See the details on all product and program release deliveries below:
Key Features and Benefits
HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 223 (All Versions)
- Ability to change the context root or hostname of a virtual portal – Administrators can now change the context root or hostname of an existing virtual portal.
- User Session Reporting Tool – A User Session Reporting Tool is available for DX customers deployed to on-premises platforms. It provides an integrated capability to track and report user session usage in DX sites, which can assist platform capacity planning.
- New guidance for creating a custom login portlet – Developers can apply new guidance to create a custom login portlet for HCL Digital Experience (DX) to offer custom features after capturing the required security credentials.
HCL Digital Experience 8.5 and 9 versions
- 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 223 (K8s deployments)
Digital Experience 9.5 Container Version
- New sizing guidance for rendering in a Kubernetes small configuration - This guidance presents the key performance indicators (KPIs) and how adjustments to the pod configuration can make improvements in the responsiveness of the system.
- DX core image - Moved directories to temporary storage - To improve system performance, the wstemp and binaryValues directories are now created in the temporary storage
- DX Search - File processor - The file processor node is added to the OpenSearch features, and runs text extraction to provide full text search
- Updated documentation for new OpenSearch deployment settings – New guidance is available for administrators and content owners to configure commonly applied settings such as security, split deployment, replicas, automated setup for DAM, allowlist for file types processed, processor, field mappings, and Persistent Volume size requests.
- Guidance for configuring a Remote Search content source to gather documents from a single pod - Updated documentation presents a new option on how to configure a content source to gather documents from a single pod.
- Configuring IMDS hop limit in Amazon EKS v1.30 – New guidance presents steps for setting the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) limits to improve operations stability.
HCL Leap 9.3.7
- Leap 9.3.7 is out and brings some exciting new features. These include integration with Volt Foundry, improvements to creating an app from a spreadsheet, improvements to the Custom Widget API, and other usability enhancements. For more information please see “What’s New in HCL Leap 9.3.7” in the HCL Leap Help Center..
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.
- HCLSoftware announces the release of the HCLSoftware Certified Professional -
Digital Experience 9.5+ certification exam! This certification exam is for HCL DX Professionals to validate their knowledge of the capabilities of HCL Digital Experience v9.5+. personas. See requirements here on HCLSofware U. DX practitioners can also download the exam guide here. - Announcing the HCL Total Experience Webinar series. HCL Total Experience is a holistic approach that considers every touchpoint an organization has with its customers and employees, ensuring every interaction is intelligent, connected, immersive and personalized. The ongoing series is centered around HCL Digital Experience and will include complementary solutions such as HCL Volt MX and HCL Discover.
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- HCL Digital Experience new feature MX Foundry – What Does it Do? – October 10, 11:00. – 12:00 Register here
- Strategies to Modernize DX Applications with Thomas Hurek - October 24, 11:00 - 12:00 Register here
- Accelerate Application Development with HCL Volt MX – September 26, 1:00 – 2:00 PM Replay available here
- HCL DX Webinar - Create, Deploy, Update and Debug Java Portlets with Microsoft Visual Studio Code, October 8 2:00 – 3:00 UTC HCL Digital Experience allows you to mix and match all kinds of technologies to easily and quickly build engaging experiences for all your audiences (customers, business, employees). Next to creating JavaScript Applications using any modern framework, like Angular, React, Vue.js, or no code applications with HCL Leap, you may also continue to use Java Portlets and share them in the same site and pages. This webinar focuses on creating Java Portlets with a free and modern IDE: Microsoft Visual Studio Code. You will learn how you may use available tools to simplify creating, deploying, updating and debugging Java Portlets for DX. Register here.
- Join HCLSoftware and Digital Solutions leaders at the AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2024 conference - December 2–6, 2024 Las Vegas, Nevada. Preview the latest initiatives and discuss your solutions, plans and questions with lead practitioners. For more information please visit: https://reinvent.awsevents.com/