Before removal a product, app or capability should be marked deprecated for at least four Liferay DXP quarterly releases. Deprecation should be indicated in official documentation, in the release notes, or in the product through a deprecation flag. Products, apps or capabilities can stay deprecated for multiple released versions until product teams are ready to remove the item. An item may be deprecated and archived within one version at the discretion of the product team.

Support Coverage

From the initial version of deprecation, Liferay may resolve unintended behavior within products, apps or capabilities which are deprecated on a case-by-case basis until the item is archived and removed from the product. For previous versions, items will receive support according to the product service life. For example, if an item was marked as deprecated with the release of Liferay DXP 7.1, for Liferay DXP 7.0 and below that item will receive full support coverage according to the DXP product life. As another example, if an item is marked as deprecated with the release of Liferay DXP 2024.Q1, for Liferay DXP 2023.Q4 and below that item will receive full support coverage according to the DXP product life.

Items which are deprecated can be released as a Marketplace app. Marketplace apps can also be marked as Final Version to indicate they are deprecated. Unintended behavior and product defects for these deprecated or Final Version Marketplace apps may be resolved on a case-by-case basis.

With respect to all deprecated items, Liferay Subscription Services offers:

1. Guidance towards the alternative solution if one has been identified by the product team.
2. Facilitating an interaction with the product team in order to identify an alternative solution.
3. Identifying the root cause of an unintended behavior within a deprecated item.