In this post, we provide the current status of the recent releases of the desktop client.
| Client Release |
Covered By |
| 34.*.* |
🟢 Community support |
| 4.0.10 |
🟡 Enterprise support only |
For enterprise customers, the corresponding update channel for the client will be activated soon.
Highlights in Version 34
- reduction of client size by more than 50% (due to removal of obsolete libraries)
- new native tray menus for quick status overview and notification reactions
- previous tray window was separated into own dedicated dialogs for activity, search, assistant, status
- migration dialog for moving from classic sync to file provider on macOS
- various performance and stability hardening
macOS Compatibility
| macOS Release |
Latest Supported Client Release |
| 11 Big Sur |
3.13.4 |
| 12 Monterey |
4.*.* |
| 13 Ventura and later |
34.*.* 1 |
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are older major versions still getting maintenance releases?
Like many mature software projects — think Firefox ESR, Windows 10 alongside Windows 11, macOS receiving security updates across multiple generations, or Microsoft Office suites being supported in parallel — we maintain more than one major release at a time. Active bug fixes and security patches are backported to older stable branches as long as they are supported. So seeing (in example) a 4.0.10 appear after 33.0.2 is completely expected. People on the older branch receive bug fixes and smaller improvements as well.
Why did the version jump from 4 to 33?
For clarity. Starting with version 33, the desktop client’s major version number is aligned with the Nextcloud server release. This makes it immediately obvious which client generation pairs with which server generation. From here on, the major version will just increment by one as usual. Major releases bring features while point releases bring fixes. Important: there neither was nor is a dependency between these client and server releases! Older clients will work with newer servers, too, and vice versa.
Which version should I use?
Use whatever is offered by default on the Nextcloud download page unless you need to work on older operating systems no longer supported by it or have an enterprise environment which still operates with a previous release.
In this post, we provide the current status of the recent releases of the desktop client.
For enterprise customers, the corresponding update channel for the client will be activated soon.
Highlights in Version 34
macOS Compatibility
Frequently Asked Questions
Why are older major versions still getting maintenance releases?
Like many mature software projects — think Firefox ESR, Windows 10 alongside Windows 11, macOS receiving security updates across multiple generations, or Microsoft Office suites being supported in parallel — we maintain more than one major release at a time. Active bug fixes and security patches are backported to older stable branches as long as they are supported. So seeing (in example) a 4.0.10 appear after 33.0.2 is completely expected. People on the older branch receive bug fixes and smaller improvements as well.
Why did the version jump from 4 to 33?
For clarity. Starting with version 33, the desktop client’s major version number is aligned with the Nextcloud server release. This makes it immediately obvious which client generation pairs with which server generation. From here on, the major version will just increment by one as usual. Major releases bring features while point releases bring fixes. Important: there neither was nor is a dependency between these client and server releases! Older clients will work with newer servers, too, and vice versa.
Which version should I use?
Use whatever is offered by default on the Nextcloud download page unless you need to work on older operating systems no longer supported by it or have an enterprise environment which still operates with a previous release.
Footnotes
The file provider feature requires at least macOS 14 Sonoma. See File Provider Incompatibility with macOS 13 Ventura #9927 for further details. ↩