I am pleased to announce the release of:  Liferay Portal 7.0 CE GA2! 
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What's New

• Inline Image Editor: The new image editor allows for simple image editing directly from within Liferay eliminating the need for an external tool while creating content.  Easily resize, crop and make colors adjustments to any image uploaded to Documents and Media from within blogs or any other application that uses an item selector.  The image editor has been designed in a way to make it easy to customize and allows for developers to create and deploy tools that modify images.
  
  New Upgrade Tool: Liferay 7 provides a new stand-alone upgrade tool which greatly improves the experience of upgrading your Liferay installation to the latest version.  Check out the Upgrade section in the official Liferay documentation for more details.

Release Nomenclature

Following Liferay's versioning scheme established in 2010, this release is Liferay 7.0 CE GA2.  The internal version number is 7.0.1 (i.e. the second release of 7.0).  Future CE releases of 7.0 will be designated GA3, GA4, .. and so on.  See below for upgrade instructions from 6.1, 6.0, and 5.x.

Downloads

You can find the 7.0 release on the usual downloads page. 

Source Code

As Liferay is an open source project, many of you will want to get at its guts. The source is available as a zip archive on the downloads page, or on its home on GitHub. Many community contributions went into this release, and hopefully many more in future releases! If you're interested in contributing, take a look at our contribution page.

Support Matrix

Liferay's general policy is to update our support matrix for each release, testing Liferay against newer major releases of supporting operating systems, app servers, browsers, and databases (we regularly update the bundled upstream open source libraries to fix bugs or take advantage of new features in the open source we depend on). 

Liferay 7.0 CE GA2 was tested extensively for use with the following Application/Database Servers: 

Liferay CE Application Servers:

• Apache Tomcat 8.0 with Java 8
• Wildfly 10.0 with Java 8

Liferay CE Databases:

• HSQLDB 2 (only for demonstration, development, and testing)
• MySQL 5.6
• MariaDB 10
• PostgreSQL 9.3

New Features Summary

• Modularity inside: The #1 feature of Liferay 7 is not a feature, but a way to empower you to build more powerful, adaptable, lightweight and innovative systems for the digital world that is coming. Liferay 7's functionality has been modularized into hundreds of modules, allowing you to use what you need for each project and take away the rest, giving you an extensibility unthinkable until now, and a much more elegant development model. And all of this based on rock solid standards of the OSGi family. 
   
• New Forms Experience: Liferay 7 includes a brand new application that allows defining and publishing advanced dynamic forms. The forms can have complex multi-column layouts and span several pages. They can be published in any Liferay site just by dropping the form into a page or also Google Forms style, by providing a URL that links directly to a full page form. Many field types are included out of the box and custom types can be added by deploying custom modules. Forms can also be integrated with Liferay's workflow system to submit forms through a predefined process. 
   
• Optimized Content Authoring: As content management systems get more complicated and get more options, the more complex writing content might get. But it doesn't have to. We have rethought the authoring experience to let the authors, from web content to blogs, focus on writing great content, while still having available the full power that Liferay's applications provide when they are really necessary. All this thanks to our brand new WYSIWYG editor: Alloy Editor. In addition to this, many small improvements have been added such as the ability to organize web content in folders, visual content diffs, reuse of content structures and templates across sites, and more.
   
• Geolocate any content: Liferay 7 provides out of the box the ability to geolocate all web content, data lists, documents & media. It also provides the ability to leverage the power of Liferay's Asset Publisher to create lists of geolocalized content and publish them in a Map.
   
• Advanced modern sites easier than ever: