How can we pursue a more independent security policy that is less reliant on the United States, its long-standing Cold War partner?

Building a credible and independent defence system is no longer limited to traditional measures of military protection. It must expand into the digital world, where we host our communication, our data, and, increasingly, our democratic functions.

In other words, we cannot afford to rely solely on U.S. providers, whose systems can be cut off at their discretion.

Stronger dependencies mean less control

The case of the ICC, the International Criminal Court, has shown that such dependencies translate into a serious loss of control. Europe cannot expose its most sensitive data to external powers. Ensuring the security of our digital infrastructure must become a central pillar of our sovereignty and defence strategy.

Yet what is missing in Europe is not capability, talent, or technology. What it lacks is leadership and courage. In defence as in digital policy, the United States has historically taken the lead. Without the U.S., Europe’s military landscape would look very differently, and that dependence continues to shape transatlantic relations.

A pattern of reliance on U.S. tech, ready to be broken

A similar pattern exists in the digital world. Since the early days of the internet, Europeans have heavily relied on American technology. From Microsoft and Apple to Google and Meta, their solutions have become household names across Europe and enjoy immense popularity.

While Europe’s digital development began more slowly, it has gathered momentum.

Today, European alternatives exist across the stack, from cloud to operating systems and collaborative tools, and they are ready to compete.

Rising awareness of data protection and changes in U.S. regulations that allow for governmental access and, as such, higher surveillance, have only reinforced the need to keep data under European oversight. This is especially important for governments handling classified information.

Digital sovereignty in Europe: What does it take to champion European products and solutions?

So the real question is not whether Europe can create competitive digital solutions (spoiler: it already did!) but whether it will adopt them.

This is not a question about protectionism or capacity. It is a question of political will and confidence. After all, did Steve Jobs have a detailed master plan when Apple began? Hardly.

Apple’s success was driven by vision, allowing for some uncertainties, and persistence, not by detailed planning of outcomes. Europe needs a similar mindset: independent-thinking politicians and decision makers who question the status quo and have the competence to effect change.

Examples of change: Governments choosing digitally sovereign solutions

Some European institutions and companies have become synonymous with this spirit.

Germany’s federal state of Schleswig-Holstein and Austria’s Federal Ministry for Economy, Energy and Tourism (BMWET) IT strategies demonstrate that change is possible when leadership takes ownership. They moved away from Microsoft not because it was easy, but because it was the necessary step to take. This included a number of reasons: long-term independence, flexibility, and security mattered more than short-term convenience.

They started small, learned, and grew. Most importantly, they trusted their people to adapt to the new systems, and that the trust is reciprocal.

That is what Europe needs now: to act with confidence and follow its own best interests. The tools are there, the solutions exist. What is missing is the unwavering certainty that sovereignty (digital or otherwise) must be owned, not outsourced. Slowly but surely, Europe is waking up to this truth, seeing opportunities where before it saw only obstacles.

Be part of the digital sovereignty conversation: the Nextcloud Summit

As reliance on Big Tech continues to grow, so do concerns about data control, compliance, and security. The Nextcloud Summit brings together organizations, governments, and experts to exchange ideas and explore practical solutions for a more independent digital future.

What does this mean in practice?

Nextcloud will gather leaders, innovators, and decision-makers in Munich, Germany, on June 9, 2026, to discuss and shape the future of digital sovereignty. Through keynotes, strategic discussions, and hands-on workshops on secure collaboration, open source infrastructure, and self-hosted technologies, participants gain insights and connections to help drive meaningful change.

This is the second time we are organizing the Nextcloud Summit, following the overwhelming success of last year’s edition.

Expect even more inspiring keynotes, thought-provoking panels, fireside chats, and interactive workshops. This is your chance to discover new approaches to secure technologies, look at practical solutions, and connect with the people building Europe’s sovereign digital infrastructure.

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But while the motivation is clear, the execution often fails. From failed architectural setups to terrible user experiences: there are plenty of pitfalls that come with replacing Big Tech platforms.

So how can your organization make a successful switch, freeing itself from vendor lock-in, ensuring compliance, and regaining control over its data?

Replacing Microsoft 365: Common fails

When organizations look to replace a Big Tech solution, like Microsoft 365, they often choose one of two routes: building it themselves or bundling multiple open source tools.

How does it go wrong with these alternatives?

1. The struggles of in-house development: complexity, scope, and ownership

The reasons for building your own tech solution seem straightforward. You get to maintain full control, you can set up features tailored specifically to your organization, and you keep your digital autonomy.

However, in practice, large public-sector IT projects and in-house collaboration suites are prone to failure. So much so that there are public outcries to stop struggling with digital transformation projects.

Why do they fail?

Often organizations underestimate the complexity of the task, which was, for example, the case with the UK’s government project to overhaul the computer system of its national health service (NHS), which “achieved little and wasted billions.” Or the task starts out well, but once the scope expands, it becomes impossible to manage the project.

Add fragmented ownership and long delivery cycles to the pattern, and the in-house development idea becomes a recipe for disaster.

After all, collaboration platforms are not single tools. As ecosystems of tightly integrated services, including identity management, file sharing, communication apps, and search tools, they need strong product governance to succeed.

Rebuilding a tech stack from scratch, as well as ensuring compliance and lifecycle management, is rarely sustainable.

2. Bundling multiple open source tools: constant operational and productivity costs

A second and common route is assembling an offering of multiple products, such as a file-sharing solution, video conferencing tool, email system, chat app, and document editor.

Organizations can choose open source solutions for this. And often, they introduce them one by one, which at first thought seems like a good option.

