After searching with a keyword and selecting facets, searching with a new keyword (in either using the header Search Bar or any Search Bar widget instance on a page) will clear all active facet selections.

The old behavior can be enabled via the Search Options widget by ticking Retain Facet Selections Across Searches option.

This affects any custom code using Liferay’s API methods User.getRemotePreference(String) and User.getRemotePreferences().

The API supporting logic has to collect and hold cookies in User object, causing unnecessary CPU and memory overhead. These methods were just a convenient shortcut to get the user's current request's cookies with REMOTE_PREFERENCE_ name prefix. The same logic can be done by directly getting necessary cookies from request.

• What changed? Currently, the translatable object fields use the configured languageId from the user. With this change, it is going to use the preferred Locale given by the DTOConverterContext instead.
• Why was this change made? This change is needed in order to return the appropriate translatable object field values for the language setting in the Accept-Language header.
• Who is affected? Every user that calls the translatable object fields.
• How should I update my features or implementation to better adopt the breaking change? Adding or removing (depends on the cases) the Accept-Language header.

Searching after filtering will clear all existing filters and give a search from the entire data set.

Previously our AB Testing feature supported multivariate testing. With the addition of multiple variants, the time to completion and the calculations required would increase exponentially. This caused many issues for our customers. As such we have decided to pare back this functionality to provide a higher quality experience for our users. Now our AB Testing feature only supports 1 variant, in addition to the control. This makes our feature truly an AB Test rather than a Multivariate Test. There is the possibility of re-enabling multivariate testing in the future, but that will depend on the needs from our customers.

We changed the default configuration such that if a Menu Display widget is placed on a Page Template, the default configuration for it will be "Pages Hierarchy" (unless there are no Pages at all on the Site). It will display as "Pages Hierarchy" even if Private Pages are enabled. If Private Pages are enabled, an alert will appear on the Page Template letting the user know that the Menu Display may appear different if the inherited page has the opposite privateLayout value to the menu currently being rendered.

When a Page inherits this Page Template, the alert message does not display on the Page, and the Navigation Menu will be configured for either Public Pages Hierarchy or Private Pages Hierarchy depending on whether the page is public.

Current options in System Settings > Documents and Media > Cache Control are:

• Public
• Private

And Private is the default option.

From now on, we are adding a new option No Cache that will allow configure this option to “private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate" and it will be used as default value, so it changes current default behavior: