Nextcloud Talk vs Pexip
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Nextcloud Talk is cutting v24 RC with permanent call rooms, advanced noise suppression, and avatar-menu calling.
The project is in the final stretch of a major version: v24.0.0-beta.1 dropped May 4 and v24.0.0-rc.1 followed on May 13. The beta introduced permanent call rooms, calling from the avatar menu, advanced noise suppression, conversation tagging and sorting, and attachment grouping. In parallel, the team is shipping backport-heavy maintenance releases on three older stable lines (21.1.x, 22.0.x, 23.0.x), with signaling and federation reliability fixes dominating the bugfix queue.
v24 is being positioned as a structural upgrade rather than a cosmetic one: presence is no longer tied to ad-hoc rooms, calls are surfaced from the OS-like avatar menu, and audio quality gets a meaningful lift. The maintenance branches show a project under enterprise-style support pressure — federation, signaling, calendar integration, and bot behavior keep generating fixes across multiple supported versions. The combination signals a mature product investing simultaneously in capability and long-tail stability.
v24.0.0 stable is the likely next move within the next two to three weeks given the rc.1 milestone. Expect at least one more rc to absorb regression reports from the beta's larger surface area before the final tag.
Pexip Infinity v40 lands as a maintenance-grade release.
The recent feed is dominated by the Pexip Infinity v40 release notes — upgrade procedure, changelog, resolved issues, known limitations — alongside the prior v39.1 release. The v40 release itself notes 'no significant changes' in functionality, suggesting this is a stability/security cut rather than a feature push.
Pexip is operating in classic enterprise-on-prem mode: regular versioned releases with multi-step upgrade paths, security bulletins, and detailed end-of-life announcements. There is no visible AI or cloud-native pivot in the current notes. The product is being maintained for the install base it already has, not reshaped for a new buyer.
Expect a v40.x point release within 4–6 weeks addressing v40 known limitations, and continued biannual major versions. The next directional signal would be either an AI-meeting feature inside the web app or a cloud-managed deployment option — neither is hinted at in this batch.
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