CryptPad Files

Goals

This release improves the look and feel of CryptPad and resolves a long-standing technical debt by updating all icons in the product from Fontawesome 4.7 (2016) to Lucide. Other improvements include a redesigned loading screen and bug fixes.

Features

• Update icons #1987

Improvements

• Loading screen #2058
• Form participant UX fixes #2007
• Improve keyboard & screen reader support for Forms #1923
• Make client compatible with new server #2059
• Guard against misconfiguration of fileHost setting #2017 @ansuz
• Add a checkup page test for /upload-blob #1995 @ansuz
• Add forceRedirect to SSO #1868 @avinash-0007
• SSO login redirect #2057

Fixes

• OnlyOffice
• Make sure OnlyOffice user index does not change #2066
• Office documents corruption on server issues #2064
• Fix disappearing sheets #1991
• Hardcoded values in PDF export metadata #2015
• Forms
• Fix deletion of conditional section contents #2014
• Remove nested conditionals #2026
• Form auditor link fix #2008
• Fix text-tools button visibility for Kanban card title editing #2049
• Fix calendar-picker dropdown styling in event modal #2031
• Can open files in read only mode from guest drive #2025
• Update trigger/target branches for tests #2023
• Switch to our new email address #2018
• Very minor typo fix regarding macOS #2056
• Fix minor typos in docs/ARCHITECTURE.md #2050 @touilleMan

Deployment

• Performance improvements (2/3) to example-advanced.nginx.conf #2005 @nisbet-hubbard

Dependencies

• Upgraded
• @node-saml/node-saml: from ^4.0.5 to ^5.1.0
• netflux-websocket: from ^1.2.1 to ^1.3.0
• Removed
• components-font-awesome
• prompt-confirm

Upgrade notes

If you are upgrading from a version older than 2025.6.0 please read the upgrade notes of all versions between yours and 2025.9.0 to avoid configuration issues.

[!WARNING]
The CryptPad SSO plugin needs to be upgraded to a compatible version at the same time as CryptPad - SSO plugin 0.4.0

To upgrade:

1. Stop your server

2. Get the latest code with git

   :::bash git fetch --depth 1 origin tag 2025.9.0 git checkout 2025.9.0 npm ci npm run install:components

3. Restart your server

4. Review your instance's checkup page to ensure that you are passing all tests

Contributors

Community: @touilleMan, @ansuz, @nisbet-hubbard

CryptPad team: @AAAMON @Chouhartem @dariiing @davidbenque @DianaXWiki @mathilde-cryptpad @wginolas @yflory @zuzanna-maria