Release Notes
A new version of our Minium Theme arrived!
With a fresh look and style, the new version of our B2B-optimized site comes in as a collection of 3 Client Extensions that, once installed in your instance, provide the B2B Commerce site ready for use in your environment.
Minium 4 is based on the new Commerce Classic Site Initializer, and shares and will share the new capabilities and improvements.
Account Management + Account Selector:
Catalog + Mini-Cart:
Previously, the Search Terms card displayed only the top 5 keywords users searched for on the site, providing limited insights. With this new feature, users will have access to a comprehensive list of all search terms, offering a much clearer understanding of user behavior. This improvement will help them optimize for a wider range of keywords, leading to better insights and more effective strategies.
This new feature enables users to add individual attributes for breakdown and filtering within the existing event analysis functionality.
Previously, only event attributes were displayed.
New Performance tab on the Content Dashboard provides asset metrics, including visitor behavior and top pages where each asset is featured. Data can be filtered by anonymous or known visitors. Metrics are available for Blogs, Documents and Media, and Web Content, only accessible to users connected to Analytics Cloud. Display AC Metrics on Content Dashboard:
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Users can now easily filter images and videos by resolution (small, medium, large) or aspect ratio (wide, tall, square) directly from the Content Dashboard.
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Users can select and reorder categories for a blog’s friendly URL, so they can preview the order of the categories in the friendly URL.
The Web Content Editor now includes an autosave feature that automatically saves changes in real-time as users edit, storing the content as a draft. This also allows users to easily undo or redo changes as needed. With this enhancement, manual saving is no longer necessary, ensuring continuous backup of content and minimizing the risk of data loss. Content creators can now focus on their work without the worry of losing progress or facing interruptions.
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External reference codes are now generated for Blogs Images and Document Shortcuts.
ERC can now also be used to update and delete these entities via their headless APIs.
The configuration settings for "Autogenerate Structure Key" and "Autogenerate Template Key" have been moved from their previous location in System Settings > System Scope > Administration to a more instance-specific location under System Settings > Web Content > Virtual Instance Scope > Web Content, appearing as the first options after "Custom Token values." These options allow instance admins to control whether structure and template keys are automatically generated at the instance level.
Enhanced User Safety and Transparency in Publications
We have implemented safeguards to guide users through complex interactions and provided clearer information about changes in the Review Changes screen.
Smoother Workflow for Publication Editors
The new toolbar offers real-time insights to help editors stay focused and efficient. We have improved the toolbar to provide essential context, including current publications, potential conflicts, and change history.
Enabling users to be notified externally by allowing email notifications when a new user is assigned to a publication.
Boost Liferay’s platform with drag-and-drop, multi-selection, and cut/copy/paste features for easier field and fragment organization.
Create smooth multistep forms directly in the page builder with Liferay’s new fragment—making complex processes simple and intuitive!
Liferay DXP makes it easy to create dynamic, multi-step forms. Simply add a stepper fragment to any existing form to transform it into a multi-step journey. You can then organize your form into different steps, moving inputs between them as needed. Users can easily navigate through the steps using the step menu or form buttons, which you can customize to fit your needs.
Enable JavaScript Client Extensions within SaaS environments to enhance customization and flexibility for administrative tasks, allowing tailored solutions directly within the platform.
This feature ensures that theme CSS client extensions "just work" out of the box when referencing images from the base theme. It reduces friction in the development process, increases reliability, and provides a more seamless and predictable experience when customizing their Liferay environments.
How it works:
Simplified Image Management:
Developers no longer need to manually handle or configure paths for images included in the base theme.
Relative paths (e.g., ../images) can now directly reference these images, reducing complexity and errors.
Out-of-the-Box Compatibility:
The feature ensures that theme images are automatically included during the build process via the assemble step.
This means that after deploying the theme CSS client extension, image references work seamlessly without additional configuration.
Semantic Search now supports the Documents and Media type. Text embedding generation can be enabled via the provider configuration. Please note that the provider configuration is now located under the Global Menu: |
The upcoming Marketplace release of the Liferay Connector to OpenSearch 2.x will provide an alternative to Elasticsearch for Self-Hosted Liferay deployments.
IMPORTANT: Please note that the Liferay Enterprise Search Learning to Rank, Cross-Cluster Replication, and Monitoring applications are not compatible, and thus not supported with OpenSearch.
Synonym Sets now also supports the following languages (locales) out of the box:
Portuguese (Brazil): pt_BR
Portuguese (Portugal): pt_PT
Italian: it_IT
Arabic (Saudi Arabia): ar_SA
Catalan (Spain): ca_ES
Catalan (Andorra): ca_AD
Catalan (Spain, Valencian): ca_ES_VALENCIA
Chinese (China): zh_CN
Chinese (Taiwan): zh_TW
Dutch (Netherlands): nl_NL
Dutch (Belgium): nl_BE
Finnish (Finland): fi_FI
French (France): fr_FR
French (Canadian): fr_CA
German (Germany): de_DE
Hungarian (Hungary): hu_HU
Japanese (Japan): ja_JP
Swedish (Sweden): sv_SE
Administrators are advised to review the Elasticsearch connector configuration and remove any customized field mappings and settings added previously for the above locales from the Override Type Mappings and the Additional Index Settings as now they are provided by the platform out-of-the-box. (Requires a Full or Concurrent Reindex!)
The new Date Range and Range aggregation types unlock powerful search capabilities for your Liferay assets, including Web Content Structures and Objects.
By configuring any date or numeric index field, you can:
Think of Date Range as a versatile extension of the Modified Facet. You can now select any desired date field to refine search results precisely.
Note:
The functionality of the Date Facet widget was introduced under a Developer Feature Flag in LPS-153839 2024.Q1 has been integrated into the Custom Facet and is now available as GA. The Date Facet widget is no longer available.
