In the portal, Site Administrators are able to create different User Experiences for Pages. Publications can publish these Experiences. However it can be confusing for Publication Reviewers that they can not review changes introduced in all the Experiences, which are going to be published. Here we added the ability to Publication Reviewers to view changes added in all the Experiences which are going to be published.
Release Notes
We have received multiple requests about users having difficulties resolving conflicts during a Publication process. We listened for these requests, and decided to improve the quality of feedback provided to users about conflicts. Making the resolution of these conflicts easier.
Some applications do not support Publications. That situation can be really confusing when users try to use one of these applications, while inside a publication, and expect it to work together with Publications. We are aiming to make the user experience of the portal during publication as smooth as possible, so we decided to add a mechanism which provides the users with information if they start using one of these apps.
Improving performance is one of the main elements in our product strategy. Here we worked on improving the performance of the Review Changes screen. We have already improved the performance of other screens, and in the future we keep improving the performance of the screens.
Although Analytics Cloud provides valuable insights into the performance of content and pages, sharing this information within an organization has proven difficult for some users. To solve this problem, we are introducing a new feature that aims to enhance your sharing and reporting capabilities. With this feature, you can now effortlessly download PDFs of your dashboards and CSVs of lists (eg. segment membership), making it easier than ever to share critical insights with your stakeholders.
Key Benefits:
Time and Effort Savings: Exporting your dashboards to PDF and lists to CSV is a breeze. Say goodbye to the time-consuming task of manually extracting this information and formatting. Our platform streamlines the process for you.
Professional Reports: The PDF export feature ensures that your insights are presented in a polished and professional format, perfect for sharing with executives, clients, and colleagues.
To use this feature, simply click on the new Download button in the top right navigation bar. From there you can select the date range for the dashboards as well as the specific cards you wish to include in your report.
Although Analytics Cloud provides valuable insights into the performance of content and pages, sharing this information within an organization has proven difficult for some users. To solve this problem, we are introducing a new feature that aims to enhance your sharing and reporting capabilities. With this feature, you can now effortlessly download PDFs of your dashboards and CSVs of lists (eg. segment membership), making it easier than ever to share critical insights with your stakeholders.
Key Benefits:
Time and Effort Savings: Exporting your dashboards to PDF and lists to CSV is a breeze. Say goodbye to the time-consuming task of manually extracting this information and formatting. Our platform streamlines the process for you.
Professional Reports: The PDF export feature ensures that your insights are presented in a polished and professional format, perfect for sharing with executives, clients, and colleagues.
To use this feature, simply click on the new Download button in the top right navigation bar. From there you can select the date range for the dashboards as well as the specific cards you wish to include in your report.
The Analytics mobile app allows users to access the main reports and dashboards on-the-go to stay on top of the most relevant metrics for the business.
The upcoming Marketplace release of the Liferay Connector to OpenSearch 2.x will provide an alternative to Elasticsearch for Self-Hosted Liferay deployments.
IMPORTANT: Please note that the Liferay Enterprise Search Learning to Rank, Cross-Cluster Replication, and Monitoring applications are not compatible, and thus not supported with OpenSearch.
Introducing new key improvements to the B2B Guest Checkout experience, enhancing the overall user journey and providing greater flexibility for both new and returning customers.
Guests now have the option to sign in or sign up during the checkout process, directly from the mini-cart. Once logged in, users can either select an existing account or create a new one, ensuring that they can move through the purchase flow smoothly without disruptions. Upon setting the account, guests, now logged-in users, will be redirected to the checkout, making the transition to completing the purchase seamless.
Additionally, if a guest decides to sign in without necessarily checking out, the guest cart will now be merged with their account after logging in. This ensures that any items added to the cart during the guest session are retained when they sign in or select an existing account, improving the continuity and experience for returning users.
Key benefits:
1. Enhanced User Experience: By allowing guests to sign in or create an account directly from the mini-cart, we provide a more intuitive and streamlined checkout process. Guests can complete their purchase with minimal steps, reducing friction and abandonment rates.
