Release Notes
With this new dataset manager, customers will be able to define in a low-code way, views for displaying and manage data leveraging the headless APIs
Content Security Policy (CSP) is an added layer of security that helps to detect and mitigate certain types of attacks, including Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and data injection attacks. These attacks are used for everything from data theft, to site defacement, to malware distribution
Now you can create more detailed customer segments based on their specific actions. We have expanded our segmentation capabilities to allow you to segment your audience beyond standard website activities to include custom events.
We have significantly enhanced our workflow notification capabilities to provide a more personalized and efficient user experience. Users can now enjoy greater control over the notifications they receive through features such as site-scoped, role-based, and guest-user locale-based notifications.
The Liferay Marketplace now features expanded capabilities to streamline processes and enhance customer experiences. This includes new connectors for UPS and Adyen to offer seamless shipping and payment solutions. These connectors empower businesses to optimize their checkout experience by providing accurate shipping rates, multiple payment options, and enhanced fraud protection.
This new feature allows streamlined return processes for both buyers and sellers.
Buyers can easily initiate return requests directly from their order history, specify the reason for the return and request a refund.
Returns Managers, within the Returns admin pages, can review the return details, communicate with customers, and issue refunds with just a few clicks.
This feature enables granular product filtering based on custom fields to enhance admin/practitioner efficiency and user experience so that they can easily find what they are looking for.
This feature enables granular user filtering based on custom fields to enhance admin efficiency and targeted outreach.
The order pages have been redesigned using a Display Page Template for the Order with Fragments, overall offering greater flexibility and customization options. This allows for more dynamic and personalized order experiences.
The new Order Pages now enables the users to select shipping and payment options directly from the order page. Once all required information is filled in, users can quickly checkout with a single click, streamlining the purchasing process.
Previously, the Search Terms card displayed only the top 5 keywords users searched for on the site, providing limited insights. With this new feature, users will have access to a comprehensive list of all search terms, offering a much clearer understanding of user behavior. This improvement will help them optimize for a wider range of keywords, leading to better insights and more effective strategies.
Liferay's Content Dashboard now offers a new Performance tab, providing valuable insights into the performance of your digital assets.
This update empowers content creators and marketers to track visitor behavior, identify top-performing content, and optimize their content strategy for maximum impact. By analyzing asset-level metrics, businesses can make data-driven decisions to improve user engagement and drive business growth.
The Web Content Editor now includes an autosave feature that automatically saves changes in real-time as users edit, storing the content as a draft.
This also allows users to easily undo or redo changes as needed. With this enhancement, manual saving is no longer necessary, ensuring continuous backup of content and minimizing the risk of data loss. Content creators can now focus on their work without the worry of losing progress or facing interruptions.
We are excited to introduce a new feature that allows you to create multi-step forms within the Page Editor.
This functionality provides a more intuitive and engaging user experience, especially for complex forms.
Key Features:
The new Date Range and Range aggregation types unlock powerful search capabilities for your Liferay assets, including Web Content Structures and Objects.
By configuring any date or numeric index field, you can:
Think of Date Range as a versatile extension of the Modified Facet. You can now select any desired date field to refine search results precisely.
This update enhances the transparency and accountability of your Process Builder definitions. By tracking modification dates and user information, you can easily identify changes, troubleshoot issues, and ensure compliance. With this improved version history, you can effectively manage your processes and make informed decisions.
This new feature allows users to configure Collection Providers based on Liferay System Objects, such as Users and 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:
Enhanced Efficiency and Governance: Achieve immediate content visibility and streamlined collaboration by centralizing assets into a single, unified view. Rigorous versioning and workflow controls ensure consistent content quality and compliance across the organization.
Maximum Agility and Portability: Leverage a modern headless-first, API-driven architecture (REST/GraphQL) that makes content fully portable, ensuring instant readiness for distribution and maximum reach across all your digital channels.
Measurable Performance and Data-Driven Strategy: Empower content owners with embedded analytics and strong preview capabilities, enabling teams to make instant, informed decisions that drive superior business outcomes.
A new set of fragments has been introduced under a dedicated category called “Account Selector.”.
These fragments allow to compose and customize the account selector according to their specific business needs.
Here is a list of the newly added fragments for building the account selector:
Account Selector: this fragment is the main orchestrator of the entire component, handles the communication with external components, the dropdown mechanism and the panels(up to 5 can be configured), and manages the main drop zone areas
Account Selector Button: OOTB available Account Selector call-to-action
(preserves the current logic for page/component refreshes), used to open/close the account selector(any custom button hooked up with the Javascript business logic can be used).
Account Selector Panel: this fragment can be drag-and-dropped inside the Account Selector’s panel drop zone (each panel is a tab that can be navigated in the dropdown) and creates a drop zone to place account-related views
Accounts Data Set: Data Set fragment to display the list of selectable accounts for the current user
Create Account Button: configurable call-to-action that allows the creation of new accounts, maintaining the existing Account Selector flow.
Account Orders Data Set: Data Set fragment to display the list of selectable orders for the current account
Create Order Button: configurable call-to-action that allows the creation of new orders, maintaining the existing Account Selector flow.
A fully configured Account Selector is also available out-of-the-box (OOTB) in the Commerce Classic Site Initializer (LPD-20379).
Key Benefits:
Flexible Customization: Easily tailor the account selector to match your site’s structure and user needs.
Improved User Experience: Enables intuitive navigation and personalization of account-related views.
Configurable Control: Enable or disable specific features and interactions without custom development.
The Liferay database upgrade process has been enhanced with automated database repair routines to improve the speed and reliability of DXP upgrades.
During the upgrade process, these routines automatically identify and correct common database inconsistencies or missing references.
These repair routines are targeted at known issues with data structures only, keeping your critical data content safe. Details of these repair processes are provided for review in the Liferay Upgrade Report after a database upgrade completes.
Key Benefits:
Faster upgrades
Minimize risks for current and future upgrades
Automates data maintenance