Download options

Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below.

Docker image

To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA44:

docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.44-ga44

For more information on using the official Liferay docker image see the liferay/portal repo on Docker Hub.

Bundles and other download options

If you are used to binary releases, you can find the Liferay Portal 7.4 GA44 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA44 release on the download page.  If you need additional files (for example, the source code, or dependency libraries), visit the release page.

Dependency Management

For development using the Liferay Platform, update Liferay Workspace to use the  latest dependencies, by adding the following line to the build.gradle file:

dependencies {
	compileOnly group: "com.liferay.portal", name: "release.portal.api"
}

All portal dependencies are now defined with a single declaration. When using an IDE such as Eclipse or IntelliJ all apis are immediately available in autocomplete for immediate use.  

By setting a product info key property it will be possible to update all dependencies to a new version by updating the liferay.workspace.product property in the liferay workspace projects gradle.property file:

liferay.workspace.product = portal-7.4-ga44

When using an IDE such as Eclipse or IntelliJ all apis are immediately available in autocomplete for immediate use.

Features

Experience Management

Modify Theme CSS of Pages, without the need to deploy the Theme, with the new Theme CSS Client Extension

Users can provide this Theme CSS Client Extension with the CSS files generated by the Theme build (Clay CSS and Main CSS), and this Client Extension will allow them to add these style resources to any page, without the need to deploy or re-deploy the Theme anymore.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-153457​​​​​​​

Improved usability of Page Editor

The renewed Page Editor provides more space and clarity for page building, and a better page preview experience.

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https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-153452

Increased advanced design capabilities and usability in Page Editor

Users with advanced permissions can decouple all the styles from their corresponding tokens, so that they have more freedom in page building. In addition to this, the style inputs usability has been improved and now users can pick a among a units dropdown in length styles.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-143206

“No results found” message in Collection Display fragment can now be edited or disabled

Now users can disable, edit and localize the message in the Collection Display fragment when no items are retrieved, to provide better information to end users.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-160243
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-160789

Segmentation by Geolocation

You can now segment users based on their country. To do so, create a segment using the new “IP Geocoder Country” attribute. See the Learn article for more details.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-162345

Improved asset type information in the Content Dashboard

The subtype of document in the Content Dashboard has been improved to provide more detailed information about the file type of the document. At a glance, users can now see whether the Document is an Audio file, Image, Video, Presentation, etc.

Additionally the Type of asset (Blog, Web Content or Document) is now clearly displayed in the Info Panel.

Content Dashboard

Content Dashboard Info Panel

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-134694

Core Upgrades

A few changes have been implemented to ensure the upgrades run on time before the server can process requests and to do not execute unnecessary upgrades on startup:

• OSGi module lifecycle has been improved to register events in the proper moment. When the PORTAL_INITIALIZED event is triggered, Core upgrade processes should have already run and the companies will have been initialized. Module upgrades start running when PORTAL_INITIALIZED is registered and they must be finished when the PORTLETS_INITIALIZED event is triggered.

• Load initial data the first time a module is deployed. You can use the new method registerInitialDeploymentUpgradeSteps with that purpose.

• Method to Initialize the Release_ table to the latest schema version for new non-service module installations. Check methodregistry.registerInitialization();

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-155602

Documentation

All documentation for Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce can now be found on our documentation site: learn.liferay.com.  For more information on upgrading to Liferay Portal 7.4 GA44 see refer to the Upgrade Overview.

Compatibility Matrix

Liferay's general policy is to test Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce  against newer major releases of operating systems, open source app servers, browsers, and open source databases (we regularly update the bundled upstream libraries to fix bugs or take advantage of new features in the open source we depend on). 

Liferay Portal 7.4 GA44 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA44 were tested extensively for use with the following Application/Database Servers: 

Application Server

• Tomcat 9.0

• Wildfly 18.0, 23.0

Database

• MySQL 5.7, 8.0

• MariaDB 10.2, 10.4, 10.6

• PostgreSQL 12.x, 13.x, 14.x

JDK

• IBM J9 JDK 8

• Oracle JDK 8

• Oracle JDK 11

• All Java Technical Compatibility Kit (TCK) compliant builds of Java 11 and Java 8

Search Engine Compatibility Matrix

Source Code

Source is available as a zip archive on the release page, or on its home on GitHub. If you're interested in contributing, take a look at our contribution page.

Bug Reporting

If you believe you have encountered a bug in the new release you can report your issue by following the bug reporting instructions.

Getting Support

Support is provided by our awesome community. Please visit helping a developer page for more details on how you can receive support.

Fixes and Known Issues

• Fixes

• List of known issues​​​​​​​