During the development of any software product, it’s sometimes necessary to stop development on or remove outdated or unpopular features. Liferay DXP 7.2 is no different. In Liferay DXP 7.2, Liferay has deprecated several apps and features.
There are three types of deprecated apps:
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Deprecated apps that remain in Liferay DXP, but will be removed in a future release. (Availability: Bundled)
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Deprecated apps that have been removed from Liferay DXP, yet are still available for download via Liferay Marketplace (Availability: Marketplace)
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Deprecated apps that have been removed from Liferay DXP and aren’t available for download. (Availability: Removed)
Here are the apps deprecated in Liferay DXP 7.2.
Foundation
App | Availability | Notes |
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AlloyUI | Bundled | Replaced by MetalJS (temporary) exposed as ClayUI tag equivalents. |
CMIS Store | Removed | Migrate to another Document Repository Store option. Before upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.2, migrate your document store data using Data Migration in Server Administration. |
JCRStore | Removed | Migrate to another Document Repository Store option. Before upgrading to Liferay DXP 7.2, migrate your document store data using Data Migration in Server Administration. |
Legacy Search Portlet | Bundled | Will be removed in a future release. Replaced by the Search widgets. |
Liferay Mobile Device Detection Enterprise | Removed | Contact 51Degrees for up-to-date definitions. |
Sprite framework | Bundled | Liferay’s image sprite framework is deprecated and is disabled by default via the sprite.enabled portal property. You can still build image sprites using any framework you like and deploy them in your plugins. |
Personalization
App | Availability | Notes |
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Audience Targeting | Removed | Replaced by Personalization. |
Web Experience
App | Availability | Notes |
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RSS Publisher | Bundled | See the article on enabling and using this widget. |
User Group Pages (Copy Mode) | Bundled | See the Legacy User Group Sites Beahavior instructions on how to enable it. |
Resources Importer | Bundled | Deprecated as of 7.1 with no direct replacement |
Forms
App | Availability | Notes |
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Web Form | Removed | Final version released for 7.0. |
Security
App | Availability | Notes |
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Central Authentication Service (CAS) | Bundled | Migrate to SAML based authentication. |
Google Login | Marketplace | Replaced by OpenID Connect. |
NTLM | Marketplace | Replaced by Kerberos. |
OpenAM / OpenSSO | Bundled | Migrate to SAML based authentication. |
OpenID | Marketplace | Replaced by OpenID Connect. |
User and System Management
App | Availability |
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Live Users | Enabled through the live.users.enabled portal property. |