As Adriana Groh from the Sovereign Tech Agency recently emphasized, open source is the “winning strategy” and “superior in terms of security, interoperability, and low development costs. No silo development can keep up with this speed.” And she is right in that. There are excellent open source tools out there for various use cases.

The risk is that, when introducing solutions one by one in isolation, you don’t end up with a cohesive collaboration environment. Rather, it is a fragmented mess! Even when looking to build a single solution, organizations often make the mistake of just bundling separate applications with little regard for user experience. But you have to keep in mind that the competition is Microsoft 365, a deeply integrated collaboration platform.

The productivity costs of constantly having to switch between tools and having to search for that final version of a document are high, easily adding up to an hour a day, according to studies. On top of that comes the operational complexity and associated security risks, as well as the performance problems of running multiple technology stacks in parallel.

Such an “all-in-one solution” from a bundle can quickly turn into poor user adoption and increased admin overhead. As an ICT manager, you have to take a step back and ask yourself: Can I afford to pay the constant price in terms of decreased productivity and increased operational costs, going forward?

The harsh reality is: A fragmented set of tools, even with a common theme and a sprinkle of integrations, simply cannot be a serious replacement for Microsoft 365.

The architectural difference: A bundle is not a platform

What matters is that replacing the Big Tech solution is not about setting up individual tools, but about replacing one platform with another. A real digital platform should provide you with strong collaboration tools, including:

• Unified identity and presence
• A consistent permission and sharing model
• Integrated search, presence, and notifications across the platform
• Coherent governance
• Unified lifecycle management
• A predictable user experience

In other words, a successful Microsoft 365 alternative must be designed from the ground up as an integrated platform.

Look for an open source collaboration platform that provides a strong architectural foundation, a transparent governance model, and a consistent user experience, so you are ensured of a future-ready platform.

How Nextcloud does it differently: An integrated platform that offers choice

Nextcloud is designed as a platform from the ground up. This means that you get a modular stack for a smart and personable digital experience instead of fragmented tools that leave your team members frustrated.

The benefits?

You get complete control over which apps you would like to use or replace, so you can create your own digital workspace. Nearly 600 apps offer a huge range of functionality and integrations with a wide range of third-party tools, ensuring perfect adaptation to your needs.

With a wide set of Nextcloud features, including online communication, project management, and AI-powered collaboration, you can design your own self-hosted platform to strengthen your team’s productivity and collaboration.

And of course, a single platform simplifies compliance and data control.

Beyond code, the Nextcloud solution also comes with an extensive ecosystem of partners that provide access to the expertise needed to operate a Nextcloud environment. From hosting and support to deployment advice, upgrade help, training, and documentation: these Nextcloud partners can build on, complement, and provide services around our platform.

In short, Nextcloud means you get a successful, well-performing, stable collaboration platform, which is very different from a bundle of code you download from a website.

Making the switch: from Big Tech to open source with a unified platform

You might realize by now that digital sovereignty is not just an ideology, but also a practical concept that comes with operational conditions. If your organization decides to switch, be sure to choose a solution that you can adopt, manage, and trust. A platform, not a bundle of sticks. Something that evolves, adapts, and will provide collaboration for the future, not just today!

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However, while awareness is growing, Big Tech platforms continue to seek control over our devices and online choices, taking away our control over our own data. 

This includes the new policy Google has announced, requiring all Android app developers to register centrally with the company if they want to distribute apps outside the Google Play Store.

The usual, tired arguments around security that Google uses to justify this power grab hold no water. Centralized, intransparant security architectures certainly help secure monetization and the market by locking out competitors, but they do little to protect users.

This registration will involve:

• Paying a fee to Google
• Agreeing to Google’s Terms and Conditions
• Providing government identification
• Uploading evidence of the developer’s private signing key
• Listing all current and future application identifiers

The policy is expected to take effect globally in the coming months.

Google’s latest attempt to strengthen its control over Android and its users’ devices raises significant concerns around data privacy, innovation, and fair competition for developers. In response, Nextcloud has joined 30+ organizations in signing an open letter to Google opposing the new Android developer verification program.

You can read the full text below as well as at Keep Android Open, which also lists initiatives for developers, consumers, website owners, and others to oppose the proposal.

An open letter opposing Android developer verification

Date: February 24, 2026
To: Sundar Pichai, Chief Executive Officer, Google
To: Sergey Brin, Founder and Board Member, Google
To: Larry Page, Founder and Board Member, Google
To: Vijaya Kaza, General Manager for App & Ecosystem Trust, Google
CC: Regulatory authorities, policymakers, and the Android developer community
Re: Mandatory Developer Registration for Android App Distribution

We, the undersigned organizations representing civil society, nonprofit institutions, and technology companies, write to express our strong opposition to Google’s announced policy requiring all Android app developers to register centrally with Google themselves in order to distribute applications outside of the Google Play Store, set to take effect worldwide in the coming months.

While we do recognize the importance of platform security and user safety, the Android platform already includes multiple security mechanisms that do not require central registration. Forcibly injecting an alien security model that runs counter to Android’s historic open nature threatens innovation, competition, privacy, and user freedom. We urge Google to withdraw this policy and work with the open-source and security communities on less restrictive alternatives.

Our concerns

1. Gatekeeping beyond Google’s own store

Android has historically been characterized as an open platform where users and developers can operate independently of Google’s services. The proposed developer registration policy fundamentally alters that relationship by requiring developers who wish to distribute apps through alternative channels — their own websites, third-party app stores, enterprise distribution systems, or direct transfers — to first seek permission from Google through a mandatory verification process, which involves the agreement to Google’s terms and conditions, the payment of a fee, and the uploading of government-issued identification.

