Alfresco Community Edition 23.2 Release Notes

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Alfresco Content Services 23.2 is the first Service Pack software update of the 23 family, with improvements to Alfresco Content Services to accelerate use and development for customer solutions for deployment. With Alfresco Content Services 23.2, Alfresco continues to enable open source communities, customers and partners to deliver a highly reliable Content Store upon which to build applications and solutions.

Alfresco Content Services 23.2 delivers functionality to enable customers and developers to install Alfresco created solutions and to customise the product through integrations, APIs and SDKs.

Additionally, customers can purchase an upgrade from Alfresco Community Edition to Alfresco Content Services 23.2 to enable advanced features and purchase Alfresco applications, connectivity and solutions.

This release contains enhancements completed for the release of Alfresco Content Services 23.2. In addition, this release contains an updated stack of supported databases, operating systems and platforms providing up to date support.

Alfresco’s release readiness testing team have successfully completed their regression and upgrade testing cycles to help give you confidence to upgrade to the release. Alfresco Community Edition 23.2 shares much of its code with Alfresco Content Services which adds significant functionality in the release.

Goals for this Release

The main goal of this release is to enable customers, partners and experimenters to create solutions built on top of Alfresco’s content repository. As Alfresco and Hyland have a continuing commitment to Open Source, we value your feedback on the Hyland Community Hub.

Highlights

Authentication with OIDC/OAuth2 for Admin Console

When the Identity Service is configured in Alfresco Content Services instead of Basic Authentication, authentication will now rely on OAuth2.

JIT user provisioning collects e-mail

When a user that is known in the user directory of the identity provider logs in for the first time, an equivalent user is created in Alfresco Content Services (“Just-In-Time provisioning”). Now this procedure also collects the e-mail address from the user directory.

Installation

Alfresco Community Edition 23.2 is available as a distribution zip file for manual installation, or it can be installed using an Ansible playbook (Linux only) for non-containerized environments. It is also available as a set of Docker images that can be deployed in containerized environments using docker-compose or Helm charts (for Kubernetes).

You can find a summary of these options here:

https://www.alfresco.com/products/community/download

ZIP Distribution files

• Repository: alfresco-content-services-community-distribution-23.2.1.zip
• Share: alfresco-content-services-share-distribution-23.2.1.zip
• Search: alfresco-search-services-2.0.9.1.zip
• Transform: alfresco-transform-core-aio-5.1.0.jar
• Content App: alfresco-content-app-4.4.1
• Governance: alfresco-governance-services-community-distribution-23.2.1.zip

Ansible

Deployment resources available in Alfresco/alfresco-ansible-deployment

Docker Compose

Reference Docker Compose template is available in community-docker-compose.yml

Additional Docker Compose deployment methods:

• Alfresco/alfresco-docker-installer
• AlfrescoLabs/alfresco-docker-extension
• aborroy/docker-init-with-templates

Kubernetes

Helm charts are available in https://github.com/Alfresco/acs-deployment/tree/master/helm/alfresco-content-services

Alfresco Community Kubernetes deployment tool available in https://github.com/aborroy/alf-k8s

Upgrading from previous releases

Care should be taken when upgrading from any previous releases of Alfresco Community Edition. There are some steps that should be reviewed and planned before you upgrade. Please take the time to familiarize yourself with the guidance below and plan your upgrade.

Please refer to the detailed Upgrading documentation, including Alfresco Content Services upgrade paths.

In particular, please ensure that the following steps are completed before you start your upgrade process:

• Ensure that you have a functional backup of your Alfresco Repository and your Alfresco Database, before starting the upgrade process
• Download and run the Alfresco Extension Inspector to understand, which customization or library items need to be reviewed or updated prior to starting
• Review all new and deprecated features included in this release note
• Review and implement the new supported stack options and the minimum versions of modules/extensions required, and update as necessary for the new deployment
• Apply the recommended database optimization patch for larger implementations (see upgrade documentation for details)

Specific Release Components

REST API Endpoint updates

Updated (Groups)
GET, POST /groups
GET, PUT /groups/{groupId}
Added parameters:
description - description of a group
hasSubgroups - determines if a given group has any subgroups
Both params can be obtained by adding them to "include" param in the request

Alfresco Share

The latest release of Share is 23.2 For further details please consult the list of issues fixed in this release at the bottom of the page under Issues Addressed.

Search Services

Search Services 2.0.9.1 with Solr is the legacy search solution for Alfresco Content Services 23.2

Alfresco Governance Services

AGS 23.2 is the latest release and is compatible with Alfresco Content Services 23.2

Alfresco Mobile

The latest release of Alfresco Mobile Workspace is 1.8 and is compatible with Alfresco Content Services 23.2.

SDK

• The latest release of the Alfresco in-process SDK is SDK 4.8, which is compatible with Alfresco Content Services 23.2.    
• The latest release of the Alfresco out-of-process Event SDK is SDK 6.1, which is compatible with Alfresco Content Services 23.2.
• Were working on these SDKs and we intend making the new versions available during November.

Alfresco Extension Inspector

This utility helps partners and customers better understand the customisations in their existing deployments. The Alfresco Extension Inspector is a utility for AMP inspection for Alfresco Community Edition and Alfresco Content Services 23.x releases. The inspector is recommended for use before installing new integrations of our product to help expose any issues that might impeded success.

The alfresco-extension-inspector is a tool that scans and validates an Alfresco extension (amp or jar) against an alfresco.war file. The tool parses an extension and generates a report on possible overrides, discouraged usage of nonpublic API, Alfresco's 3rd-party libraries and incompatible libraries.

To download Alfresco Extension Inspector from Nexus click here or from GitHub.

Alfresco Transform Service

Alfresco Transform Service in 5.1.0 is the latest release and is compatible with Alfresco Content Services 23.2.

Documentation

The documentation has been refreshed for this release:
https://docs.alfresco.com/content-services/community/

Localization

The Content Repository supports the following languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Simplified Chinese.

Share supports the following languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Russian, Brazilian Portuguese and Simplified Chinese.

Alfresco Content Application supports the following languages: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Norwegian (Bokmål), Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Danish, Swedish, Finnish and Simplified Chinese.

Contents

• Alfresco Content Repository 23.2.1 (SCM tag)
• Alfresco Share 23.2.1 (SCM tag)
• Alfresco Transform Core AIO 5.1.0 (SCM_tag)
• Alfresco Search Services 2.0.9 (SCM_tag)
• Alfresco Content Application 4.4.1 (SCM_tag)
• Google Docs 4.1.0 (SCM tag)
• AOS Module 3.0.0 (SCM tag)

Images are available on Docker Hub

Following Docker Images are available in both AMD64 and ARCH64 architectures:

• alfresco/alfresco-content-repository-community:23.2.1
• alfresco/alfresco-share:23.2.1
• alfresco/alfresco-activemq:5.18-jre17-rockylinux8
• alfresco/alfresco-transform-core-aio:5.1.0
• alfresco/alfresco-search-services:2.0.9.1
• alfresco/alfresco-content-app:4.4.1

The source code for the packaging project that is used to create and run Docker images and build the distribution zip can be found here.

REPOSITORY: alfresco-content-repository-community

Spoiler SHARE: alfresco-share

Spoiler TRANSFORM: alfresco/alfresco-transform-core-aio

Spoiler SEARCH: alfresco/alfresco-search-services

Spoiler ACA: alfresco/alfresco-content-app

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francesco_forna

Dear All,

could you tell us if we can execute custom activiti workflow embedded yet?

Regards,

Fracesco.