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The latest and greatest version of Alfresco Community edition is now released!
Alfresco Community edition 5.0.c contains numerous bug fixes.
Based on exactly the same source code as Alfresco Enterprise edition 5.0, it is the most stable Community edition ever!

Download it from SourceForge project page, or here: http://www.alfresco.com/products/community/download

Alfresco Community 5.0.b was released last week, for Alfresco Summit 2014 in London.
This release has many improvements, especially in the Search area.
As usual, there is a post on Kevin's blog for more details.

Enjoy!

Alfresco Community 5.0.a has been released.
You can check Kev's blog post for more details on this new version.

We are also publishing a Community version of Alfresco Records Management 2.3.a

Enjoy!

Alfresco Community 4.2.d is now released!

Check Kevin Roast's blog for the new features and improvements:
http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/kevinr/2013/08/22/alfresco-community-4-2-d/

Try it!

The Alfresco Desktop Sync application is available for early preview so we can get feedback and improve it before making a full release. This version works against Alfresco on premise only: Enterprise 4.0+, and Community 4.2.a+.

For feedback and help, please use the Alfresco Forums.
Bugs can be raised in JIRA Desktop Sync project. ... read more

New theme for Share, many improvements and a lot of bug fixes.
Check Kev's blog post: http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/kevinr/2012/12/10/alfresco-community-4-2-c/
and the release notes: https://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Alfresco_Community_4.2.c_Release_Notes

Alfresco Community Edition 4.2.b is out!
It's mostly bug fixes, with a few improvements (see http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/wabson/2012/10/25/new-notice-dashlet-and-improvements-for-developers/ for more.)

See you at Alfresco DevCon! http://devcon.alfresco.com/

Today is a great day for the entire Alfresco community because 4.2.a is out!

This is the first new release of Community Edition since the 4.0 Community Edition and it includes features brought forward from Alfresco in the cloud as well as new features that will be showing up in the next Enterprise release.

Look for the official annoucement here: http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/new-alfresco-community-features/

The Alfresco Desktop Sync application is available for early preview so we can get feedback and improve it before making a full release. This version works against user accounts in Alfresco in the Cloud (Premium accounts), Enterprise 4.0+, and Community 4.0.e+. It may also work against Enterprise 3.4+ but this has not been tested widely to date.

*IMPORTANT*: As this is an early preview, data loss is possible. Alfresco recommends you DO NOT use this with important data.... read more

Alfresco Community Edition 4.0.e is the exact same release as Alfresco Community Edition 4.0.d, except that 4.0.e includes a new default SOLR SSL certificate.

Alfresco has just released the beta version of Alfresco Labs 3. This version includes Microsoft SharePoint compatibility, the new REST-based and component-oriented Surf platform integrating the YUI Ajax lib, and a preview of the Alfresco Share collaborative web application with social networking capabilities.

We would like to announce that the V2.1 Community 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
- Blog publishing

- Web Content Managment:
- Deployment
- Search
- Content Launch
- Content Expiration
- Locking
- Custom editor toolbars
- Link Management
- Deployment to file-server
- WCM Portlet for non-technical users... read more

Alfresco is an open source enterprise content management repository and portlets (CMS) built by a team that includes the co-founder of Documentum. Its modular architecture uses the latest open src Java technologies: Spring, Hibernate, Lucene and JSF.

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:... read more

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

- 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... read more

We would like to announce that the V1.4 Community Release of Alfresco is now available. This release introduces a number of new features, including:
- Business Process Managment (jBPM integration)
- Audit Trail
- Open Document Format support
- Many more JavaScript actions
- Much greater performance and stability under high loads
- My Alfresco Dashboard
- Virtual Custom Desktop executables... read more

We would like to announce that the V1.4 Community Preview release of Alfresco is now available. This release introduces a number of new features, including:

- Business Process Managment (jBPM integration)
- Open Document Format support
- More JavaScript actions
- Much greater performance and stability under high loads
- Audit trail
- My Alfresco Dashboard
- Virtual Custom Desktop executables... read more

We would like to announce that a Community preview of Open Document Format support for Alfresco is now available. This has improved transformation support for ODF files, such as text, spreadsheet and presentation documents.