This extends Google’s gatekeeping authority beyond its own marketplace into distribution channels where it has no legitimate operational role. Developers who choose not to use Google’s services should not be forced to register with, and submit to the judgement of, Google. Centralizing the registration of all applications worldwide also gives Google newfound powers to completely disable any app it wants to, for any reason, for the entire Android ecosystem.

2. Barriers to entry and innovation

Mandatory registration creates friction and barriers to entry, particularly for:

• Individual developers and small teams with limited resources
• Open-source projects that rely on volunteer contributors
• Developers in regions with limited access to Google’s registration infrastructure
• Privacy-focused developers who avoid surveillance ecosystems
• Emergency response and humanitarian organizations requiring rapid deployment
• Activists working on internet freedom in countries that unjustly criminalize that work
• Developers in countries or regions where Google cannot allow them to sign up due to sanctions
• Researchers and academics developing experimental applications
• Internal enterprise and government applications never intended for broad public distribution

Every additional bureaucratic hurdle reduces diversity in the software ecosystem and concentrates power in the hands of large established players who can more easily absorb such compliance costs.

3. Privacy and surveillance concerns

Requiring registration with Google creates a comprehensive database of all Android developers, regardless of whether or not they use Google’s services. This raises serious questions about:

• What personal information developers must provide
• How this information will be stored, secured, and used
• Whether this data could be subject to government requests or legal processes
• To what extent developer activity is tracked across the ecosystem
• What this means for developers working on privacy-preserving or politically sensitive applications

Developers should have the right to create and distribute software without submitting to unnecessary surveillance or scrutiny.

4. Arbitrary enforcement and account termination risks

Google’s existing app review processes have been criticized for opaque decision-making, inconsistent enforcement, and limited appeal mechanisms. Extending this system to all Android certified devices creates risks of:

• Arbitrary rejection or suspension without clear justification
• Automated systems making consequential decisions with insufficient human oversight
• Developers losing their ability to distribute apps across all channels due to a single un-reviewable corporate decision
• Political or competitive considerations influencing registration approvals
• Disproportionate impact on marginalized communities and controversial but legal applications

A single point of failure controlled by one corporation is antithetical to a healthy, competitive software ecosystem.

5. Anticompetitive implications

This requirement allows Google to collect intelligence on all Android development activity, including:

• Which apps are being developed and by whom
• Alternative distribution strategies and business models
• Competitive threats to Google’s own services
• Market trends and user preferences outside of Google’s ecosystem

This information asymmetry provides Google with significant competitive advantages, allows it to preempt, copy, and undermine competing products and services, and may open many questions about antitrust.

6. Regulatory concerns

Regulatory authorities worldwide, including the European Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and competition authorities in multiple jurisdictions, have increasingly scrutinized dominant platforms’ ability to preference their own services and restrict competition, demanding more openness and interoperability. We additionally note growing concerns around regulatory intervention increasing mass surveillance, impeding software freedom, open internet and device neutrality.

We urge Google to find alternative ways to comply with regulatory obligations by promoting models that respect Android’s open nature without increasing gatekeeper control over the platform.

Existing measures are sufficient

The Android platform already includes multiple security mechanisms that do not require central registration:

• Operating system-level security features, application sandboxing, and permission systems
• User warnings for applications that are directly installed (or “sideloaded”)
• Google Play Protect (which users can choose to enable or disable)
• Developer signing certificates that establish software provenance

No evidence has been presented that these safeguards are insufficient to continue to protect Android users as they have for the entire seventeen years of Android’s existence. If Google’s concern is genuinely about security rather than control, it should invest in improving these existing mechanisms rather than creating new bottlenecks and centralizing control.

Our petition

We call upon Google to:

1. Immediately rescind the mandatory developer registration requirement for third-party distribution.
2. Engage in transparent dialogue with civil society, developers, and regulators about Android security improvements that respect openness and competition.
3. Commit to platform neutrality by ensuring that Android remains a genuinely open platform where Google’s role as platform provider does not conflict with its commercial interests.

Over the years, Android has evolved into a critical piece of technological infrastructure that serves hundreds of governments, millions of businesses, and billions of citizens around the world. Unilaterally consolidating and centralizing the power to approve software into the hands of a single unaccountable corporation is antithetical to the principles of free speech, an affront to free software, an insurmountable barrier to competition, and a threat to digital sovereignty everywhere.

We implore Google to reverse course, end the developer verification program, and to begin working collaboratively with the broader community to advance security objectives without sacrificing the open principles upon which Android was built. The strength of the Android ecosystem has historically been its openness, and Google must work towards restoring its role as a faithful steward of that trust.

Signatories (as of February 26, 2026)

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But lately, the regional administration faced a growing challenge: its existing data repositories were becoming obsolete, raising both security and compliance concerns.

The IT department, in collaboration with Nextcloud’s partner ITServicenet, implemented Nextcloud Files, a solution that could keep sensitive information safe, integrate with existing systems, and support collaboration across departments.

Migrating from decommissioned platforms to Nextcloud

To meet the goal of having a modern, flexible, and secure platform, the public sector organization needed to replace the existing file sharing solution, Box, and migrate to Nextcloud’s on-premises collaboration platform.

Together with ITServicenet, they developed a custom data-mapper and a metadata-management app, ensuring a seamless transition between institutional portals and the new repository.

“Nextcloud is helping us to provide better service to citizens in the region,” said Maura Raccanello, from Regione del Veneto. “We can now not only collaborate much better internally but also make documents accessible for its citizens while keeping all data on our own servers.”

Nextcloud for public services: Streamlined workflows and full compliance

Initially, Nextcloud was only used as a document repository and to publish documents on the administration’s portals. After exploring the potential of the solution, the use of Nextcloud has been expanded to file sync, secure sharing, and real-time collaboration in the online office suite.

