Alfresco Community Edition
Enterprise content and document management platform
Alfresco Community Edition is an open-source enterprise content management platform handling documents, records, and business processes. It supports versioning, metadata, full-text search, and BPM-driven workflows.
Key features
- Full-text search
- Records management
- BPM workflows
- Rich metadata
Pros & cons
Strengths
- Enterprise grade features
- Strong API
Trade-offs
- Resource hungry
- Complex to operate
Is Alfresco Community Edition secure?
OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Alfresco Community Edition's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.
Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.
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