Liferay’s Countries feature was migrated from being a Commerce feature to a DXP feature, thus Commerce’s Countries page was removed. Users that manage Countries will now be able to manage them through the Countries Management page under the Control Panel.

Content is no longer classified as translated solely upon the translation of its title. Now, when a user translates any field, not just the title, but also the content status changes to "Translating". It will only be considered translated when all fields have been translated.

To bolster permissions management and elevate user awareness concerning content, users will now be prompted to confirm permissions during the initial publishing or saving process, requiring an additional click. Subsequent saving or publishing actions will not require this confirmation.

The "Mine" filter now displays the creation date information instead of the modified date.

The "Recent" filter now displays the creation date information instead of the modified date.

A new SEO menu has been added in Instance Settings with an item selector to include specific Sites or all of them, in the sitemap of the Company through the Company's Virtual Host, and the default site cannot be deleted from the list. If the default site has a Virtual Host defined, it will not be added to the company's XML sitemap although listed in the configuration.

Users are currently presented with a group of features that are not relevant in the configuration page for Utility Pages. These non-applicable features have been removed while preserving the essential HTML Title, HTML Description, and SEO configuration elements.

After searching with a keyword and selecting facets, searching with a new keyword (in either using the header Search Bar or any Search Bar widget instance on a page) will clear all active facet selections.

The old behavior can be enabled via the Search Options widget by ticking Retain Facet Selections Across Searches option.

This affects any custom code using Liferay’s API methods User.getRemotePreference(String) and User.getRemotePreferences().

The API supporting logic has to collect and hold cookies in User object, causing unnecessary CPU and memory overhead. These methods were just a convenient shortcut to get the user's current request's cookies with REMOTE_PREFERENCE_ name prefix. The same logic can be done by directly getting necessary cookies from request.

• What changed? Currently, the translatable object fields use the configured languageId from the user. With this change, it is going to use the preferred Locale given by the DTOConverterContext instead.
• Why was this change made? This change is needed in order to return the appropriate translatable object field values for the language setting in the Accept-Language header.
• Who is affected? Every user that calls the translatable object fields.
• How should I update my features or implementation to better adopt the breaking change? Adding or removing (depends on the cases) the Accept-Language header.

Tag values are now case-sensitive.

The name of the reserved variable ID has always referred to the article ID so it has been changed to: Article ID. A new ID variable has been added that refers to the ID.

Sites are not browsable for non-admin users in Breadcrumb portlet when the site has Membership restricted or private.
The Default Layout permission was replaced with the current Group check.
Disable Group membership checking since it has no relationship to layout browsability.

When we create a new Site the Allow Manual Membership Management option will be disabled by default to avoid uploading malicious files to the Documents and Media portlet.

All filtering in web content now only applies to the current folder. Previously, certain filters exhibited behavior limited to the current folder and now it has been standardized to all filters.

Searching after filtering will clear all existing filters and give a search from the entire data set.

The filtering options for "With approved versions," "With scheduled versions," and "With expired versions” are now designated as "Approved," "Scheduled," and "Expired," respectively. Rather than filtering all web content with a given status, it now distinctly displays content or versions in the specified status.

From now on, the segments tab for the Administrator role will no longer be displayed in the assignees' tab. Assigning the Administrator role through segments is not allowed.

The configuration sections in Utility Pages are not enabled, as the other pages, due to their use being more restricted. The implementation of these settings should occur by analyzing each case.

As mentioned in the new features section the following properties having been transformed in configurations, so they are no longer available in the properties files:

• session.timeout.auto.extend
• session.timeout.auto.extend.offset

Previously our AB Testing feature supported multivariate testing. With the addition of multiple variants, the time to completion and the calculations required would increase exponentially. This caused many issues for our customers. As such we have decided to pare back this functionality to provide a higher quality experience for our users. Now our AB Testing feature only supports 1 variant, in addition to the control. This makes our feature truly an AB Test rather than a Multivariate Test. There is the possibility of re-enabling multivariate testing in the future, but that will depend on the needs from our customers.

We changed the default configuration such that if a Menu Display widget is placed on a Page Template, the default configuration for it will be "Pages Hierarchy" (unless there are no Pages at all on the Site). It will display as "Pages Hierarchy" even if Private Pages are enabled. If Private Pages are enabled, an alert will appear on the Page Template letting the user know that the Menu Display may appear different if the inherited page has the opposite privateLayout value to the menu currently being rendered.

When a Page inherits this Page Template, the alert message does not display on the Page, and the Navigation Menu will be configured for either Public Pages Hierarchy or Private Pages Hierarchy depending on whether the page is public.

Current options in System Settings > Documents and Media > Cache Control are:

• Public
• Private

And Private is the default option.

From now on, we are adding a new option No Cache that will allow configure this option to “private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate" and it will be used as default value, so it changes current default behavior:

With the upgrade of the client libraries, the minimum compatible Elasticsearch minor version shits to 7.17.x.

When the server is lower than the expected version, the DXP won't start-up, but fail with an error in the DXP console:

10-22 10:45:22.619 ERROR [main][ElasticsearchSearchEngine:375] Elasticsearch node es-node-1 does not meet the minimum version requirement of 7.17

The self bootstraping style *SearchRegistrar has been changed to service collecting of ModelSearchConfigurator.

Indexer registration code for custom entities has to be adjusted to become an OSGi service of type ModelSearchConfiguratorand to move all previous ModelSearchConfigurator setter call parameter as corresponding ModelSearchConfigurator getter return value.

This change was made in order to prevent fragment changes propagation when a user changes the cacheable option and then saves it. This was creating performance issues for some customers.

This change will benefit customers in terms of performance, as unnecessary propagations will no longer occur when the cacheable option is changed.

No changes are expected for customers' implementations. Just the awareness that this option is now somewhere else.

Support for these application servers is removed from 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

With the new support of Java JDK 17 and 21 runtimes, Java 11 will no longer be supported for DXP runtime on 2024.Q3 or later. 

Liferay Workspace offers support for re-compiling custom modules on JDK 17 or 21.