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On August 11, 2015 Liferay released the 6^th General Availability (GA) version of Liferay Faces:

All-New JSF Component Suite

Liferay Faces 4.2.5-ga6 (JSF 2.2 + Liferay Portal 6.2) and 3.2.5-ga6 (JSF 2.1 + Liferay Portal 6.2) feature an all-new JSF component suite as shown in the Liferay Faces Showcase.

The Facelet component tags that are prefixed with the alloy: namespace utilize AlloyUI and are compatible with webapp and portlet environments.

The Facelet component tags that are prefixed with the bridge: and portlet: namespaces are compatible with portlet environments.

The Facelet component tags that are prefixed with the portal: namespace are compatible with Liferay portlet environments.

For more information about the new component suite, see Juan Gonzalez' blog post titled New Liferay Faces release - Portal components and Vernon Singleton's blog post titled New Liferay Faces release - The alloy:accordion component.

Third Party Component Suite Compatibility

• PrimeFaces 5.2: Check out the new primefaces5-portlet and primefaces5-users-portlet demos
• ICEfaces 4.0: Due to ICE-10335, ICE-10392, and ICE-10393 ICEfaces 4.0 is unsupported at this time. Developers can still use ICEfaces 3.1 with JSF 2.1 via Liferay Faces 3.2.5-ga6.
• RichFaces 4.5: The richfaces4-portlet demo has been upgrade to RichFaces 4.5.6.Final.

Support For JSF 2.2 (Tomcat + Mojarra Only)

• Verson 4.2.5-ga6 is the first production-quality version of Liferay Faces to support JSF 2.2.
• All testing was performed with Mojarra 2.2.12. MyFaces is not supported by Liferay EE.
• Refer to the new jsf2-flows-portlet and jsf2-html5-portlet for examples of how to use JSF 2.2 in a portlet environment.
• Developed under JSR 344, JSF 2.2 is part of the larger Java EE 7 specification from the JCP. Even though Java EE 7 includes technologies like CDI 1.1 and Servlet 3.1, JSF 2.2 only depends on Java EE 6 technologies like CDI 1.0 and Servlet 3.0. This means that JSF 2.2 webapps and portlets can be deployed in Java EE 6 (Servlet 3.0) servlet containers such as Tomcat 7. However, Java EE 6 full-profile application servers such as GlassFish 3.2, JBoss 7.1, and WebLogic 12c bundle JSF 2.1 and cannot be upgraded to JSF 2.2. At the time of this writing, Liferay, Inc. has not released any Liferay Portal 6.2 bundles with Java EE 7 servers such as Tomcat 8, GlassFish 4.0 or JBoss/WildFly 8. Therefore version 4.2.5-ga6 is only supported Liferay Portal 6.2 on Tomcat 7.

API Changes

Deprecated Tags

The following tags have been deprecated in the 3.2.5-ga6 release and removed in the 4.2.5-ga6 release:

Project Links

• Showcase *NEW*
• VDLDocs
• Developer Guide
• Downloads
• Demos

Version Scheme

Please refer to the Liferay Faces Version Scheme for a detailed explanation of the version numbering.

Thank You

Thanks to everyone in the community that reported issues, contributed patches, and participated in the forums!