In today’s fast-transforming digital landscape, enterprises need more than just speed, they need intelligence, security, and agility at scale.
HCLSoftware is excited to announce the availability of Volt MX v10—codenamed Darwin, marking a bold leap in the evolution of low-code application development.
With this release, we’re introducing AI-powered capabilities, including Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in Volt IQ and Figma-to-Iris design import, alongside features like apps for cars and built-in Governance in Volt Foundry.
Whether you’re building next-gen user experiences, integrating advanced services, or scaling securely across channels and deployment strategies, Volt MX v10 is built to meet your most ambitious goals.
What’s New in v10
Import Figma Designs into Volt Iris
Volt Iris now allows you to import Figma designs directly as Iris forms using GenAI within the Volt MX platform. This significantly reduces UI design effort, cutting down development effort by half or more compared to manual recreation, helping teams progress faster from concept to implementation.
Using the Figma plugin available in My HCLSoftware (MHS) as a new utility, you can easily export Figma designs in a format that can be consumed by an AI model, which in turn is converted into a Volt Iris-compatible form, including all embedded assets.
This AI-powered conversion enables a smooth transition from Figma to Volt Iris. While results may vary depending on the complexity of design and adherence to best practices by the designer, any Figma library or template can be used in the original design without limitation.
Note: The Figma to Iris feature is not available for trial users.
Learn more about this feature here.
Volt IQ: AI Assisted Dev - enhanced with RAG for contextual knowledge retrieval and code generation
With this release, we’ve integrated Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in Volt IQ, to deliver accurate, context-aware responses by referencing official Volt MX documentation and support forums.
With Volt AI, developers can:
- Get precise, context-aware answers to technical queries
- Explore documentation effortlessly
- Generate Volt MX code with explanations
- Receive links to relevant resources
- Maintain conversation history for retaining context
- Ask about other HCL products like Leap, Volt MX Go, and Domino (based on entitlements)
- Provide feedback on AI responses to improve accuracy over time
Learn more about this feature here
Governance in Volt Foundry
Governance is a structured process that ensures business-critical operations that involve application runtimes (like deployments) pass through a controlled review process.
Volt Foundry now supports Governance capabilities, allowing designated approvers or administrators to review, assess the impact on runtime and authorize changes to runtime environments before they go live.
With governance enabled, any business-critical actions, such as updating service definitions to or unpublishing from application runtime environments, are subject to a manual review process.
These controls ensure that all modifications to your application runtimes are secure, traceable, and auditable, providing peace of mind for teams managing deployments.
Learn more about this feature here.
Apps for Cars
Developers can now build Car Apps that integrate seamlessly with Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto, allowing users to interact with apps directly from their vehicle’s infotainment system.
Developing distinct applications for both car channels can be challenging due to their individual ecosystems, design guidelines, and technical requirements. Volt MX’s cross-platform development capabilities allow for building apps for both CarPlay and Android Auto from a common codebase, reducing development time and effort. Volt MX abstracts underlying frameworks, enabling developers to write platform-agnostic code and focus on delivering a consistent and engaging user experience across both channels.
Volt MX enables delivery of location-aware, real-time functionality right to the car dashboard, allowing users to safely access information and take on-the-go actions without unlocking their phone. Whether it’s discovering nearby services, browsing menus, booking appointments, or navigating to points of interest, the in-car experience remains seamless.
Learn more about this feature here.
Redesigned Volt Iris interface
Volt Iris visuals have been redesigned to offer a more intuitive, accessible, and modern development experience without altering core functionality. This update improves feature discoverability, visual consistency, and overall ease of use across the IDE.
Key enhancements include better grouping, segmentation, and layout structure to streamline usage. Special attention has been given to color selections, contrasts, spacing, icons, font sizing and several other visual parameters to ensure the interface is both visually appealing and inclusive of diverse accessibility needs.
