Release Notes
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The Headless Search API introduced as BETA in 7.4 U88 is now in RELEASE status.
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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.
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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.
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Now the possibility of Export/Import Frontend Client Extensions is available by default.
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.
External Reference Code is now supported in Roles, Specification Groups, Specification Labels and Addresses.
It is also now possible to use the ERC to update and delete these entities via their headless APIs.
Additional ERC support for linked entities has been added when creating new Options, SKUs, Accounts, Catalogs, Orders, Shipments and more.
Customize Your Checkout Experience: one integration, multiple payment methods.
Elevate your online store and give to your buyers a personalized and streamlined checkout experience. Expand payment options beyond credit cards – Offer Pay Later, Venmo, and popular regional methods like Bancontact, eps, and iDEAL to enhance customer satisfaction. Build trust with secure transactions, all managed within your existing platform.
Perfect for: Marketplaces, Ecommerce & Shopping Carts, Sharing & Gig Economy, Tech Partners & Payment Providers and Crowdfunding.
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. |
This feature allows the admins to filter users by the last time they logged in on the platform, so they can take actions based on this information. We track lastLoginDate on the User record and now we enable admins to filter them in the User management table and also in the APIs.
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A new version of our Minium Theme arrived!
With a fresh look and style, the new version of our B2B-optimized site comes in as a collection of 3 Client Extensions that, once installed in your instance, provide the B2B Commerce site ready for use in your environment.
Minium 4 is based on the new Commerce Classic Site Initializer, and shares and will share the new capabilities and improvements.
Account Management + Account Selector:
Catalog + Mini-Cart:
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.
This new feature enables users to add individual attributes for breakdown and filtering within the existing event analysis functionality.
Previously, only event attributes were displayed.
New Performance tab on the Content Dashboard provides asset metrics, including visitor behavior and top pages where each asset is featured. Data can be filtered by anonymous or known visitors. Metrics are available for Blogs, Documents and Media, and Web Content, only accessible to users connected to Analytics Cloud. Display AC Metrics on Content Dashboard:
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Users can now easily filter images and videos by resolution (small, medium, large) or aspect ratio (wide, tall, square) directly from the Content Dashboard.
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Users can select and reorder categories for a blog’s friendly URL, so they can preview the order of the categories in the friendly URL.
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.
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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.
Smoother Workflow for Publication Editors
The new toolbar offers real-time insights to help editors stay focused and efficient. We have improved the toolbar to provide essential context, including current publications, potential conflicts, and change history.
Enabling users to be notified externally by allowing email notifications when a new user is assigned to a publication.
Boost Liferay’s platform with drag-and-drop, multi-selection, and cut/copy/paste features for easier field and fragment organization.
Create smooth multistep forms directly in the page builder with Liferay’s new fragment—making complex processes simple and intuitive!
Liferay DXP makes it easy to create dynamic, multi-step forms. Simply add a stepper fragment to any existing form to transform it into a multi-step journey. You can then organize your form into different steps, moving inputs between them as needed. Users can easily navigate through the steps using the step menu or form buttons, which you can customize to fit your needs.
Enable JavaScript Client Extensions within SaaS environments to enhance customization and flexibility for administrative tasks, allowing tailored solutions directly within the platform.
This feature ensures that theme CSS client extensions "just work" out of the box when referencing images from the base theme. It reduces friction in the development process, increases reliability, and provides a more seamless and predictable experience when customizing their Liferay environments.
How it works:
Simplified Image Management:
Developers no longer need to manually handle or configure paths for images included in the base theme.
Relative paths (e.g., ../images) can now directly reference these images, reducing complexity and errors.
Out-of-the-Box Compatibility:
The feature ensures that theme images are automatically included during the build process via the assemble step.
This means that after deploying the theme CSS client extension, image references work seamlessly without additional configuration.
Semantic Search now supports the Documents and Media type. Text embedding generation can be enabled via the provider configuration. Please note that the provider configuration is now located under the Global Menu: |
The upcoming Marketplace release of the Liferay Connector to OpenSearch 2.x will provide an alternative to Elasticsearch for Self-Hosted Liferay deployments.
