Release Notes
Analytics Cloud Cookie Control (LPD-10588)
Utility page for cookie policy lists and describes all cookies in use. Users can add and update cookies in the list with the cookie object. When the cookie manager is enabled, Analytics Cloud only tracks data from users who consent to statistics cookies.
This feature introduces customizable permissions for the "Owner" role and other user roles within Publications, allowing administrators to define exactly who can publish, edit, invite users, or manage permissions at the publication level. A new "Permissions" section has been added to the "Enable Publication" settings, along with an "Edit Permissions" button that opens the Publication permissions modal. Admins can now revoke the "Publish on Production" permission for any user on a publication-by-publication basis. Once revoked, the change is reflected immediately, the user will no longer be able to publish content to production, and the revoked status is saved and visible in the publication permissions settings. Only users with the Admin role or the specific permission to manage publication roles can make these changes. This enhancement provides granular control over user capabilities within each publication, helping teams better manage their content workflows and avoid accidental publishing.
Key benefits:
Safeguard Production Changes: Blocks users from publishing or modifying production content via Publications unless explicitly granted.
Enhanced Role Governance: Admins now have complete oversight of publication-level permissions for all user roles, including Owners.
A new warning has been added to the Publications configuration screen to alert admins when "Sandbox Only" mode is enabled but publication Owners still have permission to publish. In this scenario, any user who creates a sandbox publication can still push changes to production, potentially bypassing the intended protection. The system now displays a warning message when this configuration is detected, guiding admins to review and adjust permissions for the Owner role accordingly.
Key benefits:
Prevent accidental publishing by alerting admins when Owner permissions still allow publishing in Sandbox mode.
Increase visibility into role-based permissions that may unintentionally allow production changes.
We enabled navigation menus to be retrieved using their External Reference Code (ERC) through Liferay’s headless APIs. This enhancement enables a more precise and consistent identification of navigation menus across sites and environments, particularly useful in multi-site and content migration contexts. It complements the existing functionality by providing an alternative for IDs.
Key benefits:
Improved data consistency: ERC-based retrieval ensures references remain valid across environments.
Easier data migration: ERCs streamline the export/import process across different Liferay sites by providing a consistent identifier.
Better filtering options: Admins can now export navigation menus based on creation or modification date range, giving finer control over headless operations.
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
To help users build pages faster with more design options, Liferay now allows direct access to Marketplace fragments from within the page builder. In addition to native and already-installed fragments, users can now browse and install additional fragments available on the Marketplace—expanding their library without leaving the editor.
This gives customers the ability to use pre-built fragments shared by Liferay, technology partners, and the broader community, making it easier to create flexible, high-quality pages with less effort.
Users can translate text fields from Objects when using Text Input Fragments in Form Containers.
Dynamically show or hide configuration fields in a custom fragment based on user input values.
With the introduction of the new CMS approach for managing object entries, the existing 1:1 nested object entry functionality in the Page Builder (LPD-20213) is now deprecated and will be removed. This feature has proven to be complex and underutilized by end-users.
The new approach, being developed under the CMS 2.0 initiative, will offer a more intuitive user experience for object relationships, allowing users to configure child structures as repeatable or non-repeatable.
The new Side Panel (also known as Info Panel) is a reusable Clay React component that provides a consistent, accessible, and responsive sliding panel for use across Liferay applications. It supports common use cases such as content editing, navigation, and contextual information display.
Key benefits:
We established a uniform look and feel across all instances of the Side Panel, reducing cognitive load and improving usability and also ensured compliance with accessibility standards (e.g. keyboard navigation, ARIA roles), enabling inclusive design by default.
Reduces redundant implementations and streamlines maintenance by offering a centralised, reusable component.
Reinforces design consistency and reusability across the product ecosystem.
The addition of new translations and locales ensures that users in Myanmar, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Ireland and Serbia can interact with the platform in their preferred languages or regional variation.
Key benefits:
Tailors the user experience for specific markets and regions, improving relevance and usability
We made the platform more inclusive by expanding language and locale options.
The Accessibility Checker Component is being deprecated as part of our effort to improve accessibility tooling and simplify our component library. After evaluating its usage and overlap with other accessibility solutions in Liferay, we found it to be redundant and we stopped using it long time ago.
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
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.
Deployments can operate their stack using the latest available, secure and stable version of OpenSearch 2.
Requires to install Liferay Connector to OpenSearch 2.
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 
Addressing prior limitations, custom cell renderers created with Client Extensions now provide full row data access. This empowers developers with expanded options and greater flexibility for their implementations so they can create a renderer for a cell and include data from all the row mixing the contents. For example, you can create a cell to calculate the volume of a furniture good based on the different dimensions fields.
Expand developer capabilities to create more powerful Client Extensions for Data Set Cell Renderers
The Data Set has a revamped experience in terms of selection that also provides a quicker way to contextualize the user interaction.
When facing any of the visualizations (table, card, row) the user can click on the item body to perform single selection. This enhances rapid selection and better interaction.
More modern selection pattern that follows industry trends
Clearer states for the user to distinguish when an item is:
Selected (active)
Hovered
Both at the same time