Alfresco Community Edition is a free, LGPLv3-licensed, self-hosted content management platform sharing its core code with the commercial Alfresco Platform.
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Alfresco Community Edition is the free, open-source version of the Alfresco content services platform, tracing back to Alfresco Software's founding in 2005 and now maintained under Hyland, which acquired Alfresco in 2020. It is licensed under LGPLv3 and shares more than 90% of its codebase with the paid Alfresco Enterprise Platform.
Community Edition provides a document/content repository with web-based access across devices, and open APIs for building custom integrations and extensions. Because it shares the majority of its code with the commercial Enterprise edition, it offers much of the same core content management functionality.
Alfresco Community Edition is free to download and use, with no license fees. However, it does not include official vendor support or an SLA — users rely on community resources, documentation, and forums instead of Hyland's commercial support channels.
Yes. It receives regular releases, including version 26.1 in March 2026.
Alfresco Community Edition is licensed under LGPLv3.
It shares most of the same core codebase but lacks official vendor support and some enterprise governance and AI features found in the commercial Enterprise edition.
Through official Alfresco/Hyland community channels, as well as mirrors on SourceForge and GitHub.