Today, about 600 employees at the Veneto Region use Nextcloud to manage and exchange documents safely. The transition has streamlined workflows, rationalized data repositories, improved the availability and transparency of public information, and provided digital sovereignty

Building the foundation for future innovation with Nextcloud

After the successful migration, the Region is planning to add Nextcloud Forms to create surveys and forms that keep the respondents’ input confidential, as all data will remain securely on their own server.

The administration is also adding Nextcloud Tables to streamline data processing and workflow management. There is individualisation.

These additions will further strengthen the region’s mission to deliver efficient, transparent, and citizen-centric digital services, entirely under its own control.

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Handling sensitive information every day, the Assembly needed a collaboration platform that is secure, compliant, and fully under its control.

The challenge: modern collaboration under full data control

As part of Serbia’s broader national digitalization initiative, public institutions are expected to adopt modern IT solutions that improve efficiency while protecting citizen and state data.

Before Nextcloud, employees of the National Assembly relied on a combination of VPN access and SMB (Server Message Block) to share and access files. While functional, this setup was difficult to use, caused frequent technical issues, and placed an unnecessary burden on IT staff. It also lacked the flexibility and collaboration features expected from a modern digital workplace.

In consequence, the National Assembly initiated a project to replace this legacy setup with a secure, open-source, cost-effective, and easy-to-use platform, fully deployed on-premises.

Key requirements included:

• All data must remain physically in Serbia
• Compliance with data protection and privacy regulations (including GDPR)
• Support for large files and reliable performance
• Compatibility with mobile devices
• Alignment with Serbia’s national digitalization strategy

Why Nextcloud: on-prem, secure file sharing

Nextcloud’s ability to run entirely on-premises, combined with secure file sharing and modern collaboration features, made it a natural choice for a government institution handling sensitive data.

Implementation: a sovereign platform built on existing infrastructure

The deployment was designed to make the most of the National Assembly’s existing infrastructure, including virtual machine hosting, gigabit networking, firewall protection, and additional storage systems.

Nextcloud was integrated with the Assembly’s Domain Controller, allowing the internal IT team to manage users, permissions, and quotas directly. All hardware interventions and ongoing technical support are handled in-house, reinforcing full institutional control over the platform.

To ensure a smooth rollout, dedicated training sessions were held for system administrators, enabling them to confidently manage and operate the environment for more than 700 users across the organization.

The result: digital sovereignty in practice

The implementation of Nextcloud was a complete success. Today, the National Assembly benefits from a secure, sovereign collaboration platform that supports daily work while meeting strict public-sector requirements.

What’s next for digital sovereignty at the National Assembly

The National Assembly continues to train employees on best practices for secure digital collaboration. Looking ahead, they plan to expand their use of Nextcloud by introducing Nextcloud Talk as their primary self-hosted communication platform and adding Nextcloud Groupware to further enhance coordination and productivity.

This project demonstrates how public institutions can modernize collaboration while maintaining full data sovereignty, compliance, and control, a growing priority for governments across Europe.

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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.

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.

Please keep in mind that working with encrypted files in the browser is always less secure than via your local client.

Automatic labels in Confidential Files

The Confidential Files feature can automatically assign classification labels to files based on properties and metadata. This helps automate access restrictions or set up automations in Nextcloud Flow. With this release, security labels are automatically readjusted when document properties change.

Restrictions for external calendar invites

We added a setting to restrict external invites in Nextcloud Calendar to protect you from potential security risks. When the restriction is enabled, people will only be able to invite other Nextcloud users.

Full-stack collaboration, no sharp edges

One of our goals at Nextcloud is to break the myth that secure, open source tools are intimidating and complex. We bring all you need in one place, automate what shouldn’t need thinking about, and give you low-friction, human-centric design. While having more control, with Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter you get more done with less effort.

Connected without friction in Nextcloud Talk

Function first: pinning, scheduling, and a two-sided layout

We introduce multiple features for your day-to-day chat interactions. First, you can pin messages to keep group announcements, reminders, links, and files visible. You can configure the time period to automatically unpin the message later, as well as browse all the pinned messages in the sidebar menu.

Schedule messages to be sent later to head into your evenings and holidays with a clear head. Quick time presets are there for your convenience.

Optionally split the message bubbles and display your messages on the right, similar to other popular chat apps.

Live meeting translations and smarter audio

You can now use live transcription with translation, bridging the language gaps for international teams. Transcriptions are powered by AI, which is completely optional.

You can now configure audio options for your calls as opt-in settings:

• Auto-gain to automatically adjust volume and make it more consistent and clear.
• Echo cancellation for uninterrupted sound during busy meetings.
• Noise suppression for clear audio when wording from noisy environments.

And finally, background blur in video meetings is now more efficient and accurate with hardware acceleration.

Everyday simplicity in Nextcloud Mail

Overview of attachments

Attachments are now immediately visible in your threads, so there’s no need to scroll through all your messages to find documents.

Meeting invites automatically in your calendar

You can enable automatic tentative appointments from emails in Nextcloud Calendar. When this setting is on, all meeting invitations you receive via email will appear in your calendar, so you can accept or decline them.

Favorite threads

For conversations you absolutely don’t want to miss, mark a thread you want to follow as a favorite to pin it to the top of your inbox.

Compact mode

Turn off message previews and browse more emails at once in a compact mailbox with “Compact mode”.

Improved filtering

We improved the UI of advanced filters by polishing the design, improving wording, and expanding some of its features. Quick filters have also been improved: you can now filter out unread emails, emails with attachments, and emails addressed to you quickly from the top of your inbox.

