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Ben Turner | Sep 2, 2026 1:00 AM

Hi everyone! I'm pleased to announce that the recording of the 2026.Q3 Release Webinar is now available for you to replay at your leisure! The recording includes details on key new features in the...

David H Nebinger | Aug 18, 2026 6:45 PM

Liferay's documentation does a good job of explaining how to turn ModSecurity on, how to provide your own configuration, and how to send the audit log to the Liferay Cloud Console. But, as I...

David H Nebinger | Aug 16, 2026 7:23 PM

Security scanners are very good at finding things. Run one against a Liferay DXP installation and it will inventory third-party libraries, determine their versions, compare those versions against...

Ben Turner | Aug 11, 2026 5:33 AM

Hi everyone, I'm super excited to announce that the Release Webinar for the 2026.Q3 release of Liferay DXP is coming in just a couple of weeks - on Wednesday, August 26th. Register now to guarantee...

David H Nebinger | Aug 5, 2026 4:27 PM

If you've searched for information about OpenID Connect (OIDC) Single Logout (SLO) in Liferay, you've probably come across answers stating that it isn't supported. That answer was accurate for a...

Nestor Ledon | Aug 5, 2026 1:39 PM

Liferay already provides a mature platform for content, permissions, users, sites, workflows, and headless APIs. What has been missing is a practical way to use that platform as the backend for a...

Ankit Hadiyal | Aug 1, 2026 10:15 AM

The Rebuild-and-Redeploy Loop Every Client Extension Developer Knows If you've built a React-based client extension (CX) for Liferay DXP, you know this rhythm well. You tweak a component - adjust...

David H Nebinger | Jul 30, 2026 5:55 PM

Why This Matters When you update Blade CLI and create a new Liferay Workspace, the generated workspace normally uses the latest Liferay Workspace Gradle plugin. That plugin selects versions for a...

Vitalii Koshelenko | Jul 29, 2026 9:07 AM

Introduction Liferay's Batch Engine is the workhorse behind bulk data movement into Liferay. Instead of creating records one REST call at a time, you POST (or PUT, or DELETE) an array of items to a...

David H Nebinger | Jul 28, 2026 7:29 PM

Liferay’s official Tomcat installation guide is a useful starting point, but it is not quite enough for installing Liferay DXP 2026.Q1 on Red Hat JBoss Web Server 6.2.3. The reason is...

Peter Richards | Jul 23, 2026 7:13 AM

The Evolution of the Library When I wrote about scaling Liferay fragments with AI and automation earlier this year, the repository was already transitioning from a experimental lab into a...

David H Nebinger | Jul 22, 2026 3:14 PM

I've recently been working on a project to create a Chatbot using AI Hub. Although the documentation at https://learn.liferay.com/w/ai-hub/integrating-ai-hub-with-liferay-dxp is very helpful at...

Nestor Ledon | Jul 15, 2026 5:00 PM

Liferay already provides an impressive enterprise backend: authentication, users, roles, sites, documents, content, custom Objects, permissions, workflows, and headless APIs. What it has lacked is...

Ankit Hadiyal | Jul 6, 2026 5:40 PM

A Problem Every Liferay Developer Has Faced If you have worked on a Liferay DXP project with more than a few custom modules, this scene will feel familiar. You deploy all your modules together....

Laxit Khanpara | Jul 3, 2026 9:28 AM

Introduction One of the biggest strengths of Liferay DXP is its Headless API ecosystem. Whether we're working with Custom Objects, Web Content, Documents, Commerce, or custom REST Builder APIs,...

Madhukar Kumar | Jun 20, 2026 12:49 PM

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...

Ben Turner | Jun 19, 2026 5:40 AM

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...

David H Nebinger | Jun 17, 2026 5:52 PM

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...

Ben Turner | Jun 15, 2026 5:12 AM

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...

Carlos Durán | Jun 13, 2026 11:17 PM

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...

David H Nebinger | Jun 11, 2026 7:06 PM

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...

István Dézsi | Jun 9, 2026 9:49 AM

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...

Ben Turner | May 27, 2026 2:56 AM

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...

Ben Turner | May 15, 2026 4:41 AM

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...

David H Nebinger | May 14, 2026 2:06 PM

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...

David H Nebinger | May 13, 2026 6:04 PM

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,...

Ankit Srivastava | May 13, 2026 1:01 AM

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...

Bhargav R Vaghasiya | May 12, 2026 7:02 AM

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...

David H Nebinger | May 11, 2026 3:24 PM

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...

Ankit Srivastava | May 6, 2026 3:46 AM

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,...

Ben Turner | Apr 29, 2026 3:36 AM

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...

Ben Turner | Apr 29, 2026 1:30 AM

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...

Ben Turner | Apr 29, 2026 1:23 AM

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...

Laxit Khanpara | Apr 24, 2026 10:54 AM

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...

Jorge Diaz | Apr 24, 2026 9:00 AM

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...

Yasuyuki Takeo | Apr 23, 2026 11:49 PM

Dummy Factory was born inside Liferay Support. Customers don't file tickets about empty sites. What lands in the queue is the site that just hit 50,000 users, the organization tree with 12 levels...

Peter Richards | Apr 21, 2026 7:26 AM

There is a popular narrative right now that AI-assisted development is like a "hot knife through ice cream"—effortless, magical, and instant. But as any engineer who has had to support "magic" in...

