Critical changes for developers & admins for Nextcloud 24 #29914
Description
Continuation of #27846
Front-end
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Backend
- Support for PHP7.3 removed: Drop PHP7.3 #29286
- Support for PHP8.1 added: Support PHP 8.1 - First batch #29432 Support PHP 8.1 - Second batch #29862
- Database tables of apps that support Oracle are now required to have a primary key (this is necessary to be able to scale in database clusters also for Postgres and MySQL/MariaDB, but we assume scaling apps also support Oracle): Enforce primary keys as they are required to be performant in MySQL c… #31513 Limit missing primary key fail to new tables and comment out for now #31580
- Database columns of apps that support Oracle can not be longer than 4k characters Ensure string column limit of 4.000 characters #31679
Removed from public namespace:
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Removed from private namespace:
OC\Authentication\Token\DefaultTokenOC\Authentication\Token\DefaultTokenCleanupJobOC\Authentication\Token\DefaultTokenMapperOC\Authentication\Token\DefaultTokenProvider
Deprecations
\OCP\AppFramework\Db\Entity::slugifyDeprecate entity slugs #30259
Deprecations of Events & Hooks
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Behavorial changes
- Avatars are only available in 64 and 512 pixels: Only allow avatars in 64 and 512 pixel size #31010
- default right-click options get hidden on public pages: prevent default right-click options when hideDownload is enabled #31372
Changes for admins
- Config setting
config_is_read_onlyprevents Nextcloud from writing to the config file Don't write to config file ifconfig_is_read_onlyis set #30130