Release Notes
From now on CK Editor 5 will be the default rich text editor present in Liferay DXP.
Note: CK Editor 4 still remains the default editor on some of the DXP features, those which are in Maintenance Mode such as Knowledge Base or Blogs, these experiences will not be migrated to CK Editor 5.
We've refined how users discover and install Marketplace fragments from inside the Page Builder. Browsing, previewing, and installing partner and community fragments now feel native to the editing flow—fewer clicks, clearer discovery, and less context switching between the editor and the Marketplace. Native, already-installed, and Marketplace-available fragments now live side by side in the same experience.
Key Benefits:
Faster discovery and installation of Marketplace fragments without breaking the editing flow.
Clearer distinction between native, installed, and Marketplace-available fragments, so builders pick the right one at a glance.
Less context-switching: everything happens inside the Page Builder instead of jumping to the Marketplace and back.
This release rounds out the Pages Management APIs with new endpoints, broader page-type coverage, and refinements to how references and scopes are handled. The updates close long-standing gaps — supporting more page types end-to-end, expanding the catalog of page elements and fragments exposed through the API, and hardening the data architecture around scopes and secure references. The result is more reliable imports, exports, and staging across every site component.
Key Benefits:
Broader API coverage: every page type is now supported end-to-end, not just the subset covered before.
Fewer surprises in staging: scope-aware identifiers catch missing references and deleted assets before they break the live site.
Consistent behavior across sites, staged environments, and imported content — the API no longer behaves differently depending on the page type.
The Style Book Editor has been improved to make managing design tokens simpler and more intuitive, with a clearer approach to editing colours and improved overall usability.
Key Benefits:
Faster updates: Edit colour tokens quickly through a single, clear interaction point.
Easier to use: Fewer competing controls reduce confusion and make the editor more approachable.
Consistent experience: Interaction patterns now align with the Page Editor, improving learnability.
Built for growth: A stronger foundation to support future design token capabilities and enhancements.
Fewer errors: Improved interactions reduce friction and mistakes when updating styles.
The Global Menu has been promoted from Beta to GA and is now the default, fully supported navigation experience in Liferay DXP. It provides a single, consistent entry point to access applications and settings, with improved structure, stable behaviour, and integrated search for faster navigation.
Style Book tokens are now aligned with Clay variables, ensuring that design changes apply consistently across UI components and themes.
Key Benefits:
Reliable theming: Changes made in Style Books now correctly reflect across all Clay-based components.
Real consistency: No more gaps where updating a token doesn’t affect parts of the UI (e.g. alerts, buttons).
Better visibility: Token changes are accurately represented in the Style Book editor.
Stronger foundation: Clay now exposes core variables (colours, typography, spacing) as CSS custom properties, making them easier to control.
Future-ready: Sets the groundwork for more advanced theming and design system capabilities.
We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of the OpenSearch 2 Connector v2.0.0 for 2026.Q1 and v2.1.0 for 2026.Q2. This release is an important milestone in our Cloud Native Experience strategy, providing a viable alternative for Liferay DXP users.
This version has undergone additional testing and validation to ensure dependency alignment with the latest OpenSearch 2 clients and field mapping consistency with our Elasticsearch 8 connector.
The new version of the application is will be released on Liferay Marketplace.
Key Benefits:
Note: Liferay supports the connector and its features. While Liferay can provide an example deployment configurations for AWS OpenSearch Service, the management and maintenance of the underlying service remain the responsibility of the infrastructure provider.
Manage site updates with total confidence using the new Maintenance Mode. This feature allows Site Administrators to take a site offline for the public while maintaining full operational access behind the scenes. When enabled, visitors receive a dedicated maintenance page with the correct SEO-friendly status (HTTP 503), while administrators can continue to navigate, edit, and verify site pages to ensure everything is perfect before going live again.
Key Benefits:
Safe Production Verification: Unlike standard deactivation, Maintenance Mode allows admins to view and test the full site experience live, ensuring that deployments are successful before the public ever sees them.
SEO Protection: By serving a proper 503 Service Unavailable status, the system tells search engines that the downtime is temporary, protecting your search rankings during major updates or migrations.
Managing large-scale site deployments just got easier. We have introduced new headless API endpoints that allow developers to toggle site states (Active or Inactive) programmatically, bypassing the need for manual configuration within the Control Panel.
Key Benefits:
Automated Site Governance: Enables high-speed bulk management of site states, allowing your team to sync site availability with external business systems or custom orchestration tools.
Enhanced System Stability: Built-in safeguards protect the platform by preventing the accidental deactivation of essential system sites (like Global), while strict permission validation ensures only authorized users can trigger state changes.
