Service Updates for Liferay Cloud

The services update for 06/11/2024 is a Minor update for Liferay and patch update for database, and Backup service.

DXP Cloud Stack 

Service Name	Previous Release	Current Release	Docker Images
Backup	5.17.2	5.18.0	liferaycloud/backup:5.18.0
CI	5.2.5	5.2.6	liferaycloud/jenkins:2.356-jdk8-5.2.6
Database	5.5.0	5.5.1	liferaycloud/database:5.5.1
Liferay	5.8.0	5.8.1	liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.4-5.8.1 liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.3-5.8.1 liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.2-5.8.1 liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.1-5.8.1
Search	5.2.1	5.3.0	liferaycloud/elasticsearch:8.12.1-5.3.0 liferaycloud/elasticsearch:7.17.18-5.3.0
Webserver	6.0.0	6.1.0	liferaycloud/nginx:1.24.0-6.1.0

 

Change Log

Service Name	Service Version	Ticket No.	Description
Backup	5.18.0	LCD-38024	Default to `Download Then Extract` Backup Restore Strategy
Webserver	6.1.0	LCD-36592	Update base nginx and plugin versions
Liferay	5.8.1	LCD-37770	Security: Limit Server information on error pages

Note :

LCD-38024 As part of 07/25/2023 - Service release updates a new Backup Restore Strategy was introduced to mitigate issues related to Restores hanging intermittently. This new strategy, download-then-extract will now be the default restore strategy starting from backup version >= 5.18.0

This ticket also removes the following environment variable, this variable is no longer required. If you were previously using this variable, this removal should not have any adverse impact on your application. 

LCP_BACKUP_RESTORE_DL_DOWNLOAD_THROTTLE_BYTES_PER_SECOND : This environment variables was previously added as workaround for a bug that could cause backup service to be OOMKilled, now that this bug is fixed, by removing it we'll have faster restores.

If you have further questions, feel free to open a support ticket and we will address your concerns.

Update Instructions

Note : To take advantage of the new features and fixes provided by the 5.x stack of services, you must update your entire stack to the new 5.x images.

Image Update Instructions

The Liferay Cloud image versions needs to be set inside of the <service>/LCP.json file.

Note, however, that the liferay service uses two image properties. The DXP Cloud image is set in the liferay/LCP.json file, but the liferay/dxp image is set in the gradle.properties. This change was made in order to facilitate easier deployment using the Liferay Cloud CLI.

liferay/LCP.json file would set the liferaycloud/liferay-dxp image: 

"image":"liferaycloud/liferay-dxp:7.4-5.X.X"

liferay/gradle.properties file would set the liferay/dxp image:

liferay.workspace.docker.image.liferay=liferay/dxp:2024.q1.1

For all other images, you will just need to update the LCP.json file with the intended image version.

Once the LCP.json files are updated, commit the changes to your Git repository.

git add . && git commit -m "Update dxp cloud stack to XXX"

After pushing these changes to the remote repository, a build will be created in Liferay Cloud and it is ready to deploy.