Liferay Portal 7.4 GA33 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA33 Release

We are pleased to announce the release of Liferay Portal 7.4 GA33 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA33!

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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 GA33:

docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.33-ga33

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 GA33 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA33 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-ga33

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

Features

Commerce

Shipment Custom Fields

 

Clients now have a mechanism to add their own custom fields to shipments.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/COMMERCE-9331

 

Objects

Actions

Customers now are able to create a new entry in an Object using Actions. Started by a trigger an Action customized by the customers can create a new entry in the same Object, in another Object, or even using related entries
https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-152180

 

Data Validations + Actions

 

Now Customers' code (expressions or Groovy) has a structure validation, allowing customers to identify at the time of creating code a syntax problem.
This will be available on Data Validations and Actions.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-152735
 

Notifications Template

 
 

After possibly customizing notifications to be sent through Actions, now it is possible to add attachments from Objects Attachment Fields to the Notifications.
Providing for customers to add new information and data on their customized notification.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-155663

 

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 GA33 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 GA33 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA33 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

  • PostgreSQL 12.x, 13.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