Liferay Portal 7.4 GA72 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA72 Release

We are pleased to announce the release of Liferay Portal 7.4 GA72 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA72!

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Download options

Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce share the same Bundle and Docker image.  To get started using either Liferay Portal or Liferay Commerce, choose the best download option suited for your environment below.

Docker image

To use Liferay Portal 7.4 GA72:

docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.72-ga72

Bundles and other download options

If you are used to binary releases, you can find the Liferay Portal 7.4 GA72 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA72 release on the download page.  If you need additional files (for example, the source code, or dependency libraries), visit the release page.

Dependency Management

For development using the Liferay Platform, update Liferay Workspace to use the  latest dependencies, by adding the following line to the build.gradle file:

dependencies {
	compileOnly group: "com.liferay.portal", name: "release.portal.api"
}

All portal dependencies are now defined with a single declaration. When using an IDE such as Eclipse or IntelliJ all apis are immediately available in autocomplete for immediate use.  

By setting a product info key property it will be possible to update all dependencies to a new version by updating the liferay.workspace.product property in the liferay workspace projects gradle.property file:

liferay.workspace.product = portal-7.4-ga72

When using an IDE such as Eclipse or IntelliJ all apis are immediately available in autocomplete for immediate use.

Features

Experience Management

Manage Knowledge Base folders and Hierarchy


​​​​​Provide users with a simple and effective way to view, access, and manage the knowledge base folder hierarchy. Includes

  • Drag and drop experience for moving content

  • Search for content in knowledge base management

  • Using action menu to manage folder

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-156421

Review and Expiration date in Knowledge Base articles

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Ability to set expiration and review dates for articles and to view which articles are pending expiration

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-165476

Enhanced navigation and interactions in Knowledge Base

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Improved navigation through the different tabs and pages in Knowledge Base in the manage toolbar, sidebar serach, sidebar primary button, priority and general interactions

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-166643

Table view in Knowledge Base

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Table View display in Knowledge Base

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-169675

Headless

Manage permissions for Objects entries through APIs

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Now it is possible to manage and check the permissions of the object entries directly from the headless APIs.

 

For each object definition, two new endpoints are available. One to retrieve the permissions that apply to that individual Object entry and another one that allows users to set/update the permissions that apply to that entry.

All query parameters available in the API explorer

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Now it is possible to use all query parameters available from the API explorer. Parameters such as fields, nestedFields or flatten accessible and ready to use in your test queries.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-156006

Search

Improved Support for Objects in the Search Widgets

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​​​​​​​Support for Object display pages in the search results, aggregating (via Custom Facet widget), filtering (Custom Filter widget) and sorting (Sort widget) using Object fields that are indexed as Nested Fields in Elasticsearch, similar to Web Content Structure (DDM) fields.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-172128

Documentation

All documentation for Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce can now be found on our documentation site: learn.liferay.com.  For more information on upgrading to Liferay Portal 7.4 GA72 see refer to the Upgrade Overview.

Compatibility Matrix

Liferay's general policy is to test Liferay Portal and Liferay Commerce  against newer major releases of operating systems, open source app servers, browsers, and open source databases (we regularly update the bundled upstream libraries to fix bugs or take advantage of new features in the open source we depend on). 

Liferay Portal 7.4 GA72 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA72 were tested extensively for use with the following Application/Database Servers: 

Application Server

  • Tomcat 9.0

  • Wildfly 18.0, 23.0

Database

  • MySQL 5.7, 8.0

  • MariaDB 10.2, 10.4, 10.6

  • PostgreSQL 12.x, 13.x, 14.x

JDK

  • IBM J9 JDK 8

  • Oracle JDK 8

  • Oracle JDK 11

  • All Java Technical Compatibility Kit (TCK) compliant builds of Java 11 and Java 8

Search Engine Compatibility Matrix

Source Code

Source is available as a zip archive on the release page, or on its home on GitHub. If you're interested in contributing, take a look at our contribution page.

Bug Reporting

If you believe you have encountered a bug in the new release you can report your issue by following the bug reporting instructions.

Getting Support

Support is provided by our awesome community. Please visit helping a developer page for more details on how you can receive support.

Fixes and Known Issues