2. Cart Persistence: The ability to merge guest carts ensures that items are not lost when guests decide to sign in or register. This improves convenience for returning users and supports a smoother transition between sessions.
Added External Reference Codes for references in widget configurations in Commerce and User Management applications. This helps promote data integrity when pages and their widgets are migrated across environments.
Key benefits:
References within the following page widgets now use External Reference Codes instead of internal IDs:
Cart
Cart Summary
Category Content
Commerce Addresses
Commerce Category Navigation
Mini Cart
Open Carts
Option Facet
Order Forecasts Chart
Organization Management
Placed Orders
Product Comparison Bar
Product Comparison Table
Product Details
Product Downloads
Product Publisher
Search Results(Commerce)
Specification Facet
The Centralized Products Eligibility and Configuration Management feature empowers catalog managers to efficiently manage individual products through multiple configuration pages containing all catalog’s products. With tools for manual configuration, eligibility-based visibility, and some bulk editing, this feature ensures streamlined operations and enhanced control over product offerings. Additionally, it enables faster and smarter management of product eligibility for channels, order types and accounts.
Key benefits:
1. Improved Catalog Management Efficiency:
Simplified product configuration editing via a centralized, flat table view.
Streamlined workflows for managing product attributes like visibility, minimum/maximum quantities, eligibility and much more.
Avoid duplicating products to manage specific configurations by modifying targeted configurations instead.
Perform batch updates on visibility, eligibility, and other product attributes for multiple products, whilst inheriting base setting from the Master catalog configuration
Leverage pre-filled default master configurations to ensure consistency and simplify product setup when adding new products in a catalog.
2. Enhanced Control over Product Eligibility and Visibility:
Define and manage eligibility rules tailored to specific customer groups, channels, and accounts
Quickly adjust product availability and settings for various markets and segments (e.g. B2B vs B2C).
Streamline the management of seasonal items or time-sensitive offerings using configuration scheduling.
Liferay Labs is an innovation hub within Liferay Marketplace dedicated to exploring newer technologies and developing experimental features. It provides a wide range of useful applications developed by Liferay staff. These are available to the community from Marketplace.
Liferay Labs serves as a platform for rapid prototyping and testing new ideas. These apps may often be integrated as future Liferay features. Under Liferay Labs, you can also find all the legacy apps that are no longer under official support.
All apps offered by Liferay Labs are free but without support. However, you may give feedback on apps containing beta features as it helps in improving them for a future release.
Key benefits:
1. Innovation Hub: serves as a testing ground for new and experimental technologies within the Liferay ecosystem.
Enables rapid prototyping and exploration of novel ideas.
2. Community Access: provides a platform for sharing valuable applications developed by Liferay staff with the broader Liferay community.
Makes these applications readily available through the Liferay Marketplace.
3. Future Feature Roadmap:Acts as a proving ground for potential future features of the Liferay platform. Allows for real-world testing and user feedback on new functionalities before official integration.
4. Legacy Application Repository: serves as an archive for legacy applications that are no longer officially supported. Enables users to access and utilize these applications if needed, while acknowledging their limited support.
External Reference Code is now supported in Currencies.
It is also now possible to use the ERC to update and delete Currencies via their headless APIs.
Additional ERC support for the entities that have a relation with a currency has been added when creating new Catalogs, Channels, Price Lists/Promotions, Orders and Payments.
Key benefits:
Enhanced Data Management;
Improved Integration Capabilities;
Enhanced System Scalability;
Reduced Errors
This feature allows warehouse managers to define granular eligibility rules for accounts and account groups to access specific warehouses. This enables fine-grained control over which customers can see and purchase inventory from which warehouses.
Key benefits:
1. Improved Inventory Management:
Prevent unauthorized access to inventory data.
Strategically control product visibility based on inventory quantities and stock levels.
Optimize inventory allocation across customer segments.
2. Enhanced Customer Experience:
Provide a more relevant and personalized shopping experience.
Improve customer satisfaction by prioritizing access for key customer segments.
3. Increased Revenue:
Generate higher revenue from valuable customer segments by prioritizing their access to inventory.
4. Reduced Lost Sales:
Minimize lost sales due to stockouts by limiting product visibility for certain customer groups.