Nextcloud Office: file comparison, usability, and more

Document comparison

The smallest details matter when you work with multiple versions of important files. Think contracts, agreements, or policies. By popular demand, we introduced two ways to compare documents. The feature also lets you select another file from Nextcloud or the local disk to compare with your current file.

1. Compare side-by-side:

Browse the content of both files right in front of you with all changes highlighted in text and tracked on the left margin.

2. Compare in Manage Changes mode:

Nextcloud Office uses the Manage Changes mode to compare differences in one file, which you can navigate, accept, or decline.

Usability improvements

You can now read and resolve comments more easily. We improved comment cards, adding a quick editing icon and polishing the design.

You can now access Nextcloud Office settings quickly, via Options menu in the Files tab.

Sheet Views in spreadsheets

Activate Sheet View to filter data independently from other collaborators in your spreadsheet. This greatly reduces interruptions when many people need to access the same data in large data sets.

Table Design tab

The new Table Design tab lets you adjust the appearance of your tables in XLSX files using banded rows or columns, and also access style presets quickly. If you open a Microsoft file with a styled table, Nextcloud Office can recognize it and let you switch to another style.

Synchronized online slide shows

Sometimes you don’t have access to a a big screen or projector to run a slideshow, or maybe your screenshare does not perform well with a slow connection.

With the “Present to All” feature, you can present to everyone online. People in the document follow you automatically as you switch between the slides.

For example, you can share a presentation file in a Nextcloud Talk call, ask people to open the file and follow the presenter, then run a presentation without the need for a screen share. And everyone can also go back to check anything they missed.

LaTeX support in Nextcloud Text

Working with scientific formulas? You can now use LaTeX formatting in Nextcloud Text: type formulas directly in the text, and they will be converted to nicely formatted equations.

More robust productivity apps

Some of us deal with unstable networks pretty often, especially during travel. In Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter, we made Nextcloud Text and Collectives more robust in the face of a weak internet connection.

Mobile accessibility improvements

On devices with limited screen height, toolbars automatically collapse to give you more space. Support for iOS VoiceOver assists screen reader users on iOS when enabled in Nextcloud Office admin settings.

Whiteboards for busier sessions

We are expanding the tools available to you in Nextcloud Whiteboard so you can run more interactive, immersive sessions while staying organized, even with many participants.

Timers

Set global timers for group tasks to make sure everyone stays on schedule.

Voting

Add voting to conduct polls or make team decisions, and then render the results for everyone on the whiteboard.

Reactions

People can add emoji reactions to respond to ideas on the whiteboard and interact with elements.

Comments

Use comments to leave contextual feedback on any sketch, diagram, or text. Ask questions or have focused discussions among the team.

Tables

You can create and insert tables in your Whiteboards to structure information easily, without the need to link outside sources.

Version history

Recovering lost data is now easier. Whiteboards now support version history, just like other files in Nextcloud Hub.

Nextcloud Assistant: AI content labels, performance, and memories

Nextcloud Hub features the first open source AI assistant that doesn’t prey on your data. We continue improving our AI tools to ensure compliance, performance, and usability.

Stay in control of your AI

When you don’t provide your team with AI you can trust, people start using third-party services like ChatGPT for work. This quickly becomes a problem: legally, technically, and ethically. Nextcloud Assistant is the industry-first open-source AI assistant that you fully control and choose where and how to run it. Our Ethical AI rating helps you pick and configure models to ensure privacy and control with the features you need. And of course, AI in Nextcloud is completely optional.

AI content labeling

We think it is important to let you know when you deal with AI-generated content. With this release, we let you clearly label AI content: images, documents, and audio. This labeling also aligns with the EU AI Act.

Memories to remember your conversations

We gave Nextcloud Assistant a better memory. It can now remember what you talked about across all your chats, so you don’t need to give it a briefing again to come back to a topic. If you prefer, you can configure and remove these memories.

Snappy performance of local AI apps

We greatly improved the performance of all locally running AI components, resulting in up to 10s faster results in text and image generation, speech-to-text and text-to-speech conversion, translation, agent tools, and more.

New AI models and model-specific features

We want to offer you choice and always expand supported models and features. We added support for Olmo 3 and self-hosted IBM watsonx, and also improved other AI integrations, such as Recognize and OpenAI.

Powerful and flexible

We know that not every team works the same way. Some need to work offline, from airplanes and railroads. Some need close collaboration during the day, running workshops or brainstorming sessions. That gives us a big range of hardware, devices, and conditions to prepare Nextcloud Hub for. So our other important focus is always the performance of our apps and the platform the Nextcloud ecosystem is built on.

Performance updates and the new ADA engine

Nextcloud supports all these powerful features in your sovereign, private cloud. To make sure we keep things running fast, we did a significant rewrite of Nextcloud’s advanced file access layer with parts in PHP, Rust, and Go.

The new ADA engine computes permissions and access in advance and prioritizes direct access to data. ADA stands for Accelerated Direct Access and is also our homage to Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer often considered the first computer programmer.

With the rewrite, we introduced significant changes to our database and file system to support deployment on a large scale:

• Reorganized the core database and IDs and created a base for more advanced sharding support in the future with Snowflake IDs.
• Replaced the mount cache with an authoritative table that shifts work from read to write actions and enables lean, direct data access in the file system.
• Enabled direct download of files and previews on large instances using S3.

Read more about the new architecture in a dedicated blog post.

Faster apps: Photos, Nextcloud Talk, AI, clients, and more

A lot of recent work focuses on reducing unnecessary load and latency in everyday interactions:

• 40-90% less resources to generate previews in Photos
• 20% faster fetching of sharing data for Nextcloud Talk: removed long polling of chat messages and chat relay via the High Performance Backend.
• Faster responses in local AI apps, saving up to 10 seconds per prompt. 5-8x faster local AI transcription
• Frontend size optimization
• Smarter push notification handling
• New approach to Virtual File System (VFS) in macOS client and VFS performance improvements on Windows.

