[10] In September 2014, Alfresco 5 was released with new reporting and analytics features and an overhaul of its document search tool, moving from Lucene to Solr.

This included the release of the Application Development Framework with reusable Angular JS(2.0) components.

[14] On February 8, 2018, it was announced that Alfresco was acquired by the private equity firm Thomas H. Lee Partners, L.P.[15] On September 9, 2020, Alfresco was acquired again by Hyland Software from Thomas H. Lee Partners for an undisclosed amount.

It can be deployed on-premises on servers or in the cloud using an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Quick Start.

This includes a content and metadata repository, a web interface named Share, the ability to define automated business rules, and text indexing.