Publications Usability Improvements in 2024.q2

This quarter we worked hard to deliver several improvements for Publications, especially around usability when conflicts are present and after upgrades:

• We are constantly working on improving the performance of Publications. We have implemented improvements for Timeline and Conflict checking screens (LPD-11230) and also the reverting mechanism received a significant performance boost (LPD-18732).
• We have also realized that publishing a scheduled publication can be painful if a conflict appears between the scheduled publication and Production before or during publishing. We have added a functionality to provide more information inside Liferay notifications when this situation occurs (LPD-11018).

• DXP can become unusable when a change-tracked entity being modified in a publication is removed from production. Publications now automatically prevent users from encountering this state (LPD-16569).

• When publications go out-of-date, they are completely useless and their changes cannot be leveraged in any capacity. We've made several improvements to prevent publications from going out of date after an upgrade unless necessary and now allow changes to be moved from an out-of-date publication (LPD-10762).

For any issues encountered or feedback you wish to share, please reach us via issues.liferay.com. Your feedback is invaluable to us and helps make DXP even better!