Liferay Forums 1.0.0

The first release of Liferay Forums: discussion forums for Liferay DXP, with topics and replies, categories, mentions and subscriptions with web and email notifications, topic locks, reports, per-site bans, search, and promoted discussions.

Requirements

• Liferay DXP 2026.Q1 LTS, self-hosted (Tomcat or Docker), on Liferay PaaS, or on Liferay SaaS. Tested on 2026.Q1.1 and 2026.Q1.4.
• The Liferay fixes LPD-90465 and LPD-85594. Ask Liferay Support for a hotfix for your 2026.Q1 release that includes them, or use the workarounds in the documentation.
• A supported database, such as PostgreSQL. Hypersonic isn't supported.

Files

File	What it is
liferay-forums-batch.zip	The forum's objects, notification templates, and search blueprint. Deploy it first.
liferay-forums-etc-spring-boot.zip	The forum's microservice.
liferay-forums-site-initializer.zip	Creates a forum site, with its pages, fragments, and roles.
generate-site-initializer-zips.sh	Makes one site initializer zip per forum site, for running more than one forum.
liferay-forums-1.0.0-source.zip	The source, a Liferay Workspace. Use it on Liferay PaaS, to build the zips yourself, or to add the forum to your own workspace.
SHA256SUMS	The SHA-256 checksum of every file.

Install

Follow the installation steps for your Liferay setup in the documentation.

License

Liferay Forums is available under the GNU Lesser General Public License v2.1 or later, or the Liferay DXP EULA for Liferay subscription customers.

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The forum's source is liferay-forums-1.0.0-source.zip. The Source code links that GitHub adds below contain only this repository's documentation.

Built from commit 945b57e1d199. Check the downloads with shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS.