❄️ Winter release

We were happy to announce our overdue Winter release (2026.2.0).This release upgrades our office applications with OnlyOffice 9 and brings the history browsing feature of office apps on par with other applications. We also include a redesigned folder tree in the drive, and many other improvements and fixes as detailed in the release notes.

🏫 FOSDEM

We attended the FOSDEM conference which is an European meeting of open-source software developpers and enthusiasts. We were glad to meet you all there!

Ludovic gave a talk about recent news in CryptPad that is available on our PeerTube instance. You can also watch our previous talks about CryptPad there, in English or in French.

📜 ELFA

We are delighted to be part of the ELFA consortium that was recently awarded a Horizon grant by the European Union. This is an ambitious effort to build an ecosystem of local-first collaborative applications. CryptPad is on board for the initial 3 year grant. We will be prototyping with the protocol and ensuring CryptPad is compatible with it as ELFA grows. If you develop collaborative applications, keep an eye on ELFA social media for the sub-granting program that will be managed by the NLNet Foundation.

✍️ Keep Android Open

While we don't develop Android apps, we care about people's full ownership of their mobile devices, including the choice of what applications to install. This is coming under threat by Google's plans to make all developers register to their restrictive program.

We are proud signatories of the open letter to Keep Android Open.

📰 In use / in the news

• "Si nous voulons des logiciels libres, nous devons les payer" interview with CEO Ludovic Dubost by Guillaume Belfiore for Clubic
• Honorable mentions, we are delighted to be featured in
  • Wired Magazine's How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance
  • Bon Pote's Quelles alternatives aux GAFAM ? [FR]
• Tutorials & listings
  • Listing on Awesome Privacy
  • Présentation de Cryptpad, Suite collaborative opensource sécurisée Ikacode [FR]
  • Actus du Num : CryptPad UBAPAR (Union Bretonne pour l’Animation des PAys Ruraux) [FR]
  • Cryptpad software libre en linea para trabajo colaborativo - Parte 1, Parte 2, FreeSoftwareFan [ES]
  • Seguridad digital para quienes defienden DDHH [ES]
  • This secure form builder is my Google Forms replacement
• Deployments & Admin
  • Announcing Scuppernong: a private cloud drive for Western North Carolina
  • Self-Hosted CryptPad on FreeBSD with VNET Jails and Caddy Larvitz Blog
  • Installation de Cryptpad en LXC Docker, by BlablaLinux, maintainer of an instance on our public list [FR]

🔭 Up Next

• We deployed the new CryptPad server to cryptpad.fr last week. This is a full re-write to be much more scalable and better deal with the high usage that has been causing slowness in recent months. We will have a full update about this in the next status.
• We are also working on our Spring release. This will likely contain improvements to the Diagram application and improvements and fixes.