Enhance the user experience by allowing users to directly provision cloud applications from marketplace platform, simplifying application deployment.
Key benefits:
1. Streamlining Application Provisioning: Enable users to provision cloud applications directly from the Marketplace platform, eliminating the need for complex manual processes and without leaving the platform.
2. Intuitive User Interface: Provide an easy-to-use interface for installing and uninstalling cloud applications directly from the marketplace, including an intuitive form for inputting necessary information.
3. Efficient License Management: Offer a clear and intuitive interface for managing application licenses, ensuring compliance and optimizing resource utilization.
This release introduces a new Multishipping feature to the storefront, allowing customers to ship parts the same order to multiple addresses with a single checkout. Whether customers are sending gifts to different recipients or shipping products to various locations, the Multishipping feature offers a seamless and flexible shopping experience.
Administrators can allow multishipping in their site through a new configuration in the site’s Channel details page. The customers can access a new “Multishipping” tab in the Open Order Details page to easily manage the Delivery Groups and customize the quantity of each order item for every Delivery Group for the order before the checkout.
Please note that this feature is available through the existing “Commerce Classic Site Initializer” Beta feature flag. To enable it, open the Applications Menu → Control Panel → Instance Settings → Feature Flags → Beta.
Key benefits:
1. Easy to Setup: Multishipping can be activated for your site by enabling “Allow Multishipping” in your site’s Channel Details page.
2. Flexible Address and Delivery Management: Customers can easily set different shipping addresses or different delivery dates for the same address in the context of the same order.
This feature focuses on rigorously aligning the User Management headless APIs with the established standards and best practices. This includes:
Comprehensive Functionality Testing: Verifying that all API endpoints (PATCH/POST/PUT) correctly update the expected fields in user records.
Custom Field Support: Ensuring seamless integration and proper functioning of custom fields within the API interactions.
Error Handling: Thoroughly testing error handling mechanisms and verifying that informative and user-friendly error messages are returned in all relevant scenarios.
Data Manipulation Capabilities: Confirming the correct and efficient functioning of sorting, filtering, and other data manipulation operations within the API.
Key benefits:
Enhanced User Experience: By ensuring the reliability and accuracy of the User Management headless APIs, we provide a seamless and efficient user experience for developers and integrators.
Increased Developer Productivity: Well-defined and documented APIs empower developers to build integrations quickly and confidently, reducing development time and effort.
Improved System Stability: Rigorous testing and alignment with standards minimize the risk of unexpected errors and system disruptions, leading to a more stable and reliable user management system.
Enhanced Data Integrity: By ensuring accurate data updates and consistent API behavior, we maintain the integrity and consistency of user data across the system.
This feature enhances the filtering capabilities within the headless-admin-user endpoints by enabling filtering based on custom fields for Accounts and Account Groups.
Key benefits:
Improved Data Retrieval Efficiency
Enhanced Data Management
Increased User Productivity
Users can select and reorder categories for a blog’s friendly URL, so they can preview the order of the categories in the friendly URL and determine how the categories will be presented in the friendly URL along with the title.
Users are able to set different values for the asset types separators in the friendly URLs. Also, they are able to reset to default value, so for those asset types that they have clicked on this option, the separator will be the value defined by default for those specific asset types.
The two separate option menus currently displayed in the Web Content Display widget have been merged into a single, consolidated dropdown menu for content creators. This new menu will improve the user experience by reducing confusion and unnecessary clicks, ensuring all relevant widget actions (e.g., Hide Widget, Duplicate, Export/Import, etc.) are easily accessible.
Added logging to indicate the completion of fragment deployments via the deploy folder. This provides better visibility into the deployment process and allows for tracking deployment duration.
There are some advantages of including a message like that, for example:
- Count the duration of a deployment
- See the fragment progress deployment until it is deployed.
Elasticsearch 8.17 has been tested and added to the compatibility matrix.
Liferay Self-Hosted deployments can update the Elastic stack to this version. For Liferay PaaS projects, as usual, a new Elasticsearch image will be provided under Liferay Cloud’s Docker Hub account.
