Now you can create more detailed customer segments based on their specific actions. We have expanded our segmentation capabilities to allow you to segment your audience beyond standard website activities to include custom events. You can create highly targeted customer groups for more personalized experiences. Additionally, Liferay DXP now provides alerts when custom event criteria change, ensuring segment accuracy and relevance. Gain greater control over your customer analysis and the ability to deliver more relevant content.

A new out-of-the-box (OOTB) email notification template based on Objects. This template will be automatically sent to the order creator when an order status changes to 'pending'.

The notification includes:

• Order number

• Order date

• Account name

• Shipping address

• Order item summary

• Order total

We will move away from Commerce notifications and deprecate them and we will use Objects for the new ones.

This feature introduces the ability to create and manage custom picklists for product specifications. Users can now define specific values for product attributes, improving data consistency and efficiency. The feature includes the option to create new picklists or add existing ones directly on the specification page.

Roles Managers can now define permissions for Object entries directly within the Roles UI. A new “Objects” main menu item has been added to the Define Permissions tab, listing all Custom Objects, allowing easier granular permission assignment.

Enhance your checkout experience by offering customers accurate UPS shipping costs based on their order details. Easily integrate this feature into your online store with our client extension available for purchase on the Marketplace.

Enhance Your Online Store with Adyen Payment Connector.

Liferay DXP now offers seamless integration with Adyen, a leading global payment platform. This powerful combination empowers businesses to accept a wide range of payment methods, reduce fraud, and optimize checkout processes. By simplifying payment management, Liferay DXP with Adyen helps you focus on growing your business.

This enhancement introduces configurable default permissions for newly created pages. Admins can set these permissions at both the instance and site levels. Instance-level settings are managed in a new Instance Settings panel, while site-specific overrides can be configured in the Site Configuration area.

The main change in this initiative is the new capability to control Analytics Cloud (AC) tracking through the cookie manager. We have updated the description of the Explicit Cookie Consent Mode to clarify that enabling this configuration via Preference Handling will disable Analytics Cloud tracking and other features. Now, if the Explicit Cookie Consent Mode is enabled, no cookies are set until the user agrees to their usage; otherwise, all cookies are set until the user opts out of them.

We have also introduced a new Utility Page, named Cookies List, which serves as a central hub for all cookies supported by Liferay. This page lists all four categories of cookies (strictly necessary, functional, performance, and personalization) and provides detailed information on each specific cookie, including its purpose and expiration date. For that, we have created new system objects to facilitate the management of cookies. If customers use additional third-party cookies, they can easily add new entries for these cookies, and they will automatically be displayed on the Utility Page.

Additionally, once a user is suppressed, their data is completely anonymized, making it impossible to trace any data back to a specific individual.

This initiative focused on enhancing user interface (UI) of both Downloading Reports and Path Analysis tool, establishing a cohesive design pattern across them. In particular, we committed to standardizing the presentation of Download Reports, encompassing various formats such as PDF and CSV, within the Downloading Reports Feature. This strategic investment underscores our dedication to delivering high-quality solutions that effectively address the evolving needs of our stakeholders.

Users can now efficiently locate images or videos by specific size categories (small, medium, or large) using the new filter feature on the Content Dashboard. Additionally, they can easily filter content or documents based on a range of dates for various lifecycle events, including creation, display, expiration, modification, publication, or review. This enhancement streamlines content management and improves user accessibility to relevant documents.

Users can readily spot documents & media that is not visible to Guest users through an icon, whether it's in list, card or table view or within the document editor. Additionally, this feature is accessible in the item selector, empowering users to discern which documents are not viewable by Guest users.

Since Publications provides a final end point for users to review changes, it would benefit content editors tremendously if they could also review their workflow changes.

There is an unacceptable decrease in performance observed within large Publications. With publications housing a large number of individual changes, the current system struggles to maintain acceptable performance levels, especially during conflict checking and publishing publications. These two phases leverage handwritten SQL queries to perform those tasks that allow Publications a shortcut through our persistence layer to maximize performance in small publications. In large publications though, further considerations must be taken to ensure consistent performance.

Some upgrade processes may not consider the ctColectionId column which may generate inconsistencies for customers using Publications, especially for older versions.

Add changeTrackingEnabled to the standard rest-config.yaml so that services must specify Publications support. This will simplify the process of enabling change tracking for future Headless APIs.

We introduced a new feature to streamline workflows with 1:1 relationships between objects! Now, users can create and update nested objects directly from the primary object's CRUD views, and enjoy seamless delete and view operations translated from the Data Set Manager (DSM). This update makes managing data smoother and more efficient.

Allow users to map Repeatable fields of a Web Content Structure already defined in Fragments and Collection Displays.

The /search and /suggestions APIs comes with the following enhancements:

• New, optional scope parameter supporting Site (Group) IDs and External Reference Codes (ERCs) in /search. The scope parameter of /suggestions has also been updated to have the same semantics.

