Alfresco 2.1 Community Candidate Release Available

[paulhh]

We would like to announce that the V2.1 Community Candidate Release of Alfresco is now available.  This release introduces a number of new features, including:

- ECMS
   
- Web Scripts: a REST API Framework
        - Extended Javascript and Freemarker APIs
        - Microsoft Word Integration
        - RIA Portlets
        - PHP Scripting and Templating
        - Task commenting
    - Web Content Managment:
   
- Deployment
        - Search
        - Content Launch
        - Content Expiration
        - Locking
        - Custom editor toolbars

    - BETA Features:
   
- Link Management
        - Deployment to file-server
        - Blog publishing
        - WCM Portlet for non-technical users

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 V2.1 can be found in our wiki here: http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Release_2.1

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!

[m4mf]

Hi Paul,

with alf2.1 Com. you'll see a bug to open/change/save ppt or xls files with cifs. (is working good for 1.41) So an update on .ppt or .xls files is not possible.

:idea:
I think the problem is in handling *.tmp files used by powerpoint or excel in file updating (or replacing) process.

But ms word is working exelent, so it's ok how you  handle ~ files.

I hope this helps to act on this critical issue.

regards
andreas

[alexandra]

When it comes to Office-integration how does the future plans look like?

- Support for Microsoft Office for Mac OS X?
- Support for OpenOffice running on Mac OS X?

(Edited this post when I read on the wiki that MS Word 2003 for Windows is supported only…)

[paulhh]

Hi Andreas

We'll look into the tmp file problem with CIFS.  We have to do some trickery to maintain the correct metadata with Office documents, because when you work with Office on a doc, it creates a tmp copy that is what you're working on, and then when you save, it deletes the original and moves the tmp file to the old name. 

Thanks for the compliment on the Office integration.  Our plans are to do the same basic idea on Excel and Powerpoint 2003, then also to the 2007 versions.  I'm not sure what dev tools there are for Office on Mac, so that would need some investigation - I suspect it's not as straight-forward, as our add-in is effectively a browser control.

Cheers
Paul

[edgar]

Hi,

I wondered if anyone can tell me a little bit more about the remote file-server deployment that is in beta in this release. From the release notes I read:

Remote File-server Deployment: Available as a server-side service only with RC1, provides support for transactionally deploying a Staging snapshot to one or multiple remote file servers installed with an Alfresco receiver (lightweight daemon / service). GUI integration and installers to come with future Community drops.

What is this server-side service exactly and how can I talk to it?

Is this related to the "DeploymentService" Java class as explained on the deployment page on the wiki?

PS: right now we are thinking of creating an rsync script that simply copies the contents of the appropriate CIFS AVM folder over to our external web server.

cheers,

Edgar

[apoorvdurga]

Hi,

Congrats for the new release.

Is there documentation available for some of the new features in 2.1? I am more interested in some of the features like posting directly to blogs, distributed deployment and MS Office integration.

Thanks,
/a
http://apoorv.info

[apoorvdurga]

Hi,

Congrats for the new release.

Is there documentation available for some of the new features in 2.1? I am more interested in some of the features like posting directly to blogs, distributed deployment and MS Office integration.

Thanks,
/a
http://apoorv.info

okay i got some of it on the wiki but the ones about blog are still incomplete
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Microsoft_Office
http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Simple_Alfresco_Blog

[rwetherall]

Hi,

Have a look here http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Blog_Publishing_User_Guide for a quick guide on the blog integration module.

Cheers,
Roy

[pinkman]

Congratulations, I am quite excited by this release - I really think our business could do with the pre-made portlets that this release is going to offer.

My question is, when do you think that the GA release will be made available? I couldn't see a date in the wiki?

[warren_h]

Hi,

I'm confused this discussion and the download links refer to 2.1 RC.  But the main page refers to Community Edition 2.1 being available!  So which is it?

Also I can't find anywhere a simple and clear explanation of what the "Native Office Integration" is.  Does it mean that I no longer need to install OpenOffice for document transformation?

Thanks,


Warren.