As it was first highlighted in the Release Notes of 2024.Q3, per Elastic’s product lifecycle, Elasticsearch 7.17.x versions are supported and maintained until Elasticsearch version 9 is released.
While Elastic does not provide specific release dates for future releases, for Elasticsearch 9.0.0, the new release is anticipated in early calendar year 2025.
Compatibility with Elasticsearch 8 is available on Liferay DXP 7.4 U81+: Operating Liferay 7.4 GA/Update 81+ with Elasticsearch 8 - Liferay.
Note: The Elasticsearch 8.x compatibility is provided through the bundled Elasticsearch 7 connector and the REST API Compatibility of Elasticsearch 8.
The addition of new translations and locales ensures that users in regions like Macedonia, Norway, Belgium, Switzerland, and Austria can interact with the platform in their preferred language 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.
Until now, there was no way in batch engine to export and import object entries and their permissions simultaneously. This new capability allows users to do that, streamlining workflows and reducing manual effort.
Key benefits:
Execution in only one call.
Possibility for users to choose to take into account (or not) permissions with object entries.
The batch engine's export endpoints now support filtering for object entries. This addresses a previous limitation where filtering was not applied to object entries during batch exports. This update ensures consistent data handling and filtering behavior across all entity types.
Key benefits:
- Object entries Personalization
- Equalize capabilities for all entities
Data imports, using batch engine, now allows users to preserve content creator information (if required). Previously, imported content with batch was always assigned the user performing the import, resulting in loss of original authorship data when moving content. This update ensures accurate attribution of content ownership (if required).
Key benefits:
Able to keep critical user information during data promotion between environments
Can be configured separately per import process
With our latest enhancements, Content Admins will enjoy effortless content organization, regardless of folder structures, along with enhanced filtering capabilities for precision content management discovery.
Features added in this Release:
Better experience to manage web content
In response to user feedback, several enhancements have been introduced for content creators. The first functionality addresses the challenge of easily finding and managing Web Content created within specific structures, allowing creators to review and edit content more efficiently. The other functionalities enable refined filtering and searching options, including the ability to search in the title, filter by categories and tag, filter search results and multi-select filters.
The Path Analysis tool has been enhanced with the addition of Exit Pages. This feature allows marketers to not only visualize users' entry points (referrer pages), but also their exit points (exit pages). With this user flow analysis, marketers can enhance user engagement and reduce bounce rates.
We have expanded the capabilities of AB Testing to allow the selection of a Collection Display Fragment as the Click Goal of an AB Test. This will allow customers to AB Test the clickthrough rate of different Collections or Collection Providers, empowering them to optimize which content is shown to end users.
Now, users are able to fill out object entries in parts, allowing them to save data as draft and return at their convenience to complete.
Our new Bulk Permission Management empowers administrators to modify access rights for multiple pages effortlessly. This new feature offers a multitude of benefits:
- Effortless Management: Save valuable time by managing permissions for multiple pages simultaneously.
- Enhanced Security: Gain complete visibility into page access, ensuring all intended audiences can access the content they need.
- Optimized Accessibility: Quickly identify pages not accessible to Guests and make adjustments for optimal user experience.
The Category Facet uses assetVocabularyCategoryIds
field for aggregation. The required mapping and indexer changes have been available since 7.4 GA46/U46 (LPS-156503: Display, Scope and Filter Categories by Vocabulary in the Category Facet).
Note: Reindex is required after all upgrades.
A new set of tooling is being provided, to centralize all the different tooling into a single solution, therefore, stand-alone tooling like the Fragments Toolkit does not make sense anymore as a stand-alone tool. In addition to that, the fragment toolkit needed upgrades to prevent some vulnerabilities that could happen. Therefore, we recommend adopting other solutions for now. The Fragment Toolkit will remain available for a minimum of one year.
Now, users are able to visually understand the structure of their objects and how they connect with each other to result in the platform model.
Allow clients to request a quote for individual products instead of setting a price. Includes the option to use a Price List or a Promotion to price the Product as "Price on Application". There is also the ability to activate the "Request a quote" option on a fully priced cart for a particular channel.