Big maintenance, as always

We do like side quests. But most of our work is under the hood to ensure stability and hardening of existing tools. In Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter, as many as 98.5% of all pull requests were maintenance work.

In the Nextcloud Server repo, there are 1904 maintenance-related pull requests vs 29 features. It’s 913 vs 29 in Nextcloud Groupware, 597 vs 11 in Nextcloud Talk, and 1328 vs 17 in Nextcloud Office.

New community apps not to miss

With 400+ applications available in the Nextcloud App Store, you can extend your setup far beyond the core tools. Here are some new and rising apps developed by our community:

How to start building apps for Nextcloud

Build applications for Nextcloud in any programming language using our complete API documentation and a growing library of ready tutorials. What’s more, you can subscribe to a dedicated developer newsletter and get all the relevant updates delivered to you.

And our developer hub also comes in a fresh design!

Nextcloud for desktop and mobile

Nextcloud Hub works across devices in a browser or via apps that give you more flexibility, security, and device-specific features.

Desktop client: improved VFS, Nextcloud Assistant, new versioning, and more

VFS improvements on macOS and Windows

On macOS, the Nextcloud app can work as a classic Finder extension or run a Virtual File System (VFS) to make file sync truly seamless. Before, we had clients with and without VFS. And now it’s one app, and you choose the mode that fits.

The VFS on Windows was improved, too. It can now use the on-demand sync mode, like the macOS client, to reduce unnecessary load and make sure only the relevant files and folders are synced. 

Other updates

We made a range of other changes to our desktop clients:

• Nextcloud Assistant features
• Dynamic actions in the file context menus based on apps in your Nextcloud Hub
• Improved performance with optimized notify_push use
• Enterprise update channel
• New versioning system that aligns with Nextcloud server releases

Mobile apps: polished design and improved performance

We worked in great detail on our mobile clients for iOS and Android, polishing buttons, menus, and search, as well as improved performance of file sync and AI tools.

What’s new:

• Multiple UX and performance improvements
• Nextcloud Assistant chat
• Faster login via one-time QR codes
• Dynamic menu entries in clients 
• Improved auto-upload feature
• Android: Avatars in notifications and activity
• Android: Android 16 features
• Android Notes: Setting status in account switcher

Download the latest version of our apps now for a new and improved feel:

Quick login with QR code

We make it easier to log in to your Nextcloud account with a mobile device: Open your account menu at the top, click the icon, scan the code from the Nextcloud Talk or Files app on your phone, and you are connected!

Own your data, own your decisions

First our tools, then our data, finally — our decisions? There’s hardly an aspect of our life and work that hasn’t been commodified, but it’s not too late to get control back. With Nextcloud Hub, you collaborate with full ownership. That just feels great.

It’s time to experience this new feeling of control yourself. Get started with Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter today!

Try the new features online

Get a quick tour: try all the core apps of Nextcloud Hub for 1 hour and see how it works. No installation, no commitment.

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Get your own Nextcloud Hub

Play it your way. Start using Nextcloud Hub on your server or sign up with a provider for free. Ideal for your private setup.

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Discover Nextcloud Enterprise*

Ultimate confidence: full assistance throughout deployment and maintenance, and peace of mind for system administrators. Get in touch to build your enterprise setup.

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*The Nextcloud Enterprise version of Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter will become available soon, once we successfully run the additional testing and complete certification.

How to update: AIO users

For new Nextcloud All-in-One (AIO) users, you can install Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter directly by checking the “Install Nextcloud 33” box. For active AIO users, we have a dedicated setup guide. Follow the guidelines to easily set up Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter.

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Explore all Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter features

Nextcloud Files

• Outline icons
• Various new E2EE features
• Toolbar design adjustment
• Split previews out of oc_filecache
• Snowflake ID support
• Snowflake ID in existing tables
• Use presigned S3 URL to download files
• Make mount table authoritative
• Path-scoped file system setup
• Add S3 Support for GCS
• Use outline icons in Files
• ACL sharing improvements
• Groupfolders on different S3 buckets
• Controls to switch between different Office options
• TLS Support for PostgreSQL
• Add restrictive ACL mode for Team folders
• Allow overriding default certificates bundle
• Confidential files app: removal of tags
• File locking: Federation support

Nextcloud Talk

• Hardware acceleration for Background blur
• Options for auto-gain, echo cancelation and noise suppression
• Pinned messages
• Chat relay via High-performance backend
• Split own messages to other side
• Scheduled messages
• Opening shared location in Google Maps and Apple Maps

Nextcloud Mail

• Show email attachments in the thread list
• Export and import for Nextcloud Mail user migration
• Compact view mode
• Improved quick filters
• Improved wording and structure of folder actions
• Email classification opt-out
• Pinned emails and threads
• Manual mailbox list refreshing
• Improved Sieve filter
• Ability to delete thread and its follow-ups in Mail
• Add email calendar invites to calendar automatically
• Applying read/unread to the whole thread

Nextcloud Calendar

• CalDAV export/import for user migration
• Calendar federation
• External invitation restrictions
• Export/import for user migration
• Showing alarms that are set in popup
• Copy button for attendee emails
• Duplicate button to clone appointment configuration
• Strike-through for cancelled event titles

