Alfresco Labs 3 Beta is Here!

[nancyg]

All,

Everyone around Alfresco has been hard at work over the past several months on our latest release, Labs 3. We invite you to download it, kick the tires and send us your feedback.

You can find a lot of info in the wiki, the starting page is http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Labs_3, a list of features is at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Labs_3_Feature_List and the download and install instructions at http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Installing_Labs_3. You can read what John Newton, our co-founder and CTO, has to say on his blog, http://newton.typepad.com/content/2008/07/introducing-alf.html.

Enjoy the new release and stay tuned for more exciting developments!

Nancy

[jpfi]

Hi Alfresco,
Congratulations!
There were several not very positive post about your movement to a more Collaboration centric approach here in the forum and in the "blogsphere".
I'm sure you know that you haven't completely finished your homework, but it is fantastic what you all have achieved in the last months!
Now, drink a beer…or two and have a nice weekend 😉
Cheers,
jan

[hvyas]

Does this mean that there won't be a 2.9C release for community?

[slothrop]

What is the difference between a labs release and a community release?  Will there be a version 3 community release?

[jottley]

We have changed names for our community release.  Alfresco Community is now Alfresco Labs.

[hvyas]

ok….Will there be a version 2.9 Labs release in the near future?

[jottley]

Labs 3 is that release. In addition to the new Share client, you still have the traditional JSF client available as well.

[mabayona]

After reading and testing Alfresco Labs 3.0, I have a set of questions:

- Are all 2.9x-only features in 3.0? > (quote, multi-tenant, <runas>, …)

- What are 3.0 plans for Advanced Workflow support? (no single mention in 3.0 literature/roadmap/feature list of simple or advanced workflow support)

Any comments from alfresco?

[jottley]

The features that you saw being developed in 2.9 and that you are familliar with in past versions of Alfresco are all still available in the traditional JSF client.  Labs 3 introduces a new (separate) UI that we are calling Share.  Everything you saw and loved about previous version of Alfresco or saw being developed in 2.9 is still there in Labs 3.  Labs 3 represents our efforts to develop an open alternative to Sharepoint, part of which is an additional UI. Thinks of Labs 3 as the introduction of a third product: our traditional JSF client for document management, our web content management tools and finally the Share interface.

Share is part of our work to close the divide between traditional document management and web content management into the divide of social collaboration.  There is more and more demand for alternatives to what Sharepoint is offering and this is the start of our answer to that demand.

The top post by NancyG has the links to learn more about what we are offering in Share.  Install it.  Play with it.  Let us know what you think.  If you don't like share ( :8180/share ) the traditional UI is still there ( :8080/alfresco ).  It is divided into two war files: alfresco.war and share.war.  Don't want share, just delete the share.war.  Don't like the Share UI? Skin it.  Don't like the components, or want additional components?  Build them.  Or build your own UI using the SURF Platform.  Labs 3 is that flexible.

We are really excited about this new offering and what it represents.  We hope that you will be too.

[slothrop]

What is te appropriate forum for posting questions about 3.0 installation, development, etc?