New release
Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter is here.
Watch the announcements!
The global announcement in full length of Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter. See how the new Hub expands your choices, strengthens your control, and protects your digital autonomy.
Get a focused look at the main features in Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter. We’ll cover the key updates that matter most to protect your digital autonomy.
You can also watch Nextcloud Keynote: Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter on PeerTube.
The time to own your data is now
The big Tech companies are dominating every aspect of our lives and work, and we’re all getting tired of it. Their power is a threat to privacy, and, on a bigger scale, democracy and the sovereignty of entire countries. And for businesses, there is a real risk to resilience, compliance and security.
The result is that individuals and organizations are looking to take back ownership of their data. Digital sovereignty is becoming a priority. We see a strong momentum, for example in France, Austria and the Netherlands. Change is coming!
At Nextcloud, we are happy to provide the means. As you are reading this, Nextcloud is running on over 500,000 servers, some of which have millions of users. Every year, millions of new people see Nextcloud power their digital workplace, giving them control over their data. With every release, we are pushing to give you more control while removing the barriers to transparent and open technology.
With Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter, we deliver improvements to data portability and cross-organization collaboration features. We harden Nextcloud’s security and improve performance across the board. And of course, our designers and engineers have been busy researching and fine-tuning file sharing, email, chats, meetings, and everything you deal with on a daily basis.
Introducing the new Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter, your platform for digital freedom.
Powered by community 💙
Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter is the result of the combined community effort of thousands of brilliant and motivated developers, testers, translators, writers, and designers. They collaborate around a vision of privacy, control and freedom as private individuals, team members at the Nextcloud company or contributors at hundreds of enterprises, universities, service providers and a wide variety of public entities.
It is this ecosystem that is the real strength of Nextcloud, allowing the open source community to challenge big tech head on. We truly stand on the shoulders of giants. Thank you, everybody, for your amazing help!
Every new digital work place, ever users’ document, chat or video that is kept private and secure is the result of your hard work, so we celebrate this release together with all of you!
Stay in control with Nextcloud Hub
What does it mean to own your data? It’s when you decide where and how to store, move, and collaborate on it. We give you more ways to work together online while staying in control of your data.
Host it where you want 🏡
Control always means choice. With Nextcloud Hub, nobody locks you into a cloud to control you and extract more money, holding your data, tools or privacy hostage. You decide where your data is: on your company’s server, with a provider you trust, or maybe at home, on your Raspberry Pi.
Easy data migration, export, and import ↔️
When you are in control, you can move your own data, such as files, tasks, or users, out and in. Nextcloud is built on open standards, which makes it strong at interoperability and migration. With Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter, we improve the user migration, which allows you to move your data to another server:
- The tool allows easy migration between Nextcloud instances: export your data and import it on a new server!
- We now install and enable the app by default with many profiles.
- Added support for export/import of Nextcloud Mail, Contacts, Calendar, Tables and Deck.
And migrating your whole Nextcloud server is easy too. Read more about backup and migration in the Maintenance section of our documentation.
Decentralized collaboration with federation features 🌐
Nextcloud is fundamentally decentralized, which means powerful collaboration even across servers. This is called Federation. While you can’t send chat messages between closed platforms like Facebook Chat and Telegram, you can send an email from Gmail to Hotmail and then to your work mailbox: that’s federation in practice.
Federation lets you collaborate across Nextcloud Hub servers with a single account. For example, invite a person from another organization to a chat or a call from their instance. Or share a file to their Federated Cloud ID, and it pops in their file system just like any other share.
Now federated: Nextcloud Deck, Calendar, and Teams
We are expanding federated features in Nextcloud Hub. Now you can share Nextcloud Deck boards with people from the outside to let them browse, add cards, or create stacks. With calendar federation, you can track events in shared calendars for cross-team planning.
Another app that now supports federation is Nextcloud Teams. It lets people create own groups to streamline group sharing across apps and have easy access to all shared resources. Now you can create teams with people from different Nextcloud Hubs.
For extra security in collaboration across servers, file locking now also works in federated sharing.
Let the experts take you on tour: Join the Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter webinar
Join us on February 25, 2026, 3 PM CET, for a live demo of Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter and Q&A with our team.
Can’t attend? Don’t worry, we’ll send you a recording.
Security in focus
Nextcloud Hub is designed for environments where security and compliance matter. That’s why it’s already powering thousands of critical setups with strict compliance frameworks. And at home, where your family photos don’t require a complete security policy, Nextcloud keeps your data away from the prying eyes of Big Tech. Enterprise-grade protection is now accessible to all.
With this release, we updated security features useful for both private setups and organizations.
Extended end-to-end encryption features in the browser 🔐
Keeping your files encrypted now takes less effort with more options in the browser:
- Set up end-to-end encryption directly in the browser.
- Change permissions for encrypted files and create public sharing links.
- Request encrypted file drops from other people.
- Manage your encrypted files in the browser.
