Oooh, Nextcloud 20 has lots of nice new features!

[necrevistonnezr]

@nebulon said in Oooh, Nextcloud 20 has lots of nice new features!:

I've released a new app package now for 20.0.1 but we will only roll this out slowly.

Just upgraded, everything seems to work fine! I had to restart the app once, afterwards I could see all update steps being taken in the logs.

[A Former User]

Yeah worked fine for me. Seems ok so far...

[luckow]

update ran smoothly. but most of the nextcloud apps are not compatible for the new major version

[girish]

@luckow Any on top of your head that are incompatible? I thought we are in the first patch release already...

[luckow]

@girish i looked into the app admin view again. Aaaannnd magic Only three of my installed apps are in the status "untested app". I do not know what happened at first view. Maybe tomatoes on my eyes or a cache topic.

[A Former User]

@luckow Yeah when I was testing by pulling down the repo and bumping the version, it seemed like Nextcloud needed a reload to register that apps were tested.

[marcusquinn]

Update went smoothly, with 11 apps updated too. Great stuff!

Just Draw.io and Retention apps remain Untested for me.

Only done on my personal server as I think work production servers should wait a while for a good month of uptime and anecdotes really.

[avatar1024]

Anyone has found NC to be generally a little slower since the update?

It seems mine is. Definitely loading the dashboard takes a long while when opening the NC app (I have disabled now the Dashboard because of it), but even general navigation and document loading seem a little more sluggish than before.

[necrevistonnezr]

@avatar1024 said in Oooh, Nextcloud 20 has lots of nice new features!:

Anyone has found NC to be generally a little slower since the update?

It seems mine is. Definitely loading the dashboard takes a long while when opening the NC app (I have disabled now the Dashboard because of it), but even general navigation and document loading seem a little more sluggish than before.

Mine is slower, too, which I think is due to the "unified search" which has to index a lot of data at any time...

[nebulon]

The speed for nextcloud heavily depends on Nextcloud addons/apps/plugins being used. Since it is a php app this matters a lot for each request. The dashboard has pulled in quite a bit of stuff it seems...

[marcusquinn]

Also it will have cleared a lot of caches, so you should notice speed improve with use.

[girish]

With the latest nc package, there is a directory called /app/data/apache. Inside this, you will find mpm_prefork.conf. You should bump up the Nextcloud app's memory limit and also bump the values inside this file to get some better performance.

[avatar1024]

@girish thanks for the tips. Do you know by how much we should bump up these numbers and the app's memory limit?

[girish]

@avatar1024 This mostly depends on how many plugins and users you have, this is why we made it configurable. I would just play around with those values a bit to get a feel of any performance benefits. The default prefork file has some comments on what those values mean.

[ei8fdb]

Last night I saw the update available for NC. This made me both excited and reluctant at the same time. Excited because I'm interested to try some of the new features. Reluctant because I use my NC instances heavily for work and personal.

I'd appreciate if anyone is using any of these apps, can you confirm if the following apps are working in 20.*:

• Appointments
• Forms
• Deck
• Polls
• Tasks
• Bookmarks
• News
• Phonetrack
• Music

(I am assuming the Calendar, Contacts and Mail applications are already working.)

[avatar1024]

@ei8fdb Yep, hopefully I'm not wrong but I think all of them have been updated to work with NC 20.

You can double check yourself by visiting https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/ and looking up each app

[robi]

This is where I wish we used faster more efficient webservers for our apps. So many choices.

[luckow]

@ei8fdb The second best way to test compatibility (after asking your friends), is to clone your current nc from a backup to a new subdomain and update it to nc 20. That is the Cloudron style

[ei8fdb]

@luckow Ah, never thought of that! Thanks. Tho' I have a lot of data in my personal NC so I don't know if I have the disk space!

Instead I created a new test instance and installed all the apps I currently use. So far it works well.

[ei8fdb]

@necrevistonnezr said in Oooh, Nextcloud 20 has lots of nice new features!:

Mine is slower, too, which I think is due to the "unified search" which has to index a lot of data at any time...

Is this speed issue still present for you?