terms, while ensuring they can control their roadmap and pricing.

Discover Nextcloud Channel Partner Program and read more about what its launch means to our resellers, service providers, and customers in our blog.

We did it: Awards in 2025

Platinum in CloudComputing-Insider IT-Awards

Nextcloud receives a Platinum Award at CloudComputing-Insider IT Awards for the fifth time.

Blauer Engel ecolabel for green IT

Nextcloud becomes the first cloud software platform to earn the Blauer Engel ecolabel.

Nextcloud Awards: Who is shaping the future of digital independence?

This year, we launched Nextcloud Awards to celebrate changemakers in digital sovereignty: people, organizations, and projects that are actively working towards a future where users themselves, not corporations, control their data.

Accepting nominations in two categories in 2025, and joined by a team of expert jurors, we announced the winners:

• Category “Implementation Role Model”: Schleswig-Holstein
• Category “Special Award 2025: digital sovereignty awareness in times of geopolitical changes”: CódigoSur and Signal Foundation

Three breakthrough releases

Our team of engineers has been working all year round to make Nextcloud apps smarter, faster, and smoother. This year, we have seen three big releases that changed the way teams collaborate.

Integrated and modular, Nextcloud Hub 10

Nextcloud Hub 10 celebrated what makes Nextcloud architecture unique: smooth integration of all of your tools with modularity that lets you choose how you work and what you use. All-round UX and performance boost, enterprise-grade security with E2EE calls and web encryption, usability improvements in Nextcloud Mail, Talk, and Teams, Nextcloud Assistant 3.0 and first AI agent features, and lots more.

Resilient communication and collaboration with Nextcloud Talk “Munich”

In times of uncertainty, organizations seek resilient tools for their communication and collaboration needs. With a stand-alone Nextcloud Talk release, launched live at the Nextcloud Summit in Munich, we gave our strong answer: a modern, digitally sovereign platform for work chats, meetings, and webinars, with lower barrier to migration and extended telephony features.

Ready in no time, Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn

Now, the big hit. Our latest launch, Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn, not only comes under a new name but has an entirely new feel. Through refreshed branding, subtle design improvements, and great maintenance and performance effort, it combines under-the-hood and all-around visual improvements.

We focused on what matters and made it meaningfully better: more intuitive and easy-to-adopt UI, more automations, and more focus. That’s the user side, but if you speak code, a great deal of admin improvements, new frameworks, new config presets, and 6X faster file uploads.

Figuring out how to do everything you need to do is intuitive, and it’s a snap to delegate permissions without accidentally turning every user into an admin.

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Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn feels significantly faster and more responsive across the board. File uploads technically have the ability to be up to six times faster thanks to the improvements in chunked uploads, which also makes transferring large files much more reliable. And as you saw, the entire platform is snappier due to a 15% reduction in database queries.

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New crisp branding

With Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn, we gave our branding a fresh touch. Working across product UI, interface branding, and our graphic narrative, we wove the new visual code into Nextcloud end-to-end. Find out more in the Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn release blog.

New integrations

Nextcloud is one unified platform for all collaboration needs, and it’s not limited to Nextcloud Hub. Our ecosystem is growing, offering new ways to collaborate via familiar tools in an integrated environment.

Documenso

Simplify document signatures with self-hosted, open source alternative to DocuSign.

OpenProject

Simplify project file management and sharing by connecting Nextcloud to the world’s leading open source project management tool.

XWiki

Connect XWiki-based wikis, search content in them and share pages easily via Smart Picker.

Zulip

Integration app for easy file sharing in Zulip now lets you search public and direct messages via Unified Search in Nextcloud Hub.

Overleaf

Work with LaTeX files to create and publish technical documents.

Integration updates

Updated integrations with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Discourse, Google and more.

Community life highlights

Nextcloud Community Conference 2025

With record-breaking attendance of 400 guests, we had a blast at our annual community gathering in Berlin this September.

A few highlights:

• Michael “Monty” Widenius, creator of MySQL and MariaDB, joined us with a keynote, “Building Trust with MariaDB: Open Source as a Path to Digital Sovereignty”.
• Daphne Muller, Manager Alliances, Ecosystem & Support at Nextcloud, presented “From policy to practice: implementing the EU AI Act for open source software”.
• The “How to contribute” panel and “Voices of the community” roundtable let us sit down together and discuss what being part of the community in 2025 actually looks like.
• And of course, the weekend was packed with lightning talks from fans, contributors, and creators of Nextcloud integrations, hands-on workshops, lots of networking, and after-hours activities.

We can’t wait to meet you!

Nextcloud Community Conference is a truly special event. If it is your dream to reunite with the fellow Nextclouders, but traveling to Berlin is tricky, remember that we always offer travel support via Nextcloud Include and provide an option to volunteer at the event.

Let’s go even bigger next year. Until we meet again in 2026!

Join the Nextcloud community: Develop, test, translate, love

There are many ways to get involved, from contributing code and developing apps to testing performance and security, and even doing non-code contributions like documentation and translation. Join our growing community and become part of our mission!

Want to start developing apps? Don’t be shy!

If you wish to test your skills and knowledge and get started with coding, why not grow together with a dynamic, growing ecosystem of the leading open source collaboration platform? Enjoy an abundance of developer tutorials, a vast API library a big, welcoming app store.

