Users can now create picklists beginning with capital letters. One key feature is that now users will be able to filter by Active and Inactive values.

Objects is used for a wide range of use cases, some of them more technical than others. This feature will allow users to configure where they want their objects to be listed. Thus, creating unnecessary complexity and reducing cognitive load on other users.

Users can now configure their objects to observe the guest user’s locale and send email notifications based on the guest user’s language preference.

The guest user’s language preference is determined by the language the guest user used when submitting the form. If a locale cannot be determined or a notification template does not exist, then the notification will be sent in the instance’s default language.

For those Objects that have the translation active, users can not get this entry information using GraphQL. In order to improve GraphQL capabilities, we have exposed the _i18n properties, so any user can retrieve it.

For making the Sign In portlet related functions easily customizable for the end users we want to simplify the portlet as much as we can. We need to remove all it’s configuration or functionality that can be handled in higher level.

Currently, the customer has to resort to email reports to see their autoscaling. We are making this information much more available and searchable, allowing the user to better understand their autoscaling behaviour.

Liferay DXP provides a variety of developer tools that include a robust build script framework, lightweight CLI utilities, and IDE tools. We have recently released new versions of Liferay Workspace and the IDE tools, which include Liferay Developer Studio, Liferay Eclipse Plugin, and Liferay IntelliJ Plugin. The main benefits include:

• Alignment with the platform itself: The tools now support our quarterly releases, giving access to development on Liferay DXP's latest features.

• Latest Java version support: Compatibility with JDK 17 and 21 provides developers with enhanced security, improved performance, and the newest capabilities of the Java platform.

• Upgraded development environment: Support for Gradle 8 enables improved build automation features and performance.

Liferay now allows users to sort Custom Objects entries based on data from related objects. This enhanced functionality provides greater flexibility and control when managing complex data structures, enabling users to organize information more effectively.

Feature Status Change

It is now possible to select Date Times as a product option type, configuring purchase options for products based on date, times, time zones, and durations, allowing for the sale of time slots.

Feature Status Change

Users can activate the content creation prompt with a single click by leveraging AI capabilities directly within the CKEditor for seamless and efficient content generation. Requires a valid OpenAI API key.

Feature Status Change

Manage contacts directly related to accounts like phone numbers, emails, websites, addresses.

A new Contact Tab in Account details page with 2 internals tabs was created:

1. Addresses
2. Contact Information

Users with “Accounts > Account Entry: Manage Addresses” permission should be able to manage their contacts with all these actions:

• Add
• Edit
• Remove
• Mark as primary

Example of managing a phone number:

Users without “Accounts > Account Entry: Manage Addresses” permission should be able to only view the existing phone number entries.

Feature Status Change

Map individual specifications, choose the order, and create clear, informative product pages that drive sales and enhance the customer experience.  Simplify product page creation and empower your business with this new feature.

Feature Status Change

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.

Feature Status Change

Now it is possible to easily identify the content you have created and any recent content you generated. This enhancement streamlines and optimizes this workflow.

Feature Status Change

The goal here is to make the users able to move changes between publications. This is needed because sometimes users do not want to publish an entire publication, but also do not want to revert the changes which will not be published actually. With this feature users can move changes from one publication to another, creating subsets of changes, and publish them separately. For readers with technical knowledge: this is similar to cherry-pick-ing a commit in git from one branch to another.

Feature Status Change

Simply provide a descriptive prompt and let DALL-E generate the perfect image to complement your content strategy, saving you valuable time and resources. Leverage AI to spark new ideas and generate unique concepts that perfectly align with your content needs. Explore a world of visual possibilities!

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Feature Status Change

The Headless Search API introduced as BETA in 7.4 U88 is now in RELEASE status.

Feature Status Change

Support for these application servers is removed for 2024.Q3 or later since they are no longer receiving updates from the vendor.

Wildfly 26.1 and Jboss EAP 7.4 remain fully supported.

Feature Status Change

With the new support of Java JDK 17 and 21 runtimes, Java 11 will no longer be supported for DXP runtime on 2024.Q3 or later.

