Preparations for Nextcloud server version 25

[christianlupus]

Hello all users of the cookbook app,

currently we are facing an incident with Nextcloud version 25. The frontend on the server was significantly changed in a backward-incompatible way. This will break the frontend of any app written for Nextcloud version 24 and before. We need to addess these changes in our code base to make it usable with NC 25.

We will publish soon a version 0.9.16 that is for NC pre-25. Additionally, there will be a 0.10.0 that is the first release for NC25. The branch 0.9.x will be reserved for the pre-25 NC servers.

As NC 25 has been released recently, this topic gets presisng for the near future. Unfortunately, this means, the older installations will not be getting all new features anymore. As soon as you update to NC 25 or later, the problem is no longer present.

To have two distinguished version lanes (for pre-25 and for 25 and upwards), we need to create a new development branch. Before splitting the branches apart and implementing said updates, I would kindly ask if there are any pressing changes that should be implemented before.

After the splitting of branches new features will then be available to NC 25 in general. For the pre-25 versions, we can try to make backports of new features, but I do not want to make promises about that, especially for big changes.

So, if you see something that is currently causing significant pain and you are not going to install NC 25 soon, please step up. I can try to get that solved before the branching having the topic solved hopefully.

I would highly suggest that you install the latest version and be done with this sort of problems. However, I wanted to give you a chance to get a short fix included.

Thanks and hopefully we have the app running in NC 25 soon.

Christian