The document discusses migrating to Alfresco 1.9. It overviews the new licensing model, changes under the covers including moving to alphanumeric IDs and Lucene changes, new features such as URL maps and CMIS, changes to permissions with hierarchical roles and inheritance, and notes some backward incompatibilities removed in the upgrade.

1. Migra&ng
to
1.9
What
this
means
for
you

2. Overview
• New
Licensing
Model
• Changes
under
the
Covers
• New
Features!!
(and
how
to
take
advantage
of
them)
• Backward
Compa&bility
• Some
things
can’t
be
Automated

3. New
Licensing
• Why
New
Versions
– Community
– Enterprise
– Enterprise
Prime
• Community
Edi&on
not
defined
by
Quality
• Hard
work
was
done
to
size
offerings
appropriately
for
current
customers.

4. Changes
Under
the
Covers
• Numeric
IDs
to
Alphanumeric
ID
– Globally
Unique
• Lucene
Changes
– Query
language
a
bit
more
natural
– Index
storing
less,
smaller
index
=
faster
index
– Lucene
Query
Tool
• On
Disk
Caching
(has
made
it
back
to
EE
2009)
• New
packaging
–
standard
WAR
• Hosts
are
Content

5. New
Features!!
• URL
Maps
• Custom
Fields
• Binary
Field
• CMIS
• Login
As
• Caching
• Hosts
as
Content

6. Permissions
• Changes
to
Roles
– Hierarchical
Roles
– No
More
Groups
– Locked
Roles
• Changes
to
Permissions
– Permissions
can
(should)
Inherit
– Permission
Inheritance
Tree
– Users
can
have
specific
Permissions
• “Login
As”
is
your
friend

7. Backward
Compa&bility
• No
more
JSR-­‐168
• No
more
groups
• Dropped
support
for
IE
6.0
• Many
legacy
roles
dropped
• Portlet
permissions
dropped
• Category
Groups
are
Deprecated