We are pleased to announce the first general available release of Liferay Project SDK Installers that support Liferay 7.1.

New Installers:

For customers, they can download all of them on the customer studio download page.

The installer is the full fledged Liferay Developer Studio installer which installs Liferay workspace, blade, Developer Studio and comes pre-bundled with latest Liferay DXP server. It also supports to config a proxy using for download gradle dependencies.

Upgrade From previous 3.1.x:

1. Download updatesite here

2. Go to Help > Install New Software… > Add…

3. Select Archive..., Browse to the downloaded updatesite

4. Click OK to close Add repository dialog

5. Select all features to upgrade, then click > Next, again click > Next and accept the license agreements

6. Finish and restart to complete the upgrade

Release highlights:

Installers Improvements:

1. Better support HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 proxy

 2. Bundle latest Liferay Portal

   - bundle 7.1.0 GA1 in LiferayProjectSDKwithDevStudioCommunityEdition installers

   - bundle DXP 7.1.10 GA1 in LiferayProjectSDKwithDevStudioDXP installers

Improvements for Deployment:

1. Support Liferay Watch Task

2. Support for Target Platform

3. Improve wizard to download dependencies in background

4. Better deployment support for Liferay DXP/7

   - support DXP 7.1.10 GA1 Tomcat and Wildfly

   - support Liferay 71 CE GA1 Tomcat and Wildfly

   - integration of Blade CLI 3.1.1

   - support Plugins sdk 1.0.19

   - support Liferay Workspace Gradle 1.10.2

5. Third party plugins update

   - update m2e to 1.8.3

   - updategradle plugin buildship to latest 3.0.0

6. Miscellaneous bug fixes

Feedback

If you run into any issues or have any suggestions please come find us on our community forums or report them on JIRA (IDE project), we are always around to try to help you out. Good luck!