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Liferay Portal 6.1 Release Candidate Now Available
Liferay is proud to announce that the Liferay 6.1 CE Release Candidate is available! [Download]
The Liferay product and engineering teams, in close concert with our awesome community, have spent many months getting the 6.1 release ready, and this is one of the final builds before it will be generally available. We are making this release in advance of the 6.1 GA release, in order to ferret out last minute issues, and get the great work that the teams have poured into this into your hands earlier.
The community has been hard at work. Over 800 individual issues (bugs and improvements) have been resolved since Beta-4, and several new major and minor features make up 6.1. Ed Chung gave a great overview of these 6.1 themes and features at the East Coast Symposium. See my blog post regarding 6.1 Beta for a run-down of the major features in 6.1. Other highlights in this RC include:
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The release candidate is available on our downloads page. The additional files that some will need (for example, for developers) are listed on the RC Additional Files page.
Our documentation continues to improve. With the help of the community, our end user, administrator, and developer documentation have all improved tremendously. While the final documentation has not yet been published (it will be published with the GA release), its open source nature means you can take a look at the development, and even contribute to the "code". If there is a specific new feature you are interested in learning about, you are encouraged to use any of the myriad avenues through which the community supports its constituents, or you can just give the RC build a try today!
If you experience issues with this RC release, and believe it to be a bug in the product, you are encouraged to file a report at issues.liferay.com. There is a specific release to denote in the Affects Version/s field: 6.1.0 RC. The issue will be triaged, and if it has a big enough impact, will be fixed for the final GA release. Note that only showstopper bugs (insecurity, crashes, severe memory "leak", data corruption, or major loss of functionality with no viable workaround) will be fixed leading up to the GA release.
As this is still not the final release, you should not use this unsupported release in a production environment. However, it is a good way to test that your eventual upgrade will succeed with the minimum of fuss. Several of our BugSquad members have already successfully upgraded their customized Liferay 6.0 environments to the early 6.1 builds, and this build gives you a chance to do the same.
As we approach the final GA release, there may be additional Release Candidate builds to fix any last minute issues. As always, you are encouraged to participate and contribute to the project, and we hope you enjoy this sneak peek!