Inconsistent upgrade experience between different applications in System Settings

• Type: Bug
• Status: Verified
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 7.0.10.11 DXP SP11, 7.0.0 DXP FP87, 7.0.X, 7.1.10.2 SP2, 7.1.10 DXP FP14, 7.1.X, 7.2.10 DXP GA1, 7.2.10 DXP FP2, 7.2.X, 7.3.X, Master
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Portal Configuration > System Settings
• Labels:
  • QA-V
  • usm_73_reproducible
• Fix Priority: 3

There are several applications in System Settings where legacy properties are not upgraded correctly; their values are not being written from portal-ext.properties to System Settings on upgrade from previous version of Liferay (e.g. 6.1 or 6.2). Some examples:

Application where property values were not upgraded properly

## Web Content
journal.article.force.autogenerate.id=false
journal.feed.force.autogenerate.id=false
journal.publish.to.live.by.default=false
journal.image.extensions=.jpeg,.jpg,.png
journal.image.small.max.size=51222

Application where property values were upgraded properly

## Connectors
openoffice.server.enabled=true 
openoffice.server.host=127.0.0.2 
openoffice.server.port=8101 
openoffice.cache.enabled=false

Reproduced on
Tomcat 9.0.6 + MySQL 5.7.19.
Portal master GIT ID: fd743ae1da088a71a7012161e269b8e67a4debb8.