The Custom Assets feature has been formally deprecated and removed from Analytics Cloud. The feature had been under a "deprecation" feature flag for several quarters, and the retirement process is now complete.

Reviewers can now see exactly how content will appear to end users when using a Display Page Template, ensuring layout and formatting are correct before publishing.

• Applies to multiple types of content, including Web Content Articles and Blog Entries.
• Reviewers can now see all editable fields for content items in the Data tab — including custom fields created via structures.

Key Benefits:

• Improves content quality: Ensures that reviewers can see exactly how content will appear to end users, helping maintain visual and structural accuracy before publishing.

• Reduces publishing risks and errors: Allows early detection of layout or formatting issues, minimizing rework and post-publication corrections.

• Saves time in the review process: Streamlines validation and reduces the need for multiple review cycles.

Site Settings are now exportable through Headless APIs.

Key Benefits:

• Simplified Environment Migration: Easily migrate all site-scoped configurations together with site content using the Batch Engine and Headless Site API.

• Greater Consistency: Ensures that site settings and behaviors are replicated accurately across environments.

• Enhanced Automation: Supports headless and automated deployment workflows, removing the need for manual configuration updates for site settings.

With the launch of the new CMS 2.0, two fragments have been created that allow the customers to build a more complete and flexible experience for the end-user. These Accordion and Drag and Drop Upload fragments are better aligned with the real needs of a CMS user and content editors in general, as they allow for improved organization of information and increased usability when managing information and files of any type.

Key Benefits:

• Accelerated Time-to-Value: Ready-made fragments allow customers to quickly drag-and-drop functional components, reducing development time and enabling marketing and content teams to create new experiences faster.

• Lower Cost of Ownership: Platform-maintained fragments reduce the burden of custom code, ensuring greater long-term stability, easier upgrades, and less time spent on maintenance.

With the launch of the new CMS 2.0 and the need to integrate and contribute related objects, a new form fragment has been created. This Form Relationship fragment allows users to populate/fill in nested objects within a form container. With this new fragment, we provide customers with the ability to create more complex forms where they can complete the information for these related objects, thereby offering a more complete experience for the creation of complex applications and for the CMS itself.

Key Benefits:

• Maximize Authoring Velocity: By unifying the creation of parent and embedded (repeatable) entities into a single, contextualized screen, customers eliminate clicks and custom code, allowing content teams to publish complex experiences significantly faster.

• Ensure Data Integrity: The out-of-the-box fragments enforce data structure and contextual relevance for child entities at the point of creation, guaranteeing consistent, structured content that provides a unified experience for end users.

Style Books now support 8-digit hex colour codes (e.g. #RRGGBBAA), which include an alpha channel to define opacity. Previously, these values only worked when set as defaults in the frontend-token-definition.json file; manual input in the editor would strip the opacity digits. With this update, customers can directly enter and save full 8-digit hex values in the Style Book editor, and the opacity is correctly reflected in the UI.

Key Benefits:

• User will be able to define colours with both RGB and transparency in a single, standardised format improving Liferay’s design flexibility.
• Aligns with modern CSS and browser support for 8-digit hex codes.
• No need for more workaround formats (like rgba) to manage opacity.

In this case, the feature “Enable JavaScript Client Extensions for Administration in SaaS Environments” has remained under Release Feature Flag for three consecutive quarters. During this period, it has demonstrated strong stability, with no reported bugs or user complaints.

Following this evaluation, we’ve decided to move the feature to GA, based on its proven reliability, adoption, and positive feedback.

Semantic Content Indexing

When the feature flag LPS-122920 is enabled, the platform can now create text embeddings (numerical representations of input text, also known as vector embeddings) for Object entries. These embeddings are generated using the content from the searchable fields and are meant to capture the meaning and the context of the content. You can select from various available third-party providers and models, such as OpenAI or Hugging Face, to generate these vectors.

Customizable Search

Now that semantic indexing is also supported for Object entries, you can create highly customized searches using Blueprints. Specifically, the Rescore by Text Embedding query element is available for use.This element automatically handles the process of creating vectors from the user’s keywords through the configured provider.

For instance, this capability allows you to combine traditional keyword search with AI-powered vector search techniques to implement hybrid search, now also for Object entries. This combination is quickly becoming the new standard for modern content search and discovery.

Key Benefits:

More Relevant Search Results: Create search experiences that understand the meaning and context of your Object based content or application data and user searches.

The Semantic Search capability is planned to be moved to GA status in early 2026. This timeline is intended to outline Liferay’s general product direction and it is subject to change.