Sell and manage SKUs by adding different Units of Measure to the SKU. Configure the Unit of Measure to optionally allow for sales in decimal quantities. Units of Measure have their own pricing and inventory. Once configured, they add to the shopping experience of the buyer who can now purchase SKUs in different Units of measure.
Used in Conjunction with Supplier Accounts, this object's rule, once configured, splits Commerce Orders automatically by the Catalog that each Product belongs to. The Channel on the Order is updated to be the channel linked to the same supplier that the catalog is linked to. The order splitting rule effectively allows the supplier to manage orders for their own specific products.
New Account Type of Supplier. A Supplier can be linked to a catalog and to a channel to allow the supplier manage their own products, price lists, promotions, catalogs, discounts, inventory and channel in order to be able to fulfill orders for their own products.
This enhancement introduces configurable default permissions for newly created pages. Admins can set these permissions at both the instance and site levels. Instance-level settings are managed in a new Instance Settings panel, while site-specific overrides can be configured in the Site Configuration area.
This functionality refers to segments that are static groups of users.
That said, users can now utilize either user group-based segments or dynamic segments instead of static ones moving forward.
This functionality refers to tracking events related to non-default asset types and visualizing the data on a dashboard. From now on, customers will no longer be able to use this specific method to track views of non-default asset types and visualize this data on a dashboard in Analytics Cloud
Using custom event tracking is the recommended way to track your custom assets from now on.
This improvement allows users to customise the appearance of their Liferay instance more effectively with new properties in the .yaml
file for Theme CSS and CSS Client Extensions.
Key benefits:
Admins can personalise the interface for both the admin panel and the entire platform.
A more cohesive, branded appearance will improve usability and satisfaction for all users.
Allows fine-grained control over where customisations are applied.
Liferay 7.4 introduces the ability to manage language translations directly within client extensions. This enhancement allows developers to provide multilingual support for custom labels and properties without relying solely on OSGi bundles.
Key benefits:
Developers can now define and manage language keys and translations within the client extension itself, ensuring that all labels and custom properties are displayed correctly across different languages.
This feature eliminates the issue of untranslated labels with dashes, providing a consistent and professional appearance on multilingual sites.
Simplifies the process of adding translations, reducing the need for manual intervention and external OSGi bundles, thus accelerating the development and deployment of multilingual features.
Empowers developers to create more flexible and fully localized custom elements and themes, enhancing the overall versatility of the Liferay platform.
The updated Clay chart colour palette improves accessibility and usability by creating more contrast and adding more variations. Now users can easily distinguish charts, icons, and field sets, reducing confusion and improving clarity.
Key benefits:
Now we have more design flexibility for Liferay’s current and future products.
Accessible and distinguishable colours that will improve and unify the platform usability and UI.
Implemented proactive access token management with automated email notifications. Users will now receive alerts 1 month, 10 days, and 1 day prior to token expiration, allowing for timely renewal and preventing service disruptions. Notifications are automatically cancelled if a new token is generated.
Key benefits:
Users are notified before token expiration, allowing for timely renewal and uninterrupted access.
Reducing administrative overhead, as automated notifications eliminate the need for manual monitoring and intervention.
By prompting timely renewals, the risk of using expired and potentially compromised tokens is minimized.
Liferay Cloud now provides CI/CD support for Client Extensions on Liferay PaaS. Developers can integrate Client Extensions into their Git-based CI/CD pipelines, ensuring automatic builds and deployments alongside core Liferay services. This update enables automated validation, independent deployments, and faster release cycles for Client Extensions.
Highlights:
Dedicated CI/CD Pipeline: Separate build pipeline for Client Extensions to prevent conflicts with core Liferay services.
Automated Builds: Every commit triggers a new Client Extensions build, packaged as a LUFFA archive.
Independent Deployments: Client Extensions builds deploy separately, improving release flexibility.
Seamless Integration: Works with existing Git-based workflows on Liferay PaaS.
Zero Downtime Deployments: Deploy client extensions without affecting the main Liferay service.
