Alfresco 3.1 Release

[samuel_penn]

Does anyone know when Alfresco 3.1 Enterprise will be released?

Also, when is the next version of Labs (3.1?) due to be released?

Thanks,
Sam.

[mrogers]

the vexed issue of version labels has been discussed, brains have been engaged and I'm happy to report the label of the next release will not be "Labs 3 E". 

The name for the community releases is going back to being based on the major.minor number rather than letter.
So, the next community release will be Labs 3.2 and the next preview drop will be Labs 3.2 Preview.

[samuel_penn]

Yay! And there was much rejoicing 🙂

I don't suppose there's also a plan to get rid of the 'Service Pack' designation as well, and just use major.minor.patch consistently? 🙂

Sam (who still hasn't forgiven Sun for their stupid version numbering).

[fselendic]

Thanks a lot, guys!

Now just compile a small list of differences between Labs and Enterprise, and you are back on track. 

[mikeh]

Now just compile a small list of differences between Labs and Enterprise, and you are back on track. 

It's not a list as such, but you can get an idea of the differences from John Newton's blog: http://newton.typepad.com/

Basically, you won't get things like monitoring and support for proprietary databases in Labs (e.g. MS SQL Server, Oracle).

Mike

[fselendic]

Now just compile a small list of differences between Labs and Enterprise, and you are back on track. 

It's not a list as such, but you can get an idea of the differences from John Newton's blog: http://newton.typepad.com/

Basically, you won't get things like monitoring and support for proprietary databases in Labs (e.g. MS SQL Server, Oracle).

Mike

Yeah, I know, I read that blog.
However, I'm just pushing you (or your marketing department) a little (see how nice it worked with versioning scheme) 
Basically, it would be nice to have more formal, official list of differences, with examples of Enterprise functionality and its benefits. Especially because those will grow, now that you have found a business model that you'll probably stick with for some time (free core/fee extensions). With core as good as Labs is, you will have to work a little to convince people that they really really need Enterprise.

Also, please try to make differences clearly seen from roadmap, at least for the upcoming version. Is 3.2 really coming without any Enterprise-only features?

And, if this new model proves to be satisfactory, sustainable (which I think and hope it will, I really like where this is heading), consider moving to one core codebase for 4.0.

[jpbarba]

Hi,
what is the diference between Alfresco Labs 3 and Alfresco Enterprise 3. I supossed that the only difference was a licence issue but I have detected that:
- Alfresco Labs 3 presents problems with CIFS anf Enterprise doesn't.
- Alfresco Labs 3 doesn't stop wich alf_stop.sh command completly. With a 'ps aux | grep java' a process is in background. With Enterprise it doesn't happen.
Could someone explain that?

[mrogers]

You need to look at JIRA to find individual bug fix status.    Your issues are just one of release management (e.g. which release has which features)

The Enterprise releases have more testing and more bug fixing effort from Alfresco. 

One of the tasks in 3.1 was the engineering required to support Enterprise Only features.

Going forward there will be more "Enterprise Only Features"  at the moment the list of differences is small but includes
- support for non open source databases
- additional system monitoring.

[junderwood]

Hey any news on the 3.1 labs release?  It's the middle of April 

[mrogers]

"Labs 3.2 Preview" is on its way.    It was cut last week and is going through the release process.

Labs 3.1 was Labs 3D / Stable / Final whatever it was called.   I'm very glad we're getting some sanity back in version naming.

[junderwood]

Ok thanks for the reply, looking forward to it.