Seafile 13.0 community edition is ready for testing!

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We are excited to announce that Seafile 13.0 is now available for testing! This new version brings a host of powerful features designed to enhance your file management and collaboration experience.

The final production ready version will be available in the end of this year.

Key updates:

  • Extended file properties with a new metadata-server component
  • Multiple view types for file display
  • Hierarchical tag management
  • Realtime UI updates via notification-server
  • Thumbnail server: A new thumbnail server component is added to improve performance for thumbnail generating and support thumbnail for videos
  • Seafile AI
  • SeaDoc is now version 2.0 and includes AI integrations

See more at: Seafile 13.0 Now Ready for Testing: Experience Extended File Properties, Realtime UI Updates, Seafile AI, and More! | by Seafile | Jul, 2025 | Medium

How to upgrade: Upgrade Seafile Docker - Seafile Admin Manual

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The thumbnail server is very cool.

Would you say this is OK safe to use in “production”?

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Any idea when this will be up on Docker Hub? The latest I’m seeing is 2 days ago.

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Seafile 13.0 beta version is safe to use in production in general if you don’t use the new metadata feature. Other features are small changes from version 12.0.

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What I mean is that the 13.0 docs linked in the post say to use this https://manual.seafile.com/13.0/repo/docker/ce/seafile-server.yml for the main Seafile Server which has;

image: ${SEAFILE_IMAGE:-seafileltd/seafile-mc:13.0-latest}

The inline deafult value uses a tag that does not exist on Docker Hub and will show a manifest not found error if ${SEAFILE_IMAGE} is not explicitly set.

All the other images in the 13.0 docs use inline default values that correctly exist on Docker Hub. E.g.;

seafileltd/seafile-ai:13.0-latest
seafileltd/notification-server:13.0-latest
seafileltd/thumbnail-server:13.0-latest
seafileltd/seafile-md-server:13.0-latest
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It is a mistake in our side. We will fix it in the next Monday.

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Does it only exists as in the docker version currently? I’m using the binary edition.

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We will no longer provide binary edition for the community edition for version 13.

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Sorry to hear that. Guess I gotta make the migration to Docker then. Phew.

Guess it was about time, though.

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Hello

Great new.
Do you think to provide any support without docker ? For example with a minimal documentation to deploy it in standalone mode.

Have a nice day

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Should we wait or is it seafileltd/seafile-mc:13.0.7-testing that we need to use?

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It has been fixed.

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Thanks, I am trying it out.

The thumbnail sever is giving me some issues (as in not working at all).

The thumbnail.log complains about missing directory:

[2025-07-14 16:38:18] [ERROR] app:44 Failed to init thumbnail information: [Errno 2] No such file or directory

but which one is this? In seahub-data “thumbnail” folder was correctly created, but is empty. All my seafile-data is on another volume and configured with a symlink and Ive made sure that the thumbnail-server dock has access to this (confirmed via bash inside the container itself).

I am also using nginx where I have made this location block:

        location /thumbnail/
        {
                proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8883;
                proxy_set_header Host $host;
                proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Host $server_name;
                proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-Proto $scheme;
                proxy_read_timeout 1200s;
                client_max_body_size 0;
                proxy_request_buffering off;
        }

The 8883 port is forwarding to 80 inside the thumbnail server. It just gives a {"error": "Internal Server Error"} Ive tried without SSL and with, also without and with trailing /

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Tried Seafile 13.0.7 on the demo site - some users are unable to download PDF files when using Google Chrome. I wrote about it in another thread here:

Not a regression (at least as of the last major) since the same issue is present in v12, but may be worth looking into.

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Thanks for reporting the issue. We will analyze the problem later.

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@daniel.pan
Do you have any suggestion how to troubleshoot {"error": "Internal Server Error"} in the thumbnail server?

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We are still investigating the issue.

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We have found the issue. It will be fixed in the next release.

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Cool. What’s the ETA on the release? My thumbnails are currently broken. Could possibly just revert to the old method, I guess, but why bother if there’s a fix coming up.

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It will be released in August.