Liferay Upgrade Planner
Pick a source and target Liferay version to get an ordered, checkable upgrade plan — breaking changes, deprecated APIs, data-upgrade steps, and commands.
Choose your upgrade path
Liferay 7.2 → Liferay 7.3
(4 steps)Several core apps were rewritten on React with Clay 3. If you customized their JSPs or markup, re-validate those customizations against the new front end.
Back up the database and DL, deploy 7.3, run the upgrade processes, and reindex all search indexes.
Liferay 7.3 requires Elasticsearch 7. Provision an ES7 cluster, reconnect the search connector, and reindex after the data upgrade.
7.3 supports both JDK 8 and JDK 11. If you plan to move to JDK 11, test module compilation and any reflection-heavy code under it now.
Tip: This is a representative checklist of the major steps for each version hop, ordered pre-flight → breaking → deprecated → data upgrade → tooling. Always take a full database and Document Library backup before each hop, and confirm exact requirements against the official Liferay upgrade docs for your edition.
Upgrading Liferay 7.2 to Liferay 7.3
This plan covers the full path from Liferay 7.2 to Liferay 7.3 — 1 version hop and 4 steps in total. Work through each numbered hop in order; every hop runs its own database and module upgrade processes, so they cannot be skipped. Take a full database and Document Library backup before starting each one.
Hops in this path
- Liferay 7.2 → Liferay 7.3 — 4 steps
Before you start
- Back up the database and the Document Library, and test the upgrade on a copy of production first.
- Patch your current version to its latest fix pack before beginning.
- Confirm exact JDK, app server, and Elasticsearch requirements for Liferay 7.3 in the official docs.