Liferay Portal 7.4 GA93 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA93 Release

We are pleased to announce the release of Liferay Portal 7.4 GA93 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA93!

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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 GA93:

docker run -it -p 8080:8080 liferay/portal:7.4.3.93-ga93

Bundles and other download options

If you are used to binary releases, you can find the Liferay Portal 7.4 GA93 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA93 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  lat est 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 Ausing 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-ga93

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

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 GA93 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 GA93 and Liferay Commerce 4.0 GA93 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.

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 getting started for more details on how you can receive support.

Blogs

With JDK 8 LTS ending on 31 Mar 2022 and JDK 11 LTS ending at the end of Sep 2023, is there plans to support JDK 17 soon? Seems to me it should be a priority.

Unfortunately there is a large problem with supporting JDK 17: https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/LPS-142939 and the solution to fix it is highly complex.  JDK 11 ends main support on Sep 2023 but extended support continues until 2026.

Thanks for the update. With the release of Java 21 today, I feel Liferay developers are being somewhat left behind. As frameworks such as the Spring framework move to support new features in Java 17 and 21 and add new features of their own, we are stuck using older versions of the frameworks. Still, Liferay is a great product!

There are no new features listed? Also no link to remaining issues or fixes in JIRA. Is this intentional?

The last few releases have been what we consider soft releases which don't have a lot of changes in them.  I will confirm with the release team if the known issues and fixed issues should be blank or not.