These release notes provide information for the 201609 Early Access release of Alfresco Community Edition.
Early access releases are intended for interested parties to test new features, provide feedback, and collaborate on development. This release is not meant to replace the previous generally available release.
Care should be taken when upgrading from any previous version of Alfresco Community Edition. Backup your Alfresco alf_data directory and database before upgrading, and read the documentation.
Download this release from the Alfresco Community Edition file list 201609-EA
For download and installation instructions, refer to the Download and Install Alfresco page.
The Alfresco supplied installers will install all you need to run Alfresco on your machine; which includes JDK, Tomcat, SOLR, and LibreOffice. It also includes interfaces and extensions such as Share, the Google Docs integration, and the AOS module.
Notes:
Most of the work for the 5.2 Alfresco Platform is focused on building a new set of REST APIs. These new APIs are experimental and likely to change, so they require us to label this release as an Early Access build. We are looking forward to feedback on how the APIs are structured and how they function. This release also contains bug fixes, a few new features in Alfresco Share, and an upgrade to Records Management.
Please report issues with this release in the issue tracker. You can collaborate on this release in the Alfresco forums. Other feedback can be provided by emailing community@alfresco.com.
We plan to continue with monthly EA release while we move toward our next major release of Alfresco One. It is currently undecided whether that release will be called Alfresco One 5.2, or whether we will give it a different name.
The page dedicated to Alfresco Community Edition 5.2 lists all the features in the 5.2 line of Alfresco releases.
New and updated endpoints include:
These APIs are browse-able in the REST API Explorer v1.2 (GitHub - alfresco-rest-api-explorer) to navigate the details. This is included in the SDK, or can be installed by adding the WAR to your Alfresco install and configuring CORS.
Site Managers now have greater control over the features within their sites. See SHA-1394.
Site Managers can now easily delete a site directly from the site configuration options drop-down menu. See SHA-325.
Users can restrict the Live Search results to display only the results from the site they are in, the selection is carried through to the full search results page. See SHA-1521.
The Site Activities Dashlet now displays the group name instead of the group ID. See SHA-1593.
The 2.5.a release of Records Management includes bug fixes, architectural improvements, and a new testing framework. Specifically:
No features have been removed in this release.
3rd Party Components:
This release contains all bug fixes since the Community Edition 5.0.d release.
The issues addressed specifically in this release are available in JIRA projects for the components of this release. Please look at the previous 5.1 releases to get a complete list of issues addressed since the previous GA release (5.0.d). Note that JIRA behaves inconsistently with these queries when you are not logged in.
Important fixes since the last GA release:
Please refer to the Alfresco issue tracker for other known issues in this release.
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