What are Beta features?

Beta Features are features, functionality or capabilities made available by Liferay within Liferay DXP/Portal software that are tagged with a “Beta” flag. Liferay makes these Beta Features available for Subscribers to test and validate with their use-cases and business objectives, and ultimately provide critical feedback. With this program, Liferay can accelerate the release schedule for Liferay DXP/Portal and deliver Subscriber-driven development to the market.

Beta Features are considered experimental and should be used at the discretion of the subscriber. These features are not supported and as such should not be used in production environments.

Beta Features may be enabled, at the customer’s discretion, in the portal’s instance settings (Control Panel > Instance Settings > Platform > Feature Flags). Beta features will be clearly marked with a "Beta" tag in the UI.

How to Provide Feedback on a Beta Feature

 

1. Review Quarterly Release announcements and launch webinars and watch for beta features.

A new Quarterly Release of Liferay DXP is made available in the third month of each quarter. Details of the new features are provided in the Release Webinars and fully documented on the Release Notes page on suport.liferay.com.  Each feature will have one of the following release statues:

Beta : Non-supported features under validation.

Release : Officially released and supported - can be activated with Release Feature Flag.

GA : Officially released and supported features.

2. Provide beta feature feedback on Discuss

In order to provide feedback for beta features, create a new post in the Beta Features sub topic on discuss.liferay.com.  Please provide a link to the release announcement featuring the beta feature along with the feature you are testing.

If providing a bug report, please see: Report a Bug.

3. What happens after I have provided feature beta feedback?

Once the feedback has been evaluated a member of our product team will respond to the post and provide a link to a Jira ticket if further action is needed such as fixing a bug in the feature.