Object entry pages can now use meaningful, human-readable URLs even when built with custom layouts. Instead of relying on automatically generated numeric identifiers, administrators can define addresses based on business data, such as an event name.

This improvement brings the same flexibility already available in other layout experiences to scenarios that require more advanced or tailored UIs. The result is clearer links, easier sharing, better discoverability, and a more consistent navigation pattern across the portal.

Key Benefits:

• Consistency across layouts – Custom layouts now provide the same URL capabilities users already expect elsewhere.

A new notification capability has been added to the Orders Questions & Answers feature (formerly Commerce Order Notes) to improve timely communication between Buyers and Order Managers, ensuring that Order Managers are notified when a Buyer adds a comment and Buyers are notified when an Order Manager responds.

To support both user notifications and email notifications, we created a new System Object: Commerce Order Note. By leveraging Object Actions, it is now possible to trigger notifications directly from the Questions & Answers flow.

On the Commerce Order Note object, we introduced two terms — Order Note Recipient Emails and Order Note Recipient IDs, to dynamically determine the recipients of email and user notifications. The recipient selection logic respects channel-level configurations, including Open Orders Visibility Scope, Placed Orders Visibility Scope, ensuring that notifications are sent exclusively to users who are authorized and within the configured visibility scope.

Additionally, a new toggle was added in the Channel configuration — Enable Notifications User Scope — which, when activated, ensures that only the buyer user who is the owner of the order receives notifications for responses from Order Managers.

This ensures that notifications are both permission-aware and contextually relevant, maintaining privacy while improving responsiveness.

Key Benefits:

• Improved Communication Efficiency: Buyers and Order Managers are instantly notified of new messages, reducing response times and eliminating manual follow-ups.

• Role and Permission-Based Accuracy: Notifications are dynamically scoped to authorized users only, ensuring privacy and reducing unnecessary alerts.

• Targeted & Controlled Visibility: Private notes and user-scoped configurations ensure sensitive communications are shared only with intended recipients.

• Configurable & Flexible: Channel-level visibility settings combined with the Enable Notifications User Scope toggle allow organizations to tailor notification behavior according to operational needs.

Within the Orders Admin Panel, a new “Recalculate” button has been introduced in the Order Summary.

This button enables administrators to recompute overall order totals following manual adjustments to order lines, executing a controlled summary-level recalculation without re-triggering the full pricing engine.

Key behavior:

• For any line the user has manually adjusted, the system preserves the user-entered values.

• For lines that have not been modified, the system retains the existing calculated values.

• Existing discounts on each line continue to be included in the total discount calculation.

• Manual quantity adjustments do not trigger changes to delivery pricing.

Key Benefits:

• Preserves User Control: Manual adjustments remain intact and are never overridden.

• Prevents Unintended Repricing: The full pricing engine is not triggered, reducing risk of unexpected changes.

• Improves Accuracy: Users can safely recompute totals without manual recalculation outside the system.

• Enhances Efficiency: Reduces reliance on external tools (e.g., spreadsheets) for validation.

We have introduced account-scoped order visibility to ensure that Order Managers only see and manage orders belonging to the Accounts they are assigned to.

This enhancement includes:

• A new regular role: Order Administrator

  • Grants out-of-the-box (OOTB) visibility and control over the Orders and Shipments panels within the Commerce Applications Menu.

• A new Order permission: Manage Accounts Scoped Orders

  • Assigned OOTB to the Order Manager Account Role.

  • When granted, this permission automatically filters orders so users can only view orders associated with the Accounts they are assigned to as Order Manager.

By combining the Order Administrator role with the Manage Accounts Scoped Orders permission, Order Managers can directly manage the full order lifecycle for their assigned Accounts through the Administrative Panels—without exposure to unrelated Account data.

Key Benefits:

• Data Isolation & Security: Ensures Order Managers only access orders relevant to their assigned Accounts.

• Improved Operational Focus: Reduces noise by removing visibility of unrelated orders, enabling faster and more accurate processing.

• Enhanced Governance & Compliance: Supports stricter access control policies and aligns with account-based operational models.

• Scalable Multi-Account Support: Ideal for organizations where multiple Order Managers operate across different Accounts.

With Liferay's New Headless Content Management System (CMS), creating, organizing, and publishing content is simpler because all content management tasks are brought together in a single interface. Your content is independent of its presentation, allowing you to reuse it across sites, pages, and APIs.

You can work with articles, documents, media, and more, while taking advantage of features like global asset views, organized spaces, and cross-site publishing. Thanks to Liferay Objects, the CMS provides flexible content structures and ensures a smooth, consistent authoring and publishing experience.

Key Benefits:

• Release Change status from Beta to Release

• New Gallery View for files

• Export/Import for Categories, Tags and Content Structures

• UX improvements for Import/Export translations

• General UX improvements on Spaces

Platform flexibility and enterprise system support is important to our users. With this release we have expanded the Compatibility Matrix to include some new environments.

Application Servers:

1. Added support for WebLogic 15c (see details in dedicated WebLogic 15 release note)

2. Expanded Jboss version support from 8.0 to 8.x to help our users stay up to date with Red Hat support policy

Databases:

1. Added support for MariaDB 11.8

2. Added support for PostgreSQL 17.x

Operating Systems:

1. Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Key Benefits:

• Access to newer versions of environment to ensure the latest performance, compliance, and security patching access.

AI Rules Files (.workspace-rules) are now available OOTB with new Liferay Workspaces. These files provide AI agents with the Liferay-specific logic, context, and guardrails needed to generate accurate, best-practice customizations for Liferay DXP. These rules are symlinked for automatic discovery by Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, GitHub Copilot, and Windsurf.

Blade 8.0 or higher is required to automatically set up new Liferay Workspaces with the AI Rules Files.

Key Benefits:

• Allows AI agents to become aware of the structure of Liferay Workspaces without any manual configuration.

• Assists new users with setting up a Liferay Workspace and running Tomcat bundle, with explanations for commonly used Blade commands.

• Provides Liferay recommended best practices for development.

• Enables AI agents to access the Liferay MCP server to query content, manage objects, and execute actions within the portal.

• Guided experience available to create and deploy a sample Client Extension, allowing users to quickly see Client Extensions in action in a running portal instance.

In order to assist customers with upgrades to newer Liferay versions, Blade and Workspace users now have a dedicated gradle command upgradeSourceCode to migrate their code automatically to their desired Liferay version. This will do in-place updates to custom code to account for breaking changes in the latest Liferay version.

For customers migrating to Jakarta for the first time, the Jakarta Migration Tool upgradeJakarta is also available to automatically convert their source code from Java EE to Jakarta EE for DXP-provided libraries. The Code Upgrade Tool should be executed first before running the Jakarta Migration Tool.

Key Benefits:

This tool simplifies the process for users migrating their code to newer Liferay versions, providing:

• Automatic source code migration for projects to a target Liferay version.

• Liferay version specific code upgrade automations to account for breaking changes.

• Integration with Liferay Workspace.