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Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition

Liferay Portal Enterprise Edition (EE) offers the most recent stable version of the product, guaranteeing ongoing long-term support with a combined subscription and support package. Liferay Portal EE serves organizations seeking to maintain one stable version of the product over an extended period of time and who need Liferay's professional services, support and training.

Learn more about Liferay Portal EE.

Liferay Portal Standard Edition

Liferay Portal Standard Edition (SE) is intended for early adopters in non-critical environments and gives you the latest release with the newest in features and innovation. Liferay Portal SE is available at no cost and is supported by the community. Liferay will be releasing a stable, hardened version of 5.2 (5.2 Enterprise Edition) sometime in late Q2, early Q3. For more information about the difference between SE and EE, take a look at our FAQ.

For a list of known issues with this version, please click here.

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.

You can also visit our documentation page for more information about version 5.2.

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.

Latest Liferay Portal Bundles
Liferay Portal 5.2.3

What is the difference between SE and EE?

Latest EE Version: 5.2.4

Our latest release features major enhancements, including:

  • Portal Administration - A new central control panel simplifies portal and system administration.
  • Content Management - Microsoft Office integration allows for dynamic document versioning and retrieval.
  • Performance - Data capacity has been increased and you can now distribute read/write operations between two separate databases.
  • Portal Speed - Significant increases in web application speeds were achieved via JavaScript and CSS caching and new use of CSS Sprites.

 

See Release Notes

Liferay Portal Standard Edition (SE) is offered at no cost under the business-friendly MIT Open Source license for use by early adopters and developers in non-critical environments. Liferay Portal SE is community supported and includes the latest in features. 

Liferay Enterprise Edition (EE) offers a more hardened, stable version of Liferay SE that guarantees ongoing long-term support with a combined subscription and support package. This caters to organizations seeking to build on top of and maintain one stable version of the product over an extended period of time.

The EE release cycle will be less frequent than the SE. However, each enterprise version will be supported for a number of years with bug fixes backported to your version for the life of your subscription. Please see the EOSL Policy page for a detailed description.

Liferay's professional services team offers training and consulting on the Enterprise Edition to ensure long-term support and stability for our clients.