We are excited to introduce a significant improvement in the Liferay Cloud platform. With the integration of Private Service Connect and Cloud Interconnect, users now have secure and dedicated channels for seamless communication and data transfer between their on-premises systems and Liferay Cloud. This means enhanced data security, reduced delays, and consistent top-notch performance. Your data will travel safely and efficiently, improving your overall experience.

We are excited to introduce a significant enhancement in Liferay Cloud—Azure Git Repos integration via Azure DevOps with Jenkins (CI) service.  By seamlessly merging DXP Cloud with Azure Git Repos, we're creating a robust development and deployment environment that fosters collaboration, automation, code quality, and security. 

Reduce interruption for both users and site visitors, and improve operational and resource utilization efficiency with the new Concurrent and Sync reindex execution modes.  With these new modes, you can carry out searches while a reindex is seamlessly running in the background. Say goodbye to search downtime and explore content without missing a beat.

We are dedicated to enhancing your experience, and our latest feature is here to simplify data management across your applications. Now, you can effortlessly manage different versions of your internal data without the need for complex coding. Gain the power to define API endpoints that expose custom data lists with ease.

With our upgraded dataset manager, you're the master of your data's destiny. Now, you can shape your view of information effortlessly. Our low-code approach empowers you to set up filters, sorting options, and actions that perfectly match your workflow. Want to prioritize certain data? Done. Need to sort it differently? Easy. Want specific actions at your fingertips? Consider it done. Experience a data interaction that matches your unique needs.

Our latest update empowers you to manage data export and import tasks independently, eliminating the need to wait for IT assistance. Adapt to changing business requirements with ease and enhance operational efficiency, ensuring smooth operations and faster decision-making. Your data, your way. 

Users can now manage data from external systems through Liferay without persisting data on DXP.

With extension support, they can also connect with other systems in a standard way and create experiences in Page builder through Liferay experience management as other objects, and manage permissions through Liferay role management. Users can already, without a single line of code, manage data from Salesforce through DXP.

With enhanced automations capabilities, users can now manage more advanced notifications, not only having more variables and expressions to be used to dynamically compose their email and users notifications. In addition, the support for extensions allows customers to add new notification types, such as: WhatsApp, Line, and Slack for example.

More use cases enabled through low-code, accelerating time to value and the scalability of those solutions. Some of the highlights: 

• Multi-language support for object entries
• New encrypted and date-time field
• New rules for making a field read-only at API level
• Object Data GDPR compliance

Liferay Commerce is a digital commerce platform built on Liferay DXP. Liferay provides a robust pricing system to fine-tune product prices. Check it out!

This integration with OpenAI ChatGPT will allow content creators to get suggestions for their web content from the most trendy AI content generator. 

Let our customers understand our Accessibility Strategy and communicate the release of our VPAT (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) / Accessibility Conformance Report by the end of Q2.

With this new dataset manager, customers will be able to define in a low-code way, views for displaying and manage data leveraging the headless APIs

• Enable users to customize what to be shown in a data view.
• Reduce the effort to customize the view as it’s done via UI.
• Reduce the amount of work needed to adjust the UI after a platform upgrade.

Content Security Policy (CSP) is an added layer of security that helps to detect and mitigate certain types of attacks, including Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and data injection attacks. These attacks are used for everything from data theft, to site defacement, to malware distribution

Now you can create more detailed customer segments based on their specific actions. We have expanded our segmentation capabilities to allow you to segment your audience beyond standard website activities to include custom events. 

We have significantly enhanced our workflow notification capabilities to provide a more personalized and efficient user experience. Users can now enjoy greater control over the notifications they receive through features such as site-scoped, role-based, and guest-user locale-based notifications. 

Boost developer productivity with updated IDE tools.

The Liferay Marketplace now features expanded capabilities to streamline processes and enhance customer experiences. This includes new connectors for UPS and Adyen to offer seamless shipping and payment solutions. These connectors empower businesses to optimize their checkout experience by providing accurate shipping rates, multiple payment options, and enhanced fraud protection.

This new feature allows streamlined return processes for both buyers and sellers.

Buyers can easily initiate return requests directly from their order history, specify the reason for the return and request a refund.

Returns Managers, within the Returns admin pages, can review the return details, communicate with customers, and issue refunds with just a few clicks.

This feature enables granular product filtering based on custom fields to enhance admin/practitioner efficiency and user experience so that they can easily find what they are looking for.