Alfresco Community Edition 3.3 Release Notes

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Installation

For download and installation instructions 3.3 download page

For the latest version of Alfresco community the Download Community page.

Note: Installing Records Management

The Records Management AMP required by Alfresco Share is not installed automatically by the 3.3 Community installer. The follow describes how to install the Records Management module using the Module Management Tool (MMT).

To manually install the Records Management AMP (alfresco-dod5015-share.amp):

1) Stop the Alfresco Tomcat server

2) From the DOS command line install the DOD amp using the following command:

java -jar c:\Alfresco\bin\alfresco-mmt.jar install c:\Alfresco\amps-share\alfresco-dod5015-share.amp c:\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\share.war

Note: If you have not installed Alfresco to the default location (c:\Alfresco) you will have to adjust the above paths as appropriate.

3) Delete he existing deployed Share application directory:
c:\alfresco\tomcat\webapps\share

4) Start the Alfresco Tomcat server.

Please see Module Management Tool for more information on using the MMT.

Prerequisites

This release has been tested on the following stack:

DB: MySQL 5.1 and PostgreSQL 8.4

App Server: Tomcat 6

JDK Version: 1.6 u19

Server OS: RHEL5 and Win2008

Note, latest patches are always recommended.

• The Alfresco MediaWiki AMP can only be installed on Alfresco installations that use MySQL
  

• The Simple Edit option in the Share client supports Windows only and requires Internet Explorer 6 or higher to be installed on the client machine.
  

• To use the Simple Edit option, you must install the SharePoint Protocol Support AMP.
  

Known Issues

Virtualization Server

An issue has been discovered in the virtualization server, a *temporary* workaround is to explicitly set 'alfresco.jmx.dir' with absolute directory path to the location of the 'alfresco-jmxrmi.password' file.

eg. add following to 'alfresco-global.properties' and replace <absolute_path_to>

alfresco.jmx.dir=<absolute_path_to>/tomcat/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/classes/alfresco

This will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.3g Community release.

Emails Templates

When there are existing email templates in Alfresco 3.1.1 and then an upgrade is performed  the templates are still present and in the same place as they were but can no longer be selected when specifying a template to use when creating a 'Send email to specified user' action in a rule.
This problem does not occur on a clean installation of Alfresco, only an upgrade one.

A fix ALF-1816 is provided for this in 3.3 Community release, but please 'cut' and 'paste all' actions to move all custom templates from their 'Email Templates' folder to either the 'Invite Email Templates' sub-folder (if they are templates for site invitations) or the 'Notify Email Templates' sub-folder (if they are templates for notifications of new content). The standard product ones will have been moved automatically.

For a full list of issues and fixes, refer to JIRA issue tracking system.

Spring Surf

Alfresco Community Edition 3.3 includes Spring Surf 1.0.0.M3 build 290. This is not the final release of Spring Surf.

For roadmap, development and planning information regarding Spring Surf 1.0.0.RELEASE, please visit http://www.springsurf.org.

Spring Surf Alfresco API Changes

As part of the migration to Spring Surf a number of classes have moved packages from alfresco to Spring surf.

In particular the WebScript framework is no longer part of the Alfresco code base..