Liferay Workspace offers support for re-compiling custom modules on JDK 17 or 21.

Feature Status Change

Users can add validations to verify field values that, when used in combination, are unique.

Limitation: numeric fields such as Integer, Long Integer, Decimal, Precision Decimal will be stored as null.

Feature Status change:

Now the possibility of Export/Import Frontend Client Extensions is available by default.

External reference codes are now generated for Blogs Images and Document Shortcuts.

ERC can now also be used to update and delete these entities via their headless APIs.

The configuration settings for "Autogenerate Structure Key" and "Autogenerate Template Key" have been moved from their previous location in System Settings > System Scope > Administration to a more instance-specific location under System Settings > Web Content > Virtual Instance Scope > Web Content, appearing as the first options after "Custom Token values." These options allow instance admins to control whether structure and template keys are automatically generated at the instance level.
 

Enhanced User Safety and Transparency in Publications

We have implemented safeguards to guide users through complex interactions and provided clearer information about changes in the Review Changes screen. 

Allow users to move web content and document structures between environments

Key benefit:
Addresses a feature gap when moving web content and documents between environments

The Liferay Marketplace has undergone a significant architectural enhancement with the formalization and enforcement of Liferay Catalogs. This structure clearly categorizes all Liferay-developed applications, providing explicit transparency on support levels, update schedules, and intended usage.

All Liferay-published applications are now distributed under three dedicated, high-level catalogs:

1. Liferay Inc.: Contains all fully supported, production-ready applications, including crucial productivity tools, security utilities, connectors, and Experience Management features. These apps follow a strict qcial hub for all new, experimental technologies and potential future core features. Apps in this catalog are not officially supported and are intended for testing and feedback purposes only.

2. Liferay Community: Hosts officially deprecated applications that remain available for backward compatibility, as well as applications contributed and offered under open-source licenses. These apps receive support until their latest compatible DXP version and follow a quarterly maintenance schedule.

Key Benefits:

• Targeted Discovery: Efficiently filter the Marketplace to find specific types of applications, such as mission-critical integration connectors (Liferay Inc.) or bleeding-edge experimental features (Liferay Labs).

• Predictable Updates: Rely on the consistent quarterly update schedule for all fully supported (Liferay Inc.) and Community-maintained applications.

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 new Configurable Order Scoping feature gives administrators more control over how orders are displayed on the site. Two new configuration settings have been added within each Channel:

• Open Orders Visibility Scope

• Placed Orders Visibility Scope

Each configuration offers two visibility options:

• Account (default): Maintains the existing behavior, where users can see all open or placed orders across all accounts they have access to, regardless of who created the order.

• User: Limits visibility so users only see orders they personally created for the accounts they are part of.

In addition, a new permission—“View Organization Orders”—has been introduced under Orders. This permission ensures that Sales Agents can continue to view all orders associated with their accounts, regardless of the scoping configuration. The permission is automatically assigned to the Sales Agent role by default.

Key Benefits:

• Flexible visibility control: Administrators can configure order visibility according to organizational or role-based needs.

• Improved data privacy: Restrict order visibility to the creator when required.

• Backward compatibility: Default setting preserves existing system behavior to avoid workflow disruption.

• Enhanced role management: The new “View Organization Orders” permission ensures key roles, such as Sales Agents, retain appropriate visibility.

The Manage Product Availability at Scale 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.

The Account Selector Customization feature has moved from BETA to RELEASE.

See also Composable Account Selector in the New Features section.

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.

This epic delivers a comprehensive solution for exporting and importing vocabularies and categories with associated data across Liferay environments, tackling potential roadblocks to ensure a smooth and efficient migration process.

Key Benefits:

• Achieve True Content Portability: Facilitate the easy and standardized movement of content architecture (vocabularies/categories) between different instances, crucial for multi-site rollouts.

• Accelerate Deployment Pipelines: Ensure fast, reliable, and repeatable promotion of entire content structures between environments, maintaining configuration consistency with minimal manual effort.

• Enable Bulk Management & Setup: Quickly bootstrap new environments with pre-defined taxonomies and enable efficient, large-scale bulk editing of existing category metadata via the export-modify-import cycle.

