The new Side Panel (also known as Info Panel) is a reusable Clay React component that provides a consistent, accessible, and responsive sliding panel for use across Liferay applications. It supports common use cases such as content editing, navigation, and contextual information display.
 

Key benefits:

• We established a uniform look and feel across all instances of the Side Panel, reducing cognitive load and improving usability and also ensured compliance with accessibility standards (e.g. keyboard navigation, ARIA roles), enabling inclusive design by default.

• Reduces redundant implementations and streamlines maintenance by offering a centralised, reusable component.

• Reinforces design consistency and reusability across the product ecosystem.

The addition of new translations and locales ensures that users in Myanmar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ireland and Serbia can interact with the platform in their preferred languages or regional variation.

Key benefits:

• Tailors the user experience for specific markets and regions, improving relevance and usability

• We made the platform more inclusive by expanding language and locale options.

The Accessibility Checker Component is being deprecated as part of our effort to improve accessibility tooling and simplify our component library. After evaluating its usage and overlap with other accessibility solutions in Liferay, we found it to be redundant and we stopped using it long time ago.

By displaying the blueprint's results in a Collection Display fragment (available since DXP 7.4 U88 as Beta), you can leverage search to return your assets dynamically, and reap the benefits of the fragments toolbox to lay out the page.

Enhanced Type Support

Now, the Blueprint Collection Provider supports asset types (like structured web content and Objects) allowing to map specific item fields beyond the the basic information fields (i.e., asset entry fields) in fragments, depending on the Searchable Types settings of your blueprint.

 
When selecting Web Content Article as Searchable Types, the subtype selector becomes available

 
Selecting an available Web Content Structure (Subtype) as Searchable Types in a blueprint

 
Web Content Article with a specific Web Content Structure selected as subtype in a blueprint

 
Mapping a Web Content Structure field from a Blueprint Collection Provider with a specific return type in a fragment

 
Web Content Article with no subtype restriction selected as Searchable Type in a Blueprint

 
Mapping Web Content Article field from a Blueprint Collection Provider with a specific return type in a fragment

 
Document with a specific subtype (Document Type) is selected as Searchable Types in a blueprint

 
Mapping Document Type fields from a Blueprint Collection Provider with a specific return type in a fragment

 
Object type selected as Searchable Types in a blueprint

 
Mapping Object fields from a Blueprint Collection Provider with specific return type in a fragment

 
Message Boards Message selected as Searchable Types in a blueprint

 
Mapping basic information fields from a Blueprint Collection Provider with return type Asset in a fragment

Opt-in Collection Provider

Configure if a collection provider should be published when creating a new blueprint, or later via the Configuration tab or through the action menu in the table view in Blueprints.

Enabling a blueprint as a Collection Provider on creation

 
Enabling/disabling a blueprint as a Collection Provider via Configuration later

Enable blueprint as a collection provide via the action menu in the Blueprints admin

Benefits

• Access and map type specific item fields fields in fragments for an extend range of types including Web Content Article and structures, Documents and Document Types and Objects.

• Limit searches to specific subtypes via Query Settings in Blueprints

Description

• Embedded items now include actions (when the headless entity supports)

• Filter by Workflow Status via the filter request parameter.

  • Filter field: status

  • Examples: status eq 0, status eq 0 or status eq 2

Benefits

• Invoke available actions on the returned items

• Filter results by workflow status

Liferay Self-Hosted deployments can update their Elastic stack to this version. For Liferay PaaS projects a new Elasticsearch image will be provided under Liferay Cloud’s Docker Hub account.

Deployments can operate their stack using the latest available, secure and stable version of OpenSearch 2.

Requires to install Liferay Connector to OpenSearch 2.

Liferay Tomcat Bundles and Docker Images ship with Elasticsearch 8.18 as the sidecar search engine.

Benefits

The Elasticsearch server runtime included in Liferay DXP Tomcat Bundles and Docker Images (aka. Sidecar Elasticsearch, located under [Liferay-Home]/elasticsearch-sidecar) is provided as a convenience for local development and testing only. It is neither suitable nor supported for production.

Instead, configure Liferay to connect to Elasticsearch as a self-managed, standalone server or cluster of server nodes. 

Collections with Blueprints (FF: LPS-129412) available as since DXP 7.4 U88 is now in RELEASE status and can be enabled via Feature Flags > Release.

Addressing prior limitations, custom cell renderers created with Client Extensions now provide full row data access. This empowers developers with expanded options and greater flexibility for their implementations so they can create a renderer for a cell and include data from all the row mixing the contents. For example, you can create a cell to calculate the volume of a furniture good based on the different dimensions fields.

