As the year comes to an end, we decided to have a look at the important milestones and announcements related to Alfresco in 2014. This also includes major announcements and top blog-posts from Alfresco community members including Loftux that were hits!
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January
- An excellent tutorial on the Maven SDK is written and published by Jeff Potts. (http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/maven-sdk/tutorial/tutorial.html)
- Activiti Designer is released by Alfresco. (http://bpeters.tumblr.com/post/74062797891/activiti-designer-5-14-0-released)
February
- A top blog post from Loftux shows how you can use nginx and some code to display a maintenance message when Alfresco is down for maintenance. (https://loftux.com/en/blog/alfresco-maintenance-message)
- An interesting blog post on the previously announced Alfresco Activiti Kickstart from BataOn (http://www.bataon.com/blogs/amandaluniz/easy-workflows-activiti-kickstart).
March
- Alfresco Summit 2014 details announced. (http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2014/03/25/3682)
- Interesting blog post on generating video thumbnails in Alfresco (http://www.bataon.com/blogs/bchevallereau/how-have-video-thumbnails-alfresco-41x)
April
- Loftux expands! Hires Bhagya Silva (https://loftux.se/en/blog/loftux-is-expanding)
May
- Long time Alfresco Chief Community Officer Jeff Potts leaves Alfresco. (http://ecmarchitect.com/archives/2014/05/28/3713)
- A study shows Alfresco easily supports thousands of users and millions of documents. (http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/new-study-shows-alfresco-easily-supports-thousands-of-users-millions-of-documents/)
- Tutorial by Ole Hejlskov details how to work with the newly introduced Aikau framework. (http://ohej.github.io/alfresco-tutorials/tutorial/aikau/tutorial.html)
- A global virtual hack-a-thon is organised by the Alfresco Community with a large number of participants. (http://www.alfresco.com/events/webinars/global-virtual-hack-thon-may-2014)
June
- Alfresco 5.0.a Community Edition is announced.
- Jan Pfizner (Alfrescian) publishes a blog post detailing his thoughts on the Alfresco’s commitment to its Community offering. This post made waves in the community. (http://blog.alfrescian.com/?p=284)
- Order of the Bee is established by the Alfresco Developers and Partners Community and quickly gains traction. (http://orderofthebee.org/). The Order of the Bee starts with the mission to guarantee the existence of Alfresco Community Edition as a free/libre solution for Document Management.
July
- Alfresco Maven SDK, now renamed to Alfresco SDK announces version 2.0 (http://mindthegab.com/2014/07/17/whats-happening-with-the-maven-alfresco-sdk-get-ready-for-2-x)
- Alfresco SDK is migrated to GitHub! The SDK is now completely based on Apache Maven. (http://mindthegab.com/2014/07/20/maven-alfresco-sdk-migrated-to-github)
- Interesting blog post from Redpill Linpro! Alfresco Logging with Logstash and Kibana. (http://alfresco.blog.redpill-linpro.com/2014/07/01/alfresco-logging-with-logstash-and-kibana-part-1-the-basics/)
August
- Alfresco hot-reloading for development environments is announced by Gabrielle on his blog. (http://mindthegab.com/2014/08/07/rapid-development-and-hot-reloading-for-your-maven-project-in-eclipse-and-idea-for-free-yes-with-spring-loaded-and-tomcat7-virtualwebapp)
- Alfresco CTO John Newton publishes a blog post reassuring commitment to the community edition from Alfresco. (http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/strong-open-source-product/ )
- Alfresco raises $45 million led by Sageview Capital along with Accel Partners, Mayfield Fund and SAP Ventures. (http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/the-road-less-traveled-in-enterprise-content-management-ecm/)
- Alfresco CEO Doug Dennerline and Richard Esplin host an office hours and answers questions from the Alfresco Community (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylCbpyJOkLY)
September
Alfresco SDK Beta 4 is released and made available in Maven Central. This made it easier for developers to bootstrap Alfresco projects without manually specifying artefact repositories.
October
- Loftux announces ShareBox for Alfresco. ShareBox brings simple and powerful external sharing functionality to Alfresco. (http://loftux.se/en/blog/adding-secure-external-sharing-functionality-to-alfresco)
- Alfresco Summit 2014 happens in London and San Francisco! (https://loftux.com/en/blog/see-you-in-london )
- Alfresco One is announced at the Alfresco Summit. It will include the HTML5 PDF viewer originally created by Peter Löfgren at Loftux and Will Abson at Alfresco! (https://loftux.com/en/blog/replace-alfresco-standard-flash-viewer-with-pdf-js)
- Alfresco announces Alfresco Contract Management Solution. This is only under a Beta programme.
- Alfresco SDK v 1.2.0 is available with support for hot reloading. (http://ohej.dk/2014/10/alfresco-4-2-x-and-alfresco-sdk/), also a video tutorial on the SDK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utYZaVe9Nd0)
- SimpleEdit for Alfresco is announced at Alfresco Summit. Brings true offline editing capability for any type of content stored in Alfresco. (http://www.aca-it.be/simpleedit)
November
- The only Theme package for Alfresco consisting over 12 colorful themes based on Bootswatch is released by Loftux. (http://loftux.se/en/blog/the-new-loftux-themes-are-here )
- Alfresco drops the old Alfresco Explorer as well as legacy CMIS API support.
- Alfresco drops support for Lucene in Community edition.
David Webster writes a blog post titled Alternative Realities of Share Development (http://blogs.alfresco.com/wp/developer/2014/11/24/the-alternate-realities-of-share-development/), A community member writes back his thoughts. (
http://ohej.dk/2014/11/my-thoughts-on-the-future-of-alfresco-share/)
- Alfresco hosts another office hours session with the product team discussing the future directions. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA0A65NJ7Ic)
December
- Recursion alert, this blog post.
Let’s await an exciting 2015 filled with interesting new product announcements and news!
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