Liferay Portal 7.4 GA77 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA77 Release

We are pleased to announce the release of Liferay Portal 7.4 GA77 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA77!

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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 GA77:

docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.77-ga77

Bundles and other download options

If you are used to binary releases, you can find the Liferay Portal 7.4 GA77 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA77 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-ga77

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

Features

Experience Management

Page Builder support for displaying Object Relationships


​​​​​​​Now, when creating pages and display pages to visualize object entries, users can easily display related object entries. To enable this, we have added:

  • In a one-to-many or many-to-many object relationships scenario, new

Related Item collection providers to access information of the “many” side of a one-to-many and many-to-many relationships. Example: A Countries object, and a related “cities” object for cities in those countries. This new capability allows to easily list the cities that belong to a country, and other data from each city, via a related item collection provider.

  • In a one-to-many object relationship, if we are listing or displaying the items of the “many” side, information of the “one” side is available for direct mapping as well. Example: a “Countries” object, and a related object for cities in those countries. When

listing the cities, this new capability allows to easily display the country each city belongs to.

  • Attachment field attributes (such as download URL, of file size) are now available for direct mapping.

(please see related Confluence Page for additional info and demo video).

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-176083

Core Upgrades

Improvements on the Upgrade logging
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  • Deletion of property upgrade.log.context.name. Now all upgrade related log lines are tagged with the key upgrade.component automatically, which provides more meaningful information.

  • Upgrade Report is now compatible also with upgrade on startup, and it can be printed as Log Thread Context information.

  • Upgrades log the result and the type of upgrade that has taken place after all the upgrade processes finish.

  • New mBean available with upgrade on startup to obtain real time information about the status and the result of the upgrade.

https://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-158747

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 GA77 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 GA77 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA77 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