Liferay DXP 2025.Q1: Release Highlights
Last week, Liferay announced the latest 2025.Q1 release. Since last year, Liferay has shifted away from versioning like 7.2, 7.3, or 7.4, opting instead for quarterly releases that remain fully compatible with Liferay 7.4. This ensures that customers always have access to the latest, most secure, and feature-rich version of Liferay.
A key milestone in this update: Liferay 2025.Q1 is the first Long-Term Support (LTS) release under the new schedule. This means extended support, making it a highly stable and reliable choice for businesses with a long-term digital strategy.
In this blog, we’ll highlight the most important updates in Liferay 2025.Q1.
Important updates in Liferay DXP 2025.Q1
🔹 Liferay e-commerce improvements
1. Product Configurations: Centralized product eligibility & settings
Streamline operations and gain better control over your products with centralized product configuration management.
- Product Configurations are templates for managing product configuration and suitability in one place.
- With Product Configurations you can:
- View a centralized table of products for better oversight.
- Use targeted configurations to avoid duplication.
- Simplify adding new products with predefined master settings.
- Improve the customer experience by ensuring they only see relevant products, improving their shopping journey.
💡 Example: Customers only see relevant products, which leads to a better shopping experience and increased conversions.
2. Multi Shipping: multiple deliveries possible per order
(Currently, this feature is behind a beta feature flag (LPD-20379)).
Multi Shipping allows customers to ship items from a single order to multiple addresses and on different dates. This results in:
- Higher productivity: More flexibility for customers who need to ship to multiple locations.
- Increased sales: Simplifies bulk ordering for businesses that ship to multiple locations or customers.
- Fewer cart abandonments: Streamlines the checkout process for complex orders, reducing the likelihood of customers abandoning their carts
- Enhanced customer loyalty: Provides a more user-friendly and convenient shopping experience, promotes customer loyalty.
💡 Example: A B2B customer can supply several branches in one order.
3. Warehouse Eligibility: smart inventory management
Determine which warehouses customers can order products from based on inventory levels.
- Geoptimaliseerde inventaris toewijzing: productoverzicht op basis van inventaris hoeveelheden en voorraadniveaus en verdeel inventaris om prioriteit te geven aan belangrijke klantsegmenten.
- Increase sales / reduce lost sales: Boost sales and minimize stock outs and prevent lost revenue by controlling product inventory.
- Targeted product overview: Control which customers see which products based on warehouse location and inventory levels.
💡 Example: A retailer can use this to implement an optimal inventory strategy and maximize sales.
4. B2B Guest Checkout: faster registration and checkout
Streamline the B2B guest checkout experience by allowing users to log in or register directly from the mini cart.
- Higher conversion rates by simplifying the checkout process.
- Improved customer satisfaction by providing a more seamless and user-friendly experience.
- Improved customer retention by allowing guests to easily convert to registered users, capturing valuable customer data.
- Reduced cart abandonment by keeping items in guest carts when users sign in.
💡 Example: A B2B customer ordering for the first time can immediately create an account without interrupting the process.
🔹 Sites and content management
Publications now automatically resolves more conflicts during publishing, significantly reducing manual effort.
Automatic conflict resolution:
- Reduced publishing time / increased efficiency: Automation minimizes manual intervention, speeding up the publishing process.
- Reduced errors: Automation of conflict resolution reduces the risk of human error during manual conflict resolution.
- Reduced operational costs: Less manual effort translates to lower operational costs associated with publishing content.
💡 Example: Content teams can continue working without interruption, even during major releases.
Content retention after Liferay upgrades:
Publications now allows users to publish customizations made before upgrading to Liferay instead of marking them as “Outdated”.
- Maintain content continuity: ensures that existing publications created in older Liferay versions remain accessible and public after upgrades.
- Faster upgrade process: simplifies the upgrade process by removing a potential blocking point.
- Lower support costs: reduces the need for Liferay support related to publishing older publications.
💡 Example: Companies do not need to republish content after a Liferay upgrade.
🔹 Low-Code innovations
In-context translation for text-based form fields (Text, Rich Text and Textarea) directly within the page.
- Object Entries with text fields can now be translated as users enter them when built using the Form Container.
- Improved user experience: Provides a seamless experience when adding Object Entries.
- Root Objects: Simplifies the management of multiple objects by configuring the relationship between objects.
- Expanded global reach: Enables businesses to effectively reach international audiences by adding localization support for input fields.
- Faster time to market for translated applications: Enables faster creation and deployment of localized forms for data applications.
- Service builder sntities as Objects: Enables applications built on Service Builder to leverage the benefits of the Liferay Objects framework.
The Data Sets & Data Set Manager: a flexible way to retrieve, manage, visualize and interact with structured data in Liferay DXP.
- Retrieve data: Retrieve information from any compatible Headless API to use as a data source.
- Manage flexibility: Admins can customize which parts of the API response are included, along with filters, sorting options, and available actions.
- Visualize data: Multiple visualization options make it easier than ever for end users to meaningfully consume data.
- Enable interaction: End users can dynamically interact with data using the filters, actions configured by administrators.
- Extensible by default: Create custom filters and column renderers with Client Extensions.
... more Liferay upgrades
Liferay has updated to React v18 to ensure that Liferay DXP maintains its status as a robust and future-proof platform.
Provision cloud apps directly to your Liferay SaaS environments without leaving Liferay Marketplace.
For a full list of new features and changes, check out the official release notes: 🔗 https://www.liferay.com/whats-new
