See the details on all product and program release deliveries below:
Key Features and Benefits
HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 221 (All Versions)
- TinyMCE Rich Text Editor – Menu options for in-place editing are now similar to WCM authoring, adding consistency for content authors
- Progress indication for XMLAccess - Administrators can enable new tracing option to see the progress of XMLAccess in updating input script items
- Progress indication for syndication - Administrators can now log the syndication progress on the subscriber and track the syndication process status
- Web Content Manager REST API V2 – Developers have new options to set a cache header, also to retrieve multiple content items through a list of UUIDs
- Web Content Manager REST API V2 – Developers can optionally invoke a new API and update integrated OpenAI ChatGPT to the latest model gpt-4o, for sentiment analysis, keyword extraction, and auto summarization.
- SEO tag configuration for Open Graph compatibility – Administrators and site managers can now enable this function which can improve the parsing of DX website’s content by social networks or search engines.
- New options to access and install the DXClient tool - Developers and release managers have new flexibility to deploy DXClient from the NpmJS public registry or from the container image in the public Harbor repository.
HCL Digital Experience 8.5 and 9 versions
- DX CF updates to apply DX 9.5 to an 8.5/9.0 installation enabled by default beginning with CF222 – For easier updates to DX v9.5, a feature was recently introduced to enable this process during a CFupdate. Starting with the next DX release, CF222, this feature will be enabled by default, with the option to disable.
HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 221 (K8s deployments)
Digital Experience 9.5 Container Version
- Practitioner Studio - Support in Virtual Portals Administrators can now create virtual Portals in K8s deployments that will contain Practitioner Studio.
- HCL DX Cloud Native v9.5 is now available on the AWS marketplace - This allows customers with AWS accounts to simplify procurement and download HCL Digital Experience Cloud Native 9.5 and latest CF updates through their account
- New Samesite cookie parameter to configure with HAProxy networking – Administrators can configure this new support which can strengthen platform security by preventing cookies from being sent to other sites
- New documentation about the types of Services used in DX – Administrators can work with the Services API and methods for exposing a network application running as one or more Pods in a DX K8s cluster
- Digital Asset Management – Indexing and search with OpenSearch – Administrators can configure Digital Asset Management (DAM) indexing and enable search via OpenSearch
- The DX Harbor repository is updated with an OCI-based registry and OCI-compliant Helm chart – Administrators can work with new guidance to pull DX Helm charts using OCI commands from the Harbor repository.
- Deprecation notice for the OpenLDAP container - Administrators are provided with new options to use the robust and well maintained Bitnami© OpenLDAP image.
Webinars and Education
- Learn more and view the latest features in action (and in minutes)! with the Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update & CF Education Module in the Digital Experience, What’s New in 2024 course section of the HCL Software U.
- A new complementary HCLSofware U DX Course HCL Digital Experience for Business Users (Intermediate) is available. Successful completion provides participants a Certificate of Completion that can be added to online credentials and shared. Access here on HCLSoftware U to get started.
- Administrators can access a new HCL Software U course: HDX-ADM-200 HCL Digital Experience for Administrators (Intermediate). Learn how to use the Web Application Bridge to integrate web based content providers, also heterogeneous web applications, such as HCL Volt MX Iris web applications, SAP, or other solutions to your DX sites. Access here on HCL Software U.
- HCL DX integration with HCL Discover module available on the HCL DX Marketplace - Deliver frictionless and personalized experiences that delight your customers and attain your business targets. The integration module sample is an HCL Discover Web Content Library that can be imported and accelerates integration of Discover into HCL Digital Experience sites.
- Webinar: How to Deliver Total Experiences for Your Employees Organizations need to invest in experiences that work across all employee and customer touchpoints. Join us as we show you, with demo included, how HCL Total Experience helps you deliver better B2E results - via simplicity, versatility across touchpoints, and cost predictability. Access the webinar here.
- Webinar: Build Compelling Digital Experiences, Anywhere, with Multiexperience DXP: In today's competitive digital landscape, speed and innovation, intuitive user experiences, robust security, and efficient, seamless integration with external systems can be a make-or-break factor. See how you can create and manage data integrations, APIs, apply JSON, SOAP, Java, JavaScript, and Workflows and optimize through orchestration to elevate your employee and customer-facing web and mobile digital properties with high quality, self-service experiences. Access the webinar here .
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