Nextcloud Office

• Document Comparison
• Sheet View
• Smarter UI for long dropdowns in spreadsheet editor
• Comment card design updates
• Smart toolbars on mobile
• Improved VoiceOver accessibility on iOS
• Read-only/Editing button
• Table Design Tab
• “Present to all” option in presentations
• File settings in the File tab
• Notes: drag & drop notes to categories

Nextcloud Text

• Optimized performance during connection interruptions
• LaTeX support

Nextcloud Deck

• Federation support
• Board embedding in Whiteboard

Nextcloud Collectives

• Optimized performance with connection interruptions

Nextcloud Tables

• Advanced date filters
• Public share links (Read only)

Nextcloud Whiteboard

• Version history support
• Timer
• Comments
• Reactions
• Voting
• Embedding of tables
• Embedding of Nextcloud Deck boards

Nextcloud clients

• Desktop: One macOS client
• Desktop: Enterprise update channel
• Desktop (Windows): VFS on demand
• Desktop: Reduce server load with improved notify_push usage
• Mobile, Desktop: Renaming circles to ‘Teams’
• Mobile, Desktop: Dynamic menu entries
• Mobile: Nextcloud Assistant Improvements: Performance, UX
• Mobile: Unified search: Search result improvements
• Mobile: Sort options with folders or favorites first
• Mobile: Improved auto-upload
• Mobile: User agent to brander
• Mobile: Chat with AI
• Mobile: Faster login with QR codes
• Mobile (Android): Adjustment of warnings based on subscription level
• Mobile (Android): Loading indicator improvements
• Mobile (Android): Recommended files improvements
• Mobile (Android): Android 16 Behavior Changes
• Mobile (Android): Android performance: cache view of shared files and favorites
• Notes app (Android): UI revamp for latest Material 3 Style
• Mobile (Android): Show avatars in notifications and activity

AI and Nextcloud Assistant

• Improved performance for all locally running AI apps
• Live translation in Nextcloud Talk
• OpenAI integration: Improvements for quotas and reporting
• OpenAI integration: Ability to connect to multiple services
• Watermarking for AI-generated content
• IBM watsonx integration: support for self-hosted instances
• Local transcription performance improvement
• Cleanup in Recognize app
• Memories in Nextcloud Assistant
• Olmo 3 model shipped with LLM2
• Context Chat: added possibility to scale the embedding process

Nextcloud ecosystem and integrations

• iTop integration
• Attendance app
• Markdown support in comments

Nextcloud Flow

• Approval app: ability to add an explanation note when rejecting a file

Contacts

• Nextcloud Teams: Ability to create team resources from the team management UI
• Filtering contacts by team
• Filled icons for active elements
• CardDAV export/import for user migration

Other features

• Enhanced Nextcloud user migration tool
• Show federated user as deleted-by in trashbin
• Show example code in OCS API Viewer
• Option to total amount of data allowed to store on Object Store
• Migrating more components to Vue3

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About the updates

The maintenance updates include a number of important bug fixes and improvements in all supported Nextcloud Hub versions. You can find the full changelog on our website.

Found an issue? Please report any issues you find in our GitHub repositories.

Updates are available for:

• Nextcloud Hub 10 (version 31.0.14, EOL)
• Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn (version 32.0.6)

Nextcloud Hub 10 (31x) reaches End of Life. What does it mean?

Major versions that have reached their End of Life no longer receive further bug fixes or security updates. Support for major releases may be extended through Nextcloud Enterprise offered by Nextcloud developers via Nextcloud GmbH.  For more details to help with planning your updates, check the documentation page.

Always keep your server up to date!

Nextcloud’s minor releases primarily focus on addressing security vulnerabilities and functionality bugs, avoiding major system overhauls that could jeopardize user data. Keeping your server up to date is vital, and our approach to testing and validation ensures that upgrading to minor releases is generally smooth and reliable.

For mission-critical Nextcloud systems in enterprise settings, consider switching to Nextcloud Enterprise. The tier provides you with ultimate deployment confidence: direct access to the Nextcloud engineering team, full assistance throughout deployment and integration, and peace of mind for system administrators. If you’re responsible for maintaining Nextcloud in your setting, this option may be the ideal solution for you.

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We are launching Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter globally online, during the Nextcloud Special Event on February 18. But there’s nothing like sharing this moment in person, among the community. That’s why we are kicking off our Berlin and Stuttgart meetups with in-person release watch parties. Read on to find out how to join and what to expect.

What to expect?

We created the new release together, and we’re meeting to celebrate it! Our local watch parties are a perfect opportunity to meet and watch the release presentation of Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter together with other contributors, users, developers, and, of course, our local team members.

What we are going to do:

• Watch the Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter release presentation
• Discuss the updates together, try them out, and ask questions
• Connect with our engineers and community, collaborate, and code
• Spend a fun day together with fellow Nextclouders

Don’t forget to bring your laptop. The meetups are a perfect space to hack, work on your Nextcloud projects together, show your apps, and discuss topics like security, apps, clients, community, and more.

The watch parties will take place at our office locations in Berlin and Stuttgart. Learn how to attend each event below.

Join us in Berlin

Our Berlin meetup is happening in the Nextcloud office in the heart of Berlin, near Friedrichstraße train station.

• Date and time: February 18, 7 PM
• Location: Nextcloud office, Albrechtstraße 14, 2. OG, 10117, Berlin.
• How to get there: The office is only a few minutes’ walk from Friedrichstraße train station. Ring our bell to enter the building. Keep in mind that you will need use the stairs to access our office.

Have questions about the Berlin meetup? Ask them in the dedicated topic on the Nextcloud Community forum.

Join us in Stuttgart

You are welcome to join the Stuttgart watch party in our cozy office in Stuttgart city center.

• Date and time: February 18, 5:30 PM
• Location: Nextcloud office, Hospitalstraße 35, 70174 Stuttgart.

