Alfresco 2.0 Available - now GPL with FLOSS

[paulhh]

We would like to announce that the V2.0 Community Release of Alfresco is now available.  This release introduces a number of new features, including:

- GPL with FLOSS exception
    - Web Content Managment 1.0 with:
   
- Web Project Wizard
        - Forms Management Wizard
        - Website Development and Staging
        - XML Content Authoring
        - FreeMarker, XSL and XSL-FO transformations
        - Virtualization and In-Context Preview
        - Workflow for change sets

    - Federated Search
    - OpenSearch support
    - Add-on Module Management
    - Tree Navigation (AJAX)
    - Multilingual Services

The licensing change to GPL with a FLOSS exception brings a whole new world of opportunities to projects wnating to work with Alfresco.  Details about the implications of the change will be on our web site here:
http://www.alfresco.com/legal/licensing/

The default configuration for all the bundles is HSQL.  There are instructions that can be found after installation that explain how to easily revert to MySQL.

The installer bundles have more configuration options for selecting which type of database you wish to use, and locations for storing content and indexes.

The open source version is available to download at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=143373

Release notes for V2.0 can be found in our wiki here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Release_2.0

Please see http://www.alfresco.com if you are interested in the Enterprise Network edition.

Thank you again for your continued support,

The Alfresco Team.

IMPORTANT NOTE: It seems to take at least 24 hours for SourceForge to update its mirrors for the downloads to become available!

[jimisola]

This is not quite true. We do provide bug fixes for Community (No one would have interest in Alfresco if it was so buggy that it didn't work), but it is true that we work on our Enterprise bug fixes first (just as MySQL does - see http://www.mysql.com/company/legal/supportpolicies/policies-03.html#q01).

Great! The information on the web site stated the opposite before (if I'm not mistaking), so I was not sure if things had change with 2.0. The MySQL model obviously work quite well, so it looks promising for Alfresco

So, the bits are free, the service (support, immediate bug fixes, certification of third-party apps, etc.) is not.  But you should feel comfortable giving Community a try - there are 6,000+ active installations of it worldwide.  It works very well (sometimes too well for the sales guys among us :- ).

I'm quite certain that we'll give it a try. I'll just need to figure out more on how it integrates with Portals (JBoss especially) as we would to use it as the underlying CMS (instead of JBoss' default one).

I appreciate your reply. That was the kind of information I was hoping for initially

Keep up the good work!

Regards,
Jimisola

[aborba]

2.0 Preview version provided RM functionality.
It is not present on 2.0 community release. Are there any plans to implement it in the future?

[kevinr]

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