Liferay is pleased to announce the release of Liferay Portal 4.3.0 Release Candidate 1 (RC1).

As this is a release candidate, pre-packaged bundles have only been provided for Tomcat/JDK5 and Tomcat/JDK1.4. Source code has also been provided in a separate download:
http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/liferay_enterprise_portal/4_3_0rc1

In addition, Liferay has been working closely with ICEsoft in order to provide a sample ICEfaces portlet, which can be downloaded from the samples page:
http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/downloads/samples

Note that the "Hot Deploy" folder in 4.3 no longer defaults to \home\liferay\deploy. Instead, it defaults to a "liferay\deploy" folder in your home directory. On *nix, this would be /home/username/liferay/deploy and on Win32 it would be C:\Documents and Settings\username\liferay\deploy

For a complete list of features planned for 4.3, please refer to the Road Map:
http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/devzone/features_and_road_map/owen

One other thing to mention is that if you are building Liferay from the source, you will need to upgrade to Ant 1.7.

Hi,

What about database scripts?

Regards,
Abhijit Gurav

See this post:
http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/forums/message_boards/message/115020

Hi,

I got it. Thanks

Regards,
Abhijit Gurav

I have to say that I'm really impressed with the work you folks are doing.

I thought the upgrade from 4.1 to 4.2 was sharp, and now the 4.3 rc looks great too.

I did notice one problem: the classic theme in the orange color scheme isn't working right (changing to orange showed a whole bunch of tabs below the portlet that disappear when blue or green are selected).

But given that this is an RC, I'm willing to cut you some slack

when can we expect the final version of liferay 4.3 and what about Spurgeon release?

Hello, can somebody tell me whast is Spurgeon?

Thank you very much.

Building from sources ... may I point you to http://www.liferay.com/web/guest/community/forums/message_boards/message/116641?

Joerg