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If you are planning this upgrade, here is your definitive, step-by-step technical playbook to take your local environment, database, and codebase from 7.2 to 7.4. Phase 1: Environment & Local 7.2 Baseline Setup Before jumping into the new version, you must recreate a stable, working baseline of your Liferay 7.2 environment locally. 1. Upgrade the Core Runtime Liferay 7.4...

If you're using Liferay Community Edition (CE), or are an SI that has customers who do, you probably know (well, if you've been anywhere near this site this year you definitely know!) that the final version of Liferay CE was in early 2025, and that from the 2026.Q1 release of Liferay DXP we've made a Free Tier available to anyone that wants it. But, what does this actually mean if you're...

A Simple Question A customer recently reached out after experiencing a six-hour outage of their mail server. The outage had nothing to do with Liferay. The platform was healthy. Their application was healthy. Business processes continued to run normally. The problem was that some of those business processes generated emails. Not marketing emails. Not newsletters. ...

If you've been paying attention recently on liferay.dev you have probably noticed the new banner promoting DevCon. It may still be a few months until our biggest event of the year takes place in London on November 3rd and 4th (with the un-missable Unconference happening on the 5th) - but - that doesn't mean you can sit back and relax! Our Call for Papers for DevCon 2026 is wrapping up in...

For some time now, PostgreSQL has been gaining so much ground that even Liferay itself has made the decision to replace MySQL with PostgreSQL. At this point, many of us are faced with the non-trivial task of performing the same operation in our on-premise installations and, above all, how to do it properly. Liferay published a tool for this purpose, divided into two parts: ...

Many organizations use centralized logging platforms such as Splunk to aggregate logs from applications, infrastructure, containers, and cloud services. Centralized logging makes it easier to troubleshoot issues, identify trends, create alerts, and correlate events across multiple systems. A common question I hear is: How do I configure Liferay DXP to send logs directly to Splunk? ...

If you have ever run a Liferay database upgrade, you know how unforgiving the setup used to be. One wrong path in a properties file, or a database your edition doesn't even support, and you could be several minutes into a run before a cryptic error appeared, usually with no hint about what actually went wrong. We went back through the most common support cases and customer frustrations, and...

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to let you all know that the recording of the 2026.Q2 Release Webinar is now available for you to replay at you leisure! You can find the recording on Learn here, and there you will also find a link to the PDF of the slides. Agenda Release Timeline Refresher of Quarterly Releases and Support Release Content Overview - highlights including: ...

As you all know by now, each quarter we release a full new release of Liferay DXP. Although it may only seem like a few weeks back when we released our 2026.Q1 version, it's already time for Q2. As of right now, you can get your hands on the latest product features, which include: Digital Sales Rooms beta Liferay Data Platform private beta Cloud Native Experience for AWS is GA ...

When I started working through the new DXP Free Tier onboarding flow for an upcoming blog post, I stumbled across something that initially looked wrong. After generating my free activation key, I downloaded the activation key file named: activation-key-dxp-production-2026.q2-.xml  At the time, 2026.Q2 had not even been released yet. Naturally, that raised some questions. ...

For years, organizations deploying enterprise platforms have been forced to choose between two extremes. On one side is traditional self-hosting: complete control over infrastructure, networking, and security, but often at the cost of operational complexity. Teams end up manually provisioning environments, maintaining deployment pipelines, handling scaling strategies, coordinating...

I had a simple idea. As a Manufacturer, Company manages a network of distributors across the world different regions, different tiers, different sales numbers. Anyone on the team wanting to know "who's our top performer in Asia Pacific?" or "which distributors missed their quota last year?" had to dig through spreadsheets or ask someone who knew. I thought: what if...

For years, 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗿 was considered the backbone of backend development in Liferay. Need a custom entity? Use Service Builder. Need APIs? Use Service Builder. Need persistence, finder methods, services, indexing, permissions, workflows, or business logic? Again, Service Builder. It became the default engineering pattern for almost every serious Liferay implementation. ...

For the last couple of years, most AI conversations around enterprise platforms have focused on content generation, chatbots, summaries, and assistants. Useful? Absolutely. But those use cases still largely leave the actual construction of digital experiences in human hands. That’s starting to change. I recently got an early look at a new capability being developed around...

The Challenge: The "Human Bottleneck" In any thriving digital community, content moderation is a double-edged sword. You want vibrant discussions, but you also need to protect users from spam, toxicity, and "bad vibes." Traditionally, this meant a human moderator had to manually review every single comment a process that is slow, expensive, and frankly, exhausting. ...

Earlier this month, on April 11th, I was lucky enough to travel to Ahmedabad, India, to attend the re-booting of the Liferay User Group in that city, and to co-host the inaugural Liferay Marketplace Fragment Hackathon. Before I start on the results, a couple of big "Thank You's" are needed. First, to Bhavin Panchani, and his team, at IGNEK, a proud partner of Liferay in Ahmedabad,...

Hi Everyone! It may only seem like yesterday that we had our Q1 release webinar, but it's already time to announce that the 2026.Q2 release of Liferay DXP is coming on May 13th. And of course, what that means is that we're holding our usual release webinar, which will take place on Wednesday, May 20th. If you attend live you'll be able to hear about all of the new features coming...

Hey everyone, We have a temporary issue, that's currently being investigated by our support team, that is impacting the following pages: Blogs Known Vulnerabilities These Search pages are configured to "Allow Empty Searches" and should therefore display results when you first visit the page, allowing you to filter, sort, etc. The issue is that this is currently not...

Introduction Liferay Objects provide a flexible way to model and manage custom data without relying on traditional Service Builder modules. In most implementations, developers interact with Objects using Headless APIs such as: /o/c/{objectName} This approach is well-documented and works effectively for frontend applications and external integrations. However, when working...

Why we built preupgrade verifiers If you have ever run a Liferay upgrade on a large database, you know the worst-case scenario: the upgrade starts, runs for a long time, modifies a large amount of data, and then fails somewhere in the middle because of a misconfiguration that was already there before you pressed Start. At that point, you are not just fixing the original issue — you are...