Alfresco 5.0 Community edition features:

Its very exciting to learn that Alfresco made a big leap by releasing 5.0 community edition :) :) The Enterprise edition may be out in another two months!!!  Below are the key features that I learnt from Alfresco personnel through their posts:

1. Filtered search is available. Now we can search any word or title from the entire system just by searching in the search bar. Oh wait!!! we did already have a search feature in Alfresco 4 editions.. Isn't it?Yep we do have.. This new feature enables us to look for documents along with the filters. It really makes easy for the users to apply multiple filters and look for a more specific search results.

2. Instant Search Results feature (Live Search) provide near real-time search results for Documents, Sites and People immediately as the user is typing in the search box. This is a great interactive way to explore search results and find items from any screen in Share.

3. Alfresco Share has a good preview feature to view various types of documents. However, for more complex document types, it required the 3rd party Flash plugin. To overcome this, a pure HTML5 based document previewer has been added which provides better browser support, faster performance and no reliance on 3rd party plugins.
Below are the notable changes in the previewer:

1. Multiple pages can be displayed on screen
2. Mini summary view
3. Search button
4. Link button
5. Download button

4.The inline HTML editor used to edit .html content, comments, wiki, blog and discussion pages in Alfresco has been upgraded to TinyMCE4. This provides a more modern looking editing experience with various minor improvements. TinyMCE4 features an improved interface and a nice full screen editing mode.

5. The new Sites Manager feature in Share Admin Tools enables an Administrator to control access and delete sites from a single admin screen.

These are the notable changes in Alfresco 5.0 Community edition apart from the cool looking UI... Hope to see many more such wonderful features from Alfresco!!!