Moments across the map: events in 2025

Nextcloud Summit: Digital sovereignty revolution starts here

Digital sovereignty is a movement, and we might’ve just created a home base for it. In June, we organized the first Nextcloud Summit, which was an instant success: 400+ participants from over 10 different countries, 20 remarkable sessions, 30 speakers on stage.

The agenda? Catalytic. Some of the program highlights included:

• Keynotes by Dr. Cristina Caffarra, Economist and Antitrust Expert, and Sven Thomsen, CIO of the German federal state Schleswig-Holstein
• Launch of Nextcloud Talk “Munich”, your privacy-first Microsoft Teams alternative
• The very first Nextcloud Awards ceremony
• Customer success stories and tracks tailored for business, government, developers, and the press

We’re looking forward to continuing to build on the digital sovereignty momentum in 2026. Make sure to join us for the next edition of this must-attend event!

Nextcloud Enterprise Days

Nextcloud is growing remarkably fast in some countries. That’s why we decided to focus the Nextcloud Enterprise Days on the local agenda: best practices from business and the public sector tailored to local regulations and the regional landscape; inspiring regional success stories; speakers and guests the audience values most; and, of course, using the local language as official for each event.

This focus made Nextcloud Enterprise Day truly a must-attend event:

• We’ve been twice to The Hague, the Netherlands, attended by 300 and almost 400 guests respectively, breaking the initial plan of 60. Our most successful Nextcloud Enterprise Day so far.
• Nextcloud returned to Paris, France, with an event which has become our annual winter tradition, this time doubling the number of attendees.
• Our first event in Copenhagen, Denmark, brought together our friends from the Nordics and sparked the long-awaited conversation in the region.

The Nextcloud Enterprise Day has become our most successful localized event format, and we are excited to expand it further. Enterprise Day will be coming to Switzerland, Austria, and Spain early next year.

The ABCs and the deep dives: Nextcloud webinars

We hosted 71 webinars this year, with 6700+ people attending across 137 countries to learn about deploying and using Nextcloud in different settings: from highly secure air-gap environments to education and enterprise use cases. Our most popular webinar this year had 887 registrations!

Our top three most-watched webinars in 2025:

• Nextcloud Hub 10: The secure and private alternative to Microsoft 365
• From Microsoft to digital sovereignty: Practical steps for your organization
• Break free from Confluence: Your complete open source migration stack

Missed something? You can watch numerous webinars, including these three highlighted webinars, on demand. Time to catch up!

Content you loved this year

In 2025, we wrote 88 blog articles, sent out 12 community newsletters, published 61 videos on YouTube, and hosted 2 new podcast episodes.

The best of our blog in 2025

• Meet the first open source AI assistant that doesn’t prey on your data (Update)
• Digital Sovereignty Index: How countries compare in digital independence
• The proposed EU Chat Control law is a threat to our democracy. What can you do to prevent it?
• Austria’s Ministry of Economy takes decisive steps toward digital sovereignty
• How to back up and restore Nextcloud AIO remotely using BorgBackup

In conversation: Nextcloud Podcast

• Owning your data: The open source path with Nextcloud and MariaDB
• Nextcloud AIO: The easiest way to self-host Nextcloud with Simon Lindner

Success stories you were inspired by

• Île-de-France offers 550,000 students and staff a sovereign cloud collaboration platform
• Nextcloud enables secure, sovereign collaboration for Austria’s Federal Ministry
• Crowe Greece — Secure file management and collaboration with Nextcloud
• Secure cloud storage and file sharing software for NGOs: The Economy for the Common Good with Nextcloud
• New cooperation partner: City of Stuttgart relies on Nextcloud (press release in German)

Videos you loved

• Don’t let AI take away your privacy. Discover the Nextcloud Assistant
• Is it time to move away from Teams? Check out how Talk brings a sleek design to your chats!
• Privacy never looked so good. Discover fresh updates in Files, including Liquid Glass for Apple

Catch you in 2026!

New challenges are just ahead. But fortune favors the bold, we know that.

And you are bold: by choosing privacy and digital freedom, and by running your home, your team, or maybe a whole big company to open, fair, and decentralized working tools.

This year, we like to think we moved one step closer to a better, safer digital world. Let’s do a few more steps in 2026.

Cheers!

Your Nextcloud team

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French President Emmanuel Macron stated that “Europe is stepping up to accelerate the development of European innovation, to uphold strong data protection, and to call for fair market conditions” at the Summit on European Digital Sovereignty in November. The urgent need for action on sovereignty was emphasized by renewed pressure from the US government on the EU to reduce or cease enforcement of laws designed to protect citizens and businesses from market abuse.

At the Nextcloud Enterprise Day in Paris, Nextcloud CEO and founder Frank Karlitschek opened the day with a clear statement:

European values are non-negotiable, and we can’t put ourselves in a position to be blackmailed. That is why we must reduce dependencies in order to protect European sovereignty.

Frank Karlitschek

Nextcloud CEO and founder

France overwhelmingly chooses Nextcloud for digital sovereignty

Given the geopolitical situation, it comes at no surprise that French organizations are acting. At the customer and partner event focusing on digital sovereignty, around 200 participants joined from public sector organizations, companies, and schools and universities. This represents nearly a doubling of interest compared to 2024.

