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Liferay DXP 2025.Q2 Breaking Changes
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Liferay DXP 2025.Q2 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay DXP 2025.Q2. As the...
2025.Q1 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes
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2025.Q1 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes Most new versions of Liferay DXP include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, you should review the...
2025.Q2 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes
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2025.Q2 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes Most new versions of Liferay DXP include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, review the changes and...
Liferay DXP 2025.Q3 Breaking Changes
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Liferay DXP 2025.Q3 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay DXP 2025.Q3. As the...
2025.Q3 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes
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2025.Q3 Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes Most new versions of Liferay DXP include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, review the changes and...
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in Liferay DXP 2025.Q2
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in Liferay DXP 2025.Q2 Features moved to Maintenance Mode or marked as Deprecated in Liferay DXP 2025.Q2 appear here. For details about these statuses and their...
Liferay DXP 2025.Q4 Breaking changes
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Liferay DXP 2025.Q4 Breaking changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay DXP 2025.Q4. As the...
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in Liferay DXP 2025.Q3
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in Liferay DXP 2025.Q3 Features moved to maintenance mode or marked as deprecated in Liferay DXP 2025.Q3 appear here. For details about these statuses and their...
7.2 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
7.2 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
7.2 Breaking Changes
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7.2 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
Default Setting Changes in 7.2
Default Setting Changes in 7.2 Most new versions of Liferay include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, you should review the changes and decide to...
Day 3 Exercises for Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay
Introduction page for day 3 Day 3 Exercises for Building Enterprise Websites with Liferay Exercise 19a: Creating an Object Definition Exercise 19b: Building the Form Exercise 19c: Creating a...
7.4 Breaking Changes
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7.4 Breaking Changes Breaking changes break or significantly alter existing functionality or code structure. Here are all of the breaking changes for Liferay 7.4, starting with the latest quarterly...
7.3 Breaking Changes
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7.3 Breaking Changes This document presents a chronological list of changes that break existing functionality, APIs, or contracts with third party Liferay developers or users. We try our best to...
Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes in 7.4
Default Setting and Feature Flag Changes in 7.4 Most new versions of Liferay DXP include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, you should review the...
Renamed Language Keys
Renamed Language Keys In Liferay DXP/Portal 7.4, module language keys were centralized to a module called portal-language-lang. Source location: ...
7.4 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
7.4 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
Default Setting Changes in 7.3
Default Setting Changes in 7.3 Most new versions of Liferay DXP include changes to the default settings. If you rely on the defaults from your old version, you should review the changes and decide...
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.4
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.4 With each new Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal release, a feature may not warrant continued enhancements or may become obsolete. Stopping enhancements for a...
Monitoring Upgrades with MBeans
Monitoring Upgrades with MBeans Liferay DXP 7.4 U76 / Liferay Portal 7.4 GA76 When upgrade upon startup is enabled, the upgrade process can be monitored with MBeans through a JVM management tool...
Migrating Configurations and Properties
Migrating Configurations and Properties Your current DXP installation's OSGi configurations (7.0+) and properties (such as portal properties and system properties) set up your DXP instance to fit...
Updating Customizations
Updating Customizations Plugins (e.g., themes, apps, and customizations) you've developed must be adapted to the new Liferay version. This can be as simple as updating dependencies or involve...
Database Tuning for Upgrades
Database Tuning for Upgrades Performing an upgrade impacts the database differently from daily running in production. Because of this, you should tune your database for the upgrade process before...
Data Cleanup
Data Cleanup Before database upgrades, Liferay executes data cleanup processes to repair databases with obsolete data. This lightens the load of the upgrade tool, improving performance and reducing...
Post-Upgrade Considerations
Post-Upgrade Considerations After upgrading the database, you should configure Liferay for production again and check up on feature changes that might affect your Liferay instance. Re-enable...
Upgrading Modules Using Gogo Shell
Upgrading Modules Using Gogo Shell To troubleshoot upgrade issues with particular modules, it may be necessary to test and perform upgrades on a per-module basis, instead of en-masse. Liferay has...
Upgrade Report
Upgrade Report Available 7.4+ When you perform upgrades, it is important to know the changes made and any issues that occurred. The upgrade status returns combined results for core upgrades,...
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.3
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.3 With each new DXP release, a feature may not warrant continued enhancements or may become obsolete. Stopping enhancements for a feature puts it in...
7.3 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
7.3 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.2
Maintenance Mode and Deprecations in 7.2 With each new DXP release, a feature may not warrant continued enhancements or may become obsolete. Stopping enhancements for a feature puts it in...
Common Upgrade Issues
Common Upgrade Issues Skipping an upgrade step or creating custom references to the Liferay database, can cause upgrade issues. The following questions and answers address some common situations. ...
Troubleshooting Upgrades
Troubleshooting Upgrades Liferay has many out-of-the-box tools and features to identify and solve issues that may arise when performing an upgrade. To troubleshoot, you can upgrade modules...
Database Pruning for Faster Upgrades
Database Pruning for Faster Upgrades The more data you have the longer your data upgrade takes. Unneeded site data is a common occurrence. Pruning the database of unneeded data improves upgrade...