This epic delivers a comprehensive solution for exporting and importing tags with associated data across Liferay environments, tackling potential roadblocks to ensure a smooth and efficient migration process.

Key Benefits:

• Achieve True Content Portability: Facilitate the easy and standardized movement of content architecture between different instances, crucial for multi-site rollouts.

• Accelerate Deployment Pipelines: Ensure fast, reliable, and repeatable promotion of entire content structures between environments, maintaining configuration consistency with minimal manual effort.

This feature introduces “Lazy References” to ensure import success regardless of deployment order. If an imported item references a missing Vocabulary or Category, the system creates a temporary “incomplete” dummy object. This special status allows the main content import to succeed immediately. The project’s focus is managing the status lifecycle to allow a smooth transition of these incomplete dummies to a fully approved state when the complete taxonomy object is imported later.

Key Benefits:

• Order-Agnostic Deployment: Guarantees successful imports by decoupling content from its taxonomy dependencies, allowing content and categories to be deployed in any sequence.

• High Success Rate: Prevents import batch failures by automatically creating placeholders, isolating cleanup and ensuring that core content is immediately available.

The Analytics Cloud Synchronized User Deletion feature (LPD-45375) has been promoted to General Availability (GA), and its corresponding feature flag has been removed.

This update ensures consistency across platforms by allowing users to synchronously delete users from DXP, with those deletions being immediately reflected in Analytics Cloud.

The Static Segments feature has been formally deprecated and removed from Analytics Cloud. The feature has been under a "deprecation" feature flag for several quarters, and the retirement process is now complete.

The Custom Assets feature has been formally deprecated and removed from Analytics Cloud. The feature had been under a "deprecation" feature flag for several quarters, and the retirement process is now complete.

Reviewers can now see exactly how content will appear to end users when using a Display Page Template, ensuring layout and formatting are correct before publishing.

• Applies to multiple types of content, including Web Content Articles and Blog Entries.
• Reviewers can now see all editable fields for content items in the Data tab — including custom fields created via structures.

Key Benefits:

• Improves content quality: Ensures that reviewers can see exactly how content will appear to end users, helping maintain visual and structural accuracy before publishing.

• Reduces publishing risks and errors: Allows early detection of layout or formatting issues, minimizing rework and post-publication corrections.

• Saves time in the review process: Streamlines validation and reduces the need for multiple review cycles.

Site Settings are now exportable through Headless APIs.

Key Benefits:

• Simplified Environment Migration: Easily migrate all site-scoped configurations together with site content using the Batch Engine and Headless Site API.

• Greater Consistency: Ensures that site settings and behaviors are replicated accurately across environments.

• Enhanced Automation: Supports headless and automated deployment workflows, removing the need for manual configuration updates for site settings.

With the launch of the new CMS 2.0, two fragments have been created that allow the customers to build a more complete and flexible experience for the end-user. These Accordion and Drag and Drop Upload fragments are better aligned with the real needs of a CMS user and content editors in general, as they allow for improved organization of information and increased usability when managing information and files of any type.

Key Benefits:

• Accelerated Time-to-Value: Ready-made fragments allow customers to quickly drag-and-drop functional components, reducing development time and enabling marketing and content teams to create new experiences faster.

• Lower Cost of Ownership: Platform-maintained fragments reduce the burden of custom code, ensuring greater long-term stability, easier upgrades, and less time spent on maintenance.

With the launch of the new CMS 2.0 and the need to integrate and contribute related objects, a new form fragment has been created. This Form Relationship fragment allows users to populate/fill in nested objects within a form container. With this new fragment, we provide customers with the ability to create more complex forms where they can complete the information for these related objects, thereby offering a more complete experience for the creation of complex applications and for the CMS itself.

Key Benefits:

• Maximize Authoring Velocity: By unifying the creation of parent and embedded (repeatable) entities into a single, contextualized screen, customers eliminate clicks and custom code, allowing content teams to publish complex experiences significantly faster.