The wide range of French Nextcloud customers demonstrates that digital sovereign workplace solutions are ready for enterprise use and proven at scale, with deployments discussed ranging from thousands to millions of users at schools, universities, companies and public sector organizations from the local to the national level.

During the day, participants expressed concerns about the dependency on foreign, big tech vendors and many questions centered around migration strategies from Microsoft or Google to a sovereign Nextcloud setup.

As Europe’s only serious competitor to Microsoft 365, Nextcloud has been rolled out in thousands of large scale deployments in the public sector, education and at businesses to provide users with a sovereign, easy to use digital workspace. It recently announced to invest 250 million Euros in digital sovereignty to accelerate the roll-out of sovereign technology to businesses and public sector organizations across Europe.

At the event, French organizations customers gave background on their Nextcloud instances with millions of users who store and collaborate on documents, engage chat or videoconferencing, and manage calendars, emails.

Ministry of Energy Transition

The Ministry of Energy Transition presented the integration of Nextcloud and Collabora into their sovereign collaboration suite for 50,000 users. The ministry emphasized how the organization benefits from interoperability, security, collaboration, and sovereignty through open source solutions.

Nextcloud is a great modular tool, allowing a sovereign collaboration at the service of energy transition.

Cyril Aeck

Deputy Group Leader for Collaboration and Digital Services, Ministry of Energy Transition

Île-de-France

Sovereign cloud provider Leviia presented the deployment Nextcloud as collaborative suite for 550,000 teachers and students in the Paris metropolitan area Île-de-France. The ambitious digital transformation project integrates with the existing education platform, monlycée.net and connects students, teachers, and administrative staff across hundreds of high schools. In essence, they benefit from a secure, privacy-respecting environment for learning, collaboration and file exchange.

Leviia and Nextcloud are a perfect match for the digital sovereignty goal at Île-de-France in a complex environment.

William Méauzoone

Leviia co-founder

Ville de Lyon

Nextcloud is at the heart of the sovereign cloud of the Métropole and Ville de Lyon with service provider for the public sector SITIV giving a presentation with Nextcloud partner Easya Solutions. Nextcloud is hosted in regional data centers. Several thousand employees in seven local authorities are already using it, and the solution is designed to be shared on a regional scale.

We decided to use Nextcloud solutions for sovereignty, confidentiality and independence from GAFAM. The solution is hosted locally, enhancing security and making it GDPR compliant.

Stéphane Vangheluwe

managing director at SITIV

French Ministry of National Education

The French Ministry of National Education is rolling out Nextcloud, with already over 330K daily employees and administrative staff using it. The end goal is 1.2 million employees and the presentation showcased the implementation and rollout process at scale.

We wanted to roll out an open source solution that allows us to keep knowledge in-house, to ensure the independence and autonomy of education in France. As of today, hundreds of thousands of employees work daily with Nextcloud and it has changed how they collaborate with colleagues, administration and others. Nextcloud has become a key driver in their daily work!

Benoît Piédallu

project lead for shared digital services at the Ministry of National Education

Key questions around user acceptance and migration strategies

These and other customers provided insights into their journey towards a sovereign digital workplace, explaining their motivations, sharing best practices and answering questions. A big topic was user acceptance, with the major learning that with the right change management in place, introducing sovereign technology can be done while bringing users along.

Practical solutions: migration, interoperability and integrations

Additional sessions tackled a wide range of migration scenarios and interoperability solutions. Speakers included the expert in email, groupware, and storage migration audriga, the leading open source project management software provider OpenProject, Microsoft integration specialist Sendent, the provider of online collaborative document editing Collabora Online and French IT services provider arawa.

During the breaks, participants at the event had a chance to discuss various topics around digital sovereignty in France with each other and the speakers.

Nextcloud expands French ecosystem with new partnerships

At the event, Nextcloud also signed a strategic partnership agreement with Smile Group, the leading European open source integration and service provider. By combining Nextcloud’s collaborative workplace platform with Smile Group’s deep expertise in large-scale open source integration, the two companies are set to deliver viable, European alternatives to proprietary extra-European solutions.

Earlier in November, sovereign cloud provider Leviia announced the extension of its partnership with Nextcloud. Leviia Next is a digital sovereign alternative to Microsoft 365 for large organizations based on hyper-scalable cloud infrastructure hosted in France. The offering is designed to equip organizations with tens to hundreds of thousands of users. The new and extended partnerships add to the existing French partner ecosystem.

The event was closed by Yann Lechelle (CEO, Probabl) with a talk on digital resilience, EuroStack Initiative and openness as strategy to solve the sovereignty conundrum.

Concluding: it is time to move!

This year’s Enterprise Day underlined the massive momentum Nextcloud has in France. Our commitment is to continue this growth and help every organization looking to bring back their data under their own control! Contact our team and find out how Nextcloud and our partners can help you.

Coming up: Nextcloud Summit 2026

Or join us at the Nextcloud Summit in Munich on June 9th to learn from organizations across the world who share insights into strategy, real-world implementations, and discuss building the technologies that make digital sovereignty possible.

