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Link to Page Layout Selector shows public pages in the selector in private page configuration after saving

Issue I have an issue with the Private Page of type Link to Page of this site. They create a blank site, and they add to it 2 Private Pages. One private widget page and another link to a page of this site. On the...

Layout Templates Appear in the Themes Section

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Issue After an upgrade, custom layout templates (layouttpl) are incorrectly displayed in the "Themes" section of the page configuration. This occurs because the generated .war file for the layout...

Users removed from an LDAP server are not being removed from the Liferay user group UI when a custom service wrapper utilizes deleteUserGroupUsers(long userGroupId, long[] userIds)

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Issue Users removed from an LDAP server are not being removed from the Liferay user group UI when a custom service wrapper utilizes the deleteUserGroupUsers(long userGroupId, long[] userIds) method. In this case, when...

No theme found During Startup When a Theme is Not Yet Deployed

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Issue The server logs show the following messages before the theme is fully deployed: 2025-07-09 06:25:20.463 WARN [https-jsse-nio-8443-exec-14][ThemeLocalServiceImpl:220] No theme found for specified...

Personalized Experience Not Displayed when using "AND" with IP Geocoder Country

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Issue When creating a segmentation using the IP Geocoder Country property in combination with another condition (e.g. a user property), the personalized experience configured for this segment is not displayed for a...

Analytics option not shown at site level

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Issue The Analytics option is not available at site level and you cannot configure it. Environment 2024.Q4.0+ Resolution Go to Instance Configuration > Analytics Configure the name of the provider (in this case...

Error 'A folder already exists with name image.default.company.logo' during startup after Upgrade

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Issue After upgrading from a previous version of Liferay DXP, the server fails to start up correctly and throws a DuplicateFolderNameException in the logs. The error indicates that a folder named...

"module java.base does not 'opens java.lang.invoke'" Error Prevents Elasticsearch Sidecar Startup

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Issue I'm unable to get the Elasticsearch Sidecar to start after upgrading to a quarterly release of Liferay DXP. When checking the server logs, I see the following error message:...

Password Reset Link Immediately Shows as 'No Longer Valid'

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Issue When a user requests a password reset, the link in the notification email leads to an error page stating, "Your password reset link is no longer valid." This occurs even if the link is clicked immediately...

How can I protect against CVE-2025-4388 vulnerability?

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Issue My Liferay Instance has a vulnerability to CVE-2025-4388 Environment Liferay DXP 7.2 Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution Upgrade to 2024.Q1.13+ Request a Hotfix with LPD-46038, knowledgeArticleType:...

Searching in a page created from a content page template does not work

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Issue I have an issue with searching in pages created from the content page template. When I search in a page and filter to "Pages", nothing happens in the page, and there are no search results. Steps to reproduce...

StaleStateException Error During Startup with OpenID Connect Configuration

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Issue During a Liferay DXP startup, the following error message appears in the logs, related to OpenID Connect provider configuration: ERROR [...][BatchingBatch:139] HHH000315: Exception executing batch...

Unable to add Information Templates after changing Default Language

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Issue When only one language is available in Instance Settings > Localization and it is not "English (United States)", the Information Templates section under Design > Templates do not load. Environment Quarterly...

Liferay GET Requests are blocked during new Web Content Creation

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Issue The Web Application Firewall blocks the Liferay GET requests, when the New Web Content Page is opened. The blocked endpoint is /o/dynamic-data-mapping-form-field-types. The GET request is blocked by having a...

Workflow Task URL for Unauthorized User Returns 404 Instead of Login Page

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Issue When an unauthorized user attempts to access a workflow task URL, they are shown a 404 error page instead of being redirected to the login page. This issue specifically occurs when the URL follows the...

Adaptive Media Processing of GIFs Leads to High Disk Usage in Temp Folder

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Issue When using Adaptive Media, the tomcat/temp directory grows significantly, consuming a large amount of disk space. The following error can be seen repeatedly in the logs: Unable to scale file...

HTTP 403 when accessing headless admin taxonomy API

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Issue 403 Forbidden error when accessing the following Headless API: GET /o/headless-admin-taxonomy/v1.0/taxonomy-vocabularies/{VocabularyID}/taxonomy-categories Environment Liferay DXP 2025.Q2 Resolution Go to the...

Admin calendar is not responding when creating an event and/or hitting the publish button

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Issue The admin calendar is not functioning as expected after upgrading. It isn't able to successfully create events and populates the following error on the console: Uncaught...

Site Scope is Not Available in Data Migration Tool and Other Site-Scoped Menus

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Issue When using the Data Migration tool to import entries into a site-scoped Object, the "Scope" dropdown only displays the "Global" option. A similar behavior is observed in other areas, such as when editing a...

OAuth2 Token sometimes gets 401 response

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Issue Sometimes users are unable to log in because their OAuth2 tokens receive a 401 "Unauthorized" response. This seems to happen randomly, and the tokens should be valid. Environment Liferay DXP Resolution...

