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Liferay released Liferay DXP 2024.Q1 this week, and in the corresponding release notes, you'll find the following nugget. Just search for "Java JDK 11 Runtime" to find in the notes, but here's the text for it: Support for Java JDK 11 is flagged for deprecation as of Q1.2024. As DXP continues to evolve as a platform to deliver powerful solutions, we are planning...

In case you missed it, Liferay has announced the deprecation of Websphere for Liferay DXP 7.4. The official announcement was made here: https://support.liferay.com/release-notes/2023-q4, scroll down near the bottom to the Feature Status Change section or just search the page for WebSphere and you'll find the reference. Additionally, there's a note on the 7.4 Compatibility...

Introduction I was recently in a meeting reviewing some FreeMarker templates that were extracting web contents using a structure, parsing and processing the data, and rendering an output. Basically the implementation was kind of the classic or "legacy" way of doing specialized presentation of structured contents in Liferay. In this case they had a Carousel...

If you've recently been looking for the Liferay Certifications, tried to find the materials or register to take a certification exam, you may have found that they are no longer where they used to be. In the near future Liferay will be unveiling and launching a new Enablement and Certification program that will be a major step forward in delivering concrete enablement for our...

So this has come up a couple of times recently, so after some research I thought I'd share the news. In 7.4, built-in support for ClamAV has been removed, and Liferay has no current plans on restoring that functionality. If you have upgraded from a previous version and you were using ClamAV, you may not be aware that your antivirus scanning actually has not been happening as...

Introduction The Liferay platform has been used for the development of corporate applications by many companies for several years. This is because it stands out for its flexibility in extending its ready-made components, broadly meeting the needs of business applications, such as security, clustering, indexing, and internationalization. However, directly building...

In 2024 Q1 we will release a performance boosting feature for larger publications on LPD-10782.  "The original vision for Publications was to allow customers to make as few or as many changes as needed, without performance drops. This has been true for few changes as the experience has been great but it has not been true for large datasets." Our current measurements ...

Introduction GitLab is a web-based DevOps lifecycle tool that provides a Git repository manager, continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD), and a range of collaboration and project management features. It is used to manage the software development process, facilitating collaboration among team members, version control with Git, and automated build and deployment...

Introduction Kubernetes, commonly referred to as K8s, is an open-source system designed for automating the deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It is a robust and flexible solution for deploying Liferay, facilitating scalability and monitoring. While creating a Liferay cluster on Kubernetes is not overly complex, there are certain nuanced...

Introduction Roles and Permissions is one of Liferay foundation features that allows to develop secure and reliable applications. It's crucial to organize them in a structured, transparent and easy-manageable way. Sometimes it can be hard, especially when it comes to hierarchical entities. Fortunately, Liferay has a dedicated feature for this case - Permissions Propagator. ...