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A trusted digital environment for education and public service

In an ambitious digital transformation project, Île-de-France, the region around Paris, chose Nextcloud partner Leviia to implement Nextcloud as sovereign collaborative suite within the regional platform monlycée.net. The sovereign collaboration platform was designed to replace solutions from Microsoft.

This initiative connects over 550,000 students, teachers, and administrative staff across hundreds of high schools. In essence, they benefit from a secure, privacy-respecting environment for learning, collaboration and file exchange.

The project also puts into the spotlight the region’s commitment to digital sovereignty, GDPR compliance, and independence from non-European cloud providers.

The need for a unified, compliant collaboration space

Île-de-France, the north-central French region with eight administrative areas (including Paris), relied heavily on their education platform, monlycée.net, as it played a central role in everyday school operations. Yet, file sharing, communication, and document collaborations needs had grown and so had the complexity of managing fragmented tools. It had also become increasingly difficult to maintain data protection, a very serious issue given that much of it was minor’s personal data.

To meet this challenge, the region, supported by its regional digital operator Worldline PSN, sought a cloud collaboration platform that would:

• Scale seamlessly to more than half a million users
• Integrate natively with the regional SSO and existing digital services
• Deliver complete control over data location and security
• Ensure legislative compliance
• Reflect European values of privacy, transparency, and accessibility

Building a sovereign platform with Leviia and Nextcloud

After a thorough evaluation, Île-de-France selected Leviia, a French cloud provider and Nextcloud partner, for its technical expertise and long-standing commitment to open-source, privacy-first collaboration.

Leviia designed a Nextcloud instance capable to support over 500 thousand users through a single access point, with high availability and data distribution across three French data centers and integration with a number of key technologies needed by the regional government.

Key implementation features:

• Native integration with the Region’s SSO, Worldline PSN ecosystem, and existing monitoring systems (SOC/SIEM)
• Personalized storage of 10 to 100 GB per user, depending on their profile
• Collabora Online for document co-editing and group projects
• Advanced security measures including WAF, antivirus, anti-DDoS and erasure coding
• Full account life cycle automation aligned with the educational calendar

A public sector success story in digital sovereignty

The resulting Nextcloud-based platform combines ease of use, strong compliance and future scalability. Throughout documents, lesson materials, and administrative workflows, teachers and students alike immediately adopted the new system and welcomed the ability to collaborate securely.

Key outcomes:

• 550,000 active accounts
• Fast and stable performance
• Compliance ensured with GDPR, ISO 27001, and HDS standards
• Increased awareness of digital sovereignty in French educational sector

Shaping the future of sovereign digital education

The Île-de-France digital transformation project proves that open-source collaboration can scale securely at the national level, providing a secure European cloud ecosystem. The region has built a trusted digital workspace on Nextcloud backed by Leviia’s expertise and sovereign hosting.

The large-scale success is a model for other regions and government entities seeking to strengthen digital sovereignty and provide secure public services.

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Only those who have complete control over identity and access management (IAM) can operate with confidence. Many companies rely on major cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), to manage user accounts, access rights, and authentication. However, this comes with risks, including dependence on proprietary cloud infrastructures, limited data control, and legal uncertainties regarding data protection and data flows outside the EU.

Univention Nubus: the sovereign alternative to Microsoft Entra

Following the integration of Nubus, Nextcloud partner Univention is offering a sovereign alternative. This data-sovereign IAM system puts IT departments back in control of storage locations, access rights, security policies, and integrations. This is particularly important in the public sector, schools, and highly regulated industries.

Technically, Nubus is on a par with solutions such as Microsoft Entra, but there is one crucial difference: Nubus gives the organization full control over identities, data, and infrastructure.

Open, modular, cloud-ready

Nubus is based on open standards, including OpenID Connect, SAML, and LDAP. This enables flexible integration into existing systems, whether they are cloud-based, on-premises, or hybrid. With features such as single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), and self-service, Nubus meets all the core requirements of modern identity solutions.

Unlike Microsoft Entra, Nubus can operate entirely within sovereign cloud environments or your own data centres. It can also be containerised with Kubernetes if desired.

Independence instead of vendor lock-in

Although Microsoft Entra ID is closely integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem, Nubus is designed to be open and interoperable. Organizations can decide for themselves which cloud services to connect to and where to store their identities. This approach avoids the classic vendor lock-in associated with proprietary IAM solutions, with which many companies are familiar. Nubus, therefore, offers technological sovereignty and strategic independence.

Ideal for administration, education, and companies with high compliance requirements

For many years, Univention has partnered with numerous public institutions, educational providers, and companies that take digital sovereignty seriously. School authorities like in Fulda and Kassel already relied for years on Nextcloud and Nubus, and the state of Schleswig-Holstein has also become independent of US providers by trusting in the combination of these two open-source offerings from Germany.

IAM requires trust — and control

Microsoft Entra, Okta, and other cloud identity and access management (IAM) solutions all demonstrate how important identity management has become for modern IT security. However, true digital sovereignty requires more than just convenience and scalability; it also requires transparency, openness, and control.

Univention Nubus embodies these qualities.

If you want to securely manage identities while retaining control over your data, Nubus offers a sovereign, European alternative to Microsoft Entra ID that is open, flexible, and independent.

