Nextbox Release Planning

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My Nextcloud Hub 9 on Nextbox mentions for some time now that its version is not maintained any more, but that I cannot upgrade it myself.
Nitrokey mentions that it will roll out Nextcloud versions.
I don’t mind waiting patiently, but it would be nice to know what I can expect.
Can I find somewhere what the Nextbox release planning currently is? And whether Nextbox will be running Nextcloud Hub 10 or Hub 25?

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hey

I think there is a missunderstanding,

  • so “Nextcloud Hub 25” is a live event: Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn global launch
  • Hub 10 is in fact Nextcloud 31 (afaik)
  • currently the NextBox is running 30.0.15 and the latest Nextcloud 30 version is 30.0.16, kind of weird why Nextcloud complains here - but we’ll update to 30.0.16 within the next days
  • They also just released Nextcloud 32, so usually we try to keep the NextBox one version below the latest, so the Nextcloud update to 31 will be released “soon”, the update for 30 was breaking various apps so this time we’d like to wait a little longer so the app compatibility will be better

Eventually, we cannot really give release plannings for NextBox as this is dominated by Nextcloud releases, as shortly described before we plan to always jump on patch versions (like 30.0.15 to 30.0.16) as fast as possible (<1week) and keep the major version one below the latest (Nextcloud 31 update will follow soon)

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Thank you, Markus, for clearing it up.

Maybe you can do something with this:
I bought a Nextbox this year in order to be able to share data without being dependent on companies like Google and Dropbox.
It works fine but it costs me far too much time figuring out how things work.
I have a background in software engineering, and I think that for me it should be very easy to work with the Nextbox.
I think Nitrokey could benefit a lot from trying a lot better to make things easy to understand.
Searching in Google is not the way to get the information I need.
The Nextbox app is the logical place to give access to that information.

Kind regards,
Piet de Vries