Data modelers can now define Link Content fields that let content creators select existing entries from other objects—single or multiple—instead of retyping the same values across entries. The CMS moves from isolated documents to a connected data model, so information like vendor names, categories, or authors stays consistent across every publication.

Key Benefits:

• Eliminate typos and inconsistencies by picking existing entries instead of re-entering text.

• Reuse the same author, category, or vendor across hundreds of entries—update it once and it propagates everywhere.

• Support both single and multi-select relationships, from "one author per article" to "many products per campaign.”

Content teams can now find and replace text, URLs, or terms across the entire CMS repository in a single action — covering titles, content fields, and friendly URLs. Every operation includes a mandatory preview, scoped targeting, and automatic versioning, so large-scale updates like rebrandings or URL migrations are fast, reversible, and low-risk.

Key Benefits:

• Cut rebrandings and terminology rollouts from hours of manual edits to a single bulk action.

• Preview every change before it's committed, with automatic versioning if you need to roll back.

• Scope replacements by site, content type, or field so global updates stay surgical instead of sweeping

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.

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.

Customers can now leverage a Liferay Toolkit to quickly and reliably spin-up Liferay in AWS. By leveraging our toolkit, customers can speed-up their deployments, as well as benefit from a robust and reliable infrastructure that reduces costs and increases predictability in the long run. 

Key Benefits:

• Increased visibility of Liferay Application and every other application in your EKS cluster;

• Reliable deployment process with easier to spot drifts;

• Operational cost reduction for running Liferay in AWS.

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.

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.