Blogs

Ashley Yuan | Jul 17, 2018 3:07 AM

The latest release of Liferay IntelliJ 1.0.0 plugin has been made available today. Head over to this page for downloading. The most notable features for this latest 1.0.0 release are : Support...

Matija Šuklje | Jul 16, 2018 11:06 AM

Liferay, Inc was established on the the strong foundation of an Open Source project. The company has since grown to offer many different projects and products, yet we continue to believe in and...

Olaf Kock | Jul 15, 2018 4:19 PM

Good news. Now that Liferay Portal CE 7.1 and Liferay DXP 7.1 are available, your training is also just a fingertip away. No longer do you have to travel far, or juggle your calendar, because these...

Zeno Rocha | Jul 10, 2018 12:01 AM

What happened? Today at 12:13pm WeDeploy, our hosting solution, started a maintenance process. As a normal procedure some services were restarted. After the restart, all services from...

Victor Valle | Jul 3, 2018 11:20 AM

Typography Several reasons and their benefits drove us to a change from Source Sans Pro to System font: System fonts are always more legible as they are designed more consciously and they are...

Jamie Sammons | Jul 2, 2018 10:30 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 CE GA1! Known Issues List of known issues Downloads Download the release now at: www.liferay.com/downloads or deploy now at...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 29, 2018 5:03 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 RC 1 Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in RC 1 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 RC 1 List of known issues in Liferay 7.1...

Milen Dyankov | Jun 27, 2018 7:00 PM

The report appeared recently on various security related sites and it is being "promoted" via social media networks such as Twitter. It talks about a perceived vulnerability for the pingback...

Zeno Rocha | Jun 18, 2018 11:42 PM

When we sat down to create the community.liferay.com site we had some ambitious goals in mind. We wanted to build a place where the community could feel at home. We wanted them to know that they're...

Olaf Kock | Jun 14, 2018 12:29 PM

If you are working with Liferay for a while now, you might still remember a feature that went missing with version 6.1 - but there was a way to get it back. Also in 6.2 and 7.0. Now that Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | Jun 12, 2018 4:52 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Beta 3 Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in Beta 3 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Beta 3 List of known issues in...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Jun 8, 2018 8:15 AM

A real life example of the use of bundler 2.x This is the last of a three articles series motivating and explaining the enhancements we have done to Liferay's npm bundler. You can read previous...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Jun 7, 2018 7:12 AM

How we are fixing the problems learned in bundler 2.x This is the second of a three articles series motivating and explaining the enhancements we have done to Liferay's npm bundler. You can read...

Iván Zaera Avellón | Jun 5, 2018 3:12 PM

What is the problem with bundler 1.x This is the first of a three articles series motivating and explaining the enhancements we have done to Liferay's npm bundler. You can learn more about it in...

Carlos Hernandez | May 31, 2018 11:17 PM

Liferay integrates out of the box with Piwik and Google Analytics. However, doing analytics with ElasticSearch, Logstash and Kibana, is not much harder: https://youtu.be/os5gqpnC0GA How to do it?...

Jamie Sammons | May 29, 2018 4:58 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Beta 2 Download Now: Sourceforge Fixed in Beta 2 List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Beta 2 List of known issues in...

Ashley Yuan | May 23, 2018 3:45 AM

Hello all, Today we are pleased to announce the official release of Liferay IntelliJ Plugin. Liferay IntelliJ Plugin is a plugin for Jetbrains IntelliJ to support developing Liferay components. For...

Jamie Sammons | May 22, 2018 7:11 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA7! Download Now! What’s New ElasticSearch 6.0 - Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA7 now adds support for ElasticSearch 6.x. ...

Jamie Sammons | May 18, 2018 9:21 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Beta 1 Download Now: Sourceforge Github New in Beta 1 Modern Site Building - Display Pages: Users can now map Basic Web...

Alexander Valencia | May 12, 2018 4:58 PM

I recently took an online course to learn more about TypeScript, a superset of JavaScript that provides optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and much more. Whenever I'm in the process of ...

Jamie Sammons | May 8, 2018 9:31 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Alpha 2 Download Now! Alpha 2 primarily focuses on being a bug fix release. List of issues fixed in Liferay 7.1 Alpha 2...

