"Promote Content among Environments" is a Liferay initiative that takes content promotion to the next level. By implementing a significant infrastructure change (based on Headless Batch APIs), processes are substantially streamlined, optimizing existing processes and adding new ones that enable more secure, stable, and efficient content promotion. Now you can promote elements at the instance level, such as Object Definitions, Picklists, or Roles, and freely export and import Object Entries with any scope. With the new Lazy References infrastructure based on External Reference Codes, relationships are maintained and updated regardless of the order of importation. Furthermore, the new Report List provides a comprehensive and detailed record of everything that happened during the import process. This new report is essential for new entities because import processes will run from start to finish without stopping with the first issue, reporting all errors so you can resolve them collectively instead of having to address them individually with each run. For non migrated entities, the behavior will be the current one finishing the process with the first error. Key Benefits:
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Release Notes
We are evolving how content is managed. To align with our new Promote Content standards, the legacy Propagation feature for Site Templates is being retired. In its place, we are building a new solution that prioritizes data integrity by allowing for targeted overwriting of existing information. This change ensures your site updates are more predictable and efficient.
Bridge Your Portal Data and Marketing PowerThe HubSpot Connector for Liferay is a powerful integration tool designed to eliminate data silos. It creates a seamless, automated bridge between your Liferay DXP portal and the HubSpot CRM, ensuring your sales and marketing teams always have the most up-to-date information at their fingertips. Stop wasting time with manual data exports. By connecting Liferay Objects directly to HubSpot, you can ensure that every new contact, company, or lead captured in your portal is instantly synced and ready for your next automated campaign. Key Benefits:
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This update introduces a full commercial lifecycle for Client Extensions, allowing Publishers to list and sell high-value extensions, and Customers to purchase and deploy them directly into their DXP instances.
Key Benefits:
For Customers (Buyers)
Instant Capability: Acquire complex, production-ready features without long dev cycles.
Integrated Procurement: Purchase and manage licenses directly through the Liferay Marketplace.
For Publishers (Partners/Devs)
Monetization Stream: Turn their custom-built tools into a recurring revenue stream by reaching the global Liferay ecosystem.
Market Visibility: Showcase their technical expertise to a captive audience of enterprise-level decision-makers.
This set of epics aim to complete and strengthen the content page promotion and management system. We have developed necessary endpoints for various page types and implemented a comprehensive catalog of page elements and fragments. Additionally, we enhanced the data architecture through the integration of scopes and secure references. Together, these efforts ensure content integrity during import, export, and staging. The resul is a more stable page editor that handles lazy references and provides a seamless experience across all site components.
Key Benefits:
Comprehensive Site Coverage: By enabling promotion for all page types, organizations can ensure their entire digital presence is synchronized across environments without manual gaps.
Enhanced System Resilience: The implementation of scope-aware identifiers and error-detection spikes prevents broken user experiences caused by missing references or deleted assets during content staging.
We’ve introduced the Multiselector Dropdown Fragment to make managing large amounts of data effortless for users. Instead of scrolling through a long list of checkboxes, It keeps your design clean while allowing users to easily find what they need, manage their choices as removable tags, or clear all selections with a single click—all configurable directly within the page editor.
Key Benefits:
Instead of overwhelming your page with a long, messy list of checkboxes, this fragment tucks all your options into a single, sleek input field. This saves valuable screen space and keeps your design looking professional, even when dealing with dozens or hundreds of choices.
Users no longer have to scroll and hunt for the right option. With built-in filtering, they can simply start typing to find exactly what they need instantly. Selected items are neatly organized as tags, making it easy for users to review or change their choices with a single click.
We’ve added more flexibility to how you build forms by letting you choose the best interface for every field. You can now switch between different visual styles within the same fragment type—for example, displaying a list of options as a multi-selector checkbox for easy scanning or a multi-selector dropdown to save space. This allows you to customize the user experience to fit your layout perfectly with just one click.
Key Benefits:
Enhanced UX Personalization: Designers can select the most intuitive input method for their audience, such as a drag-and-drop zone for files versus a standard button, without changing the backend data structure.
