Liferay 4.0.0 Final Released!

Liferay Portal 4.0.0 has been released, with fine-grained permissioning, support for Geronimo, Websphere 6, and Weblogic 8.1SP5, Alfresco integration, JSR-170 support, full-page caching, and more. It includes many bundled portlets and themes, and can be deployed on most application server/database combinations, including deployment in servlet containers (as opposed to a full application server).

Liferay also supports single-signon, user customization, and a number of other useful features. Liferay is licensed under the MIT license.

You can find an online demo of Liferay, and a roadmap for future development is available.

• Security Model
  • Fine-grained Permissions
    • Metadata-based Permission Schemes at all Levels (Portal and Portlet)
    • Custom Permission Grants
      • Role-based Permission Aggregation
      • Grant Individual Permissions to Users
    • Permissions assigned to all Levels of the Enterprise (see below)
  • Enterprise Taxonomy
  • Enterprise
  • Organization
  • Location
  • Community
  • User
• Page Layout
  • Separate Public/Private Page Hierarchies
    • Communities
    • Users
  • Improve Drag and Drop
  • WSYIWYG Add Content (powered by AJAX)
  • Layout Templates (1-1-1, 2-1-2, etc) refactored from Portlet Aggregator
  • Liferay Archive (LAR)
    • Import/Export Layouts and Preferences for a community

• Themes
  • Completely Velocity-based (while still maintaining JSP compatibility)
  • Stretchable Themes
    • Page is as wide as the browser
  • Dynamic CSS
    • Modify Theme CSS at runtime (through Portlet Configuration Mode)
  • Page-level Themes
    • Every page has its own Theme (otherwise inherit from the parent page)

• Performance and Scalability
  • Full-page Caching
  • Smaller Memory Footprint
    • Refactored Model Caching
  • Faster Request/Response Times
    • Reduced Round-trip Javascript Loads
  • Classloader Segregation
    • Portal Classes isolated from Portlet and Theme WARs
    • Allow for different versions of JARs to exist at runtime
    • Third-Party Portlets integrate seamlessly
• Integration
  • Alfresco
    • Web Client Portlet
    • Publish Alfresco Content in Liferay
  • Struts Bridges
  • JSF Portlet/Servlet Transparency
    • Run a JSF Application in Portlet and Servlet contexts simultaneously
  • FCKEditor Access to Liferay Journal (CMS)
    • Document Library
    • Image Gallery
    • Layouts
  • Java Content Repository (JCR) - JSR-170
    • Document Library refactored to JCR
• Application Servers
  • Geronimo Support
  • Websphere 6 Support
  • Weblogic 8.1SP5 Support

• Auto Deploy - automatically deploy WARs from a configured folder
  • Portlets
  • Themes
  • Layouts
• Portlets
  • Refactor all Portlets
    • Integrate Security Infrastructure
    • Improve UI and User Experience
  • Journal
    • Improve Search Interface (One-step search and edit)
    • Tightly-integrated Article/Structure/Template generation
    • Velocity-based Templates (in addition to XSL)
  • Message Boards
    • Add Categories
  • Portlet Configuration Mode
    • Custom Portlet Configuration
    • Standard Look and Feel
    • Assign Permissions
  • New Portlets
    • Admin (Super User)
    • Enterprise Admin
    • Organizatin Admin
    • Location Admin
  • Private Request Attributes