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Self-hosted video calls, screen sharing, and chat platform integrated with Nextcloud collaboration suite.

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Nextcloud Talk v25 adds classified conversations and an owner role, targeting regulated enterprise deployments.

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◆Current state
Nextcloud Talk is on a tight release candidate track for v25, with alpha and two RCs shipping in quick succession. The alpha introduced classified conversations, a new owner role with promotion controls, global message search, and a preservation setting that prevents conversation deletion—enterprise and compliance-grade additions. Maintenance releases for v22 and v23 continue in parallel, with backported security and UI fixes.
◆Where it's heading
The classified conversations, preservation settings, and call group restrictions in v25 are directly applicable to regulated sectors—healthcare, government, legal—where communication visibility and retention are controlled. Configurable call summary prompts in RC2 add an AI layer to meeting intelligence. Nextcloud Talk is positioning as the self-hosted alternative for organizations that can't route communications through SaaS platforms.
◆Prediction
v25 stable is likely days away given RC3 is minor fix work. Expect the configurable AI call summaries to expand toward action-item extraction and transcript search in subsequent releases, following patterns from commercial meeting intelligence tools.

◆Recent moves

  1. 5d ago

    Nextcloud Talk v25.0.0 RC3: file preview fixes

    RC3 is a translation update and minor UI fix release—file preview rearrangement in combined messages and an image fallback for failed previews. The fix enabling threads from file uploads is a small usability gap closure. No new feature work.

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  2. 5d ago

    v23.0.11

    Maintenance patch for the v23 branch: dependency and translation updates, scroll behavior fix for long messages, and an image preview fallback. Standard backport maintenance.

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  3. 5d ago

    v22.0.18

    Maintenance patch for the v22 branch: dependency updates, translations, and a scroll-to-bottom fix for long messages. Standard backport maintenance with no new functionality.

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  4. 12d ago

    v25.0.0 RC2: configurable AI call summary prompts

    Configurable call summary prompts land in RC2—administrators can now customize the AI prompts used for call summaries, extending the AI meeting intelligence layer introduced earlier. The improved in-chat message search promotion is a UX improvement for discoverability.

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  5. 20d ago

    v25.0.0-rc.1

    RC1 is primarily layout and scrolling fixes for the v25 feature set—speaker view improvements, scroll-to-bottom reliability for long messages, and conversation list unread counter corrections. Standard RC stabilization work.

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  6. 1mo ago

    Nextcloud Talk v25 alpha: classified conversations, owner role, global search

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    The v25 alpha drops a cluster of enterprise-grade features that collectively shift Talk's positioning: classified conversations (controlled visibility), an owner role with promotion/demotion controls, global message search across the conversation list, conversation preservation against deletion, and upload editing with image compression. These are the kinds of features that unlock regulated-sector procurement.

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