diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/.keep b/changelog/unreleased/.keep
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e69de29bb2
diff --git a/changelog/unreleased/spaces-capabilities.md b/changelog/unreleased/spaces-capabilities.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..9d6d2705b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog/unreleased/spaces-capabilities.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+Enhancement: Add spaces to the list of capabilities
+
+In order for clients to be aware of the new spaces feature we need to enable the `spaces` flag on the capabilities' endpoint. As we currently do, the capabilities endpoints remains a hardcoded set of capabilities, and it will default to true.
+
+https://github.com/cs3org/reva/pull/2015
diff --git a/internal/http/services/owncloud/ocs/data/capabilities.go b/internal/http/services/owncloud/ocs/data/capabilities.go
index a50e2983a9..31a23b14e7 100644
--- a/internal/http/services/owncloud/ocs/data/capabilities.go
+++ b/internal/http/services/owncloud/ocs/data/capabilities.go
@@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ type CapabilitiesDav struct {
 	Trashbin                       string   `json:"trashbin" xml:"trashbin"`
 	Reports                        []string `json:"reports" xml:"reports>element" mapstructure:"reports"`
 	ChunkingParallelUploadDisabled bool     `json:"chunkingParallelUploadDisabled" xml:"chunkingParallelUploadDisabled"`
+	Spaces                         bool     `json:"spaces" xml:"spaces"`
 }
 
 // CapabilitiesFilesSharing TODO document
diff --git a/internal/http/services/owncloud/ocs/handlers/cloud/capabilities/capabilities.go b/internal/http/services/owncloud/ocs/handlers/cloud/capabilities/capabilities.go
index 35b7324fb1..a0862059f9 100644
--- a/internal/http/services/owncloud/ocs/handlers/cloud/capabilities/capabilities.go
+++ b/internal/http/services/owncloud/ocs/handlers/cloud/capabilities/capabilities.go
@@ -116,6 +116,9 @@ func (h *Handler) Init(c *config.Config) {
 		h.c.Capabilities.Dav.Reports = []string{"search-files"}
 	}
 
+	// enable spaces by default
+	h.c.Capabilities.Dav.Spaces = true
+
 	// sharing
 
 	if h.c.Capabilities.FilesSharing == nil {