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A focus on real-world deployments

Since the beginning of the year, demand for sovereign work place technology has skyrocketed and Nextcloud has seen an eight-fold increase in inquiries from companies, public sector organizations and educational institutions looking to learn about digital sovereignty in the Netherlands. At the event, participants expressed concerns about the dependency on foreign, big tech vendors and many questions centered around migration strategies from Microsoft or Google to a sovereign Nextcloud setup.

The program was heavily focused on customer stories, with a delegation from the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, a team from the cooperation of Dutch education organizations SURF and the Austrian ministry’s CISO all making an appearance.

They all detailed their journey towards a more autonomous and sovereign digital workplace, explaining their motivations, sharing best practices and answering questions. A big theme was user acceptance, with the major learning that with the right change management in place, introducing sovereign technology can be done while bringing users along.

Digital workplace offerings and migration strategies

The quickly growing dutch partner ecosystem was present, spearheaded by KPN and Centric, both covering the new sovereign digital work place offerings on the Dutch in their breakout sessions. Additional sessions tackled a wide range of migration scenarios and interoperability solutions. Speakers included the expert in email, groupware, and storage migration audriga, the leading open source project management software provider OpenProject, Microsoft integration specialist Sendent and the provider of online collaborative document editing Collabora Online. The sponsors also included the Dutch branch of system integrator Bechtle, present with a booth.

During the breaks, participants at the event had a chance to discuss various topics around digital sovereignty in the Netherlands with each other and the speakers.

The event was closed with known anti-trust economist and chairperson of the newly founded EuroStack Foundation, Cristina Caffarra, speaking to the audience in a Q&A format about trends in digital sovereignty in the Netherlands and the rest of Europe.

Concluding: it is time to move!

Our second Nextcloud Enterprise Day this year underlined the massive momentum Nextcloud has in the Netherlands. Our commitment is to continue this growth and help every organization looking to bring back their data under their own control! Contact our team and find out how Nextcloud and our partners can help you achieve digital sovereignty in the Netherlands!

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At Nextcloud, we believe that everybody deserves privacy. We released the first open-source AI assistant that is hosted where you want it to be. It can get a multitude of tasks done inside your content collaboration platform without compromising your data: in content writing, mail communication, team chats, and more.

Introducing Nextcloud AI Assistant

Nextcloud AI Assistant is a capable and versatile tool that enhances your work throughout Nextcloud Hub to keep writing, communication, and other productivity tasks simple and low effort.

Unlike other AI-powered content collaboration tools, Nextcloud doesn’t share your data with a third-party technology provider to train the core AI model. This means that all data you work with, including documents, emails, chats, and more, stays yours.

Nextcloud AI Assistant features are available in the main Nextcloud Hub navigation to help you with quick text tasks. In some apps, for example Nextcloud Text, Nextcloud Mail, and Nextcloud Talk, you even have app-specific actions.

If you want to read about other AI tools available in Nextcloud, we welcome you to read the AI features overview or visit our documentation portal.

Quick access from your navigation bar

Whatever you are working on, Nextcloud AI Assistant is only one click away. Should you need any help with a small task like generating a headline, paraphrasing a text, or translating a sentence, just click on a icon on the top right corner of the main navigation and give the Assistant its input.

More and more tools are tools are supported with every new version of Nextcloud Hub. Make sure to check out the Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn release blog to find the latest features!

Chat with Nextcloud Assistant

Nextcloud Assistant becomes even more convenient with a chat interface, where you can give prompts and ask questions in a dialog format. It will remember your conversations, making interactions more natural and smooth. Chat about your day, work on the next press release, or proofread your social media posts. All locally on your server and without any data leaks!

Ask it about your own assets

You can ask Nextcloud Assistant about your own data with Context Chat. Nextcloud Assistant can access data from different apps, for example, Nextcloud Files, Nextcloud Collectives, and even the Analytics app.

It answers questions about your documents and assets, or finds items across your apps, like your files. You can manually define the scope and even limit it to a specific folder or file for more precision.

AI agent features: ask it to perform actions for you

AI agent features make Nextcloud Assistant even more like your personal assistant. For example, you can ask it to create a calendar event, send a chat message in Nextcloud Talk, or check the weather for you.

Or perhaps something more complex?

For example, look for a conversation with a colleague in Nextcloud Talk, find what document you promised to create for them, and ask Nextcloud Assistant to generate a template for it to help you get started on the task.

You can find more details about setting up and using AI agent tools, as well as all currently supported actions, in the documentation.

Writing help and text generation tools

With the help of the AI Assistant, Nextcloud Text has you covered when it comes to perfecting your writing and text composition. The tool is also available right in the editors in Nextcloud Office apps, freeing you from distractions and extra tab journeys.

Some examples of available “work with text” features:

• Generate a text or headline from the text
• Summarize
• Reformulate
• Change tone
• Proofread

File generation: documents, presentations, spreadsheets, and PDFs

Using a simple prompt, you can generate documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and even PDFs with AI. For instance, make a spreadsheet for your next product meeting, or get a quick overview of all your support tickets. Give it a rough idea or outline of a presentation and it’ll create a great start for you.