David H Nebinger | May 4, 2018 2:23 PM

When you are upgrading to DXP on SQL Server, it is recommended to set the following property in the portal-upgrade-ext.properties file: verify.process.concurrency.threshold=10000 Otherwise you can...

Ashley Yuan | Apr 18, 2018 6:04 AM

New Installers Released Hello all, We are pleased to announce a new release of Liferay Project SDK 2018.4.4 installer, Liferay Project SDK with Dev Studio Community Edition installer and...

David H Nebinger | Apr 17, 2018 3:12 AM

Introduction So in any production system, there is typically a desire to capture metrics, use them to define a system health check, and then monitor the health check results from an APM tool to...

David H Nebinger | Apr 16, 2018 2:26 PM

Introduction I have never liked one aspect of Liferay logging - it is not persistent. For example, I can't debug a startup issue unless I get the portal-log4j-ext.xml file set up and out there. Not...

Jamie Sammons | Apr 12, 2018 10:51 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.1 Alpha 1 Download Now! We announced the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program on February 19th alongside our first 7.1...

Neil Griffin | Apr 11, 2018 3:15 PM

I'm happy to report that according to the following graph from Maven Central, the download stats for Liferay Faces are trending upward. In fact, our downloads have approximately doubled with an...

David H Nebinger | Apr 10, 2018 4:08 AM

Introduction Recently I was building a fragment bundle to expose a private package per my blog entry, . In the original bnd.bnd file, I found the following: -dsannotations-options: inherit Not...

David H Nebinger | Apr 7, 2018 3:33 PM

Introduction So once you've been doing some Liferay OSGi development, you'll recognize your component properties stanza, most commonly applied to a typical portlet class: @Component( immediate =...

Iacopo Colonnelli | Apr 7, 2018 12:40 PM

Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6 Release was announced about 2 weeks ago and Liferay containerisers may desire to upgrade their Docker container to the new Liferay version. Well, this is a not so hard...

David H Nebinger | Apr 6, 2018 1:01 AM

Just a quick blog post to talk about compile time vs runtime dependencies in the OSGi container, inspired by this thread:...

David H Nebinger | Mar 28, 2018 2:48 PM

Introduction On a project recently I had a Theme war and, like those themes you can download from the MarketPlace, I also had pages, contents and documents imported by the Resources Importer (RI)...

Jamie Sammons | Mar 27, 2018 4:47 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA6! Download Now! What’s New Bug Fixes - Liferay 7 Portal CE GA6 is mainly a bug fix release and contains over 800...

David H Nebinger | Mar 23, 2018 6:28 PM

This one is for my good friend Milen... Sometimes he frustrates me, but he always forces me to think... Introduction So if you've done any Liferay 7.x CE or DXP development, you may have...

Olaf Kock | Mar 19, 2018 10:00 AM

An episode on the "Per" things: Performance and Permissions. I spoke to Preston Crary, who amazingly was not mad at me for losing an earlier recording. We're talking about these (and more) topics...

David Gomez | Mar 13, 2018 11:40 PM

Everyone wants to see Liferay Portal in their native language, and version 7.1 will support up to 45 different languages. On the road to the release of Liferay 7.1 we are launching the Community...

David H Nebinger | Mar 7, 2018 12:42 AM

Introduction So originally I presented the blog post, Fronting Liferay Tomcat with Apache HTTPd daemon, but that post featured my partiality for using mod_jk to connect HTTPd and Tomcat. Personally...

David H Nebinger | Mar 7, 2018 12:19 AM

A good friend of mine, Minhchau Dang, pointed out to me that I have frequently used OSGi version ranges in my blogs. I explained that I was concerned that I didn't want to bind to a specific...

David H Nebinger | Feb 23, 2018 8:35 PM

So the question comes up how to do Liferay upgrades. I'm not talking here about the technical details of how you upgrade one particular plugin to another type of plugin, what kinds of API changes...

Jonas Choi | Feb 23, 2018 6:21 PM

Tomcat 8.5 is an in-between version of Apache Tomcat 8.0 and 9.0. According to the Apache site, it contains some features in 9.0 that have been backported to 8.0. This version of Tomcat is...

David H Nebinger | Feb 21, 2018 4:32 AM

So Jamie just announced the new Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program here: https://community.liferay.com/news/liferay-7-1-community-beta-program/ I recommend everyone who has working code in Liferay...

