Upgrade to Nextcloud 14
Note
Critical changes were collected on GitHub. See the original ticket for links to the pull requests and tickets.
General
PHP 7.0 and PHP 7.1 support added.
Introduction of type hints for scalar types in public APIs according to existing PHPDoc.
Front-end changes
OCA.Search
is nowOCA.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 %$1s notation for replacements to be future compatible and be able to reuse parameters.
Deprecated APIs
OCP\Files
Setting custom client URLs in a custom
\OC_Theme
class. Settings in config.php should be used.Log levels in
OCP\Util
. Moved to the\OCP\ILogger
interfaceOCP\AppFramework\Db\Mapper
. Move to\OCP\AppFramework\Db\QBMapper
Removed APIs
several deprecated functions from
\OCP\AppFramework/IAppContainer
\OCP\BackgroundJob::registerJob
\OCP\Config
\OCP\Contacts
\OCP\DB
\OCP\Files::tmpFile
\OCP\Files::tmpFolder
\OCP\IHelper
\OCP\ISearch\search
\OCP\JSON
\OCP\Response
\OCP\Share::resolveReshare
\OCP\User::getDisplayNames
\OCP\Util\formatDate
\OCP\Util::generateRandomBytes
\OCP\Util::sendMail
\OCP\Util::encryptedFiles
\OCP\Util::getServerProtocol
\OCP\Util::getServerHost
\OCP\Util::getServerProtocol
\OCP\Util::getRequestUri
\OCP\Util::getScriptName
\OCP\Util::urlgenerator
Deprecated OCP constants
Deprecated template functions from OCP
Some deprecated methods of
\OCP\Response
HTTPHelper
Behavioral changes
Removed
--no-app-disable
fromocc upgrade
command.$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 tophp
. As this option is lost with the upgrade of phpmailer.
OCS changes
Added APIs
Details endpoint for the user list
Details endpoint for the groups list
Changed APIs
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