Streamlined Design Consistency: By offering multiple visual interpretations of the same object fields, the platform allows for diverse form layouts that still maintain strict data integrity and mapping standards.
Users can customize the field layout to streamline the content creation experience.
Users can create complex data models by nesting structures and enabling repeatable fields within a structure definition.
Users can utilize CKEditor 5 as the default rich text interface when editing content within Page Builder fragments.
Users can utilize CKEditor 5 as the default rich text interface for 'Description' fields across the platform.
Standardise the pattern so “selected/current items” and “available items” always appear in the same side, and reordering is always done in the same place and in the same way.
Key Benefits:
Users don’t have to re-learn the UI depending on the screen.
Reduces cases where users reorder or move the wrong list because the meaning of left vs right changes.
Consistent patterns speed up repetitive configuration work, especially for power users managing multiple sites/instances.
Predictable placement improves keyboard and screen-reader expectations and makes the interaction easier to document and test.
Aligns one of the most visible admin patterns across Site and Instance settings, improving overall quality perception.
We’ve redesigned the Global Menu to deliver a more intuitive, scalable, and visually engaging navigation experience across Liferay DXP. This update introduces a single, unified entry point to access all platform capabilities, reducing fragmentation and making it easier to move across features. As part of this transformation, the DXP Control Panel has also been rebuilt with a cleaner UI, improved information architecture, live filtering for faster discovery, and a simplified landing home with contextual shortcuts. Key Benefits:
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We are excited to announce the arrival of the Native Elasticsearch 8 Connector. This isn't just a version update; it’s a foundational shift that ensures Liferay DXP remains at the cutting edge of search and AI technology. As it was communicated in 2025, Elasticsearch 7 has reached end-of-life on Jan 15, 2026 and is no longer available as a supported search engine for Liferay DXP 2026.Q1 and onward. Part of this shift, 2026.Q1 ships with a native Elasticsearch 8 connector, replacing the previous Elasticsearch 7 connector, which had provided a compatibility plus mode to operate Liferay DXP with Elasticsearch 8 servers since 2023. Key Benefits:
The Bottom Line: This update transitions Liferay from "compatibility mode" to "innovation mode," providing a faster, smarter, and more stable search foundation for your enterprise. |
Elasticsearch 8.19 is now the minimum compatible Elasticsearch 8 minor version.
Key Benefits:
Operating Liferay DXP with the latest available minor version of Elasticsearch 8 (8.19) that includes security fixes and enhancements.
Up-to-date, secure Liferay-DXP stack
Performance improvements
A new, dedicated Scope configuration is now available within the Query Builder, allowing administrators to precisely limit search results to specific Sites, Asset Libraries, and Spaces. Key Improvements
Behavior Note: Scope Hierarchy When a scope is defined within a Blueprint, it acts as a strict boundary.
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Search Blueprints as Collection Providers (GA) The ability to use a Search Blueprint as a Collection Provider has moved from Release to General Availability (GA). This integration allows you to leverage the advanced filtering and boosting logic of Blueprints directly within Collections to display highly tailored results. Key Enhancements
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Semantic Search with OpenAI Integration (GA) [For LES Subscribers only] Semantic search, powered by direct integration with OpenAI as a text embedding provider, has officially moved from Beta to General Availability (GA). Configuration & Opt-in To ensure zero impact on existing installations, this feature remains opt-in. To begin leveraging semantic search, administrators must manually configure the connection:
Status of Other Providers While OpenAI is now GA, other text embedding providers (such as txtai and Hugging Face) remain in Beta. These can still be accessed and tested by enabling the existing feature flag (
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The OpenSearch 2 connector is transitioning to Generally Available (GA). A new version of the application is expected to be released on Liferay Marketplace for 2026.Q1 later in Q1 (by the end of March, tentative).
Assets that are currently being modified within a publication are now protected from deletion in production by default. Previously, this behavior was optional and disabled by default. It is now enforced automatically to ensure greater stability and data integrity when working with publications. Key Benefits:
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