• Ensure Data Integrity: The out-of-the-box fragments enforce data structure and contextual relevance for child entities at the point of creation, guaranteeing consistent, structured content that provides a unified experience for end users.

Style Books now support 8-digit hex colour codes (e.g. #RRGGBBAA), which include an alpha channel to define opacity. Previously, these values only worked when set as defaults in the frontend-token-definition.json file; manual input in the editor would strip the opacity digits. With this update, customers can directly enter and save full 8-digit hex values in the Style Book editor, and the opacity is correctly reflected in the UI.

Key Benefits:

• User will be able to define colours with both RGB and transparency in a single, standardised format improving Liferay’s design flexibility.
• Aligns with modern CSS and browser support for 8-digit hex codes.
• No need for more workaround formats (like rgba) to manage opacity.

In this case, the feature “Enable JavaScript Client Extensions for Administration in SaaS Environments” has remained under Release Feature Flag for three consecutive quarters. During this period, it has demonstrated strong stability, with no reported bugs or user complaints.

Following this evaluation, we’ve decided to move the feature to GA, based on its proven reliability, adoption, and positive feedback.

Semantic Content Indexing

When the feature flag LPS-122920 is enabled, the platform can now create text embeddings (numerical representations of input text, also known as vector embeddings) for Object entries. These embeddings are generated using the content from the searchable fields and are meant to capture the meaning and the context of the content. You can select from various available third-party providers and models, such as OpenAI or Hugging Face, to generate these vectors.

Customizable Search

Now that semantic indexing is also supported for Object entries, you can create highly customized searches using Blueprints. Specifically, the Rescore by Text Embedding query element is available for use.This element automatically handles the process of creating vectors from the user’s keywords through the configured provider.

For instance, this capability allows you to combine traditional keyword search with AI-powered vector search techniques to implement hybrid search, now also for Object entries. This combination is quickly becoming the new standard for modern content search and discovery.

Key Benefits:

More Relevant Search Results: Create search experiences that understand the meaning and context of your Object based content or application data and user searches.

The Semantic Search capability is planned to be moved to GA status in early 2026. This timeline is intended to outline Liferay’s general product direction and it is subject to change.

The headless Search APIs (GET and POST /o/search/v1.0/search) become GA, enabled by default. No feature flag required.

From now on most CSS files in Liferay have hashed file names at build time. For example, a clay.css file may appear at run-time with a randomly generated hash value in the name, like clay.(tvERyCVfuRc).css.

This hash value represents a unique version of this file, so the browser can identify that the file's contents haven't changed. This allows the file to remain in Liferay's cache indefinitely.

For those files that can not be hashed, because they are generated in runtime by the server depending on some parameter such as the css tokens, a new onfiguration is available in DXP to configure the TTL and the possibility to add the no-cache header, that ensures the revalidation of the asset with the server before to being served.

Also, hashed files have a fallback strategy based in TTL+eTag if they are called by their canonical name, this is a fallback for error in the import maps or old portlets that doesn’t know the name of a hashed file.

Key Benefits:

The new Liferay DXP caching strategy for CSS files improves performance and stability.

1. Faster Page Loads: Significant reduction in subsequent load times.

2. Elimination of Stale Resources: Hashed URLs prevents users from seeing outdated CSS after an update.

3. Reduced Origin Server Load: Less server overhead as browsers retrieve unchanged files directly from their local cache, saving CPU and bandwidth.

4. Cache busting: Updated resources automatically force the browser to fetch the new version, but updating their file name with a new hash when content changes.

When a user visits a page that contains a Data Set, there is a certain amount of data that can be altered in some ways:

• By filtering the data

• By ordering the data

• By changing the columns to show on the Table Visualization

• By changing the visualization mode

When users navigate away from the Data Set and then return, these unsaved changes are lost, leading to a frustrating user experience.

This feature automatically saves the current view state of a Data Set in the URL. This saved state will ensure the Data Set configuration is consistently recoverable when users navigate back (via browser history or links) and, crucially, that a shared URL provides colleagues with the exact same view.

Key Benefits:

• Avoid user frustration: When the user returns to the Data Set they face the same state they had when they left.