Texts written your way with Context Write

Context Write is another feature of Nextcloud Assistant, powered by context awareness. It can derive context from existing files to convey their unique tone, wording, and even structure to create new texts with the data you provide.

Tell Nextcloud Assistant about your working experience and give it a nice CV file, and it will create a custom CV for you. Share meeting notes of a discussion, or the transcript generated from a video call in Talk, as well as a report that looks like the one you would like to create. The Assistant goes to work and creates a report similar to your reference.

Now review it, and done!

Translate with AI

AI translation is available directly from the Nextcloud Assistant menu. Translation options are now almost limitless, as we added support for hundreds of languages that the app can detect, read, and translate to.

Summaries, replies and reminders in Nextcloud Mail

The Nextcloud Assistant summarizes bulky email threads for you, so you save a hefty amount of time when searching back in your conversations in Nextcloud Mail. All given tasks, suggestions, and questions are displayed in a clear and concise way, so you get an accurate idea of the whole history of communication.

Nextcloud Assistant also generates quick reply suggestions to your incoming emails based on the email texts, letting you quickly respond to them.

Nextcloud Assistant can also check emails to see if the sender expects a reply: If it determines an email needs a follow-up, it will place it in a Follow up section to make sure you don’t forget!

Automatic event creation in Nextcloud Calendar

You can create Calendar events from your emails right in the Nextcloud Mail app. Nextcloud Assistant will automatically generate event titles and descriptions, and even the event agenda. No more going back and forth to set up meetings and reminders!

Smart communication in Talk

Nextcloud Assistant is integrated seamlessly into Nextcloud Talk. We designed it to augment your work conversations and help your team in brainstorming, planning, and clearly expressing ideas.

First and foremost, the Assistant will make sure your discussions flow freely with the ability to translate messages, write texts, and generate images and stickers as you chat. Some of those features are available through Smart Picker (type “/” and see the magic!).

Conversation summaries

Nextcloud Assistant can get you a chat summary when you have a lot of unread messages, so you can catch up quickly. It can also create call transcripts for you and summarize your recorded calls automatically based on those transcripts.

Live transcriptions in meetings

Enable AI-powered transcriptions in Nextcloud Talk meetings to make speakers easier to follow, or watch the call in silence whenever you need to turn off the sound.

Quick actions in Nextcloud Files

Ask the Assistant to summarize your documents or get transcripts of audio files directly from your file’s context menu.

Processing data completely on your server

In everything we do, Nextcloud commits to transparency and trust. Working hard to combine comfort with responsible handling of your data, we made all core AI apps in Hub, including the Nextcloud AI Assistant, fully open-source and running locally on your server. All so you can use it for your private tasks or integrate AI into your business without selling your data to Big Tech.

Your data belongs to you, and not a single bit of information is shared with a third-party provider to improve performance, study user behavior, or train an AI model.

You may still want to use popular services like ChatGPT and Dall-E, and we are giving you the freedom to do so in Nextcloud. Before making your decision, you can refer to the Nextcloud Ethical AI Rating to find out more about how available AI apps in Nextcloud handle your data and estimate the risks related to code availability, deployment options, and access to training data.

We, of course, encourage everyone to use open source, ethical AI models in their work.

Sovereign AI-as-a-Service

We have been working closely with several major European hosting companies, including IONOS, OVHcloud, and PlusServer, to integrate their upcoming AI-as-a-Service solutions. This will make them available to Nextcloud customers and users who wish to take advantage of the advanced AI functionalities in Nextcloud Hub but don’t wish to host AI services themselves.

The future: Dedicated AI for the public sector and more

AI is a quickly developing field. One technology that will be important going forward is text generation models optimized for specific tasks. One example is the public sector, where employees are working with large amounts of complicated forms.

Together with the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, Nextcloud is working to build a digitally sovereign AI model. It aims to accelerate the bureaucratic processes in the public sector with ethical AI-powered content collaboration tools.

The project focuses on crafting a large language model tailored to the specific needs of the offices dealing with state affairs, namely creation of highly standardized texts using accepted language style and wording, optimized search of process-specific information, and other tasks. Anonymized training data provided by the state will be used in its training.

The model in the making will be released as open source to encourage the adaptation of sovereign, ethical AI within the digitalization strategies of governments. Context Chat feature, for example, is the first result of our collaboration.

There will be other fine-tuned AI models for Nextcloud appearing over the coming months and years, helping employees in all kinds of specializations with their tasks.

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About the updates

The maintenance updates include a number of important bug fixes and improvements in all supported Nextcloud Hub versions. You can find the full changelog on our website.

Found an issue? Please report any issues you find in our GitHub repositories.

Updates are available for:

• Nextcloud Hub 10 (version 31.0.11)
• Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn (version 32.0.2)

Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn: Your digital workspace, ready in no time

It’s here! Say hello to Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn — Your digital workspace, ready in no time. Explore all the new features of our latest release and take it for a test drive:

• Global redesign and usability lift
• New Office UI: Colors, tabs, bars
• Performance and stability boost
• New AI Agency tools unlocked
• Talk threads & live transcription
• Calendar: Date poll for participants
• Intuitive file search
• Teams 2.0 & quick Guest accounts
• Quick presets & many other admin updates
• Vue3, WebSockets and more OpenAPI for devs
• … and much more!

