Code Excursion

Latest Releases JSON and its relationship with Blade and Liferay IDE

When Liferay releases a new version of Liferay DXP/CE how do we update Blade and Liferay Developer Studio to recognize the existence of the latest releases.

A list of Liferays latest releases can be found in an online JSON file. Place this file in ./liferay/workspaces sub folder of your home directory. This will be read by both Blade and Liferay DS and they will provide the latest releases as options for generating workspaces and modules.

To update and existing workspace you need to modify gradle.properties file “liferay.workspace.product” entry with the new Liferay release version. Example below

gradle.properties

liferay.workspace.bundle.dist.include.metadata=true
liferay.workspace.modules.dir=modules
liferay.workspace.themes.dir=themes
liferay.workspace.wars.dir=modules
microsoft.translator.subscription.key=
liferay.workspace.product=dxp-2025.q1.14-lts

Finally make sure you stop your Gradle daemon. Liferay workspace configurations appear to cache in the daemon. Example command below.

Stop Gradle Daemon

$ ./gradlew.bat --stop