• Sharing what you see with other users: Users can share the link of a page with a Data Set and the user acessing that very page will face the same Data Set state.

As in Ck Editor 4, and to cover the feature parity, the AI Creator plugin has been added to CK Editor 5, so content creators can rely on an AI to create content seamlessly.

Key Benefits:

• Accelerate content creation leveraging AI text generation services

Admins can now fully customize the Rich Text Editor configuration in CKEditor 5 using a new Client Extension. This new extension achieves feature parity with the old CKEditor 4 extension, allowing you to define which toolbars are available across different applications.

Bonus Feature: Unlike its predecessor, the CKEditor 5 extension supports dynamic loading of official CKEditor plugins not included by default in DXP, greatly expanding your customization options.

Key Benefits:

• Allow dev users to modify the CK Editor 5 configuration such as new block styles

• Allow the dev users to hide plugins such as the options in the editor toolbaar.

• Allow users to dynamically add more plugins from CK Editor official showcase.

• Administrators can enable the SPA feature at instance level

• This allow different customers in SaaS to have different configurations as previoulsy it was enabled just at System level (same configuration for several customers)

• SPA config at instance level overrides the SPA config defined at System level

Key Benefits:

• Mostly SaaS customers can enable/disable SPA in their instance isolately, so Liferay Cloud administrators can defer this configuration to users.

When administrators turn on CKEditor 5 feature flag (LPD-11235), the Email Configuration will use CKE5 as the default text editor.

Key Benefits:

• Consistency across DXP, enabling the CK Editor 5 is offered in one more experience that now is covered.

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

The following database versions have reached end of life from their vendors and are now under deprecation for DXP:

1. DB2 11.1

2. MariaDB 10.2

3. MariaDB 10.4

4. MySQL 5.7

5. PostgreSQL 12.x

6. PostgreSQL 13.x

7. SQL Server 2017

Please refer to the 2025.Q4 compatibility matrix for the full list of supported Databases.

The following Operating System versions have reached end of life from their vendors and are now under deprecation for DXP:

1. CentoOS 7

2. CentoOS 8

3. Debian 10

4. Debian 11

5. Oracle Linux 7

6. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

7. SUSE Enterprise Linux 12

8. Ubuntu 18.04

9. Ubuntu 20.04

Please refer to the 2025.Q4 compatibility matrix for the full list of supported Operating Systems.

This epic introduces multi-parent support for Object Definitions, allowing a single child object (e.g., Address) to be associated with more than one possible parent definition (e.g., User or Account). While the definition can support multiple parents, each Object Entry can still only belong to one parent entry at a time, ensuring data consistency.

Key Benefits:

• This new feature allows more flexibility when organizing your entries with regards to permissions inheritance. 

This feature introduces a new, configurable "On after Login" trigger for Liferay Object Actions. This will empower administrators and developers to define and execute automated processes on Object entries (e.g., creating, updating, or deleting entries, calling external APIs, sending emails) immediately after a user successfully logs into Liferay portal.

Key Benefits:

• Faster Time-to-Market: New features tied to user authentication (like automatically creating a user's dashboard data) can be deployed in minutes via the UI, without involving custom development.

• Extended Low-Code Power: The Objects framework becomes more valuable by handling a critical part of the digital experience—user sign-in—without needing traditional coding skills.

• Real-Time Data Integrity: Ensures that user-specific custom data (like status, last login date, or personalized onboarding tasks) is created or updated instantly and automatically upon login, keeping all systems synchronized.

This feature allows users to subscribe to entries to receive notifications when entries are updated. This addresses the need for real-time awareness and governance over content and data

Key Benefits:

• Enhanced Data Integrity and Compliance: Users who rely on specific documents, legal disclaimers, or data records can be confident they are instantly alerted when that asset changes.

• Audit Trail and Accountability: Notifications tied to events like Asset Updated or Asset Expired create an automated audit trail. The system ensures that stakeholders know when and what was changed, improving accountability across teams.

• Reduced Notification Fatigue: By automatically inheriting the subscription status, the UI can prevent users from double-subscribing, which cleans up the interface and reduces unnecessary email clutter.