Liferay Portal Standard Edition (SE) gives you the latest release with the newest in features and innovation. The community will receive regular SE releases throughout the year with updates, fixes and patches for the life of that particular release.
Installation and Upgrade Instructions
Read the Liferay Portal Administrator's Guide for instructions on how to change to a production-ready database instead of HSQLDB.
For detailed information about installation options, installation instructions and how to upgrade Liferay Portal from older versions to 5.0 are located on the Liferay Wiki.
Please see our documentation page for more information about how to install, use and develop on Liferay Portal.
For more information about the difference between SE and EE, take a look at our FAQ.