[oxhe-announce] Open-Xchange releases OX App Suite v8.54

[Open-Xchange Hosting Edition Maintenance Announcements]

Dear Customers of Open-Xchange,

Release v8.54 puts OX Drive in the spotlight — A folder tree you control, the option to change folder colors and search across a whole storage account — alongside a daily catch-up generated by your AI assistant, automatic replies that answer colleagues and external contacts differently, and consistent menus across the whole application.

- Switch the Drive layout straight from the toolbar: Buttons for the list, icons and tiles layouts, and for showing or hiding the file details are now available. The details panel now opens as wide as a side panel and can be resized by dragging its left edge.

- Move files and mails to recently used folders: The Move button in both Drive and Mail now lists the folders you moved files to recently, so moving to the same folder no longer needs the folder picker. Folders that no longer exist drop out of the list on their own, and a mail moved this way can be undone like any other move.

- Give a Drive folder a color: Folders can be assigned a color from the folder view's context menu — this change is personal to an individual user and is not visible to other users who also shared access. Folder icons were redrawn as a consistent outline ensuring colored folders are more prominent.

- Search a whole storage account: Drive search can now cover an entire connected account rather than a single folder, with one entry per account, a clear choice between “Current folder only” and “Current folder and subfolders”, and a start in the account of focus rather than your primary account, which is typically your personal account. Search now also works in “My attachments”, and recognizes many more file types.

- A Drive folder tree you can arrange: Folders are grouped into a named section per storage, and those sections can be reordered or hidden — from the tree itself, or from the new “Folders and accounts” page in Drive settings.

- Connect an OpenCloud account to Drive: OpenCloud storage can now be integrated into Drive, giving access to the account's Personal, Spaces and Trash folders. Files and folders can be shared by public link, with an access level, a password and an expiry date, and the link copied to the clipboard in one step. The storage widget reports the storage you are actually looking at — per space for OpenCloud — and is not visible where a storage publishes no quota.

- Automatic replies can answer colleagues and outsiders with different messages: An out-of-office reply can carry one message for senders inside your organization and another for external contacts, or only to colleagues only. The AI assistant can set, update, activate and deactivate the notice for you from the chat. The feature is switched on per deployment.

- More control in Calendar: Deputies can optionally be allowed to see confidential appointments with all their details. New accounts can be provisioned with a default reminder time, and an iCal import can apply your own reminders instead of the ones in the file. CalDAV clients can subscribe to a new virtual “All my public appointments” collection.

- Themes have more options, and a new setting is available: Theme settings now extend to fonts, corner radii, shadows and popup borders, and all colors now follow the selected theme. The new “Curses” theme uses all of the settings and for a nostalgic text-UI look: Monospace, square-cornered and dark, with a cyan accent.

- User provisioning via SCIM 2.0: The middleware supports the SCIM 2.0 standard, allowing it to function as a service provider that enables seamless user provisioning from major identity providers such as Entra ID, Okta, authentik, and Univention Nubus. More information can be found under: https://documentation.open-xchange.com/8/middleware/administration/scim.html 

- For a comprehensive overview of all new features and improvements, please refer to https://documentation.open-xchange.com/appsuite/releases/8.54/


General Information and Breaking Changes

- For a comprehensive overview of all software change requests, behavioral changes, and configuration updates, please refer to https://documentation.open-xchange.com/appsuite/releases/8.54/noteworthy/middleware.html 

Complete Release Notes: 
- https://documentation.open-xchange.com/appsuite/releases/8.54/

Shipped versions with latest Helm Chart v8.54.1398:
- Open-Xchange App Suite Frontend v8.54.4
- Open-Xchange App Suite Middleware (Backend) v8.54.476


Technical Documentation, Deployment Information, Requirements and Support Commitment

For details of how to install and update OX App Suite v8, please refer to the instructions provided at: https://documentation.open-xchange.com/appsuite/operation-guides/

Best Regards,
Your Open-Xchange Team

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