# ownCloud Server Administration Manual

# What’s New for Admins in ownCloud 8.1

ownCloud Server and Enterprise Subscription 8.1 are shipping with a batch of improvements and new features, including:

- Improved performance, with faster file transfers, much faster file deletion, improved scalability through improved handling of parallel requests, and up to 50% more users on each ownCloud server instance.
- Better file locking
- Updated encryption with support for multiple encryption backends and migration tools for 8.0 -> 8.1
- Improved LDAP configuration wizard
- WebDAV performance enhancements
- SFTP external storage with SSH keys
- SMB external storage is now based on `libsmbclient`
- Improved performance and better storage space management of preview generation
- UI improvements for configurating external storage
- The ownCloud Appstore shows now different trust levels, and allows enabling experimental apps
- Deleted files & folders now keep the share info after restoring from trashbin (local shares only and not external storage)
- Many more links from the administration UI to the relevant documention
- `occ` command updated to allow installing ownCloud completely from the command line
- User avatars are displayed in share dialogs
- Font preview, 3D pictures media type (previewed as JPEG) and raw media type support without previews
- A new simple example theme is included
- All shares now have at least read permissions, which prevents unpredictable server behavior
- Support for shortened URLs
- Users may not remove share expiration dates when the admin settings require them
- Auto complete in share dialog works again when sharing is limited to groups
- Developer changelog is available in the Developer’s Manual
- File IDs are now persistent when moving files across storages, deleted to trashbin or restored as version
- Ship ca-bundle.crt to work around issues on systems that experience failed connections to the Appstore
- Introduce new “OC-ETag” header fixing issues with server configs stripping off ETags “No E-Tag received from server”