These release notes provide information for the 201901 GA release of Alfresco Community Edition.
This is the GA release of Alfresco Community Edition containing the Alfresco Content Repository 6.1.2-ga. This release contains all fixes completed from the release of Alfresco Content Services through January of 2019, including a number of fixes contributed by the open source community.
Care should be taken when upgrading from any previous version of Alfresco Community Edition. Before upgrading, test that you have a functional backup of your Alfresco Repository, and read the documentation.
The main goal of this release is to get feedback on our latest GA release. You can leave that feedback in comments on this page, or by Reporting an Issue.
Please report issues with this release in the issue tracker. You can collaborate on this release by using the discussion tools in this social community. Other feedback can be provided by emailing community@alfresco.com.
Anonymous usage metrics
Alfresco Content Services collects anonymised usage metrics through the heartbeat component. This means we do not store collect or store any information that links to an identifiable person.These metrics are sent based on a pre-configured time period and include: version information, numbers of users and groups, numbers of models, aspects and types, whether smart folders are enabled or not as well as the JVM total, max and free memory size. On the receiving side, we detect the country where the data is sent from, but we do not store the IP address of reports coming from our open source products.
Alfresco is using this data to better target new features and their prioritization to actual usage patterns. We also track the adoption of new versions and features in our install base. To see exactly what is being sent, feel free to look at the log output generated by
log4j.logger.org.alfresco.heartbeat.datasender.internal.HBDataConsumer=DEBUG
If you wish to deactivate this data transmission, then you just need to add
heartbeat.enabled=false
to your configuration, either as value in alfresco-global.properties or as part of the JAVA_OPTS environment variable in the docker-compose file.
Release Contents
3rd Party Components installed in the docker containers:
Additional docker containers used in docker-compose file:
o alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-6.1.2-ga.zip
o alfresco-file-transfer-receiver-6.2.1.zip
o alfresco-search-services-1.3.0-RC2.zip
Content Repository
The source code for the packaging project that is used to create and run docker images and build the distribution zip can be found here.
REST API Explorer
REST API Explorer is now integrated into alfresco-repository-community docker image. It is accessible via the link provided in the /alfresco page either via using /api-explorer context on alfrescoServerPath (alfrescoScheme://alfrescoHost:alfrescoPort).
An updated release of the REST API Explorer (6.1.0-RC4) is available on GitHub - rest-api-explorer to navigate the details of the new REST API endpoints. This version includes a new API definition for Alfresco Insight Engine.
Share/
The latest version of Share is 6.1.0.-RC3. For further details please consult the list of share issues fixed in this release at the bottom of the page under Issues Addressed.
The latest version of Alfresco Search Services is 1.3-RC2.
AGS 3.0 is the latest GA edition but compatibility with ACS 6.1 is targeted at AGS 3.0.1 in the March 2019 time frame. Additional details are available in the release blog post: Alfresco Governance Services 3.0.
The latest version of Content Services for Android is version 1.8.5 which contents a number of minor improvements and fixes.
The next version of Content Services for iOS will be version 2.7 will support iPhone X and is expected to be released in February 2019.
A beta version of SDK4.0 has been release tested for compatibility with ACS 6.0. SDK 4.0 GA will be released in parallel with ACS6.1 Enterprise GA release, once testing has been completed.
The documentation has been refreshed for this release. The documentation is currently published at docs.alfresco.com: Alfresco Community Edition
This release includes: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese versions. We are working on additional localisations into Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Polish and Czech. Soon we will also be offering User Help and a Getting Started guide in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese.
TransformService and RenditionService:
Alfresco Community Edition is available both as a distribution zip file containing the war files and as docker images that are deployed using docker-compose.
The Alfresco Community Edition docker images are available on DockerHub.
To run this GA release with docker:
Please refer to the "Docker-compose & Kubernetes" instructions on Github - acs-community-packaging for additional details. See also the notes below (Dockerized Deployment) that covers acs-community-deployment.
Notes:
This release comes with a set of docker images instead of a GUI installer. These docker images produce a deployment that is more closely aligned with production best practices than the previous installers were capable of creating. The docker-compose and helm charts can be found in a separate project acs-community-deployment and for this release the changes were tagged with 6.1.2-ga.
To configure Alfresco Community Edition, it is recommended to add -Dkey=value properties to the JAVA_OPTS environment variable in the docker-compose.yml file. In this EA release, all the data is still stored inside the docker containers. This is sufficient for test and development purposes. For production like environments however, it is recommended to mount locations on the host machine into the containers so that all the data (content store, DB and SOLR indexes) gets stored on the host.
You should use the same versions as we have in the docker containers (see above).
The issues addressed specifically in this release are available in JIRA projects for the components of this release. Note that JIRA behaves inconsistently with these queries when you are not logged in.
We also addressed a number of bugs since the release of Alfresco Community Edition 201808.
Known Issues
Please refer to the Alfresco issue tracker for other known issues in this release.
Ask for and offer help to other Alfresco Content Services Users and members of the Alfresco team.
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