Used in conjunction with Alfresco's rules or scripting, it is simple to provide "drop zones" that automatically convert office documents to ODF, via the desktop, ftp or web browser application.... read more

We would like to announce that the V1.3.0 Community release of Alfresco is now available. This release introduces a number of new features, including:

- JavaScript actions
- Recoverable delete
- Configurable UI framework
- Developer SDK
- Email templates
- Folder actions
- Property constraints
- Link objects
- Full repository export and import

There are database schema changes, so if not used on new DB install, you will need to follow the upgrade instructions and scripts included.... read more

We are pleased to announce that the 1.3 Community Preview of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System is now available for evaluation and testing purposes. It is a 100% open source enterprise content management platform.

Features introduced in this release include:

* JavaScript engine
* Web-client customisation framework
* Deleted item recovery and purge
* Email templates
* Data model constraints and required properties
* Performance improvements
* Space/folder actions
* Link objects for files and folders
* Scheduled actions
* Full Repository Export & Import
* Alfresco SDK (Developer Bundle) ... read more

We are pleased to announce that Version 1.2.1 of the Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System has now made enterprise scale features open source. This means that enterprise-scale content management and deployment is now possible with a 100% open source content management platform.

Features that are now open source include:

* Enterprise security - support for groups and enterprise organizations... read more

We are pleased to announce that Alfresco Version 1.2 is available. This release has provided a number of features to simplify deployment and development of Enterprise Content Management. Some of the new capabilities include:

* Administration – Document Level Permissions, Upgrade Management and Export/Import of Permission
* Guest access to web client and templated files
* Support for JSR 170 Level 2
* A templating interface for RSS feeds
* Web Services Starter-Kit
* Easy access to web client from Virtual File System interface
* Team Collaboration – Forums/Threaded Discussions on a document or a space
* Advanced Search – Multiple Category and Object Type support. Saved Searches.
* Support for JBoss portal 2.2 and Firefox 1.5 support... read more

We are pleased to announce that Release Candidate 2 of Alfresco Version 1.2 is available. This release has provided a number of features to simplify deployment and development of Enterprise Content Management. Some of the new capabilities include:

* Administration – Document Level Permissions, Upgrade Management and Export/Import of Permission
* Guest access to web client and templated files
* Support for JSR 170 Level 2
* A templating interface for RSS feeds
* Web Services Starter-Kit
* Easy access to web client from Virtual File System interface
* Team Collaboration – Forums/Threaded Discussions on a document or a space
* Advanced Search – Multiple Category and Object Type support. Saved Searches.
* Support for JBoss portal 2.2 and Firefox 1.5 support... read more

We are proud to announce that V1.1 of the PHP Library to Alfresco is now available. This is a service-based interface to the Alfresco repository that allows PHP applications to access Alfresco content services.

This library and the open source version of Alfresco available to download at: http://www.alfresco.org/download.html

Information on the PHP interface can be found in our wiki here: http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Alfresco_PHP_Library.
Release notes for V1.1.2 can be found in our wiki here: http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Release_1.1.2 ... read more

We are proud to announce that V1.1.2 of Alfresco is now available. This is essentially a configuration update to V1.1.1.

The open source version is available to download at: http://www.alfresco.org/download.html

Release notes for V1.1.2 can be found in our wiki here: http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Release_1.1.2

Please see http://www.alfrescosoftware.com if you are interested in the Professional or Enterprise Network editions. ... read more

Hello,

We are proud to announce that V1.1.1 of Alfresco is now available.

The open source version is available to download at: http://www.alfresco.org/download.html

Release notes for V1.1.1 can be found in our wiki here: http://www.alfresco.org/mediawiki/index.php/Release_1.1.1

Please see http://www.alfrescosoftware.com if you are interested in the Professional or Enterprise Network editions.

Thank you again for your continued support, ... read more