Lets under stand what are changes with Liferay 7/DXP version

Latest and stable Liferay version :

• Liferay Community Edition = Liferay 7.1
• Liferay Enterprise Edition = Liferay DXP

Technological update required:

• Tomcat 8
• JDK 8
• Mysql 5.7
• Eclipse Update / Liferay IDE 3

 Look and Feel :

• Lexicon Design Language
• set of patterns (visual and interaction)
• designed to be fluid and extensible
• Optimized product navigation
• New Forms user experience
• Geolocate any content
• New image, file and media selector
• Fast response - avoiding full page refreshes
• Single Page Applications – senna.js
• Very Good News - IE support 10,11/Edge

Modularity - OSGI

• Monolithic to Microservices
• Now 500+ new modules (bundles in the osgi world),
• We can change any way we like, simply by overriding them with our own modules.
• No ext plugins any more.

OSGI:

• Liferay Module Framework
• Apache Felix
• Declarative Services (replaces .xml configurations)
• Bndtools
• Gogo Shell for manipulating the module lifecycle and many other things
• Semantic Versioning
• Blade Tool/Blade CLI

Others :

• Lucene Gone, Elastic Search(Separate Server)
• Optionally Solr, support only in EE
• Goodbye Ant, Hello Gradle (maven is still there)
• Build tool based on Node.js for Theme development
• New mobile SDK with Liferay screens 2
• Clustering not supported in CE