• /search now is in RELEASE status.

• The APIs now are available under the /o/search/v1.0/ endpoint with backward compatibility for current /o/portal-search-rest/v1.0 calls through server-side forward.

Refer to the documentation for more details.

Elasticsearch 8.15.x has been tested and added to the compatibility matrix to the corresponding Liferay versions.

Note: Compatibility with newer Elasticsearch minor versions is tested in two ways:

1. Latest-Latest: Testing the latest Liferay version with the latest available minor version of Elasticsearch → e.g. Master/2024.Q3 + Elasticsearch 8.15

2. Minimum-Latest: Testing the minimum Liferay version where Elasticsearch 8 compatibility was first made available with the latest minor version of Elasticsearch → DXP 7.4 U81/DXP 7.3 U31 + Elasticsearch 8.15

This way Liferay can allow a broader deployment base to operate their stack with an up-to-date search engine version.

As Elasticsearch is usually releases a new Minor version roughly every two months, this is a recurring process and a planed activity in each quarter.

Per Elastic’s product lifecycle, Elasticsearch 7.17.x versions are supported and maintained until Elasticsearch version 9 is released. While Elastic does not provide specific release dates for future releases, for Elasticsearch 9.0.0, the new release is anticipated in early calendar year 2025.

Therefore, Liferay strongly recommends all customers with 7.17.x deployments to begin the planning phase for an upgrade project to the latest compatible Elasticsearch 8.x version.

Compatibility with Elasticsearch 8 is available on 7.4 U81+. → Operating Liferay 7.4 GA/Update 81+ with Elasticsearch 8 - Liferay

Note: The Elasticsearch 8.x compatibility is provided through the bundled Elasticsearch 7 connector and the REST API Compatibility of Elasticsearch 8.

Liferay ships with an updated Elasticsearch connector using 7.17.21 as the client version and also as version of Sidecar Elasticsearch server for development and testing purposes.

Clause Contributors configuration is now stored within the blueprint’s JSON with a smaller footprint, reducing the size of a blueprint by more than 90% when using the default setting (all contributors enabled → Enable All) or the new Disable All option.

The behavior of the different options is as follows:

• with Enable All, all current and future query clause contributors introduced to the platform will be enabled automatically. Disable All behaves the opposite way,

• with Customize, the configuration is locked to the specified contributor list.

Data Set Manager lets from now to map Array structures, so a given cell of a Data Set can show list of values, for example to list the roles of a user or the tags of a product.

When the users are facing a Frontend Data Set the items can show actions to interact with them that are set in the Data Set Manager. From now own, when the user navigates to a destination URL through an item or creation action, the current URL is added to the destination page, so the user can return to the Data Set after performing the action seamlessly.

The CX Filter allows developers to build their own filters, with on demand bussiness logic and UI, to be added to a Data Set in the Data Set Manager and then be used for end-users in the Data Set. With this new value, the Client Extension can be generic, and the same Client Extension can be used to build filters that filter by different fields.

User session replication has been optimized for the Tomcat application server.

Users can configure a reset for the number of guest submissions allowed in a given timeframe.

Users can add the necessary security layer to avoid misuse of scripting in Objects and Workflow Actions.

Users can now create picklists beginning with capital letters. One key feature is that now users will be able to filter by Active and Inactive values.

Objects is used for a wide range of use cases, some of them more technical than others. This feature will allow users to configure where they want their objects to be listed. Thus, creating unnecessary complexity and reducing cognitive load on other users.

Users can now configure their objects to observe the guest user’s locale and send email notifications based on the guest user’s language preference.

The guest user’s language preference is determined by the language the guest user used when submitting the form. If a locale cannot be determined or a notification template does not exist, then the notification will be sent in the instance’s default language.

For those Objects that have the translation active, users can not get this entry information using GraphQL. In order to improve GraphQL capabilities, we have exposed the _i18n properties, so any user can retrieve it.

For making the Sign In portlet related functions easily customizable for the end users we want to simplify the portlet as much as we can. We need to remove all it’s configuration or functionality that can be handled in higher level.

Currently, the customer has to resort to email reports to see their autoscaling. We are making this information much more available and searchable, allowing the user to better understand their autoscaling behaviour.

Liferay DXP provides a variety of developer tools that include a robust build script framework, lightweight CLI utilities, and IDE tools. We have recently released new versions of Liferay Workspace and the IDE tools, which include Liferay Developer Studio, Liferay Eclipse Plugin, and Liferay IntelliJ Plugin. The main benefits include:

• Alignment with the platform itself: The tools now support our quarterly releases, giving access to development on Liferay DXP's latest features.

• Latest Java version support: Compatibility with JDK 17 and 21 provides developers with enhanced security, improved performance, and the newest capabilities of the Java platform.

• Upgraded development environment: Support for Gradle 8 enables improved build automation features and performance.