Get Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn now!

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Always keep your server up to date!

Nextcloud’s minor releases primarily focus on addressing security vulnerabilities and functionality bugs, avoiding major system overhauls that could jeopardize user data. Keeping your server up to date is vital, and our approach to testing and validation ensures that upgrading to minor releases is generally smooth and reliable.

For mission-critical Nextcloud systems in enterprise settings, consider switching to Nextcloud Enterprise. The tier provides you with ultimate deployment confidence: direct access to the Nextcloud engineering team, full assistance throughout deployment and integration, and peace of mind for system administrators. If you’re responsible for maintaining Nextcloud in your setting, this option may be the ideal solution for you.

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This article is part of the Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn series.

Work chat app, the bane of your wellbeing?

Like we said in our 10 tips to fight virtual meeting fatigue, some meetings definitely can be a chat. Well, noisy work chats can also get pretty frustrating. At the same time, many people are afraid to miss out on important messages or to come across as unfriendly if they don’t participate.

The constant pressure to remain responsive and stay “always on” contributes to technological overload, which is a known mental health hazard.

Needless to say, in work group chats, the exposure is especially intense. Not only are the pings and updates in the work chat apps distracting, but it’s also easy to get caught in the torrent of conversations once we absolutely have to visit a busy 50-member room.

It is all in design, if you ask us. In the modern remote work setting, chats are inevitable. We can’t always hop on calls, and emails are not agile and real-time enough for a quick conversation. So what’s the way out?

We have an idea: why not make the work chat nice and quiet?

How to keep the work chat quiet with Nextcloud Talk

When creating Nextcloud Talk, we asked ourselves: what will help people survive 8 hours a day in a work chat? We believe a chat app should promote a healthy working culture and respond to modern workplace design challenges, such as digital fatigue.

Let’s help you get started on keeping your work chats focused. Below, discover some of the key Nextcloud Talk chat features that keep you in the loop, but gently.

Use Threads to make discussions easy to follow

Threads in group chats give you more control over your conversations and keep you focused. They keep side discussions tied to the original message, so feedback and context don’t get lost in the main flow.

Where to find: Start a thread from the + button. Find threads in your conversation list.

With description and title, threads are clearly separated from the rest of the conversation, not letting the discussion get lost.

You can jump to a “Thread view” and see messages others are adding to this specific thread. It can even go multiple levels deep if needed.

You can follow and unfollow threads, and always find them in the threads overview on top right in your conversation list in Nextcloud Talk.

Start fresh with the Nextcloud Talk Home dashboard

The Nextcloud Talk Home dashboard shows an overview of everything you need before you start: upcoming meetings, new messages, your mentions, and the reminders you have scheduled for yourself. It first opens once you enter Nextcloud Talk, and you can return to it any time by clicking Home at top of your conversation list.

In Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn, we cleaned up the interface, updated buttons and icons and added colorful graphics to some of the sections at the bottom.

Catch up and prepare for the new day:

• Check upcoming meetings with meeting details and quick access to the location
• Browse unread mentions in all your conversations to catch up quickly
• See upcoming reminders on messages to keep your standing To-Dos in check

Perform instant actions:

• Start an online meeting
• Call a phone number via Nextcloud Talk
• Create a conversation
• Join other open conversations. All of them are available to browse via your Home dashboard.
• Revise your device settings

“Important” chats ignore do-not-disturb mode

Marking a conversation as “Important” will let Nextcloud Talk ignore your “Do not disturb” status for this conversation, so you can rest assured you won’t miss critical communication outside of your normal availability time. Enjoy a day off you deserve!

Where to find: Conversation context menu (behind “three dots” icon) → Notifications → Important conversation

Less distraction with compact mode

To keep your conversation list visually clean and distraction-free, you can hide unnecessary details and message previews with compact mode.

Where to find: Nextcloud Talk Settings → Appearance → Toggle “Show conversations list in compact mode”

Automatic availability and status

When an event is marked as “Busy” in your calendar, your status automatically changes to “Busy” for the time of the event.

How to configure manually: Click on your avatar and choose “Set status”

You can centrally configure an absence period that will also reflect everywhere in Nextcloud Talk and other Nextcloud Hub apps.

Where to find: Nextcloud Settings → Availability → Absence

How Absence setting works in Nextcloud Talk:

• Your profile shows an out-of-office status message for the absence period
• In private chats, Nextcloud Talk displays a banner with your custom absence message, links to your replacement colleague if you’ve assigned one.
• The same information is shown in other apps where relevant, for example, an auto-reply message in your mail.

In your settings, you can also set daily availability times Nextcloud Hub-wide, which will turn on “Do not disturb” mode outside of your configured working hours, and help others know you are busy.

Where to find: Nextcloud Settings → Availability → Availability

All of that in your mobile app

Nextcloud Talk mobile app brings your chats and meetings to your mobile devices, making it easy to access your work chats from anywhere and stay in the loop even when away from your computer. All features and settings we discovered today, like do-not-disturb mode and important chats, work on mobile too. So there’s no need to switch your phone off the grid to avoid unwanted messages and alerts after work.

In the last release, we redesigned the chat interface on iOS, bringing the familiar bubble-style layout to your messenger.

