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Proxy paths are not honored after upgrading to 2025.Q1.9

Issue After upgrading to 2025.Q1.9 we've found that our page are largely inoperable. There are a large amount of console errors related to missing functions, missing MIME types, missing AUI, etc. Environment...

Unable to edit or create Collections

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Issue We've discovered a behavior that occurs when trying to edit existing collections or creating new collections. The page fails to load. The main error that popualates references a missing classname:...

I cannot schedule web content using a date in the past

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Issue I have an issue with the web content scheduling. I set the time zone of the user's OS to CET while the user and the server are set to UTC (by default). I create web content and schedule it to be less than 1 hour...

Pages Appear in Search Results But Lead to 404 Errors

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Issue Some search results lead to 404 pages, even after reindexing. Pages exist but cannot be navigated to with the search bar. Search bar is unresponsive when clicking on certain results. Environment...

How to Grant Add User Permission to a New Role?

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Issue We set up a new role and want to enable it to add new users to the portal. When we navigate to Define permissions > Users and Organizations, there is no "Add User" permission. Even is granting all permissions...

Rest Application menu (/o/api) contains duplicate items

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Issue I have noticed that when I use the headless /o/api Rest Application menu has duplicated items. It is duplicated next time after being selected and used. It does not impact the functionality. Reproduction Steps:...

Display date disappears if you update a web content

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Issue I have an issue with the web content article display date. When I update the web content by changing the title, the published date disappears. Reproduction Steps: 1. Start 2025.q1.8-lts 2. Go to Content & Data...

Liferay service restarts frequently

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Issue Since we allowed access to some users to contribute content, we are getting many issues with Liferay service restarts. While we are working with the platform, following error message is shown without any...

NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/compress/archivers/zip/ZipArchiveInputStream

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Issue We are putting up commons-io on osgi/module folder so it will be readily available to all modules, on our previous version of Liferay (DXP 2024 Q1.7), the commons-io worked, however now we are updating to the latest...

Analytics Cloud Stuck On "Redirecting to your identity provider..."

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Issue When attempting to access Analytics Cloud via https://analytics.liferay.com the site hangs indefinitely on the "Redirecting to your identity provider..." message. This can occur despite successfully logging...

User Workflows Not Appearing Under 'Assigned to My Roles'

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Issue We have enabled a workflow for approving new user account creation. While the Admin user gets the notficiation about the workflow task, if they navigate to My Workflow Tasks > Assigned to my Roles, the task is...

Loss of Client Extension Configurations After Publishing with Local Staging

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Issue After configuring settings such as JS or CSS on the pages of a site with Local Staging enabled, the changes are being lost after publishing to Live Environment 2024.Q1.12 (or older versions) Resolution This...

After upgrading to 2025.q1. old display date is not set as publication schedule date

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Issue When upgraded to 2025.q1.2 the display date was still there in the database, but when you checked the UI clicking on Schedule Publication, you could not see the date set for display on the previous Liferay. ...

OHS IP Appended to Image URLs on One Application Server Node

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Issue Inconsistent behavior is observed between two application server nodes with identical configurations. One node appends the OHS (Oracle HTTP Server) IP address to image URLs, causing 404 errors, while...

Permissions error when restoring backup

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Issue We are trying to restore a PRO environment backup into DEV environment. And we see in the log several errors related to Document Library when decompressing: May 05 16:13:15.812 build-3964...

Users are redirected to the Document Library home folder after interacting with a document

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Issue After interacting with a document in a sub-folder withing the Document Library, users are redirected back to the Document Library's home folder. Environment Quarterly Releases Resolution This issue has been...

Error uploading file: ClassCastException: class com.liferay.portal.repository.liferayrepository.model.LiferayFileEntry cannot be cast to class com.liferay.portal.kernel.model.BaseModel

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Issue I get an error like this in the logs when uploading a file: Caused by: java.lang.ClassCastException: class com.liferay.portal.repository.liferayrepository.model.LiferayFileEntry cannot be cast to class...

Changes to Site Templates are not propagated to pages

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Issue Changes made to a site template are not propagated to the pages that use the template. We can see the next error in the server log: [LayoutSetPrototypeMergeBackgroundTaskExecutor:219] Merge fail count...

Backend Functionalities and SVG Icons Fail When Using a CDN

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Issue After setting up a CDN for static resources, some backend functionalities, such as buttons and dynamic functionalities, stop working. Browser console displays CORS errors when trying to access...

Order by Last Login Date not Arranging Users in the Correct Order

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Issue In the Users & Organizations pane, when I sort users by last login date the users are not arranged in the correct order. Environment Liferay Quarterly Release Resolution In System Settings > Feature Flags...

Web Content Display and Edited Fragments Disappear after Publishing

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Issue We've experienced an undesirable behavior when using Web Content Display and Fragments. After publishing the Web Content Display and going back to edit, the changes made from the edit are not saved. Steps to...

