The recent launch of Alfresco One 5.0 included many key enhancements to the software. Some are provided to increase ease-of-use to end users while others bring new and improved integrations and capabilities to administrators and developers. In addition to several bug fixes, SharePoint Protocol was replaced by Alfresco Office Services and now supports property mapping and better browser support. HTML5 preview includes full text search and the ability to download or permalink from the preview—all without Flash. The latest improvements to solr 4 will bring a more responsive and faceted search to the software. This includes inline actions for search results as well as the search criteria defaulting to AND rather than OR. Support for clustering/sharding and term highlighting is expected soon as well. In addition to these advancements, the following list touches on some enhancements. In depth information can be found at https://www.alfresco.com/5ready CMIS 1.1 Item Type Site Manager and Analytics More Aikau components Advanced inline HTML editor (TinyMCE4) Many Explorer-only features added to Share Content encryption at rest Improvements to docs.alfresco.com

1. Technology Review
ALFRESCO 5.0

2. • 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

3. • 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

4. • Site Manager
• More Aikau components
• Nicer inline HTML editor (TinyMCE4)
• Many Explorer-only features added to Share
WHAT’S NEW

5. • 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

6. Supported Platforms Document
INITIAL SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
OS: 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

7. TO BE SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
Planned 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

8. Alfresco Software Lifecycle
Lifecycle Matrix
Deprecations
• jBPM
• NFS Protocol
• Lucene*
PRODUCT LIFECYCLE SUMMARY

9. • 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

10. Talk about new features?
Some thoughts on upgrading to 5.0?
WHAT NOW?

11. NEW FEATURES

12. Presentation from Summit 2014
• Live search
• Filters/Facets
• Inline Actions
• Infinite Scroll
Demos from a video by Jeff Potts
SEARCH

13. • 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

14. • 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

15. • 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

16. • Site Manager
• From one screen
– Change site visibility
– Delete sites
Demo from a video by Jeff Potts
SITE MANAGER

17. • Tech Talk Live 82
• Docs
• Wiki
UPGRADING

18. • 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

19. • 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

20. • 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

21. • If we want to change DB
– e.g. Oracle to MySQL
• Consolidating repos
• Other business reasons
YOU MAY WANT TO MIGRATE INSTEAD