ownCloud 8.2 Features

This collects all the new features of ownCloud 8.2. This will be used for the release announcement. Please add your features that are merged here. If they are not merged yet but you plan to before the feature freeze than add a (planned) comment to it.

Main Features

• The Pictures app has been almost entirely rewritten and is now known as Gallery (release announcement should list some of the new feature)
• mimetype.js makes it possible to request a mimetype icon from JS: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/16724
• Files app gets a new sidebar on the right to show details about files: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/16308
  • Includes Activity tab to show the activities for the selected file: https://github.com/owncloud/activity/pull/358
  • Versions dropdown now appear as a tab: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/18748
  • Share dialog is now also in the sidebar: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/18185
• Capabilities manager is added to allow apps to expose capabilities in a more generic way: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/15093
• Admins can define custom mimetype mappings and aliases: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/17481 https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/17509

Minor Features

• OCS Share API also return url when fetching shares: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/16535
• Show apps that will be updated on the DB update page: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/17434
• Prevent downgrades as they are unsupported: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/18684
• Detection of mimetypes is now done in the mimetype detector: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/15543
• File upload action is now in the "New" menu in the files app: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/18630
• AppFramework now properly checks for ETags and returns 304: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/18730
• OCS Share API now allows setting expire date on new shares directly: https://github.com/owncloud/core/pull/18651

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