The Product Menu Becomes Unresponsive after Upgrading to 2024.Q3 when module.framework.properties.org.osgi.framework.bootdelegation is configured

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Issue After upgrading to version 7.4 2024 Q3.6. the product menu becomes inaccessible and resulting in an exception at the backend. This happened after copying the...

Custom CK Editor toolbar is registered but not displayed

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Issue We followed this blog post to create a custom CKEditor 4 module in workspace. We can see that CKEDITOR.plugins.registered but, we are not able to see it on the CK Editor toolbar UI in Liferay 7.4...

Brave log-correlation issue

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Issue I am using brave (https://github.com/openzipkin/brave) to create a correlation across all logs events from Liferay, portlets and backends. After upgrading from Liferay 7.2 to 2024.Q3.12, which now internally uses...

Slow Performance When Searching for Non-Admin Users

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Issue Searching for non-admin users causes performance issues that did not exist prior to upgrading to 2024.q1. When non-admin users attempt to search, they receive a timeout error. Performance issues in...

"Lambda expressions are allowed only at source level 1.8 or above" warning occurs in the logs

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Issue The following warning occurs in the logs while configuring the WebSphere application server with Liferay. WARN [WebContainer : 4][code_jsp:162] {code="500", msg="JSPG0049E: /html/common/themes/top_head.jsp...

javax.mail.Provider: com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPProvider not a subtype

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Issue I am encountering the following error when attempting to send emails using Jakarta Mail (version 2.0.1) within my Liferay environment. javax.mail.Provider:com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPProvider not a subtype...

Hardcoded Text in Commerce Order Importer Not Translatable

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Issue Allow hiding the non-required options from CSV template message. We have this csv_template.csv file and sometimes we need to edit its content to remove non-used fields, like requestedDeliveryDate that is...

I cannot add a parent page in Menu Display using the Pages Hierarchy

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Issue I have an issue with the Menu Display Widget. When I try to select a parent menu in the configuration tab, the preview doesn’t change and after saving the configuration the Pages hierarchy is reset. Reproduction...

Radio Buttons in Forms cannot be navigated by keyboard

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Issue I have set up a form with non-inlined radio button groups. Using tabulator and arrow keys, I cannot select the appropriate option within groups. This is an accessibility issue, since the form cannot be...

Special characters like apostrophe (') is displayed as its ASCII value in the account address field

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Issue Special characters like apostrophe (') are displayed as their ASCII value in the account address field. Steps to Reproduce: Start Liferay DXP 2024.Q1.12 Go to Control Panel -> Accounts Create an...

Pagination Numbers Displayed in Hindi Numerals When Language is Switched to Hindi

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Issue When switching the language from English to Hindi, the numeric values in the pagination control change to Hindi numerals. Environment Liferay DXP 7.4 Quarterly Release 2023.Q3 Resolution This issue...

ClassCastException When Adding Web Content in Batch via Headless API

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Issue When attempting to add web content in batch using the headless API endpoint /o/headless-delivery/v1.0/sites/{siteId}/structured-contents/batch, a ClassCastException occurs. The error resembles the...

Are Document Previews in Liferay Compatible with '.potx' File Extensions?

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Issue We are facing an issue with the preview of files having '.potx' extension. We added the extension in System Settings > Documents and Media > Service and System Settings > Documents and Media > Item Selector View....

After upgrading to DXP 7.4 u92 I receive an unable to locate transaction executor error on server startup

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Issue I have an issue with deploying our custom built Java modules. I upgraded from DXP 7.4 update 81 to u92. After the upgrade, on server startup the deployment of the custom built modules behavior is inconsistent and...

Using the "ehcache.multi.vm.config.location" property, the "java.lang.NullPointerException: Configuration Path is Null" error occured

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Issue After configuring the "ehcache.multi.vm.config.location" property in portal-ext.properties, the following errors occurred. ERROR [SCR Component Actor][ROOT:47] bundle...

Error: HikariPool-1 - Failed to validate connection org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection@xxxxxx (This connection has been closed.). Possibly consider using a shorter maxLifetime value

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Issue Facing the following error in the logs and the Liferay node became unresponsive: HikariPool-1 - Failed to validate connection org.postgresql.jdbc.PgConnection@6c009ca1 (This connection has been...

Error message: Portal property "session.timeout.auto.extend" was modularized to com.liferay.frontend.js.web as "auto-extend"

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Issue When starting up Liferay DXP, the following error message is displayed in logs: ERROR [main][VerifyProperties:138] Portal property "session.timeout.auto.extend" was modularized to com.liferay.frontend.js.web as...

Log Directory for Liferay

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Issue The log folder may become oversized, causing server hang-ups, so how do I configure the logging directory for Liferay? Environment Liferay DXP 7.3 Liferay DXP 7.4 Resolution The following are the steps...

Security scan detected a "Reference to Windows file path is present in HTML"

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Issue Our security scan detected a "Reference to Windows file path is present in HTML" in the following URL:...