Laxit Khanpara | Apr 17, 2026 10:15 AM

Introducing create-liferay-react-cx create-liferay-react-cx is an npm package that helps you quickly create a ready-to-use React Client Extension for Liferay. Run this command to get started: npx...

Ben Turner | Apr 15, 2026 4:28 AM

Hi everyone, Thanks as always to everyone that joined our Q1 release webinar a couple of weeks back. I'm pleased to let you all know that the recording of the webinar is now available for you to...

David H Nebinger | Apr 13, 2026 6:19 PM

If you’ve been following Liferay for the last few years, you should have noticed the continuing and increasing focus on low-code and no-code capabilities in the platform. Features like Objects,...

Mariela Santillán-Riethmüller | Apr 7, 2026 1:14 PM

DEVCON 2026 is officially happening November 2-5, and you don’t want to miss it!  Join the Liferay community for three days of cutting-edge tech, real-world insights, and meaningful connections...

Ben Turner | Apr 3, 2026 3:58 AM

Hi everyone, Over the last week, we’ve been listening closely to your feedback on the new Liferay DXP Free Tier. Some of the conversations, particularly around database limitations, highlighted a...

David H Nebinger | Mar 20, 2026 2:22 PM

You might have seen the 2026.Q1.0 breaking changes documentation or even the MAINTENANCE labels in the UI when using 2026.Q1.0 and navigating through Asset Libraries, Web Content, or Documents and...

Ben Turner | Mar 20, 2026 1:06 AM

In Marco Leo's most recent blog - One Platform, One Liferay: The 2026 Release Model - we announced that in 2026 instead of releasing separate products for non-subscribers (Liferay Portal CE) and...

Marco Leo | Mar 11, 2026 12:49 PM

At Liferay, we've always believed that innovation is meant to be accessible. For decades, our open source heritage has been the heartbeat of our technology, shaped by a vibrant community of...

Peter Richards | Mar 10, 2026 4:16 PM

Scaling Liferay Fragments: How AI and Automation Accelerated My UX Library My Liferay Fragments repository has been a personal lab for UI experimentation for quite some time, but it gained wider...

Peter Richards | Mar 10, 2026 3:47 PM

From Shell Scripts to Python: Streamlining Liferay DXP Orchestration As Liferay developers, we often build "quality of life" scripts to handle the repetitive parts of our workflow. I’ve been using...

David H Nebinger | Mar 3, 2026 3:39 PM

Today we released Liferay DXP 2025.Q1.22-LTS. If you are currently running: - 2025.Q1.20-LTS   - 2025.Q1.21-LTS   You should update to 2025.Q1.22-LTS as soon as possible. Why the Urgency? The...

Anne Durey | Mar 3, 2026 1:44 PM

  Temos o prazer de anunciar o primeiro Liferay Marketplace App Hackathon presencial em São Paulo! É o momento de reunir desenvolvedores de todo o Brasil para um dia de codificação intensa. O...

Neil Griffin | Mar 2, 2026 6:24 PM

This is a Release Announcement for a Liferay Faces Update released in October, 2025 for compatibility with the following: Liferay DXP 2025.Q1 (see: FACES-3712) PrimeFaces 15.0.6 (Liferay Patched,...

David H Nebinger | Mar 2, 2026 4:17 PM

A recent TechCrunch article described what some are calling the "SaaSpocalypse," with one investor arguing: "The barriers to entry for creating software are so low now thanks to coding agents, that...

Ben Turner | Feb 26, 2026 4:08 AM

Hi Everyone! It's that time already - the 2026.Q1 LTS (Long-Term Support) release of Liferay DXP is coming on March 18th. To mark that event we're holding our usual release webinar, just a week...

David H Nebinger | Feb 25, 2026 7:34 PM

A community member recently asked for the easiest way to call Liferay Headless APIs from Java without generating a REST client or making outbound HTTP calls. The answer is surprisingly simple:...

David H Nebinger | Feb 25, 2026 3:30 PM

Every two weeks, I host an “Ask Me Anything” session for the Liferay community. And every two weeks, I’m reminded of something: The people who show up get real value. The people who don’t… are...

David H Nebinger | Feb 20, 2026 7:10 PM

I recently ran into an issue that's easy to reproduce and surprisingly confusing the first time you see it. I had a Liferay workspace that was working perfectly. It included both Service Builder...

David H Nebinger | Feb 18, 2026 5:55 PM

Why (and How) to Contribute to the Liferay Marketplace If you've built reusable solutions for Liferay (modules, fragments, client extensions, object models) and they're sitting in private...

David H Nebinger | Feb 16, 2026 5:45 PM

This blog started with this slide from Hanna Ilén at SKO 2026:   It shows the paths and all of the courses that we delivered last year in one slide. Practitioners. Application Developers. Content...

David H Nebinger | Feb 16, 2026 3:00 PM

The key is version alignment. The smoothest path starts by upgrading your CE environment to 7.4.3.132, the latest available CE release. This positions you as close as possible to the DXP codebase...

Jeffrey Handa | Jan 5, 2026 1:15 PM

One of the objectives of the Liferay Enablement team is to improve the number of learning experiences available for our community and to meet you in the places you are already looking for content. ...

saravanan muniraj | Jan 4, 2026 6:23 PM

Connecting External Database in Liferay In certain use cases, Liferay portlet applications may need to connect to external databases that exist outside the default Liferay database. This blog post...