Our office is wheelchair accessible. If you need, you can use the ramp at the front door and the elevator inside the building.

If you need anything else or have any questions, please reach out to us via email. You can also ask questions in the dedicated topic on the Nextcloud Community forum.

Watch parties in other cities and locations

Local factions of the Nextcloud community often organize their own watch parties. We will keep an eye on what’s happening around the world and update this article if we learn about other local meetups. Do you know about any? Let us know!

Setting up your own event? We can help promote it!

If you are organizing your own release watch party, we are happy to help you promote the event. Make sure to post the details on the “Events & meetups” branch of the forum.

Important: Please read our Code of Conduct

Our Code of Conduct offers important guidance to ensure the Nextcloud community can cooperate effectively in a positive and inspiring atmosphere and to explain how, together, we can strengthen and support each other.

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And while his name was called on stage, Frank wanted to highlight that this accomplishment is shared with the entire Nextcloud community, without whom it wouldn’t have been possible.

From contributors and translators to testers, partners, and users advocating for digital sovereignty every day: this award reflects a collective effort to prove that open source is impactful, competitive, and ready for Europe’s digital future.

Frank and his commitment to open source

Frank has been a long-time open source contributor and privacy activist since the late 1990s. Long before “data sovereignty” became a key term for Europe’s digital competitiveness, he was contributing to projects like KDE and serving on the board of KDE e.V.

Over the years, he has demonstrated his dedication to making the internet more secure and decentralized through the development of open collaboration solutions and the User Data Manifesto. He previously led ownCloud Inc. and is now CEO of Nextcloud GmbH.

Frank sees open source innovation as a collaborative effort, with a vision of a wider public adoption of transparent and secure software tools. Now, the EOSA recognition celebrates that long-term commitment to open source, as well as the community that grew around it.

An award dedicated to the Nextcloud community

As one of four distinctions awarded at EOSA, the Special Recognition for contributions to Business & Impact is dedicated to individuals who have paved the path of open source innovation, commercialisation, and impact, showing that open source is a key component of European digital competitiveness.

This recognition for Nextcloud as an open source solution with meaningful economic and societal value would not have been possible without the support of our community.

As Frank said in a recent interview with Gardiner Bryant: “Of course, as I said at a ceremony, I accepted the award in the name of the community because these are the people who were doing the hard work, the heavy lifting.”

This includes the people who:

• Write and review code
• Test upcoming releases
• Translate Nextcloud into dozens of languages
• Report bugs and propose improvements
• Help others in forums and at events
• Spread the word about Nextcloud

Or support Nextcloud in any other way!

What’s up next at Nextcloud?

On September 19 and 20, we will gather again in Berlin, Germany, for our beloved tradition and the annual meeting point for the Nextcloud community: the Nextcloud Community Conference 2026.

And our Berlin meetups are back! Come and join us every third Wednesday of the month between 7:00 PM and 9:00 PM to code and vibe together. Prefer Stuttgart? We’re organizing meetups there, too!

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What is the Digital Public Goods Alliance?

With the slogan “Unlocking the potential of open-source technologies for a more equitable world”, the DPGA supports the attainment, discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods. The multi-stakeholder initiative is endorsed by the UN Secretary-General and supports a wide range of organizations that want to advance digital public goods worldwide.

These goods have to meet a set of standards, as defined in the Digital Public Goods Standard: an open project open to contribution on GitHub, and developed in collaboration with organizations and experts. To be more specific, these are the nine requirements as set out by the DPGA to determine if software, data, AI systems, and/or content collections can be considered a DPG:

1. Be relevant to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
2. Use approved open licenses: For open source software, only OSI-approved licenses are accepted.
3. Have clear ownership
4. Be platform independent
5. Publish documentation of the source code, use cases, and/or functional requirements
6. Enable data extraction: non-PII data must be exportable in non-proprietary formats
7. Adhere to privacy and applicable laws
8. Adhere to standards & best practices
9. Be designed to do no harm, including demonstrating how it ensures data privacy and security if data is collected, having policies to identify inappropriate and illegal content, and having a process for users and contributors to protect themselves against grief, abuse, and harassment if interaction with users and contributors is possible.

With its DPGA membership, which will be re-evaluated every year, Nextcloud has proven that it meets all nine indicators.

Other Nextcloud initiatives for digital freedom and sustainability

Nextcloud’s recognition as Digital Public Good is in line with other initiatives showing our dedication to values such as sustainability, an inclusive open source community, and digital sovereignty.

• Nextcloud Include initiative: As an open source diversity project, Nextcloud Include addresses the needs of underrepresented groups to join the Nextcloud project. By building an inclusive and diverse space to collaborate, Nextcloud aims to ensure the development of world-class software. The “Nextcloud Include” project focuses on mentoring, travel support, and internships.
• Blauer Engel ecolabel: In 2025, Nextcloud became the first cloud software platform to be awarded the Blauer Engel ecolabel, a respected and independent certification that marks a product’s resource and energy efficiency. Awarded by the German Federal Environmental Agency, the certification marks a milestone in sustainable IT and sets a benchmark for others to follow.
• Sovereignty 2030: With our investment program “Sovereignty 2030”, Nextcloud aims to make its high-performance, sovereign open-source platform more widely available for organizations. The initiative sets out to invest more than 250 million Euros in digital sovereignty until 2030 in research and development, product innovations, and partner enablement, public education, and community projects to drive digital sovereignty in Europe.

These projects support other continuous Nextcloud efforts to spread the word on digital sovereignty and open source through webinars, international events and tradeshows, case studies, product releases, and Nextcloud gatherings, both online and offline.

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