ownCloud 3 Features

This collects all the new features of ownCloud 3. This was used for the release announcement

Main Features

  • Gallery
    • A photo gallery app
    • Automatic albums generation
    • Dynamic covers
  • PDF Viewer
    • An integrated pdf view for convenient viewing and printing of PDFs
  • Calendar
    • new userinterface
    • automatic timezone detection
    • support for repeating events
    • REQUIRES at least PHP 5.3
    • search function
    • better import function (/apps/calendar/import_tmp/ requires write permission for progress bar)
  • Contacts
    • Export address books or single contacts as *.vcf file.
    • Contact list shows thumbnails of contact photos.
    • Add/edit/delete address books.
    • Search function
  • Text Editor
    • 35 programming languages supported for syntax highlighting
    • Keyboard shortcuts
    • Drag and drop text
    • Automatic indent and outdent
    • Unstructured / user code folding
    • Live syntax checker (for JavaScript, Coffee and CSS)
    • Live document searching
    • Go to Line functionality
    • Read-only text viewer
  • Application Store
    • Easy installation of new 3rd party apps directly from within ownCloud

Minor Features

  • External App
    • External web application can be integrated in the ownCloud web-interface. Useful for a mail webinterface like roundcube for example.
  • Automatic Database Migration
    • ownCloud will automatically migrate the database to the newest version when you upgrade.
  • Improved LDAP and Active Directory usermanagement Integration
    • ownCloud can connect to an existing directory for user management
  • Improved user-interface
    • Several small user-interface improvements including a new upload/create file button.
  • Logging
    • A new logging feature for better debugging and monitoring.
  • Bugfixing
    • A lot of bug-fixing and small improvements all over the place