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
