Liferay Cloud currently supports Java JDK 8 and 11, but the industry is moving towards newer Java versions like JDK 17 and JDK 21. To ensure that Liferay Cloud remains modern, allows our customers to leverage the newest security patches, and boosts overall performance.

A pack of improvements to the usability of the logs page. Clients now can troubleshoot more effectively, be it by better handling multiple filters or by selecting/copying logs without the use of the log inspector.

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Segments that are just static groups of users

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Enabling this feature will allow users to dynamically populate fields using expressions with information created from data filled and provided by other fields.

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Object Views are going into maintenance.

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This feature introduces the ability to create and manage custom picklists for product specifications. Users can now define specific values for product attributes, improving data consistency and efficiency. The feature includes the option to create new picklists or add existing ones directly on the specification page.

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Roles Managers can now define permissions for Object entries directly within the Roles UI. A new “Objects” main menu item has been added to the Define Permissions tab, listing all Custom Objects, allowing easier granular permission assignment.

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The Commerce Accounts feature is being deprecated and will be removed in the future. To ensure data continuity, we recommend transitioning to Portal Accounts.

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The Commerce Addresses feature is being deprecated and will be removed in the future. To ensure data continuity, we recommend transitioning to Postal Addresses.

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The Commerce Search Results widget is going into maintenance.

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We have implemented a new translation status feature in the web content editor, labeled "Translating," which provides information about the number of translated fields and those still requiring translation. This feature helps users quickly identify areas needing translation. Additionally, all translatable fields, including metadata, are now conveniently displayed on the left side of the screen, reducing the likelihood of overlooking them.

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Users can now set a display date for the documents so they can scheduled them to be published in the future, just for one document or when uploading multiple documents.

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The Wiki feature is being deprecated and will be removed in the future. Wiki and its related widgets are now subject to the deprecation flag LPD-35013. To ensure data continuity, we recommend transitioning to alternative content management solutions like Liferay Objects or Web Content.

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The Activities Widget is being deprecated and will be removed in the future.

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The Media Gallery Widget is being deprecated and will be removed in the future.

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The Microblogs is being deprecated and will be removed in the future.

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The Subscription Manager Widget is being deprecated and will be removed in the future.

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In a future release, DXP will be moving to modern Enterprise Java API, Jakarta EE 10. Announcing the JavaEE deprecation to give time to prepare for this significant breaking change scheduled to occur in the 2025 calendar year.

Moving to Jakarta EE will require:

• Application Server upgrades
• All code, including custom modules, that use the javax package name will need to migrated to respective jakarta packages

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With the expansion of Objects functionality, Custom Fields are going into maintenance.

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The Liferay Theme generator is being deprecated and it will be removed in the future. Customers are encouraged to use Theme Client Extensions or third-party tooling to generate themes.

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The Walkthrough is being deprecated and it will be removed in the future. Liferay will investigate new ways to offer this functionality.

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Enabling this feature will allow users to work with base64 format in object attachments fields.

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The functionality for Supported Clients for widgets is being deprecated and it will be removed in the future. The feature has been deemed obsolete.

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The widget pages are going into maintenance.

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The Asset Publisher widget is going into maintenance.

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Users can easily identify components that may cause performance issues in their Pages. We have added a new tab on the Page Audit to show the users the back-end render times of the different components, as well as warnings to help identify specific components configurations that may lead to performance issues. Those warnings also appear on the Edit mode, so the user is aware of possible issues during the page creation.

The AI Assistant is a versatile and powerful tool designed specifically for content creators to enhance their productivity and streamline workflows. By centralizing AI-driven content creation into a single, easy-to-use application, the AI Assistant simplifies the process of generating and managing diverse types of content. Whether you're working on blogs, Knowledge Base articles, or page layouts, the AI Assistant offers the tools and flexibility to help you work smarter and faster—all in one place.

