In the February 2026 newsletter, Hyland announced an important roadmap update for Alfresco Content Services. Announcement is specifically very important for Alfresco Search Service/Insight Engine. The Solr6-based Alfresco Search Service is being retired.
Key points (In case Alfresco community version users missed) as per the newsletter:
• End-of-life for Solr6-based search (Alfresco Search Services and Insight Engine) will occur with ACS 26.1, expected around mid-March 2026.
• ACS 25.x will be the final version supporting Solr6 (supposedly).
Replacement:
- Alfresco Search Enterprise - powered by Elasticsearch/OpenSearch
What’s important for Alfresco Content Services Community Edition?
The ACS 26 Community Edition will initially continue using Apache Solr6 based Search Service (2.x most probably), but a future Alfresco Content Services Community release is expected to transition to Elasticsearch/OpenSearch as well.