Jamie Sammons | Feb 20, 2018 12:12 AM

Welcome to the Liferay 7.1 Community Beta Program! During the Liferay 7.0 development cycle we launched the Community Expedition program. With over 600 participants this was one of our largest...

David H Nebinger | Feb 16, 2018 2:54 AM

Okay, in case it is not yet clear, Liferay 7 uses an OSGi container. I know what you're thinking: "Well, Duh..." The point is that OSGi is actually a standard and anything that works within OSGi...

Christian Klein | Feb 15, 2018 9:52 PM

I have been working on adding CKEditor plugins to the Alloy Editor in Liferay DXP and figured I would share what I found. Specifically I was trying to add the YouTube Plugin. There are some...

Iacopo Colonnelli | Feb 15, 2018 5:58 PM

Introduction In recent times, containers are becoming more and more important in the software lifecycle management, whether we like it or not. The majority of the leading software companies have...

Jose M. Navarro | Feb 14, 2018 10:33 AM

In the very beginning of every mobile app project, we can have to face a tough decision: should I go for a native approach to make the most of the device capabilities and optimize the user...

Sergio González | Feb 13, 2018 11:32 AM

I am very pleased to announce the first release of Adaptive Media available for Liferay 7 GA5 and Liferay DXP. Below you can find the links to download the app from Liferay Marketplace. Download...

David H Nebinger | Feb 8, 2018 8:59 PM

So I've been working a lot more with Angular 2+ recently (Angular 4 actually, but that is not so important) and wanted to share some of my findings for those of you whom are interested... Accessing...

David H Nebinger | Feb 2, 2018 4:01 PM

So, as a developer, I'm like usually whacking my whole runtime environment and starting over. Why? Well, regardless how much I try to keep it clean, cruft will find its way into the environment....

Koen Olaerts | Jan 30, 2018 5:59 PM

On October 6, 2017 my colleague Sebastiaan and I held a presentation at Liferay DevCon about a cool integration the COIN team made. We were looking for a fun and exciting Internet of Things...

Minhchau Dang | Jan 5, 2018 2:23 AM

Welcome to the fourth entry in a series about what to keep in mind when building Liferay from source. First, to recap the previous entries in this series from last year: Getting Started with...

Ignacio Roncero Bazarra | Dec 20, 2017 9:43 PM

Short explanation If you want to convert a third party library of your portlets (modules) into a Bundle OSGi to be used by all modules, you could create a new module with your third party library...

Zeno Rocha | Dec 18, 2017 6:17 PM

The Liferay ecosystem is richer than ever, and our community members have never been as global. Each one of us has different interests and with all this diversity, it gets hard to understand the...

Richard Sezov | Dec 14, 2017 10:14 PM

This year, the Knowledge Management team at Liferay set out not only to document Liferay 7/DXP, but to document it well. To do this, we identified several improvements we wanted to make: We wanted...

Olaf Kock | Dec 7, 2017 10:16 AM

Yay, it took a while to get onto it again, and finally I updated Custom Navigation and it just went through the approval process yesterday. Now it's available for Liferay 7 and DXP as well. What...

Zeno Rocha | Nov 8, 2017 12:49 AM

2017 was a great year for the Liferay Community. Many things were accomplished and we know that there are still many things to be improved. We created a new website where you can discover and stay...

Takeo Yasuyuki | Nov 6, 2017 6:09 AM

While working on Elasticsearch debugging, I just made a docker-compose file to start up an external Elasticsearch with plugins that Liferay DXP / 7 installed with debugging tools. Hope this would...

Greg Amerson | Nov 3, 2017 3:04 PM

We just released latest version of blade cli that includes all of the new npm frontend project templates. This also bumps the rest of the project templates to use latest versions of Liferay gradle...

Jamie Sammons | Oct 23, 2017 9:02 PM

I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of: Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA5! [Download Now] What's New Blacklisting OSGI Modules: New in GA5 is the ability to blacklist modules from starting....

David H Nebinger | Oct 14, 2017 8:42 PM

So I've been home for almost a week now after having attended Devcon 2017 in Amsterdam. I have to give a shout out to Pascal Brusset and his entire team for putting on a great event. The venue was...