Seafile 13.0 is ready!

We’re thrilled to announce the official release of Seafile 13.0 — a milestone update that transforms Seafile from a simple sync-and-share tool into a smarter, more collaborative, and AI-augmented file platform. With richer metadata, flexible views, integrated AI, and powerful in-browser document editing, this release unlocks entirely new ways to organize, discover, and work with your files.

Here’s a quick overview of the major new features in Seafile 13.0:

  • Extended file properties with a new metadata server

  • Multiple view types: Table, Kanban, Gallery, Map, Card, and Statistics

  • Hierarchical tag management

  • Real-time UI updates via notification server

  • Dedicated thumbnail server (videos, images, PDFs)

  • Seafile AI: extract file details and text, generate descriptions and tags, detect faces

  • SeaSearch production-grade full-text search

  • SeaDoc 2.0: block-based editor, AI assistance, whiteboards (Excalidraw)

  • Wikis: block-based editing, comments, Ask AI, sdoc / Markdown import & export

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Blog: Seafile 13.0 is ready!

Video overview: Seafile 13: A new way to organize your files

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Is there documentation, instructions or a manual available, how to move from 12 binary to 13 docker? I am running Ubuntu 24 LTS and would like to move to 13 but it is only unfortunately only available via docker …

You can first change to docker based deployment in version 12.0, then upgrade to version 13.0.