Get the app for your iOS or Android device and start using Nextcloud Talk on the go:

More in the Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn blog series:

• Top 10 tips to fight virtual meeting fatigue with Nextcloud Talk’s 2025 updates
• Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn: Your digital workspace, ready in no time
• Reclaim your schedule and your privacy with Nextcloud Calendar. Discover the 2025 updates!
• How to automate tasks with open source AI agent tools in Nextcloud Assistant
• WebSockets in Nextcloud: creating real‑time apps via AppAPI

Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn: Your digital workspace, ready in no time

Watch our launch presentation to discover all the new features of Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn. Wish to experience them first-hand right away? Sign up for an instant trial or get the new version now!

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In this blog, you will find the instructions for setting up an All-in-One on Windows 10 and 11. It is compatible with a PC with an x64 CPU with at least 8GB of RAM and 4 cores.

Before you start

First, you will need to get a public domain and be able to open ports for the guide to work. Also, make sure that you are not behind CGNAT, as it will not work with that.

Please also keep in mind that the following instructions are meant for installations without a web server or reverse proxy (like Apache, Nginx, and else) already being in place. If you want to run AIO behind a web server or reverse proxy (like Apache, Nginx, etc.), see the reverse proxy documentation.

With that, let’s get started!

Install Docker Desktop

1. Download Docker for Windows: https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/windows-install/.

2. Execute the “.exe” and install it. Click on “OK” to continue (WSL2 is recommended).

3. Wait until you see this screen, and click on “Close and restart” to restart the PC.

4. Open “Docker Desktop”, then read through and accept the Terms.

5. You should see this pop-up now and follow the link in the pop-up. If the pop doesn’t open, you can find the link here directly.

6. Click on the first link there (“WSL2 Linux kernel update package for x64 machines”).

7. Download the wsl_update MSI and install it.

8. Now click on ‘Restart’ to restart Docker Desktop.

11. Next, you might see this pop-up after a while and click on “Skip tutorial” to skip it:

12. Finally, Docker Desktop is ready, and you should see this.

13. Make sure that Docker Desktop starts automatically when you log in by ticking the first value in the settings.

14. Make sure to enable IPv6 support for Docker. You can follow this documentation if needed.

Install AIO

After you’ve successfully completed installing Docker Desktop, you can move on to installing your AIO.

1. Now open the command prompt:

2. Start AIO with this command:

docker run ^
--sig-proxy=false ^
--name nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer ^
--restart always ^
--publish 80:80 ^
--publish 8080:8080 ^
--publish 8443:8443 ^
--volume nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:/mnt/docker-aio-config ^
--volume //var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock:ro ^
-e NEXTCLOUD_DATADIR="/run/desktop/mnt/host/c/ncdata" ^
ghcr.io/nextcloud-releases/all-in-one:latest

Make sure to adjust /run/desktop/mnt/host/c/ncdata to your needs. This path is equivalent to C:\ncdata on your Windows host so you need to translate the path accordingly. Hint: the path that you enter needs to start with /run/desktop/mnt/host/. Append to that the exact location on your Windows host, e.g. c/ncdata which is equivalent to C:\ncdata.

3. Then you can open the AIO interface at https://localhost:8080. Important: Always use an IP address or localhost if you access this port and not a domain, as HSTS might block access to it later! You need to accept the Self-Signed certificate, and then you should see this:

4. Click on Open Nextcloud AIO login and paste in your password:

5. Now you should finally see the AIO dashboard.

6. Next, type in your public domain that you set up before starting this guide. The interface should help you figure out the exact steps. (Set up DDNS for your domain to point to your public IP, port-forward at least ports 443/tcp and 3478/udp and 3478/tcp to your Windows machine.)

7. After you’ve set it up correctly, it should allow you to pass to the next step, where you can configure the wanted optional addons and the timezone, and click on Start containers to download and start them.

8. Now you should see a spinner that will take a while (depending on your internet speed, around 10 minutes or more).

9. When all containers are downloaded and started, you will see this screen showing the containers still starting, which will do the first install for you.

10. When everything is done, you should see this screen.

11. You can now open your new Nextcloud instance and log in with the given admin credentials.

12. You should also open the Backup and restore section type in a path like e.g. /run/desktop/mnt/host/c/backup and submit it. This path is equivalent to C:\backup on your Windows host so you need to translate the path accordingly. Hint: the path that you enter needs to start with /run/desktop/mnt/host/. Append to that the exact location on your Windows host, e.g. c/backup which is equivalent to C:\backup.

That’s it! Now everything is set up and ready for production.

Discover more about Nextcloud All-in-One and its many options

This Nextcloud AIO manual was developed by Simon Lindner, Software Engineer at Nextcloud.
You can check out our Nextcloud podcasts for an interview with Simon, where he explains more about his interest in making Nextcloud and open source software accessible to everyone.

Make sure to read our guide to set up Community Containers, developed by the Nextcloud community, for your Nextcloud instance. With these useful features, including Caddy, Fail2ban, and Pi-hole, you can enhance your Nextcloud AIO in a couple of clicks.

Last but not least, we also have our post “How to install the Nextcloud All-in-One on Linux” available for Linux users who would like to access the power of Nextcloud All-in-One.

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