Some applications do not support Publications. That situation can be really confusing when users try to use one of these applications, while inside a publication, and expect it to work together with Publications. We are aiming to make the user experience of the portal during publication as smooth as possible, so we decided to add a mechanism which provides the users with information if they start using one of these apps.

Improving performance is one of the main elements in our product strategy. Here we worked on improving the performance of the Review Changes screen. We have already improved the performance of other screens, and in the future we keep improving the performance of the screens.

Although Analytics Cloud provides valuable insights into the performance of content and pages, sharing this information within an organization has proven difficult for some users. To solve this problem, we are introducing a new feature that aims to enhance your sharing and reporting capabilities. With this feature, you can now effortlessly download PDFs of your dashboards and CSVs of lists (eg. segment membership), making it easier than ever to share critical insights with your stakeholders.

Key Benefits:

1. Time and Effort Savings: Exporting your dashboards to PDF and lists to CSV is a breeze. Say goodbye to the time-consuming task of manually extracting this information and formatting. Our platform streamlines the process for you.

2. Professional Reports: The PDF export feature ensures that your insights are presented in a polished and professional format, perfect for sharing with executives, clients, and colleagues.

To use this feature, simply click on the new Download button in the top right navigation bar. From there you can select the date range for the dashboards as well as the specific cards you wish to include in your report.

Although Analytics Cloud provides valuable insights into the performance of content and pages, sharing this information within an organization has proven difficult for some users. To solve this problem, we are introducing a new feature that aims to enhance your sharing and reporting capabilities. With this feature, you can now effortlessly download PDFs of your dashboards and CSVs of lists (eg. segment membership), making it easier than ever to share critical insights with your stakeholders.

Key Benefits:

1. Time and Effort Savings: Exporting your dashboards to PDF and lists to CSV is a breeze. Say goodbye to the time-consuming task of manually extracting this information and formatting. Our platform streamlines the process for you.

2. Professional Reports: The PDF export feature ensures that your insights are presented in a polished and professional format, perfect for sharing with executives, clients, and colleagues.

To use this feature, simply click on the new Download button in the top right navigation bar. From there you can select the date range for the dashboards as well as the specific cards you wish to include in your report.

The Analytics mobile app allows users to access the main reports and dashboards on-the-go to stay on top of the most relevant metrics for the business.

Now users can select any image from the Liferay repository directly from the Web Content edition page, creating a better experience and allowing creating a structure of featured images if it’s necessary.

We have enhanced our recommendation engine to provide two new recommendation algorithms: one focused on recommending content based on the user's browsing history on the website, and the other one providing recommendations based on most popular content. These recommendation strategies can be used by adding the matching content collections to any page. Experimentation and attribution is also possible by comparing them through an AB test that determines the best strategy to increase CRO. 

To help content creators raise the quality of their content, now they have integrated in our rich-text editors a spell checker that will help them solve spelling and grammar errors. It supports multiple languages, including: Spanish, English, French, and German.

Liferay AB Testing capabilities now helps customers save time by reassigning the traffic split based on the running test results. The dynamic traffic allocation ensures that the estimated winner variation gets more traffic, optimizing conversion in highly time-sensitive situations. 

To help users enrich their content, Liferay provides a new LXC service to serve videos to a wide audience out of the box. Content creators will be able to upload videos directly to Liferay and the new service will take care of generating different versions with several resolutions to adapt to user’s connection capabilities, together with automatic subtitles and AI powered auto-tagging based on the video content. Content creators will also be able to add manual subtitles to the videos in case the automatic ones don't fit the need.

Blueprints are referenced by their ERCs under-the-hood in the Blueprints Options widget and the Low-Level Search Options widget also supports a new attribute called search.experiences.blueprint.external.reference.code as the recommended way to configure a blueprint (preferred over the old attribute search.experiences.blueprint.id). In addition to that, when moving blueprints or elements between different environments using for example the Batch Client Extensions, entries will preserve their ERCs making portability easier. This way, when for example a search page is imported from a LAR, the Blueprints Options and Low-Level Search Options widget configurations can continue working thanks to the association being achieved via the ERC of the blueprint and not via its ID or other identifier that may be different on the new environment.

Lastly, users can now access and edit the ERC of blueprints and elements directly from the editors.

Liferay Portal 7.4 CE GA101+ and Liferay DXP 7.4 Update 101+ and Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 are bundled with Elasticsearch 7.17.14 as the Sidecar server.

In addition, the Elasticsearch client libraries have also been upgraded to 7.17.14. Refer to the Breaking Changes notes below for more details how this may impact deployments.

LXC now provides anomaly detection to identify disruptions in the expected website traffic. 

Anomalies in traffic volume are detected through a comparison with historical data, taking into account seasonality. Users can also create alerts based on custom events and schedule notifications when thresholds in metrics are exceeded.

Because WebDAV appears to be the only viable solution for remote documents access/editing for the moment and there is customer demand. WebDAV supports HTTP Basic and Digest auth. The latter requires us to store insecure hashes, because of protocol specifics.

Because we cannot change that nor remove WebDAV support, we will reduce the impact of a successful attack instead.

This is achieved by creating a separate strong password for Digest auth.

We achieve the “strong” characteristic through only allowing generation of passwords, based on UUIDs. This means when the hash is produced, it will also be stronger also, though not perfect.

This feature adds read-only support for all object fields types, making sure users are not able to update those fields from both the UI or APIs, only the system can through default values or actions for example.

Users can configure their fields between 3 options, read-only true, false, or conditional.

• Read-only false: normal fields that support input from users through the UI or API.
• Read-only true: fields that do not support inputs from users through the UI or API, only can be updated through the system, as actions and default value for example.

  • Read-only fields must be supported in views and layouts, in the layouts those read-only fields must be not editable.

• Read-only conditional: fields that by definition are read-only false, but that will throw exceptions in case the condition is true and the user can’t update that field. In this case, in the UI, the logic should run before the field is loaded, in the headless API, this validation is only made when the user sends the request.
  • The condition is built using expression builder.

When users access a site in a language different from their user profile language, the following Information message is shown:

Now administrators can configure if this message will show up or not from System or Instance. Go to Instance Settings > Pages > Friendly URL Redirection and check/uncheck the “Show Alternative Layout Friendly URL Message” option for the appropriate value.

This feature empowers users to create content use cases on top of objects framework, allowing admins to enable localization for objects' entries text fields.

This feature allows customers, who need more capabilities than what the out of the box Expression Builder provides, to add their custom validations in Objects framework without running their data through an external microservice.

Now, users are able to fill out object entries in parts, allowing them to save data as draft and return at their convenience to complete.

Evolving the user experience when object validations fail specifying which information field end-users need to update.