Last Login Date is not updated in the User's and Organizations Menu

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Issue The Last Login Date displayed in the Users and Organizations UI is not updating accurately. Even after a user logs in, the date remains unchanged. Environment Liferay DXP 2024.Q4+ Resolution Enable Feature...

Email Notification fails to deliver when recipient type is set to the Owner role

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Issue A trigger on a custom object is configured to send an email, but it fails to deliver it when the recipient type is set to Owner. Environment Liferay DXP 2025.Q1 Resolution This is an known issue on this...

Session Timeout Setting Does Not Take Effect

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Issue After configuring the session timeout in the portal-ext.properties and web.xml files, the session still expires sooner than the configured value. For example, the session expires after 15 minutes, even...

Datasets Are Not Displayed After Upgrading to DXP 2025.Q2

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Issue After upgrading to DXP 2025.Q2, existing Datasets are not displayed on pages. The Dataset fragment may appear collapsed when editing the page but is not rendered for users. Newly created Datasets are displayed...

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.liferay.portal.tools.DBUpgrader

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Issue While attempting to upgrade to the Liferay Quarterly Release, the following error was encountered, and the upgrade process failed: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:...

Node in Cluster Fails to Start with Deadlock and Circular Reference Errors

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Issue When starting a Liferay DXP cluster, the node fails to start and gets stuck. The thread dump show a combination of errors, including deadlocks, circular references, and class not found...

Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) email is not being sent for logins

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Issue Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) email is not being sent for logins, and due to this, users are not able to login successfully. Environment Quarterly Release Resolution One potential cause for this is a mail server...

In the Documents and Media portlet, the search is not performed on the selected folder in its configuration

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Issue I have an issue with the documents and media portlet document search. I have two document folders and two document and media portlets on a page. One folder is set at a document folder, the other is set at another...

Upgrade to a Quarterly Release Fails with "Elasticsearch sidecar could not be started" Error

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Issue When upgrading from Liferay DXP 7.2 to a Liferay DXP 7.4 Quarterly Release, the server startup fails. The logs show errors related to Elasticsearch, such as: 2025-07-10 09:29:51.414 ERROR...

Inconsistent Roles in Assign/Unassign Dialogs After Upgrade

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Issue After upgrading from Liferay DXP 7.2 to 2025.Q1, there are inconsistencies in the Site Roles displayed for users. While the main members list shows the correct roles for a user, the "Assign Roles" and...

Field Group Fields Missing in "Untranslated" View for Non-Default Locale

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Issue When we check untranslated field group fields in our web content for the non-default locale, they are not visible. Environment Liferay DXP Quarterly Releases Resolution Contact Support and request a hotfix with...

Empty searches return no results using a Text Match Over Multiple Fields blueprint element

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Issue When a Blueprint is configured with the Text Match Over Multiple Fields element, performing an empty search yields no results. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 U5+ Liferay DXP Quarterly Releases Resolution Text...

Headless Batch Import: Attachment Field with URL Creates Duplicate Empty File

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Issue When using the Headless Batch Engine to import Object Entries with an attachment field using a file URL, following the documentation here, we see that it creates duplicate empty files. Environment Liferay DXP...

Despite the fix "Relay state exceeds 80 bytes" error and redirections to IDP

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Issue Despite the fix "Relay state exceeds 80 bytes" error and redirections to IDP We found this article and had a hotfix with LPS-76246 We found that the fix is not applied correctly. Environment Liferay DXP 7.3...

Asset Publisher Back Button Redirects to a Blank Page Instead of the Previous Page

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Issue When using an Asset Publisher to display a list of assets, clicking on an asset correctly navigates to a detail page. However, when clicking the 'back' arrow provided by the Asset Publisher on the...

Time-Based Authenticator QR Code Not Populating

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Issue When trying to set up the QR Code for MFA settings, following this documentation Multi-Factor Authentication Checkers, we've found that the QR code doesn't populate. It should be populating under "Shared...

Sharepoint configuration

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Issue While configuring Sharepoint integration following this documentation, we are facing the following HTTP 500 internal server error, and found that we have multiple versions of the connector installed....

Google Cloud Translation Fails with "Too many segments" Error

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Issue When attempting to use the automatic translation feature for an entire page o contents with multiple fields, the process fails. The logs show the following error:...

Not able to see icons in a Spritemap Client Extension

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Issue After upgrading to 2025.Q1.8, the icons from the Spritemap CX (Client Extension) are missing and requests for the Spritemap have been blocked Environment Liferay DXP Quarterly Release 2025.Q1.8 Resolution In...

Users with permissions to create Collections are unable to select global Document Types

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Issue Users with permissions to create Collections are unable to select global Document Types when creating a new Manual or Dynamic Collection with the Document subtype. Environment Quarterly Release Resolution Please...

