Five new features in Alfresco 5.0 in about five minutes

Hopefully you saw that Alfresco 5.0.a Community Edition was released last week. Kevin Roast did a nice write-up on a few of the new features. I created a screencast based on his write-up. It is embedded below or use this link.

You might want to make the video full-screen and take the settings up to HD.

If you take a peek under the covers you’ll likely see that there are still some deprecated chunks of code hanging around, libraries that still need to be upgraded, and features you might have expected but that aren’t yet implemented. This is still an early release. You should expect several more named releases before Community Edition 5.0 stabilizes.

Use this release as a preview for what’s coming, to test your own add-ons, or to help find and report issues. If you are running Community Edition in production I’d stick with 4.2.f for now.

22 comments

  2. Jeff Potts says:

    Davide,

    Can you clarify your question? There are already multiple workflow features in Alfresco. One is “basic” workflows and there are two “advanced” workflow engines embedded in the product. One is jBPM and the other is Activiti. Activiti is the preferred engine going forward.

    Jeff

  3. Jayachender Reddy says:

    Hi jeffpotts,
    Nice features implemented in alfresco5.0.a.
    Especially document viewer and search.
    Congrats to all alfresco team.
    Thanks,
    Jayachender

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  5. Bertz says:

    Hi Jeff, I have a project that starts now, what release you advise me to use: the 4.2.f or 5.0? Thanks so much! Steve

  7. Clark Starr says:

    Very basic question: can you search by multiple tags in the current community edition? For example, if we tag documents by industry, type of document, type of engagement, people, etc. can we then search: “Insurance” “Proposal” “Jenkins” “Analysis”? Provided, of course, we’ve tagged the docs appropriately.

  8. Jeff Potts says:

    Clark,

    Yes, you can. In fact, you can add booleans as well, like “(TAG:color OR TAG:old) AND TAG:panorama”.

    Jeff

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