Server: Critical changes for developers & admins for Nextcloud 19

[ChristophWurst]

Continuation of #17131

Front-end

CSS

• JavaScript

Deprecated global variables

• $ and jQuery: either ship your own jQuery in a bundle or switch to another library

Backend

Removed from public namespace:

• Deprecations

*

Behavorial changes

• ISimpleFolder::newFile() does not write the file anymore directly (see https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/19493). To write the file again, provide an empty string content '' in newFile() or call putContent('') on the returned object.

[marcelklehr]

These things would be great to have in the docs. Or in a changelog.

[ChristophWurst]

I was under the impression that we add it to the docs. Or at least we did that once.

[ChristophWurst]

I was under the impression that we add it to the docs. Or at least we did that once.

See https://github.com/nextcloud/documentation/pull/1781

[ChristophWurst]

mynamewastaken unpinned this issue on 21 Feb

Why?

[ChristophWurst]

@mynamewastaken

[kesselb]

I suspect that people hit the x accidentally.

[nickvergessen]

• ISimpleFolder::newFile() does not write the file anymore directly (see https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/19493). To write the file again, provide an empty string content '' in newFile() or call putContent('') on the returned object.

Added

[rullzer]

No more cirtical changes for 19 I hope :D

[ChristophWurst]

New release, new ticket: https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/20953