Core utilities

• Base64 is now in org.springframework.extensions.surf.util
  

WebScript framework

The webscript framework has moved to org.springframework.extensions.webscripts

• WebScript is now in  org.springframework.extensions.webscripts
  
• WebScriptServlet is now in org.springframework.extensions.webscripts
  

Public SVN Revision number

The SVN revision number for Alfresco Community Edition 3.3 is 19754

Community raised issues fixed in 3.3C

Key	Priority	Component/s	Summary	Reporter
ALF-1935	Blocker	CMIS	CMIS up link without /parent in url .....	Van Belle Jonathan
ALF-1489	Blocker	Installation	alfresco 3.2r2 : Bug in postgresql ibatis configuration	Fabien Baligand
ALF-50	Blocker	Records Management	Frozen Records Can Be Destroyed	Eric Holt
ALF-1611	Blocker	JLAN	NFS Authentication NullPointerException	John Harris
ALF-1549	Critical		Login failed PASSTHRU and LDAP in Share	William
ALF-1532	Critical	Multitenant	Multi Tenant Module : After Creating New Tenant, Alfresco cannot be started	Softbless Solutions
ALF-1578	Critical	Repository	Custom property data fields not searchable due to lucene DEFAULT.ftsIndexerJobDetail exception	Jonathan Parker
ALF-1534	Critical	Multitenant	Alfresco Community 3.2r2 will not with the error \'Failed to bootstrap tenants\', after upgrading from 3.1.2 with multi-tenancy environment.	Vincent Labussiere
ALF-1612	Critical	WCM	Having been saved Cyrillic symbols in builtin editor are shown in question marks	Savenko Igor
ALF-2013	Critical	Share	IE does not load document library in 3.2r Enterprise Repository browser	Joshua Toub
ALF-1511	Critical	Share	Invited external users are not given a username and password	Orion Poplawski
ALF-1706	Critical	CMIS	CMIS: Alfresco goes out of memory when creating/quering folders in bulk	Christian Tytgat
ALF-1514	Critical	Share	Invitation of external user with spaces in (sur)name leads to non working link in invitation email	Remco Hannink
ALF-1543	Critical		Incoming Mail Unable to parse messages with attachments	Benjamin Kahn
ALF-2177	Critical	Installation	Community edition install failure	Jeff Jensen
ALF-2269	Critical	CMIS	CMIS: cancelCheckout says \'Object isn\'t checked out\' while checkOut says \'Object is locked or already checked out\' (SOAP)	Maik Uhlenberg
ALF-1593	Critical	CMIS	Cannot set value for multiple property (CMIS)	Mariusz Pala
ALF-1536	Critical		Email templates not listed	Luca Gambetti
ALF-1675	Critical	WCM	Render Engione as Freemarker template in Web Project creation doesnot work with presentation templates FTL variables	saravanan
ALF-1592	Critical	Multitenant	Form-data in webscripts broken in multi tenancy environment	Vivien Barousse
ALF-1576	Major	Repository	Memory leak when deployed in Jboss, Cache problem ?	Romain Lamarche
ALF-1551	Major		Alfresco memory leak	Jan Čustović
ALF-1634	Major	Share	CLONE -Avatar image is not being displayed	Antonio Ardito
ALF-1587	Major	Repository	Update User Password webscript returns incorrect JSON	Mikael Grönfelt
ALF-1635	Major	Share	invite failure - ReferenceError: \'wf_siteShortName\' is not defined	Nada O\'Neal
ALF-1682	Major	WCM	Web Project Users Denied Permission to Create Content	Jarrett Sloan
ALF-1492	Major	Installation	Upgrade Alfresco CE 3.2 to 3.2r fail	Peeranat Sangkatumvong
ALF-1546	Major		Duplicate admin user in linux oinstallation	Miguel Angel Bayona
ALF-1509	Major	Share	Error saving user profile edited by the Administrator.	Gary Brooks
ALF-1684	Major	WCM	WCM web form based content metadata extraction not working in 3.2 preview2	Wei Shen
ALF-1520	Major	Share	User profile empty after edit	Dimitar Bakardzhiev
ALF-1604	Major	Share	No way to delete a user\'s avitar.	Gary Brooks
ALF-1521	Major	Share	Document Actions Download link error in Share	Gary Brooks
ALF-1601	Major	Share	Error accept mail invite in share	William
ALF-1639	Major	Share	Tag scope are not refreshed	Marc Ende
ALF-1506	Major	Share	Inviting a user results in due date of 9999 in My Tasks window	Remco Hannink
ALF-1515	Major	Share	Unable to change user profiles through admin console	Remco Hannink
ALF-1608	Major	Share	Some dashboards items fail to load under alfresco share on linux	Patrick Dos-Santos
ALF-1527	Major	WCM	Error deploying to standalone filesystem test server from user sandbox	Jon
ALF-1591	Major	Repository	Lucene filter with dash	José Antonio
ALF-1487	Major	Installation Multitenant	Multitenancy does not work in 3.2r2	runar lie
ALF-1582	Major	Repository	Class cast exception in advanced workflow thrown in JBPMEngine.createWorkflowInstance	Kevin Bootz
ALF-2118	Major	Alfresco Explorer	Default mimetype is used (application/octet-stream) when uploading using the UploadContentServlet if filename extension is UPPER/MiXeD case	Evan Garofalo
ALF-1524	Major	Alfresco Explorer	FacesHelper.getManagedBean(..) should not swallow exception	Ken Geis
ALF-2256	Major	Alfresco Explorer	Adding content: Failed to create content due to error	Maxwell Shifman
ALF-1700	Major	CMIS	typedescendants CMIS web script is broken	Jeff Potts
ALF-1701	Major	CMIS	CMIS: REST getProperties/query doesn\'t work for versioned documents	Christian Tytgat
ALF-1705	Major	CMIS	CMIS: properties \'IsLatestMajorVersion\' and \'IsLatestVersion\' are always true	Christian Tytgat
ALF-1652	Major	Share	Filtering by tag doesn\'t work for all day events	Matti Roloux
ALF-1529	Major		Search operators AND OR	Mathieu Boucher
ALF-1505	Major	Share	Save of calendar event fails with error message.	Gary Brooks
ALF-2048	Major	Administration	Import Tool essentially swallows exceptions	Ken Geis
ALF-2209	Major	Installation	new apply_amps.sh installing in share.war but not cleaning webapps/share	Peter Löfgren
ALF-1553	Major		the apply_amps.sh script does not work anymore in centos 5.x	Salvio Sergi
ALF-1609	Major	Installation	Installer does not replace @@ALFRESCO_DIR@@	Nicolas Raoul
ALF-1669	Major	Installation	Community installer 3.2 does not replace @@ALFRESCO_DIR@@ in scripts	Duncan Hill
ALF-1695	Major	Alfresco Explorer	Error using custom types in Alfresco 3.2 preview	Miguel Angel Bayona
ALF-1491	Major	Installation	Convert.exe seems to be corrupted.	Gary Brooks
ALF-2044	Major		Mysql don\'t shutdown	ISM
ALF-1571	Major	CMIS	CMIS: Query results do not contain required links like \'parents\', \'edit-media\' etc	Christian Tytgat
ALF-1702	Major	CMIS	CMIS: can\'t change name of a document via checkout/checkin	Christian Tytgat
ALF-1660	Major	Share	Ubuntu bug 304702 E4X not work with rhino	Alan Bell
ALF-1559	Major	Multitenant	MT: Upgrade 3.0 -> 3.2 problem	Laki
ALF-1584	Major	Repository	Wrong QName usage in org.alfresco.repo.jscript.ContentAwareScriptableQNameMap.get(Object name)	Profondino
ALF-2223	Minor	Web Services API	ContentUtils.getContentAsString() does not support encodings	Shaan Jayaratna
ALF-1938	Trivial		PHP SDK	Shuichi TSUKAMOTO
ALF-1590	Trivial	Repository	Checking twice for same property	Mile
ALF-2123	Unprioritized	CMIS	Provide displayName for CMIS properties	Florian Maul

Release Notes
Community Edition
3.3