Benefits

• Expand developer capabilities to create more powerful Client Extensions for Data Set Cell Renderers

The Data Set has a revamped experience in terms of selection that also provides a quicker way to contextualize the user interaction.

When facing any of the visualizations (table, card, row) the user can click on the item body to perform single selection. This enhances rapid selection and better interaction.

Benefits

• More modern selection pattern that follows industry trends

• Clearer states for the user to distinguish when an item is:

  • Selected (active)

  • Hovered

  • Both at the same time

With this release, the Liferay DXP is now built with the modern, cloud native technology provided by the Jakarta EE 10 platform. The legacy Java EE platform will no longer be supported on this and future releases, allowing Liferay DXP to continue to evolve and build innovative solutions to meet your business needs.

Benefits

Liferay DXP now certified on Jakarta-based application servers: Tomcat 10.1, Jboss EAP 8.0, and Wildfly 30. This also provides support for newer specifications such as Portlet 4.0, Servlet 6.0, and Spring Framework 6.0. The update paves the way for faster feature development and rapid security fixes available in the modern Java enterprise ecosystem.

The Beta feature to migrate databases to PostgreSQL has been updated to support all supported database types. PostgreSQL is the Liferay recommended database server, especially for PaaS and SaaS users and Liferay provides this tool to simplify the migration.

Benefits

Users on MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle DB, and IBM DB2 are now able to migrate their database to PostgreSQL. The tool was previously limited to users on MySQL. Now all users have access to the DXP and Cloud performance benefits of using PostgreSQL.

The DXP database upgrade process has been enhanced with a suite of verification checks that are executed before any data modifications are made.

These checks have minimal impact on the overall upgrade process execution time, but they can be optionally disabled with the property upgrade.database.preupgrade.verify.enabled=false

Benefits

It can be frustrating when a database upgrade process executes a large amount of modifications to the system and then fails due to a misconfiguration, prompting the need to restore the database and restart the process. Now the database upgrade process will perform a series of configuration checks and report them to the user before modifications are needed. This prevents the need to always restore the database or document library before re-running the upgrade. The upgrade report will still be generated if the preupgrade checks fail, and provide details of any issue.

Allow users to call the {scopeKey} using the external reference code when creating a custom object with site scope.

Ex: /scope/{scopeKey}/...

Now, ID, Name and ERC are supported for scopeKey.

Users can now refer to their custom external reference codes for sites when interacting with object endpoints.

This feature adds workflow support for Root Models. Child object definitions which are part of a root context will inherit the workflow configurations of the root parent. This simplifies the administration of objects which are part of root model applications.

Friendly URLs, also known as clean URLs or pretty URLs, are web addresses that are human-readable and search engine-friendly. They typically use descriptive keywords instead of cryptic file names or query strings. Users can define a friendly URL for entries, making them more human readable and search engine friendly.

New improvement to make easier the way to promote content among environments. Liferay expands the capabilities of the Batch Engine by introducing a powerful tool for site scoped entities:

• Batch Delete by External Reference Code ( Site Scoped entities ) – Users can now delete items using external reference codes instead of internal IDs, making batch deletions simpler and more consistent across environments.

Now, covering all scopes, the way teams manage bulk deletions is more simple and safe because it is based on the use of external identifiers so the consistent data maintenance across staging, production, and other instances is possible without changing between environments

Key Business Benefits

• More reliable environment synchronization: External Reference Codes allow you to delete the same entities across different environments without depending on internal IDs, reducing risk of mismatches.

• Simplified bulk deletion workflows: Deleting large sets of data is now easier, with fewer manual steps and lower chance of errors.

• Greater control over delete operations: Choose whether the process should stop on errors or complete fully—helping teams tailor the behavior to fit their operational needs.

• Increased resilience and fault tolerance: Deletion jobs are less likely to fail entirely due to minor issues, ensuring smoother maintenance processes.

• Consistent support across entities: These enhancements are available for all entity types supported by the batch engine, making them broadly applicable across different use cases.

• Context: Both features are part of the “Promote content among environments” strategic initiative.

Describe the feature:

• With the migration to Jakarta, RESTBuilder needed to adapt to be able to generate the classes with the right namespace.

• Use the javaEEPackage property to define whether to use javax as namespace (for pre-Jakarta versions of Liferay) or set the value to “jakarta” for newer versions.

In our headless APIs, we have many endpoints with /siteId/{siteId}/ as part of the path for many entities. Now, siteId not only accepts the siteName or the siteId as value, but also the External Reference Code of the site can be used.