The vendor has deprecated OpenSSO/OpenAM, so there's no reason for us to keep it. The alternative, which is PingAM can be integrated using our existing OpenID connector or SAML Authentication.
With this improvement, the Data Migration Center allows users to export and import Object Entries using CSV files. Not all field types are supported but many of the most used ones are:
Supported field types: dateandtime, date, decimal, integer, longint, longtext, precissiondecimal, richtext, text and picklist.
In order to help users, only supported fields are available for exporting at the UI. As new types are allowed, they will appear available in the UI.
We are excited to introduce enhancements to streamline your cloud management experience! With our updated cloud console view, you will have a detailed breakdown of subscription metrics per environment, empowering you to manage resources more effectively. Additionally, our new storage consumption tracker offers real-time insights into project storage usage, ensuring you're always informed about quota limits.
Under all supported formats, users can select the origin and destination site of the data so it is possible to export and import object entries between any site.
We refactored the way Liferay scripts were managed, so admins can define stricter policies like:
script-src '[$NONCE$]'; script-src-attr 'unsafe-inline';
Limitations: If a policy like the one above is configured, the parts of the product that uses a rich-text editor will not work correctly. Analyze your scenario to identify how strict your policy can be in order to make the solution work.
With this development, the publication of Knowledge Base articles will be schedulable, in particular, the feature is so designed:
The primary Publish button will have an arrow down with the “Publish” option, that will immediately publish the article, and the “Schedule” one.
Clicking the Schedule option, will make a modal appear so the user can set a date and time for the article to be published.
The Scheduled article will have the SCHEDULED status that will change to APPROVED on the scheduled date
A tooltip with the scheduled date information will appear when hovering the
question-circle-full
icon placed next to the SCHEDULED state.
Editing a scheduled article will provide the user the ability, by clicking the primary button that has turned into “Scheduled”, to:
Cancel the operation
Publish Now
Schedule: this option will save the article, date & time changes and the user will return to the previous screen before entering edit mode
Additional feature: A Knowledge Base article deletion action will move it to the Recycle Bin so that it can be restored.
Now, admins can customize the configuration of the Rich Text Editors with this new client extension, allowing them to set the toolbars that are available on different applications. In the form, you will have to define the instances in which the configuration will be taken into account as well as the JS that contains the configuration:
This feature allows you to leverage the functions of Liferay’s caching framework. Our current measurements indicate about 10%/30% performance increase in database writing operations, also 10 times faster reading performance!
Now users can configure the values for the following properties from settings (system, instance or site settings):
session.timeout.auto.extend
session.timeout.auto.extend.offset
When the Upgrade Report is enabled, the output directory of the report can be configured with the new portal property upgrade.report.dir
If this property is not set, the upgrade report can be found in the default directory:
portal-tools-db-upgrade-client/reports
for the upgrade tool.{liferay-home}/reports
if upgrade was executed on startup.
With this feature we extending the SCIM implementation with User Group un/provisioning as well with the User Group membership un/provisioning.
Previously customers would add captchas using a TagLib. But this is no longer useful since customers are not deploying JSPs. The Captcha API enables this functionality to be used in arbitrary contexts.
The user experience of the Management Toolbar present in multiple applications (Web Content, Blogs, Documents & Media) has been improved:
- Separate sections for filter and order.
- Changed “+” with “New” for clarity.
- Moved info icon to the right.
This set of improvements aims to simplify the manual work users must do to resolve conflicts when publishing a publication. Now, instead of raising a conflict to be resolved manually by the user, the system will try to overwrite conflicting changes in production with the modifications done in the publication, meaning that the Modification and Modification deletion conflict types won’t be presented for the user anymore.
In the case of a Deletion modification conflict, the system won’t resolve it automatically, but now it makes it easier to keep the modifications made in the publication. In the Conflicting changes screen, we added a button with the option to "Restore in Production" for conflicts in which the asset was deleted from production and is now in the Recycle bin.
Key benefits:
Reduce the amount of manual work by automatically solving most of the conflicts.
Improve user satisfaction and reliability on publications by ensuring that assets supported by Recycle Bin can be quickly restored, avoiding requiring the user to discard needed changes.