Capability

Cloud

Liferay Cloud Platform provides the infrastructure and tooling necessary to simplify, secure, and deliver applications on Liferay DXP when using the SaaS or PaaS deployment approaches. Using Liferay’s Cloud infrastructure provides a secure, reliable, and scalable platform for building Liferay solutions.

The Liferay Cloud Platform includes DevOps CI/CD tools, automated backups, real-time logs, and much more.

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7.2 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
7.2 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
Published Date: Jul 19, 2025 3:04 AM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
7.3 Breaking Changes
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
7.4 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
7.4 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
Published Date: Jul 19, 2025 3:05 AM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
7.3 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
7.3 Deprecations and Breaking Changes
Published Date: Jul 19, 2025 3:05 AM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
7.4 Breaking Changes
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:55 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Data Removal
Data Removal Available 7.4+ Use the Data Removal tool to erase unnecessary application data, such as expired journal articles and publication previews. To remove data, Open the Global Menu...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Data Cleanup
Data Cleanup Available 7.3+ When you're done using an obsolete Liferay app or capability, you can remove its data. You can use the Control Panel or a configuration file to do data cleanup. Here's...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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: ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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. ...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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,...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Using Liferay Docker Images
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Building Liferay Docker Images
Official Documentation
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,...
Published Date: May 22, 2025 4:39 PM
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...
Published Date: May 9, 2024 6:52 PM
Container Lifecycle and API
Official Documentation
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:...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Configuring Containers
Official Documentation
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...
Published Date: Nov 22, 2024 10:49 PM
Docker Packages
Official Documentation
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. ...
Published Date: May 22, 2025 4:42 PM