<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi,<div><br></div><div>we are happy to present the first Beta of ownCloud Client 1.4. Compared to the current stable 1.3.0 version, it provides significantly</div><div>improved feedback, plus lots of new UI improvements, features and fixes in the syncing library.</div><div><br></div><div>To learn about the new features, please check <a href="https://daniel.molkentin.net/2013/08/08/owncloud-client-1-4-a-visual-guide/">https://daniel.molkentin.net/2013/08/08/owncloud-client-1-4-a-visual-guide/</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>We encourage thorough testing of this version, especially when it comes to new features. In addition, we would like to ask you to</div><div>check the open issues in <a href="https://github.com/owncloud/mirall/issues">https://github.com/owncloud/mirall/issues</a> and tag them with the "1.4" tag if they are still reproducible. </div><div><br></div><div>We are also still looking for people to help out with documentation, as well as packagers who would like to help out with packaging in OBS.</div><div><br></div><div>We would like to thank everyone involved in testing and helping us with handling the issue tracker, doing packaging or has contributed</div><div>otherwise to make this first beta happen a bit less than a month after 1.3 was released.</div><div><br></div><div><div>Sources and binaries can be downloaded at <a href="http://owncloud.org/sync-clients/#testing">http://owncloud.org/sync-clients/#testing</a>.</div></div><div><br></div><div>For completeness, here are the change logs:</div><div><br></div><div>ownCloud Client Changelog:</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); ">version 1.4.0beta1 (release 2013-08-08 ), csync 0.81.0 required</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * New Scheduler: Only sync when there are actual changes in the server</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Add a Settings Dialog, move Proxy Settings there</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Transform folder Status Dialog into Account Settings, provide feedback via context menu</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Add Bandwidth Control</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Add a visual storage/quota indicator (context menu and account settings)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Add progress indication (context menu and account settings)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Introduce a sync history, persisting results across syncs</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Move ability to switch to mono icons from a switch to a Settings option</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Add "Launch on System Startup" GUI option</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Add "Show Desktop Nofications"GUI option (enabled by default)</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> top optionally disable sync notifications</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Add Help item, pointing to online reference</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Implement graphical selection of remote folders in FolderWizard</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Allow custom ignore patterns</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Add an editor for ingore patterns</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * ALlow to flag certain ignore patterns as discardable</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Ensure to ship with all valid translations</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Add preliminary support for Shibboleth authentication</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Linux: Provide more icon sizes</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Linux: Do not trigger notifier on ignored files</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Windows: Reduce priority of CSync thread</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Documentation: Preliminary updates to reflect UI changes</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Significant code refactorings</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Require Qt 4.7</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 18px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Consolas; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); "> * Known issue: Under certain conditions, a file will only get uploaded after up to five minutes</div></div><div><pre style="font-family: Consolas, 'Liberation Mono', Courier, monospace; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div><br></div></pre></div><div><div>CSync Changelog:</div><div></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; ">version 0.81.0 (released 2013-08-08, ownCloud Client 1.4beta1 )</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Added API to get progress information from csync.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Added c_rename function to csync std.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Fix: Do renames of files before any puts.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Improved database integrity checks.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Improvements of database writing efficiency.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Fix: stat file on win32 even if its opened by application.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * httpbf: configurable block size and threshold.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Many fixes found by a Coverity check.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Fix: use correct stat struct on all platforms</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Fix: download resuming.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * ownCloud module: Bandwith limitation added.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Added ability to remove ignored files automatically.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Fix: Use int64_t and friends</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Fix: Removed all compile warnings.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Left excluded files and links in csync's tree to be able to show.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> them to the user.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Courier; "> * Add OC-Total-Length header for better quota handling.</div></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Klaas and Danimo</div><div><br><div>
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