Liferay Portal RC2 Released

Just released Liferay Portal 6 RC 2. We are very close to getting the GA now. We had originally scheduled to make this the GA, but our release team wanted to make one more round of releases. We're now scheduling to release GA in another 2-3 weeks.

The major changes between RC 2 and RC 1 include changes to Workflow and OpenSocial as a first class citizen. Go here for a full list of changes.

Go SF.net to download the files.

I'm hanging out at our East Coast Symposium right now. Look forward to meeting everyone. :)

 

[Jonas X. Yuan]

That is great! Thank you, Brian!

[Juan Fernández]

741 issues closed! WOW!!

[Rostislav Matl]

Is there some document howto update my application to make it deployable on this version ?

[Andrius Kurtinaitis]

What is the "right" place to get Maven artifacts of Liferay 6RC2?
I was able to find some at
https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/repositories/comliferay-173/content/
But the repository name 'comliferay-173' somehow does not look right.
Is this some test repo or I can use it and expect it to last at least for several weeks?

[Vineet Bhatt]

Excellent news! Thanks Brian

[Feras Odeh]

Thanks for that great release....

But I can't get it run without errors.. for example I have this error
http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/5057363

Moreover in glassfish bundle I get a lot more errors in this version and 5.2.3

Thanks

[Juan Fernández]

Hi Feras: remember this is a Release Candidate. It means it's still a beta version. Lets wait for "General availability" for the final 6.0 release

[Feras Odeh]

Thanks Juan
I'll wait for the final release. But why glassfish bundle even on 5.2.3 throws many errors on windows machine? Is it specific to Linux?

Thanks

[peris chen]

jbpm4.3 has been released for some time, is there any plan to update the jbpm-web plugin to use jbpm4.3 ?

[Marcelo Ruiz Camauër]

This is important. When can we expect jbpm 4? Also, any interest in using the new Alfresco workflow engine, being developed by the creators of JBPM? It seems like the way to go forward...

[Bavithra Rajendran]

Thank You , Sir

[Vineet Bhatt]

Hi Brian,
Do you think it is safe to assume Liferay 6 EE would be available by July end?

Thanks,
Vineet

[Brian Chan]

Yup, 6 GA will be available by end of June, and 6 EE in July.

[Vineet Bhatt]

Upgraded RC1 to RC2 almost smoothly.

Just Document library is broken if you are not admin and using postgresql database.
Even if it is a fresh install of RC2 DL fails for non admin members.
Raised http://issues.liferay.com/browse/LPS-10405

[Vineet Bhatt]

oops.. it seems to have broken for message board also on Postgresql. Reason looks similar i.e ResourcePermission.primKey = mbCategory.categoryId
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Hibernate: SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT mbCategory.categoryId) AS COUNT_VALUE FROM MBCategory mbCategory INNER JOIN ResourcePermission ON ( (mbCategory.userId = 12101) OR (ResourcePermission.companyId = 10123) AND (ResourcePermission.name = 'com.liferay.portlet.messageboards.model.MBCategory') AND (ResourcePermission.roleId IN (10133,10135,12493)) AND (mod(ResourcePermission.actionIds, 2) = 1) AND ( ( (ResourcePermission.scope = 1) AND (ResourcePermission.primKey = '10123') ) OR ( (ResourcePermission.scope = 2) AND (ResourcePermission.primKey = '11531') ) OR ( (ResourcePermission.scope = 4) AND (ResourcePermission.primKey = mbCategory.categoryId) ) ) ) WHERE mbCategory.groupId = ? AND mbCategory.parentCategoryId = ?

[Vineet Bhatt]

Reason why RC2 fails on Postgres 8.3 and higher is because
Non-character data types are no longer automatically cast to TEXT (Peter, Tom)
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/release-8-3.html

[Vineet Bhatt]

How does the roadmap look? Does end June for 6 GA still looks achievable?

[Davide Marchetti]

Would be nice to get some information about the new roadmap!!
Brian, please tell us something!

[Brian Chan]

Sorry about that! Been really busy getting the final GA ready. We're scheduled for July 12th right now. Fixing up plugins and last minute polishing.

[Alex Wallace]

I do svn update on the trunk and plugins several times a day and I can see there is lots of activity going on!

We are very excited about LR 6. Looking forward to the GA release.

Thanks for such a tremendous effort!

[Jonas X. Yuan]

A ton of thanks, Brian.

Looking forward to the GA release

[Vineet Bhatt]

As there were so many changes in the trunk it must be tough last few weeks.
How does it look, is it ready to be released today?

[Dale Larson]

Brian, when can we expect the CE to be released?

[sorfzhand ~]

can't wait ;)

[Brian Chan]

One more bug on the required list to squash and GA will be out the door

[Russell Wong]

So it will be available tomorrow?

[Renee Talabucon]

..waiting here, too!~

[Renee Talabucon]

Hi!

Does Liferay 6 GA include an Audit Trail / Audit portlet?
[I've been testing RC2]

Thanks!

[Puj Z]

Hi Braian,

any estimation of 6 GA release date?

[Renee Talabucon]

I just saw Mr. Brian Chan's tweet.. Liferay 6 GA is out yey!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lportal/files/

[Russell Wong]

wow !!! Great !!
Thanks for sharing!!

[sorfzhand ~]

yeay!!

[Denis Signoretto]

Really Good !!

What about upgrade process? I'm really interested updating from 5.2.3. Are there any docs or guide lines about it?

Thanks,
D.

[William Chu]

Great work! I just checked out the 6.0.2 tag and I'm not seeing the portal-kernel source directory. Was it incorporated elsewhere now?

[William Chu]

Nevermind, I see that the portal-kernel code was incorporated into the portal-service code.

[Denis Signoretto]

@William

Hi William,

as reported in this thread portal-kernel and portal-service has been merged. The new jar is named portal-service.jar.
http://www.liferay.com/community/forums/-/message_boards/message/4929477

[Amy Jean Mead]

Denis, did you ever figure this out or was it just so intuitive, no one had to answer;)!

[Alex Wallace]

What's the process for filing bugs? I'd hate to create them in issues.liferay if they should go some place else...

This one in particular is with the Search portlet, not finding anything for Web Content: com.liferay.portlet.journal.util.JournalOpenSearchImpl null

I also can't get the 'Web Content Search' portlet to find anything.

These issues are in the trunk.

Thanks for all the hard work though! It looks awesome!

[Imtiaz Ahmed]

How soon can we get an Enterprise version of Liferay 6? Any Hints?

[Alshaimaa Ali]

how to install portlet plugins in liferay6, I tried install more portlets (from control panel -> plugins installation)
in the browser I see the following error message "An error occurred while retrieving available plugins."
and in tomcat log "Unable to communicate with repository all"

[Manjesh Reddy]

Liferay 6 RC2 is really neat! waiting for the GA release.

I agree with Alshaimaa Ali's comments. The plugin manager throws a Tomcat error "unable to communicate with repository all".

Don't know if that is because there are no new portlets which are LR6 compatible or if there is something else going on.

[Ben Brown]

Saw the demo in London yesterday at the workshop - installing it now! Just what we were after.

[gavin lau]

I'am waiting for the GA!

[Marek Wianecki]

still waiting !!

[Manjesh Reddy]

Sounds gr8! But the the downloaded .zip file is corrupted. Anyone else have the same problem?

[Russell Wong]

yup ... I have same problem