Preparing for an Upgrade
Preparing for an Upgrade Preparation and planning may be of little consequence for small, casual installations but is mandatory for large enterprise-level installations. Create a Back Up Always...
Example: Removing Intermediate Journal Article Versions
Example: Removing Intermediate Journal Article Versions These instructions and code samples demonstrate removing intermediate Journal Article versions. In the script console, you can remove...
Upgrade Log Context
Upgrade Log Context Liferay DXP 7.4 U72 / Liferay Portal 7.4 GA72 Enable the upgrade log context to display identifiers for upgrade related processes in your console logs. The possible identifiers...
Upgrading a Sharded Environment
Upgrading a Sharded Environment Since Liferay DXP 7.0, Liferay removed its own physical partitioning implementation (also known as sharding) in favor of the capabilities provided natively by...
Upgrading the Database
Upgrading the Database Liferay's tools and instructions facilitate upgrading DXP and Portal environments safely and quickly. Non-clustered environments that have small data sets, for example can be...
Building Liferay Docker Images
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Building Liferay Docker Images Liferay is open-source and fully customizable. You can create your own Liferay Docker images using Dockerfiles to suit the needs of your installation. For example,...
Installing Apps and Other Artifacts to Containers
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Installing Apps and Other Artifacts to Containers Applications and other artifacts (such as DXP activation keys) are installed to DXP Docker containers via the container's /mnt/liferay/deploy...
Licensing DXP in Docker
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Licensing DXP in Docker If you're using a DXP trial license that's expiring or you have a new license (activation key) you must install, you can replace your container's existing license. Here's...
Providing Files to the Container
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Providing Files to the Container The Liferay container uses the files you provide to execute the following use cases: Configure Liferay with .properties Files and .config files Configure Tomcat...
Upgrading via Docker
Upgrading via Docker Running a Liferay Docker image with auto-upgrade enabled uses the Database Upgrade Tool to upgrade your database transparently on Liferay startup. After the upgrade completes,...
Upgrading Clustered and Sharded Environments
Upgrading Clustered and Sharded Environments If you're upgrading a clustered installation, you must follow an upgrade approach that fits your cluster requirements. See Maintaining Clustered...
Configuring Containers
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Configuring Containers Everything that is configurable in a Liferay installation is configurable in a Liferay Docker container. Here are the most common things to configure: JVM Options Portal...
Using the Database Upgrade Tool
Using the Database Upgrade Tool The Liferay Database Upgrade Tool is a client program for upgrading Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal databases offline. Always back up your data and installation...
Using Liferay Docker Images
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Using Liferay Docker Images Docker Hub hosts Liferay DXP and Liferay Portal Docker images, bundled with Tomcat on Linux. The Liferay Docker Hub pages provide image details and tags for the...
Docker Image Versions
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Docker Image Versions Liferay Docker image tags begin with a Liferay software version and end with an image version. [Liferay software version] [image version] For example, Liferay DXP 7.4.13...
Docker Packages
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Docker Packages These are the packages Liferay installs in the Ubuntu OS to support a full Liferay DXP environment. This list includes neither the JDK nor the dependencies the packages require. ...
Patching DXP in Docker
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Patching DXP in Docker Liferay patches fix DXP issues and the Patching Tool applies the patches. On Docker Hub, Liferay provides images pre-populated with each new Fix Pack, Security Fix Pack, and...
Database Upgrade Tool Reference
Database Upgrade Tool Reference Before Liferay 7.4 U82/GA82, the db_upgrade_client.sh file was called db_upgrade.sh. Here's an overview of Liferay's upgrade tool. Start the upgrade tool using...
Upgrading via Auto Upgrade
Upgrading via Auto Upgrade You can upgrade your database automatically by enabling auto upgrade via the portal property before starting up your instance. Always back up your database and existing...
Updating the File Store
Updating the File Store File store options and configuration values changed in Liferay DXP 7.0. If you're on 7.0 or earlier and are affected by these changes, you must update your file store before...
Container Lifecycle and API
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Container Lifecycle and API At a high level, the container starts Tomcat with Liferay deployed on it. Additionally, however, the container entry point provides an API for executing these use cases:...
Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Docker
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Maintenance and Troubleshooting in Docker The Liferay Docker container has tools for maintenance and troubleshooting out-of-the-box. You can set various environment variables to modify settings...
Running Scripts in Containers
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Running Scripts in Containers If there's more that you want to do in the Liferay container beyond setting up Tomcat and Liferay files, deploying arifacts, and applying patches, you can use scripts....
Sites
Official Documentation
Sites Sites are customizable spaces for building personalized digital experiences. They are a fundamental component of Liferay DXP. At its core, a site is a collection of pages that contains...
Adding a Site
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Adding a Site Sites are customizable spaces within Liferay, designed for building personalized digital experiences that engage specific audiences and meet unique organizational goals. Creating a...
Using Utility Pages
Official Documentation
Using Utility Pages 7.4 U86+ and GA86+ Utility pages serve specific operational tasks and actions and are usually essential for users to interact with a website or application effectively. Utility...
Master Page Templates
Official Documentation
Master Page Templates Available: Liferay DXP/Portal 7.3+ Master page templates define common elements (e.g., headers and footers) for pages using fragments, allowing easier management without...