Availability: The AI Assistant is a cloud-based application readily accessible on the Marketplace, making it easy to integrate into your existing digital ecosystem. Its cloud infrastructure ensures reliable performance and scalability, providing users with consistent and seamless access to its capabilities.

Due to the upcoming migration to Jakarta EE, we are deprecating all the current versions of our application servers to prepare for the release of the new versions that are Jakarta EE 10 compatible. This is a breaking change and so new app server versions will replace the old versions.

Deprecated:
Apache Tomcat 9
Wildfly 26.1
Jboss EAP 7.4
Weblogic 14

In 2025.Q3 we are adding support for the following application servers:
Apache Tomcat 10.1
Wildfly 30
Jboss EAP 8.0
Weblogic 15 (Pending release from Oracle)

The Centralized Products Eligibility and Configuration Management 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. Additionally, it enables faster and smarter management of product eligibility for channels, order types and accounts.

Key benefits:

1. Improved Catalog Management Efficiency:

• Simplified product configuration editing via a centralized, flat table view.

• Streamlined workflows for managing product attributes like visibility, minimum/maximum quantities, eligibility and much more.

• Avoid duplicating products to manage specific configurations by modifying targeted configurations instead.

• Perform batch updates on visibility, eligibility, and other product attributes for multiple products, whilst inheriting base setting from the Master catalog configuration

• Leverage pre-filled default master configurations to ensure consistency and simplify product setup when adding new products in a catalog.

2. Enhanced Control over Product Eligibility and Visibility:

• Define and manage eligibility rules tailored to specific customer groups, channels, and accounts

• Quickly adjust product availability and settings for various markets and segments (e.g. B2B vs B2C).

• Streamline the management of seasonal items or time-sensitive offerings using configuration scheduling.

This release introduces a new Multishipping feature to the storefront, allowing customers to ship parts the same order to multiple addresses with a single checkout. Whether customers are sending gifts to different recipients or shipping products to various locations, the Multishipping feature offers a seamless and flexible shopping experience.

Administrators can allow multishipping in their site through a new configuration in the site’s Channel details page. The customers can access a new “Multishipping” tab in the Open Order Details page to easily manage the Delivery Groups and customize the quantity of each order item for every Delivery Group for the order before the checkout.

Please note that this feature is available through the existing “Commerce Classic Site Initializer” Beta feature flag. To enable it, open the Applications Menu → Control Panel → Instance Settings → Feature Flags → Beta.

Key benefits:

1. Easy to Setup: Multishipping can be activated for your site by enabling “Allow Multishipping” in your site’s Channel Details page.

2. Flexible Address and Delivery Management: Customers can easily set different shipping addresses or different delivery dates for the same address in the context of the same order.

Enhance the user experience by allowing users to directly provision cloud applications from marketplace platform, simplifying application deployment.

Key benefits:

1. Streamlining Application Provisioning: Enable users to provision cloud applications directly from the Marketplace platform, eliminating the need for complex manual processes and without leaving the platform.

2. Intuitive User Interface: Provide an easy-to-use interface for installing and uninstalling cloud applications directly from the marketplace, including an intuitive form for inputting necessary information.

3. Efficient License Management: Offer a clear and intuitive interface for managing application licenses, ensuring compliance and optimizing resource utilization.

This feature allows warehouse managers to define granular eligibility rules for accounts and account groups to access specific warehouses. This enables fine-grained control over which customers can see and purchase inventory from which warehouses.

Key benefits:

1. Improved Inventory Management:

• Prevent unauthorized access to inventory data.

• Strategically control product visibility based on inventory quantities and stock levels.

• Optimize inventory allocation across customer segments.

2. Enhanced Customer Experience:

• Provide a more relevant and personalized shopping experience.

• Improve customer satisfaction by prioritizing access for key customer segments.

3. Increased Revenue:

• Generate higher revenue from valuable customer segments by prioritizing their access to inventory.