IMPORTANT: Please note that the Liferay Enterprise Search Learning to Rank, Cross-Cluster Replication, and Monitoring applications are not compatible, and thus not supported with OpenSearch.
Synonym Sets now also supports the following languages (locales) out of the box:
Portuguese (Brazil): pt_BR
Portuguese (Portugal): pt_PT
Italian: it_IT
Arabic (Saudi Arabia): ar_SA
Catalan (Spain): ca_ES
Catalan (Andorra): ca_AD
Catalan (Spain, Valencian): ca_ES_VALENCIA
Chinese (China): zh_CN
Chinese (Taiwan): zh_TW
Dutch (Netherlands): nl_NL
Dutch (Belgium): nl_BE
Finnish (Finland): fi_FI
French (France): fr_FR
French (Canadian): fr_CA
German (Germany): de_DE
Hungarian (Hungary): hu_HU
Japanese (Japan): ja_JP
Swedish (Sweden): sv_SE
Administrators are advised to review the Elasticsearch connector configuration and remove any customized field mappings and settings added previously for the above locales from the Override Type Mappings and the Additional Index Settings as now they are provided by the platform out-of-the-box. (Requires a Full or Concurrent Reindex!)
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.
Note:
The functionality of the Date Facet widget was introduced under a Developer Feature Flag in LPS-153839 2024.Q1 has been integrated into the Custom Facet and is now available as GA. The Date Facet widget is no longer available.
Improved Disk Space Utilization for Elasticsearch and OpenSearch Deployments
To reduce disk space usage on the search engine side, we have optimized default field mappings which no longer use stored fields. Instead, the platform uses the fields parameter as the default document field retrieval method.
Important Considerations for Administrators:
Compare with Defaults: After reviewing the advanced settings, compare the existing mappings to the new defaults to identify potential adjustments. While stored fields are still supported, they are not recommended.
Potential Impact on Custom OSGi Modules:
While most users should experience seamless transitions, developers of custom OSGi modules that utilize Liferay's Java Search APIs may encounter changes in search response behavior. This could occur if the modules rely on specific fields being included in the search response. In such cases, developers may need to make adjustments to their modules to ensure correct functionality.
OpenAI can now be configured as a Text Embedding Provider for Semantic Search.
OpenAI offers two powerful third-generation embedding models promising lower costs, higher multilingual performance, and stronger overall performance compared to the predecessor models.
If your organization is already utilizing OpenAI's ChatGPT or other OpenAI Platform APIs, now you can take advantage of OpenAI's Vector Embeddings capability to deliver semantically more relevant search results through Liferay's semantic search feature (BETA) without the need to sign up for another service.
The Data Set Manager sorting tab has changed its purpose. From now on, the sorting options created under this section will be added to an Order Drop Down that is added to the Management Bar. This way, users will be able to sort by different criteria, even if those criteria are not visible in the Data Set items.
Admins can now leverage Data Set actions to send targeted requests to a specified endpoint. This enables dynamic updates to persisted objects, such as changing a user's status to "Inactive." While the request body content is currently static, this powerful feature provides a flexible way to manage and modify data within your system.
Data Sets now offer even greater customization power. Admins can directly add manual query parameters to the endpoint URL, enabling fine-grained control over data retrieval.
This flexibility allows you to:
By tailoring the endpoint response, admins can provide a more curated and user-friendly experience for end-users.
Behind the Scenes:
The platform seamlessly reconciles these manual parameters with those generated by:
This ensures a consistent and efficient data retrieval process.
On top of that, admin users can also add or map fields manually to be displayed in the Data Set, so they will be able to bring the information back for those endpoints that don’t have the fields properly typed in the response.
The Database Upgrade Report is now enabled by default and offers expanded information compared to previous releases.
After running a database upgrade, check the reports/ directory for reports about what occurred in the system during the upgrade. The new upgrade_report_diagnostics file includes further details to diagnose any possible issues.
New properties and configurations have been added to allow control over the default user created for new virtual instances.
The instance admin user can be defined by the system admin upon instance creation or be disabled completely. This adds an immediate additional layer of security to a new virtual instance.
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.
Currently, in Liferay Forms, users can customize field labels for ease of reference in the page’s HTML.
Now, users are able to fully customize and reference in the HTML the remainder of the Form.
