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Okay, okay—there aren’t actually falling rocks. But if you’re a developer working with Liferay DXP, especially as we approach the 2025.Q3 release, it might feel like you’re dodging debris. That’s because we’re knee-deep in a major renovation: the move from Java EE to Jakarta EE. And let me tell you, the changes are real. Package names, dependencies, taglibs (TLDs), build ...

Everyone loves a bug bounty program, right? Well I want to launch an unofficial bug bounty program today! What are we looking for? Bugs related to performing builds using JDK17 and/or JDK21. So anything related to dev tools, such as Blade, the IDE plugins, the Liferay Workspace/Gradle, Maven plugins, the various workspace plugins like ServiceBuilder,...

Introduction So we have a public repo we've been using to train developers on Liferay, but we're using HSQL. We did this on purpose because we couldn't guarantee that developers would have a common local database with necessary permissions to reset, overwrite, etc. For a lot of reasons, using HSQL made a lot of sense. Except for one - Liferay upgrades. You see,...

Liferay is busy working on updating the Node version used by the Gradle plugins in the Gradle Workspace from Node 16.13.0 (or 16.15.1 depending upon where you look) to Node 20.12.2. I'm told that this update is only supposed to apply to new versions of Liferay greater than GA117 and U117 (which means the upcoming 2024.Q2 release and later). I'm also told that it only...

Introduction So recently I completed a database upgrade from Liferay EE 6.1 up to Liferay DXP 7.4. It was actually pretty straightforward and I didn't encounter any significant blockers. I did however learn some stuff along the way and I thought I'd share those details here so you will be able to do your next Liferay DB upgrade in the same way. Note that although I'm specifically including...