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• Search improvements with SOLR4– More responsive (live, suggestions, spelling, etc)
– Filtered (faceted) search
– Inline actions for search results
– Search defaults to AND instead of OR
– Continuous scrolling (no more paging)
– Can re-index a node without pulling text rendition
– FYI: close to supporting clustering/sharding
– FYI: close to supporting term highlighting
WHAT’S NEW
• Lots of bug fixes
• Alfresco Office Services (replaces SPP)– Now supports property mapping
– Better browser support
• HTML Preview– Includes full text search
– Can download/permalink from the preview
– No longer need flash!
• Alfresco SDK 2.0
WHAT’S NEW
• Site Manager
• More Aikau components
• Nicer inline HTML editor (TinyMCE4)
• Many Explorer-only features added to Share
WHAT’S NEW
• Support for Analytics (add-on later this year)
• Content Encryption at Rest
– We already have the ability to encrypt properties 4.x
– FYI: no index encryption yet
• Improvements to docs.alfresco.com
https://www.alfresco.com/5ready
WHAT’S NEW
Supported Platforms Document
INITIAL SUPPORTED PLATFORMSOS: Red Hat Enterprise 6.5 x64 & Windows Server 2012 R2 x64
DB: MySQL 5.6.17, MS SQL Server 2012 SP1, Oracle 12c, PostgreSQL 9.3.5
App Server: Tomcat 7.0.53
Browser: Firefox 33 & IE 9
Client OS: Windows 7 X64 & Mac OSX 10.9.5
Authentication: AlfrescoNtlm, OpenLDAP 2.4.39, Oracle Directory Server
11.1.2
JDK: JDK 7 U60 X64
TO BE SUPPORTED PLATFORMSPlanned Release
OS: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS x64, Suse 12.0 x64, Sun Solaris 11.2 x64 June 2015
DB: IBM DB2 10.5, MariaDB 10.0.14, Amazon RDS Jun/Mar/Jun 15
App Server: JBoss 6.2.0 EAP, Oracle WebLogic Server
12.1.3, IBM Websphere 8.5.5
June 2015
Browser: IE 10 & 11, Chrome March 2105
Client OS: Windows 8.1 X64 March 2105
Authentication: Active Directory LDAP, NTLM with SSO, Kerberos with
SSO
Mar/Jun/Mar 15
JDK: JDK 8 March 2015
Alfresco Software Lifecycle
Lifecycle Matrix
Deprecations
• jBPM
• NFS Protocol
• Lucene*
PRODUCT LIFECYCLE SUMMARY
• Blog Publishing
• AVM
• CML SOAP API
• Explorer UI (/alfresco)
– Richard Esplin actively working
with Eng to opensource this
• Flex SDK
• Forms Development Kit
• Google Docs v1.x
• Google Gadgets
• Hyperic Plugin
• Java SDK
• JCR & JCR-RMI
• Jive Toolkit
• KB Sample App
• Quickr Connector
• Records Management v1.x
• Social Publishing
• URL Addressability API
• Web Framework Samples
• XAM Connector
• Alfresco 3.4 and 4.0 CMIS
endpoints
END OF MAINTENANCE
Presentation from Summit 2014
• Live search
• Filters/Facets
• Inline Actions
• Infinite Scroll
Demos from a video by Jeff Potts
SEARCH
• Based off of Alfresco Office WorkDesk
• More standards compliant
• Works with more browsers/OSs
• We believe it doesn’t require any plugins
• Allows property mapping into and out of office documents
ALFRESCO OFFICE SERVICES
• Previewer
• No more Flash!– Mobile friendly
• Uses Mozilla PDFjs– Inline Search
– Full Screen
– Download/Perma-Link
Demo from a video by Jeff Potts
HTML Previewer
• Alfresco Docs
• Home Page
• GitHub Page
• Tech Talk Live 79– Some inspiration from Zia:
Tech Talk Live 69
• Works with IDEs
• Some live reloading with
Spring Loaded
• Share archetype
ALFRESCO SDK 2.0
• Site Manager
• From one screen– Change site visibility
– Delete sites
Demo from a video by Jeff Potts
SITE MANAGER
• Tech Talk Live 82
• Docs
• Wiki
UPGRADING
• Make sure you are using the latest service pack
• Make sure existing customizations follow best practices with your
current install
• Make sure add-ons (3rd party and even things like RM are 5.0 ready)
• Read the docs
• Validate Supported Platform (software & hardware)
• Trial upgrade in a non prod environment
– Ideally a clone of prod with all of the data
• Consider adding support tool and JS Console
UPGRADE PREP
• This is a summary, not a recipe!
• Backup (config, extensions, DB, content store, index)
• Upgrade OS & DB if necessary
• Fresh Install of Alfresco 5.0
• Validate, apply config and extensions and validate again
• Restore (re-point) database, content store, index
• Start SOLR4 indexing, switch to SOLR4 once complete
• Remove intermediate stuff (e.g. old indexes)
UPGRADE PROCESS
• Monitor logs for first few hours
• Smoke test
• Some selenium web-driver tools available
• Make sure the add-ons are working
• Make sure and test all custom code and configuration
UPGRADE VALIDATION TIPS