See the details on all product and program release deliveries below:
HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 227 (All Versions)
- HCL DX software is now available through the new My HCLSoftware portal for customers licensed for HCL Digital Experience offerings. This is in parallel to the existing HCL Software License Portal delivered in FlexNet, through June 30, 2025. Also see the HCL Support Knowledge Article
- DXClient - Style-sheet components for LiveSync – Site designers can speed delivery and updates with support for style-sheet LiveSync Pull and Push commands for the HCL Web Content Manager (WCM) Design Library.
- User Session Reporting Tool Updated parameters - All named parameters can be used in any order to generate user session data usage.
HCL Digital Experience 8.5 and 9 versions
- HCL DX software is now available through the new My HCLSoftware portal for customers licensed for HCL Digital Experience offerings. This is in parallel to the existing HCL Software License Portal delivered in FlexNet, through June 30, 2025. Also see the HCL Support Knowledge Article
- Extended Support option now available for DX versions 8.5 and 9.0 – Customers who may not be able to update from DX versions 8.5 and 9.0 version 9.5 by June 30, 2025 can sign up for an Extended Support option. The Extended Support option will be offered from June 30, 2025 until June 30, 2026.
- Automatically apply 9.5 from a later CF installation – Administrators can speed upgrading to the latest DX 9.5 version from V8.5 & 9 using the CF Update process, now set as the default (configurable) setting.
HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 227 (K8s deployments)
- DAM Access Control Cache - Improves performance by reducing redundant access control checks, caches responses with a configurable Time-to-Live (TTL) mechanism and optimizes efficiency by handling in-flight requests.
- Search V2 - Support for CSS part attributes for each Atomic Component . CSS part attributes are determined for each AC and its elements based on the component’s state and properties.
- Search V2 - Authoring Search interface – Use of Search V2 is now supported in DX WCM Authoring via a new interface and back end services.
HCL Digital Experience Compose v9.5
HCL Digital Experience Compose 9.5 CF 227 (K8s deployments)
HCL Digital Experience Compose v9.5 CF227 adds the new capabilities available with the DX CF 227 Container update, and:
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Content as a Service – Use WCM presentation components to generate representations of web content in formats such as JSON, or XML, enabling access by other clients in raw formats
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Impersonation - Enables users with sufficient access rights to act as a different user within the application, supporting design verification and troubleshooting scenarios.
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New sizing guidance for rendering in a small configuration - Presents the key performance indicators (KPIs) options to adjust the pod configuration to improve the responsiveness of the system.
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Oracle DB support - Oracle 23ai Amazon Machine Image (AMI), available separately, is supported for use as the configuration data store.
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HCL DX Compose software is now available through the new My HCLSoftware portal for customers licensed for the HCL Digital Experience Compose offering. This is in parallel to the existing HCL Software License Portal delivered in FlexNet, through June 30, 2025. Also see the HCL Support Knowledge Article
Learn more and view the latest features in action (and in minutes)! In DX and DX Compose with the Digital Experience 9.5 HDX-NEW-2025 HCL Digital Experience What’s New in 2025 video lesson in the Digital Experience, What’s New in 2025 course section of the HCL Software U.
DX Version: 8.5,9,9.5
Operating System: Win, Linux, AIX, Kubernetes