Collections with Blueprints (FF: LPS-129412) available as since DXP 7.4 U88 is now in RELEASE status and can be enabled via Feature Flags > Release.

Addressing prior limitations, custom cell renderers created with Client Extensions now provide full row data access. This empowers developers with expanded options and greater flexibility for their implementations so they can create a renderer for a cell and include data from all the row mixing the contents. For example, you can create a cell to calculate the volume of a furniture good based on the different dimensions fields.

Benefits

• Expand developer capabilities to create more powerful Client Extensions for Data Set Cell Renderers

The Data Set has a revamped experience in terms of selection that also provides a quicker way to contextualize the user interaction.

When facing any of the visualizations (table, card, row) the user can click on the item body to perform single selection. This enhances rapid selection and better interaction.

Benefits

• More modern selection pattern that follows industry trends

• Clearer states for the user to distinguish when an item is:

  • Selected (active)

  • Hovered

  • Both at the same time

With this release, the Liferay DXP is now built with the modern, cloud native technology provided by the Jakarta EE 10 platform. The legacy Java EE platform will no longer be supported on this and future releases, allowing Liferay DXP to continue to evolve and build innovative solutions to meet your business needs.

Benefits

Liferay DXP now certified on Jakarta-based application servers: Tomcat 10.1, Jboss EAP 8.0, and Wildfly 30. This also provides support for newer specifications such as Portlet 4.0, Servlet 6.0, and Spring Framework 6.0. The update paves the way for faster feature development and rapid security fixes available in the modern Java enterprise ecosystem.

The Beta feature to migrate databases to PostgreSQL has been updated to support all supported database types. PostgreSQL is the Liferay recommended database server, especially for PaaS and SaaS users and Liferay provides this tool to simplify the migration.

Benefits

Users on MariaDB, SQL Server, Oracle DB, and IBM DB2 are now able to migrate their database to PostgreSQL. The tool was previously limited to users on MySQL. Now all users have access to the DXP and Cloud performance benefits of using PostgreSQL.

The DXP database upgrade process has been enhanced with a suite of verification checks that are executed before any data modifications are made.

These checks have minimal impact on the overall upgrade process execution time, but they can be optionally disabled with the property upgrade.database.preupgrade.verify.enabled=false

Benefits

It can be frustrating when a database upgrade process executes a large amount of modifications to the system and then fails due to a misconfiguration, prompting the need to restore the database and restart the process. Now the database upgrade process will perform a series of configuration checks and report them to the user before modifications are needed. This prevents the need to always restore the database or document library before re-running the upgrade. The upgrade report will still be generated if the preupgrade checks fail, and provide details of any issue.

Allow users to call the {scopeKey} using the external reference code when creating a custom object with site scope.

Ex: /scope/{scopeKey}/...

Now, ID, Name and ERC are supported for scopeKey.

Users can now refer to their custom external reference codes for sites when interacting with object endpoints.

This feature adds workflow support for Root Models. Child object definitions which are part of a root context will inherit the workflow configurations of the root parent. This simplifies the administration of objects which are part of root model applications.