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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 Liferay Project SDK with Dev Studio DXP Installer.   New Installers:   New installers requires Eclipse Oxygen at least. For customers,...

May 25 is fast approaching. Every business impacted by GDPR should be well underway in preparing for the changes to data processing set forth by the regulation. To address the heightened requirements for empowering users' control of their personal data, Liferay has been evaluating and building features into Liferay DXP to aid our customers in their journey toward compliance. I wanted...

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 Milestone release.  We launched the first phase of the community beta program which was to receive feedback from our community on...

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 all time high surpassing 11,000 downloads/month!   The download stats encompass all artifacts such as: Liferay...

When you compare a CE release with an EE release, you'll find that there are a few additional modules that are only available in EE releases. In Liferay terms, these are called "private" modules. They are private in the sense that their source code doesn't exist in any public GitHub repositories (only private ones, and usually inside of a folder named "private"), and their binaries...

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 fixes. A complete list can be found here. Known Issues LPS-71774 - Browser button border overflow on Documents and Media ...

  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 We open with the attention to detail that's required for working on performance tuning and some short conversation about this topic. Sadly, there's not often a single...

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 Translation Team to drive the translation process. Read this post to find out why and how you can help to make Liferay Portal available in the languages you speak. Liferay Portal is used...

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 and most successful community programs to date.  It is in large thanks to our awesome community who was...

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 experience, or should I prefer a hybrid development to make progress faster even though the result may be not as good. And you have to choose either one or the other. A few...

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 Adaptive Media DXP Download Adaptive Media CE What is Adaptive Media? In case you are unfamiliar to Adaptive Media and you want to know more about how this powerful app can...

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 Building Liferay from Source: How to get a clone of the Liferay central repository and how to build Liferay from source. Also some tools that can help you setup your IDE (whether it's...

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 people behind our community. This is where this survey comes in: we asked 28 questions, covering topics going from favorite projects all the way to events and user groups. In total we had 393...

This blog entry is part of a three-part blog series that explores some of the great features provided by Liferay Screens and Liferay Mobile SDK. In this this series, I will cover: Liferay Screens – Use screenlets in your native Android or iOS app to leverage content and services available on your Liferay server Liferay Push Notifications – Push offers and...

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 up to date with new projects. We launched a new chat where you can talk with 600 other community members. We started to revamp user groups all over the world. And with your help, we...

This blog entry is part of a three-part blog series that explores some of the great features provided by Liferay Screens and Liferay Mobile SDK. In this this series, I will cover: Liferay Screens – Use screenlets in your native Android or iOS app to leverage content and services available on your Liferay server Liferay Push Notifications – Push offers and notifications...

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 and Liferay workspace plugins. To update simply do $ blade update or for those that haven't installed blade yet, follow the guide here: ...

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. For more info see the official documentation.   Clustering Returns: We recently announced the return of clustering to Liferay Portal CE. Liferay Portal 7...

  Well, I decided to write this post after breaking my head a lot (almost brains were flying everywhere), to be able to configure remote staging in a clustered environment. The staging is that feature that you love or hate, it's a case of love and hate, like a mexican novel style, where in the end everything is right and everyone lives happily forever :p ...

More than once I've been asked to customise Liferay search to be "simpler" and more "Google like".   In the first part of this blog series I'm going to create a custom search portlet from scratch and in the second part I’ll be discussing options to tune search behaviour like relevance.   First task in creating a custom...