topic Re: Community Edition 201510 in Alfresco Archive

Community Edition 201510

resplin — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 03:11:00 GMT

Though still labeled an EA (Early Access), last month's release of Alfresco Community Edition has lots of fixes and improvements over the previous stable release of Alfresco 5.0.d. It has been downloaded hundreds of times, and we have seen no critical issue reports. Multiple people have told me that

Re: Community Edition 201510

angelborroy — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:16:00 GMT

I've been trying with this one for an enthusiast client (English language) and I'm sad to say that IMO 5.1.c it's not GA yet.

Lack of documentation for configuration (as plain HTTP for SOLR4) and the fact that I'm not able to install it properly from scratch (maybe I'm losing some required instruction) have made us going back to 5.0.d. Maybe just because we have some confident on get it working in a quick an safe process.

Re: Community Edition 201510

resplin — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 00:39:23 GMT

I appreciate you sharing your experience.

The documentation is coming. But what problems have you had with the installation?

Re: Community Edition 201510

angelborroy — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 06:48:21 GMT

Our configuration for this project has many active subsystems: CIFS, LDAP AD, KERBEROS,… and separate deployment for every component (LibreOffice, SOLR…). As we detect changes in SOLR HTTP configuration and some other problems arose, we decide not to go with 5.1. I have no record on this "other problems", sorry for that.

On the other hand, we're using 5.1 for more "traditional" installations and it's working fine. So, in my opinion, 5.1.c can be GA with minor considerations.

Re: Community Edition 201510

xarope — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 07:54:20 GMT

I'm testing an upgrade from 4.2c to 5.0.d, and decided to also do an upgrade from 4.2c to 5.1-201510EA.

Unfortunately, doing exactly the same steps (literally, I am copying and pasting commands and edits from my notes into the console, except of course for changes in paths), I am unable to login to the 5.1-201510EA install once I configure the AD authentication subsystem (which is exactly the same as what was used in the 5.0.d install). The error message in catalina.out is:


 Nov 16, 2015 1:00:57 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke
SEVERE: Servlet.service() for servlet [Spring Surf Dispatcher Servlet] in context with path [/share] threw exception [Request proces
sing failed; nested exception is org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from re
pository] with root cause
org.json.JSONException: A JSONObject text must begin with '{' at character 0
        at org.json.JSONTokener.syntaxError(JSONTokener.java:410)
        at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:179)
        at org.json.JSONObject.<init>(JSONObject.java:402)
        at org.alfresco.web.site.SlingshotUserFactory.constructUser(SlingshotUserFactory.java:115)
        at org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AlfrescoUserFactory.constructAlfrescoUser(AlfrescoUserFactory.java:287)
        at org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AlfrescoUserFactory.buildAlfrescoUser(AlfrescoUserFactory.java:255)
        at org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AlfrescoUserFactory.loadUser(AlfrescoUserFactory.java:189)
        at org.alfresco.web.site.SlingshotUserFactory.loadUser(SlingshotUserFactory.java:135)
        at org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:182)
        at org.springframework.extensions.surf.support.AbstractUserFactory.initialiseUser(AbstractUserFactory.java:100)
        at org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.initialiseUser(RequestContextUtil.java:259)
        at org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:182)
        at org.springframework.extensions.surf.RequestContextUtil.populateRequestContext(RequestContextUtil.java:137)
… <snip>
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Re-doing the install again, but using 5.0.d with a fresh VM instance, and now following the same steps as the 5.1-201510EA notes, my 5.0.d install is working.

Has anything changed in the 5.1-201510EA authentication subsystem for LDAP/AD?

Re: Community Edition 201510

resplin — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 02:24:53 GMT

Very useful feedback. Thank you Angel.

Re: Community Edition 201510

resplin — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 02:28:50 GMT

Interesting report xarope. It is very interesting that you tested it with both the 5.0.d and 201510EA upgrades.

I am not aware of any changes to this subsystem. Can you create an issue in the ALF project at http://issues.alfresco.com ?

Please include your stack information like OS, database, and version of ActiveDirectory.

Thank you.

Re: Community Edition 201510

resplin — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 18:53:07 GMT

The Community Edition nightly builds now contain Virtual Folders and AOS. Those are the last features planned for the 5.1 series of releases, and our goal is to get everything production ready as soon as possible.

We plan to release Community Edition 201512 next week. You can help us make sure it is a good release by testing the nightly builds:

https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Nightly_Community_Build

Re: Community Edition 201510

eswbitto — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 21:10:15 GMT

Hello Resplin,

Is there any update on when the new features would be production ready?

Re: Community Edition 201510

Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:18:23 GMT

Hi,
from issues.alfresco.com I see that release date of 5.1.e is January 14. Any update? It will be a GA release?

Re: Community Edition 201510

resplin — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 20:06:50 GMT

It took a little longer than expected, but it's a GA release:

https://forums.alfresco.com/forum/general/announcements/alfresco-community-edition-201602-ga-02172016-1253