Release Notes
As customers increasingly adopt HTML5 for content creation, there's a growing need to upgrade the current rich text editing capabilities and CKEditor 5 has been selected as the default editor for Liferay DXP to meet this demand. CK Editor 5 has been made available in DXP under Beta Feature Flag. (FF-11235):
Web Content Description field
Page Builder:
Paragraph
Forms → Rich Text
Deployments can operate their stack using the latest available, secure and stable version of OpenSearch 2.
Requires to install Liferay Connector to OpenSearch 2.
Embedded items now include actions (when the headless entity supports)
Filter by Workflow Status via the filter request parameter.
Filter field: status
Examples: status eq 0, status eq 0 or status eq 2
Invoke available actions on the returned items
Filter results by workflow status
Liferay Self-Hosted deployments can update their Elastic stack to this version. For Liferay PaaS projects a new Elasticsearch image will be provided under Liferay Cloud’s Docker Hub account.
By displaying the blueprint's results in a Collection Display fragment (available since DXP 7.4 U88 as Beta), you can leverage search to return your assets dynamically, and reap the benefits of the fragments toolbox to lay out the page.
Enhanced Type Support
Now, the Blueprint Collection Provider supports asset types (like structured web content and Objects) allowing to map specific item fields beyond the the basic information fields (i.e., asset entry fields) in fragments, depending on the Searchable Types settings of your blueprint.
When selecting Web Content Article as Searchable Types, the subtype selector becomes available
Selecting an available Web Content Structure (Subtype) as Searchable Types in a blueprint
Web Content Article with a specific Web Content Structure selected as subtype in a blueprint
Mapping a Web Content Structure field from a Blueprint Collection Provider with a specific return type in a fragment
Web Content Article with no subtype restriction selected as Searchable Type in a Blueprint
Mapping Web Content Article field from a Blueprint Collection Provider with a specific return type in a fragment
Document with a specific subtype (Document Type) is selected as Searchable Types in a blueprint
Mapping Document Type fields from a Blueprint Collection Provider with a specific return type in a fragment
Object type selected as Searchable Types in a blueprint
Mapping Object fields from a Blueprint Collection Provider with specific return type in a fragment
Message Boards Message selected as Searchable Types in a blueprint
Mapping basic information fields from a Blueprint Collection Provider with return type Asset in a fragment
Opt-in Collection Provider
Configure if a collection provider should be published when creating a new blueprint, or later via the Configuration tab or through the action menu in the table view in Blueprints.
Enabling a blueprint as a Collection Provider on creation
Enabling/disabling a blueprint as a Collection Provider via Configuration later
Enable blueprint as a collection provide via the action menu in the Blueprints admin
Access and map type specific item fields fields in fragments for an extend range of types including Web Content Article and structures, Documents and Document Types and Objects.
Limit searches to specific subtypes via Query Settings in Blueprints
Liferay Tomcat Bundles and Docker Images ship with Elasticsearch 8.18 as the sidecar search engine.
The Elasticsearch server runtime included in Liferay DXP Tomcat Bundles and Docker Images (aka. Sidecar Elasticsearch, located under [Liferay-Home]/elasticsearch-sidecar) is provided as a convenience for local development and testing only. It is neither suitable nor supported for production.
Instead, configure Liferay to connect to Elasticsearch as a self-managed, standalone server or cluster of server nodes.
Collections with Blueprints (FF: LPS-129412) available as 
With this release, the Liferay DXP is now built with the modern, cloud native technology provided by the Jakarta EE 10 platform. The legacy Java EE platform will no longer be supported on this and future releases, allowing Liferay DXP to continue to evolve and build innovative solutions to meet your business needs.
Liferay DXP now certified on Jakarta-based application servers: Tomcat 10.1, Jboss EAP 8.0, and Wildfly 30. This also provides support for newer specifications such as Portlet 4.0, Servlet 6.0, and Spring Framework 6.0. The update paves the way for faster feature development and rapid security fixes available in the modern Java enterprise ecosystem.