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Nextcloud Desktop

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Velocity5.0

Desktop sync client for Nextcloud file collaboration

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Three parallel branches, one job: stop the macOS sync client from losing files.

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◆Current state
The desktop client is running three maintenance trains at once — 34.0 as the new stable line, 33.0 and 4.0 as backport branches — and nearly every entry in the window is a bot-authored backport list rather than a feature note. The substantive work is concentrated on macOS: the File Provider extension got Server Actions integration, a consolidated Xcode workspace, XPC refactoring for FinderSync, and repeated fixes for lock tokens, app nap kills and menu-bar state. macOS 12 support was dropped in 34.0.0.
◆Where it's heading
This is a correctness campaign, not a feature cycle. The recurring shape of the fixes — folder move/rename data loss, lock tokens invalidated on path change, parent-folder-moves-during-sync, file size preserved on upload — says the team is systematically closing a class of sync-integrity bugs in the virtual-file layer that the macOS File Provider rewrite exposed. The 34.0.1 entry adds the first performance work in the window, eliminating O(N-squared) enumeration in large folders.
◆Prediction
Expect 34.0.2 and further 33.0.x backports in the same shape: macOS File Provider fixes and Windows VFS path handling, with the 4.0 branch receiving only the subset that applies. Nothing in these entries points to a new user-facing capability landing soon.

◆Recent moves

  1. 14d ago

    34.0.1 cuts O(N²) work from large-folder enumeration

    The first patch on the new stable line is mostly macOS plumbing — Local Network access verification, another FinderSync XPC refactor, file locking moved off the GUI thread — but it also removes quadratic work from large-folder enumeration, the first performance fix in this window. It fits the correctness-and-hardening arc rather than breaking from it.

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  2. 22d ago

    34.0.0 lands: Server Actions in Finder, macOS 12 dropped

    The 34.0 line goes stable, carrying Server Actions integration for the macOS File Provider extension, a consolidated Xcode workspace, and a dropped macOS 12 floor. It is a real version bump, but the payload is platform consolidation and accumulated fixes rather than new sync capability.

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  3. 26d ago

    34.0.0 RC5 restates the same release-candidate changelog

    RC5 republishes the cumulative 34.0.0 change list verbatim rather than adding anything of its own. It is a step in the release train, not a change in what the client does.

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  4. 27d ago

    34.0.0 RC3 pulled and replaced over a macOS defect

    RC3 was superseded by RC4 within the same week over a critical macOS issue, and its note otherwise restates the cumulative 34.0.0 list. It is useful only as evidence of how much of the release risk sat on the macOS side.

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  5. 1mo ago

    34.0.0 RC2 fixes folder-move data loss and VFS paths

    This is where the 34.0 hardening actually shows up: folder move-or-rename data loss, lock tokens invalidated when paths change, a nullptr dereference when VFS mode is unavailable, and correct relative local paths for Windows VFS DB records. It is the substance the later RCs only restate.

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  6. 1mo ago

    4.0.11 backports fixes to the older client branch

    A maintenance roll-up on the 4.0 branch, composed entirely of backported fixes — file tag paths, Explorer folder icons during migration, end-to-end encryption, large-folder listing. It keeps the old branch usable without changing what it does.

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