These release notes provide information for the 201701 GA release of Alfresco Community Edition.
This is the next 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 201701.
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. This release builds on last month's initial Community Edition GA release. This release contains bug fixes and library upgrades with focus on improving stability rather than adding new features.
We believe that this release is ready for the GA label because:
We expect this to be the penultimate 5.2 Community GA release that is focused on fixing bugs and polishing the product before we return to new development. Our goal is to continue with monthly releases.
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.
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.
You will see some new branding in the product. This is a step in preparing new branding for a future release of our Enterprise products. This will affect some artifact naming, log messages, error messages and administration screens.
An updated release of the REST API Explorer (v5.2.e) is available (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 public REST APIs to find links to more information about the new REST APIs.
No incremental updates since last month's Alfresco Community Edition 201612 GA Release. The notes for the previous community release are here.
Bug fixes only
We provide an Early Access release of an Alfresco Java Client SDK which 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.
No features have been removed in this release.
3rd Party Components:
alfresco-platform-5.2.e.war
contains version 5.2.e (build r134428-b13).alfresco-5.2.e.war
contains version 5.2.e (build r135134-b14).alfresco-share-services-5.2.d.amp
contains version 5.2.d.share-5.2.d.war
contains version 5.2.d.alfresco-solr-5.2.d.war
contains version 5.2.d.alfresco-search-services-1.0.b.zip
built.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 in this GA release:
Please refer to the Alfresco issue tracker for other known issues in this release.
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