Reviewing complex page updates is now faster and more intuitive. We’ve introduced a Review Side Panel within the Publications Review Change screen that automatically surfaces content changes made on a Content Page. Instead of manually digging through the full change list or a Pages’ Children tab, reviewers can now see exactly which text and images have been modified in a page’s Fragment Entry Links via a consolidated, easy-to-read list.
Key Benefits:
Focused Decision-Making: Instantly identify high-impact changes (like text and image updates) without getting lost in technical changes.
Streamlined Workflow: Eliminates the need to cross-reference multiple tabs or Fragment Entry Links, allowing content reviewers to complete reviews with total confidence.
The page reviewing experience now provides a more accurate way to locate and compare changes. The Publications Display tab for Content Pages now provides the Unified view, highlighting additions, removals, and format changes, so you no longer have to hunt for differences on the new page version.
Key Benefits:
Review accuracy: Reviewers feel confident that no change goes to production without the proper attention.
The Questions Widget is a legacy application that was primarily maintained to support Liferay Ask. With the recent migration from Ask to Discuss (Liferay's new forum platform), this widget is no longer needed. Therefore, the Questions Widget is being deprecated to reduce technical debt and ongoing maintenance costs.
We have introduced several new bulk actions to the CMS to help you manage large volumes of content more efficiently. Instead of handling items individually, you can now perform complex administrative tasks across multiple selections simultaneously.
Key Benefits:
Assign Workflow for Content Structures in bulk
Expire content in bulk
Delete versions of a content in bulk
Export translations of different content in bulk
As part of improving asset management efficiency, this epic introduces bulk Copy and Move actions for assets within the CMS. These actions will allow content creators to organize and duplicate multiple assets at once, across locations in Spaces they have access to. The functionality should maintain the same user experience principles and behavior as the existing single-asset Copy and Move actions, extended to handle multiple selections simultaneously.
Key Benefits:
Copy assets in bulk
>Move assets in bulk
The product currently relies on a legacy CMS alongside a newly developed CMS, requiring parallel maintenance, duplicated functionality, and fragmented content workflows. This increases operational cost, slows down feature delivery, and creates inconsistencies in how content is managed and consumed.
This epic aims to inform the users that we are putting the current CMS in maintainance mode, preparing the field to add the feature flag in next releases
Key Benefits:
Inform the users about the features set as In Maintenance
During the reviewing of the CMS experience and fixing bugs, we detected some product gaps and improvements that can make the user experience smoother, so this epic’s goal is to tackle them to ensure a stable and reliable user experience.
Key Benefits:
Allow to search members in a space for non admin users
Improved category creation
Filter by space for content structures
List view for Space home view
Building on the automated database repair routines introduced in 2025.Q4, Liferay DXP continues to expand the set of repair processes that run during the upgrade. Based on additional research into customer upgrade issues, new repair routines automatically identify and correct further sources of database inconsistencies, orphan references, and invalid data — before they cause upgrade failures or performance bottlenecks. These repair routines remain targeted at known issues with data structures only, keeping your critical data content safe. Details of each repair process continue to be provided for review in the Upgrade Report after the database upgrade completes.
Key Benefits:
Minimize risks for current and future upgrades
Automates data maintenance
Search re-indexing has been optimized to deliver shorter re-index windows, especially for Objects-heavy deployments. In testing against production databases and architecture, we observed re-index improvements of 2x or more across the evaluated datasets, with gains reaching up to 10x on specific workloads. The optimizations primarily targeted improvements that scale with the volume and complexity of Object data being indexed.
Key Benefits:
Shorter re-index windows reduce maintenance overhead and downtime risk
Validated on a production-equivalent distributed architecture
Largest impact for Objects-heavy installations
When using the Liferay DXP Database Partitioning feature, the system now enforces strict access controls ensuring only the authorized database partition is accessible for any given request. This completes foundational security work and extends proper enforcement to all Liferay entry points, including Headless APIs and Client Extensions.
Key Benefits:
Prevents unauthorized cross-partition data access in multi-tenant environments
Ensures consistent partition access enforcement across all Liferay entry points (Headless, Client Extensions)
This is a major version release that brings important platform updates and security enhancements alongside several necessary breaking changes to ensure the continued delivery and stability of Liferay Developer Studio.
Key Benefits:
Eclipse Platform Update: The underlying platform was updated to Eclipse 2025.12, taking advantage of the latest features and security updates from Eclipse. For more information, please see https://eclipse.dev/eclipse/news/4.38/.
Blade Version Update: The packaged Blade version was updated to 8.0.1-SNAPSHOT.