currently I am using OwnCloud on my shared-hosting webspace and everything works fine.
As OwnCloud will be switching from PHP to Go next year, I wonder how long the
PHP-version of OwnCloud will be receiving security updates.
It would be great if someone from OwnCloud could send a comment about this matter.
I would really like to continue using OC on my shared-hosting webspace, but I think that the Go-version would not be compatible with this. The last resort would be Nextcloud, but I am not really satisfied with the software quality at these days (they focus on more and more new features instead of fixing the existing bugs in the basic functions).
I didnât hear/read yet that PHP would be dropped for Go, do you have any links indicating that ?
Anyway, as far as I know Go, itâs just a binary (I guess it would be cross compiled) you could put on your server, so it shouldnât be such a hassle to use it.
Cheers.
I doubt it will be any time soon. Until they have customers paying for them to support the PHP version, I doubt they can drop it. Even if they push the customers to move their installations to Go, theyâll need a lot of time. Note that the Go version should have similar features, at least for those customers.
I guess the development of new features will eventually stop, but I doubt theyâll stop providing fixes and security updates any time soon.
The next generation if owncloud will be called âownCloud Infinite Scaleâ and will focus on pure file sync and share. The architecture will be microservice based and will rely on the Go Language.
This new architecture has impact on the deployment model and a deployment on a php webspace is out of scope.
We are in the very initial phase of this project and the classic ownCloud project will be alive for a few years.
DeepDiver1975 commented 3 days ago
And please keep in mind: oc10 is soon EOL. Why waste energy on such things.
What in detail does this comment mean? I didnât find any news at https://owncloud.org/news/, so is there somebody who could give some insights/plans/roadmaps?
Thatâs indeed a good question, oC10.5 was expected in may but I guess that due to the world situation it got delayed. Nevertheless I couldnât find any new version in the future such as an oC 11 in the release schedule.
That might sound harsh, but from a developer point of view he is kind of right as there is not much more new feature development going into oC10.
However, 10.5 is going to be released very soon. This enables PHP 7.4 support on Ubuntu 20.04, so
for the next 2 years youâre going to be set. After that it is very likely though youâre going to have to migrate to oCIS.
thanks for the information ! If there is no oC 11 with the same PHP core it will be short in time to change the infrastructure to the new oCIS which is not officialy out there.
There will definitely be a migration process (I will have to use it myself).
The first betas have already been released. But when the final 1.0 release will happen is still not clear, I think they wanted to get it out this year. However I didnât really follow on what the latest news in oCIS development are. So take my information on this with a grain of salt.
How long ownCloud 10.x (>=10.5) will exactly be supported is not my decision. However, as that version supports Ubuntu 20.04 and PHP7.4, it should be easy to support it until at least 2022.
For previous releases, the release candidates were published under âTestingâ on owncloud.org as well. For the current 10.5 there was not one single RC on the download page âŚ
Be careful the file is still being prepared. The download might be corrupt. Double check the checksum with a couple of fresh downloads once the official channels have announced it.