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We are pleased to announce the release of Liferay Portal 7.4 GA72 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA72!

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 GA72:
docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.72-ga72
Bundles and other download options
If you are used to binary releases, you can find the Liferay Portal 7.4 GA72 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA72 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-ga72
When using an IDE such as Eclipse or IntelliJ all apis are immediately available in autocomplete for immediate use.
Features
Experience Management
Manage Knowledge Base folders and Hierarchy
Provide users with a simple and effective way to view,
access, and manage the knowledge base folder hierarchy. Includes
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Drag and drop experience for moving content
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Search for content in knowledge base management
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Using action menu to manage folder
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-156421
Review and Expiration date in Knowledge Base articles
Ability to set expiration and review dates for articles and to view
which articles are pending expiration
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-165476
Enhanced navigation and interactions in Knowledge Base
Improved navigation through the different tabs and pages in Knowledge
Base in the manage toolbar, sidebar serach, sidebar primary button,
priority and general interactions
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-166643
Table view in Knowledge Base
Table View display in Knowledge Base
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-169675
Headless
Manage permissions for Objects entries through APIs
Now it is possible to manage and check the permissions of the object
entries directly from the headless APIs.
For each object definition, two new endpoints are available. One to retrieve the permissions that apply to that individual Object entry and another one that allows users to set/update the permissions that apply to that entry.
All query parameters available in the API explorer
Now it is possible to use all query parameters available from the
API explorer. Parameters such as fields
,
nestedFields
or flatten
accessible and
ready to use in your test queries.
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-156006
Search
Improved Support for Objects in the Search Widgets
Support for Object display pages in the search results,
aggregating (via Custom Facet
widget), filtering
(Custom Filter
widget) and sorting (Sort
widget) using Object fields that are indexed as Nested Fields in
Elasticsearch, similar to Web Content Structure (DDM) fields.
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-172128
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 GA72 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 GA72 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA72 were tested extensively for use with the following Application/Database Servers:
Application Server
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Tomcat 9.0
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Wildfly 18.0, 23.0
Database
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MySQL 5.7, 8.0
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MariaDB 10.2, 10.4, 10.6
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PostgreSQL 12.x, 13.x, 14.x
JDK
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IBM J9 JDK 8
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Oracle JDK 8
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Oracle JDK 11
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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.