NullPointerException in getArticleDisplay without a ThemeDisplay

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Issue After upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.4 2025.Q1.0 or a newer version, calling the JournalArticleLocalService.getArticleDisplay() method for a Journal Article located in the Global Site fails if the...

When I click the "Previous" button on checkout, the saved shipping address is not populated

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Issue I have an issue with the commerce order. I added a product to the cart. I went to the order page where I provided the shipping address, then clicked "Next. On the checkout page, when they click "Previous", the...

Logging to application always taking to home page instead of request url

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Issue We are encountering an issue where users are consistently redirected to the application's homepage immediately following SAML authentication, even when an alternative page was initially requested. Environment...

I cannot scroll in content page edit mode on Tablet view

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Issue I have an issue with scrolling in the content page edit mode on Tablet view. I added a big image to the page. When trying to scroll on Tablet view, it does not work. Reproduction Steps: Start 2024.q3.0 Edit the...

Object Validation Not Working Post Upgrade

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Issue After upgrading Liferay DXP from 2024.Q3.xx to 2025.Q1.xx, Object Validation is no longer functioning as expected. Steps to reproduce: Start a clean instance of DXP 2024.Q3.12. Navigate to Control Panel >...

Unable to Trigger Object Action Notifications for Site Role Users

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Issue When an Object action is configured to send a notification to a site role, the notification fails to send to the users with that role. The following NoSuchRoleException is thrown in the logs: 2025-05-30...

Modal Size is Ignored for Guest Users when Using Liferay.Util.openModal()

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Issue When using Liferay.Util.openModal() within a fragment, the specified size (e.g., size:"xl") is visible for only logged-in users, but it is ignored for guest users. For guest users, the modal opens in a...

Entry Sequence Not Reflected in Collection Fragment Using Custom Fragment

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Issue When using a Collection Fragment with a Custom Fragment to display entries from a Liferay Object, the sequence of the entries is not reflected correctly on the page. The order of the entries appears to be...

Office 365 error “SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', ..."

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Issue Sometimes editing a document if Office 365 fails with the error SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<', ... When that happens, the following errors are thrown in the logs ERROR...

Unable to see the site level vocabulary in collection filter

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Issue Unable to see the site-level vocabulary in the collection filter Steps to reproduce: 1. Start the server 2. Create the vocabulary by navigating to the 'Site Panel' > Categorisation > Categories. 3. Create...

compileOnly is not working in the build.gradle

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Issue We are using com.liferay.gradle.plugins.workspace version: "13.0.8" in the 2025.Q1 bundle and we noticed that when we use compileInclude in the build.gradle then only it is working. It is not working with...

B2C SSO Configuration with OpenID Connect Not Working

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Issue Setting up Business-to-Consumer (B2C) single sign-on (SSO) configuration with Liferay using OpenID Connect (OIDC) in Azure AD B2C is not working as expected. After enabling OpenID under Instance Settings in...

Raylife Site Creation Fails with 'Unexpected Error'

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Issue When creating a site using the Raylife AP or Raylife D2C templates, the process fails with the UI showing: "An unexpected error occurred." In the Liferay browser console, the "CommerceChannel is null" error...

Unable to schedule Web Content with past dates

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Issue As of 2025.Q1, you can no longer edit the "Display Date" field or schedule the publication date for past dates—only for future ones. As a result, you are unable to perform a key use case that used to...

Cluster won't be established and traces show Autodetecting JGroups outgoing IP address and interface for false:80

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Issue After setting up a Liferay cluster, the cluster won't be properly established. There's a suspicious trace in the logs INFO [SCR Component Actor][JGroupsClusterChannelFactory:130] Autodetecting JGroups...

hotfix-123 :: Currently not installed; Won't be installed: requires version 2025.Q1.XX

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Issue After adding a hotfix in the patching folder and running the ./patching-tool.sh info command, it shows the following response: Product information: * DXP version: 2025.Q1.x LTS * Patching Tool version:...

Search navigation not showing the correct pagination or displaying the last couple of Web Content documents

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Issue When using the search navigation, we've discovered that not all of the web contents are displayed. The pagination is also not reflecting the correct amount of web content documents. Steps to reproduce: 1. Start...

Connection to Analytics Cloud fails due to error unable to find valid certification path to requested target

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Issue Analytics Cloud is not getting configured when using an access token. The following error appears in the logs: ERROR [default task-26][ExceptionMapper:79] unable to find valid certification path to requested...

NullPointerException on assetRendererFactory after Upgrade

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Issue After upgrading to Liferay DXP 2025.q1, the upgrade process completes successfully. However, upon restarting the server, the following error is shown in the log: ERROR [render_portlet_jsp:122] Cannot invoke...

Liferay Marketplace App Manager Web XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2025-4388)

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Issue A reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-4388) in /o/marketplace-app-manager-web/icon.jsp allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to inject JavaScript into the...

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