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:

• Native AWS Integration & Cost Optimization: Connect Liferay DXP with AWS OpenSearch Service. By leveraging managed infrastructure, organizations can reduce operational overhead, streamline their cloud stack, and optimize hosting costs through AWS-native service configurations.
• Flexible Search Architecture Production-ready alternative to Elasticsearch. This connector ensures that Liferay DXP remains flexible, allowing you to choose the search engine that best aligns with your infrastructure requirements and corporate standards.

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.