Upgrade to Nextcloud 14

Note

Critical changes were collected on GitHub. See the original ticket for links to the pull requests and tickets.

General

  • php7.0 and php7.1 support added.

  • Introduction of type hints for scalar types in public APIs according to existing PHPDoc.

Front-end changes

  • OCA.Search is now OCA.Search.Core.

  • Overall structure changed.

  • .with-app-sidebar not required anymore to open the sidebar only use disappear on the sidebar

  • .svg not required anymore

  • .with-settings not required anymore

  • .with-icon not required anymore

Back-end changes

Changed APIs

  • AppFramework\Http\Request::getHeader always returns a string (and not null).

  • Security\ICrypto::decrypt only accepts strings.

  • \OCP\AppFramework\Utility\ITimeFactory is strictly typed.

  • \OCP\IL10N is strictly typed.

  • \OCP\Mail and the email templates got type hints.

  • \OCP\Authentication\TwoFactorAuth got typehints and return type hints.

  • \OCP\Migration\IMigrationStep has two new methods.

  • EMailTemplate child classes should use the %$1s notation for replacements to be future compatible and be able to reuse parameters.

Deprecated APIs

  • OCP\Files

  • Setting custom client URLs in a custom \OC_Theme class. Settings in config.php should be used.

  • Log levels in OCP\Util. Moved to the \OCP\ILogger interface

  • OCP\AppFramework\Db\Mapper. Move to \OCP\AppFramework\Db\QBMapper

Removed APIs

  • several deprecated functions from \OCP\AppFramework/IAppContainer

  • \OCP\BackgroundJob::registerJob

  • \OCP\Config

  • \OCP\Contacts

  • \OCP\DB

  • \OCP\Files::tmpFile

  • \OCP\Files::tmpFolder

  • \OCP\IHelper

  • \OCP\ISearch\search

  • \OCP\JSON

  • \OCP\Response

  • \OCP\Share::resolveReshare

  • \OCP\User::getDisplayNames

  • \OCP\Util\formatDate

  • \OCP\Util::generateRandomBytes

  • \OCP\Util::sendMail

  • \OCP\Util::encryptedFiles

  • \OCP\Util::getServerProtocol

  • \OCP\Util::getServerHost

  • \OCP\Util::getServerProtocol

  • \OCP\Util::getRequestUri

  • \OCP\Util::getScriptName

  • \OCP\Util::urlgenerator

  • Deprecated OCP constants

  • Deprecated template functions from OCP

  • Some deprecated methods of \OCP\Response

  • HTTPHelper

Behavioral changes

  • Removed --no-app-disable from occ upgrade command.

  • $fromMailAddress won’t be injected anymore by the DI container.

  • Apps that are enabled for groups can now provide public pages, that are available even if a user is not logged in.

  • OCS API method AddUser POST:/users now allow empty password iff email is set and valid.

  • Email texts are not automatically escaped anymore in all cases.

Configuration changes

  • When using Swift Objectstore as home storage make sure that to set the bucket/container parameter.

  • mail_smtpmode can no longer be set to php. As this option is lost with the upgrade of phpmailer.

OCS changes

  • Details endpoint for the user list

  • Details endpoint for the groups list

  • OCS API getGroup method replaced by getGroupUsers #8904

Internal changes

Note

Only relevant if you used non-public APIs. Don’t use them.

  • cleanup of OC_* namespace - we removed quite some classes, methods and constants from our internal namespace.

  • Removed OC_Group_Backend

  • Removed OC_Response::setStatus and the constants for status codes