4. Reduced Lost Sales:

• Minimize lost sales due to stockouts by limiting product visibility for certain customer groups.

Added External Reference Codes for references in widget configurations in Commerce and User Management applications. This helps promote data integrity when pages and their widgets are migrated across environments.

Key benefits:

References within the following page widgets now use External Reference Codes instead of internal IDs:

• Cart

• Cart Summary

• Category Content

• Commerce Addresses

• Commerce Category Navigation

• Mini Cart

• Open Carts

• Option Facet

• Order Forecasts Chart

• Organization Management

• Placed Orders

• Product Comparison Bar

• Product Comparison Table

• Product Details

• Product Downloads

• Product Publisher

• Search Results(Commerce)

• Specification Facet

Liferay Labs is an innovation hub within Liferay Marketplace dedicated to exploring newer technologies and developing experimental features. It provides a wide range of useful applications developed by Liferay staff. These are available to the community from Marketplace.

Liferay Labs serves as a platform for rapid prototyping and testing new ideas. These apps may often be integrated as future Liferay features. Under Liferay Labs, you can also find all the legacy apps that are no longer under official support.

All apps offered by Liferay Labs are free but without support. However, you may give feedback on apps containing beta features as it helps in improving them for a future release.

Key benefits:

1. Innovation Hub: serves as a testing ground for new and experimental technologies within the Liferay ecosystem.
Enables rapid prototyping and exploration of novel ideas.

2. Community Access: provides a platform for sharing valuable applications developed by Liferay staff with the broader Liferay community.
Makes these applications readily available through the Liferay Marketplace.

3. Future Feature Roadmap:Acts as a proving ground for potential future features of the Liferay platform. Allows for real-world testing and user feedback on new functionalities before official integration.

4. Legacy Application Repository: serves as an archive for legacy applications that are no longer officially supported. Enables users to access and utilize these applications if needed, while acknowledging their limited support.

This feature enhances the filtering capabilities within the headless-admin-user endpoints by enabling filtering based on custom fields for Accounts and Account Groups.

Key benefits:

• Improved Data Retrieval Efficiency

• Enhanced Data Management

• Increased User Productivity

This feature focuses on rigorously aligning the User Management headless APIs with the established standards and best practices. This includes:

• Comprehensive Functionality Testing: Verifying that all API endpoints (PATCH/POST/PUT) correctly update the expected fields in user records.

• Custom Field Support: Ensuring seamless integration and proper functioning of custom fields within the API interactions.

• Error Handling: Thoroughly testing error handling mechanisms and verifying that informative and user-friendly error messages are returned in all relevant scenarios.

• Data Manipulation Capabilities: Confirming the correct and efficient functioning of sorting, filtering, and other data manipulation operations within the API.

Key benefits:

• Enhanced User Experience: By ensuring the reliability and accuracy of the User Management headless APIs, we provide a seamless and efficient user experience for developers and integrators.

• Increased Developer Productivity: Well-defined and documented APIs empower developers to build integrations quickly and confidently, reducing development time and effort.

• Improved System Stability: Rigorous testing and alignment with standards minimize the risk of unexpected errors and system disruptions, leading to a more stable and reliable user management system.

• Enhanced Data Integrity: By ensuring accurate data updates and consistent API behavior, we maintain the integrity and consistency of user data across the system.

This enhancement introduces configurable default permissions for newly created pages. Admins can set these permissions at both the instance and site levels. Instance-level settings are managed in a new Instance Settings panel, while site-specific overrides can be configured in the Site Configuration area.

This feature enables users to export a CSV file containing detailed information about segment membership, including a list of all known individuals within a segment and their associated data, providing valuable insights for stakeholders.

Highlights:

• Export Capability: Allows users to generate a CSV file containing segment membership data.

• Comprehensive Details: Includes a list of all known individuals in a segment, with details such as names and email addresses.

• Actionable Insights: Equips stakeholders with valuable data for analysis and decision-making.