Alfresco Content Services 7.3 Release notes
Highlights
- Java 17 support
- Alfresco Content Services 7.3 now supports running on Java 17, despite Java 11 is also supported. See the Supported Platforms page for more information.
- Angular 14 support
- Alfresco Content Application 3.1.0 (built on top of ADF 5.1.0) now supports Angular 14.
Use Cases
- Provide new features to allow partners and customers to create solutions.
- Support customers using the Open Source version of our major products and components.
- Support partners doing open source development for customisations for their customers.
- Support customers in open source development.
- Assisting partners and customers to migrate customisations from previous releases to Alfresco Community Edition 7.3.
Specific Release Components
Content Repository
New (Actions)
- GET /action-parameter-constraints/{parameterConstraintName} – retrieve an action parameter constraint by requested name.
Updated (Actions)
- GET /action-definitions – added field ‘parameterConstraintName’ to action parameter definitions.
- GET /action-definitions/{actionDefinitionId} – added field ‘parameterConstraintName’ to action parameter definitions.
Updated (Discovery)
- GET /discovery – added field ‘isCustomEmbeddedWorkflowEnabled’ to license info.
REST API Explorer
REST API Explorer is integrated into alfresco-repository-Community Docker image. It is accessible via the link provided in the /alfresco page either via using /api-explorer context on alfrescoServerPath (alfrescoScheme://alfrescoHost:alfrescoPort).
To navigate the details of the new REST API endpoints GitHub – rest-api-explorer.
Alfresco Share
The latest release of Share is 7.3.0.1
Search Services
Alfresco Search Services for Community Edition is 2.0.5.1. Solr 6.6 is the underlying search engine.
When relying on Search Services, usage of unauthenticated plain HTTP communication between ACS 7.3 and Solr is not supported. You need to switch to SECRET or mTLS communication method, if using HTTP on previous versions.
Alfresco Governance Services
AGS 7.3.0 is the latest release and is compatible with Alfresco Content Services 7.3.
Alfresco Mobile
Alfresco Mobile Workspace is 1.5 and is compatible with Alfresco Content Services 7.3.
SDK
The latest release of the Alfresco in-process SDK is SDK 4.5, which is compatible with Alfresco Content Services 7.3.
The latest release of the Alfresco out-of-process Event SDK is SDK 5.2, which is compatible with Alfresco Content Services 7.3 and the new SDK Event Gateway.
Alfresco Extension Inspector
This optional utility helps partners and customers better understand the customisations in their existing deployments. The Alfresco Extension Inspector is a utility for AMP inspection for Alfresco Community Edition and Alfresco Content Services 5.2.7, 6.2.2, 7.x releases. The inspector is recommended for use before installing new versions of our product to help expose any issues that might impeded success.
The alfresco-extension-inspector is a tool that scans and validates an Alfresco extension (amp or jar) against an alfresco.war file. The tool parses an extension and generates a report on possible overrides, discouraged usage of nonpublic API, Alfresco’s 3rd-party libraries and incompatible libraries.