These release notes provide information for the 201612 GA release of Alfresco Community Edition.
This is the first Generally Available release of Alfresco Community Edition containing Alfresco Platform 5.2 and Alfresco Share 5.2.
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.
The latest GA release of Alfresco Community Edition is available from the Alfresco Community Edition product page.
Download this release from Alfresco Community Edition file list 201612.
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:
Our focus while developing Alfresco Community Edition 5.2 has been to strengthen Alfresco as a content platform by building a new set of REST APIs that are used by the Alfresco Application Development Framework. We are also rolling out some nice improvements to Alfresco Share, and laying the foundation for future improvements by allowing Solr 6 to be used for search indexes. This release also contains many bug fixes and library upgrades.
We believe that this release is ready for the GA label because:
We expect this to be the first of a few GA releases that are focused on fixing bugs and polishing the product. Our goal is to continue with monthly releases.
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.
As a Generally Available release, the focus of this release has been on stability and not on new features.
The page dedicated to Alfresco Community Edition 5.2 lists all the features in the 5.2 line of Alfresco releases.
This release contains a simple mechanism for temporarily locking user accounts when there are multiple consecutive failed attempts at authentication. During the lockout period, all authentication attempts are denied and a warning is printed to the logs. This will significantly slow down attempts to guess passwords and allow administrators to take defensive measures. The number of failed attempts that trigger a lockout and the length of the lockout are configurable.
New and updated endpoints (since Community 201611) include:
These APIs are browse-able in the REST API Explorer v1.4 (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.
See also Alfresco 5.2 REST APIs to find links to more information about the new REST APIs.
No incremental updates since last month's Alfresco Community Edition 201611 EA Release. The notes for the previous community release are here.
It is now possible to create facets based on categories with SOLR 6.
A standard search usually looks at the most recent version of a document. It is now possible to tell Alfresco to index every version of a document by choosing to index the version store. This will enable the option to search all previous versions of documents. When selected, all matching versions will be returned.
Improvements to the admin screens to enable complete Solr configuration.
This Early Access Alfresco Java Client SDK contains a Java lib project to easily consume Alfresco Public REST APIs. It includes a set of APIs that allows developers to quickly build Alfresco-enabled Java & Android applications:
https://community.alfresco.com/community/ecm/blog/2016/11/17/alfresco-java-client-sdk
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. The section on Support Tools is still in English.
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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