Highlights of the IDE redesign:
- Improved readability and layout density for optimal visual real-estate utilisation
- Updated icons, font sizes, and spacing for a cleaner, more accessible UI
- Modernized widget palette and out-of-the-box templates
- Responsive, streamlined view-control options within the App Canvas
- Cleaner, reorganized Project Explorer for easier navigation
- Revamped light and dark themes with improved contrast and coverage
These changes make Volt Iris more accessible, structured, and efficient, helping developers stay focused, organized, and productive, while delivering a more seamless user experience.
Evolving Marketplace, Expanding AI Ecosystem
With v10, the Volt MX Marketplace has transformed into a powerful AI and integration hub. It offers hundreds of reusable assets, including data adapters, UI components, logic modules, sample apps, and AI assets and integrations, all built to accelerate multi-experience app development.
We’re introducing the Volt MX AI Ecosystem, a curated collection of AI-powered assets designed to make your apps smarter, faster, and more intuitive. This includes:
- 40+ new assets involving AI integration for document intelligence, image and video analysis, content generation, NLP, voice interface, location intelligence and more.
- Prebuilt connectors to AI backend services from OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and AWS.
- Sample applications for reference integrations with AI models
- Logic modules to quickly plug and play AI use-cases
- Support for AR experiences
Key additions include:
- Text Recognition: Google ML Kit, Microsoft Vision Service & Document Intelligence, Amazon Textract and Google Cloud Vision AI.
- Content & Image Generation: Microsoft AI Image Generator, AI Sentence Expander
- Image and Video Analysis: Amazon Rekognition and Google Video Intelligence
- NLP & Text Analysis: Google Gemini, Amazon Comprehend, and Google Cloud Natural Language AI
- Conversational Interfaces: Volt MX Chatbot Framework, Amazon Lex, Google Text to Speech, Voice input/output interface and Amazon Alexa
- Location Intelligence: Google Maps APIs (Routes, Time Zone, Pollen, Solar)
- New Backend Integrations: Snowflake, Salesforce Health Cloud, Monday.com
Every asset is versioned, documented, and ready to use, with preview codes and video demos to help you get started quickly.
Explore the latest AI and integration assets in our marketplace here.
Real-Time Engagement with Live Activities
Live Activities, a powerful iOS feature to present dynamic, real-time updates on the Lock Screen, is now supported. This feature, introduced in iOS 16, enables apps to present live information in the Dynamic Island (iPhone 14 Pro+), and in the Smart Stack, starting with iOS 18 and watchOS 11.
Live Activities allow users to track ongoing tasks, activities or events at a glance without needing to launch the app. Unlike push notifications, Live Activities are continually updated and contextually visible across Apple devices.
The following makes integrating Live Activities into apps built with Volt MX easy:
- No code changes required
- UI configuration support with IntelliSense
- Volt MX APIs with user attributes
- Automatic Widget Extension configuration
- Automatic Widget bundle generation
- Built-in User data protection
Learn more about this feature here.
Introducing Passkeys: A Simpler, Safer Way to Sign In
Volt MX now support Passkeys, a modern, password-less login method built on the WebAuthn standard and powered by public-key cryptography. Passkeys replace traditional passwords with secure, device-bound credentials managed by your operating system’s credential manager.
Originally conceived by the FIDO Alliance, Passkeys eliminate common password issues such as phishing, reuse, and weak credentials. Users can sign in with a single tap using biometrics or a device PIN, eliminating the need to remember or reset passwords.
Passkeys are supported on iOS, Android, and web. They also offer cross-device compatibility, just scan a QR code to sign in on another device, no password needed.
Passkeys mark a major step forward in simplifying secure access, making login faster, safer, and future-ready.
Learn more about this feature here.
Streamlined Deployment to HCL DX with DX Deploy
We can now create web apps from HCL Volt MX that are custom-built to be deployed in HCL DX as portlets. This provides the ability to get all the flexibility of write once, run anywhere of HCL Volt MX, to now run even in HCL DX.
The process involves creating a Volt MX application in Iris, configuring HCL DX host details, building and publishing as a portlet, and then adding it to your HCL DX site. Post-addition, one can verify the deployed portlet.
Step-by-step instructions for achieving this can be found here.
One can also optionally enable SSO between HCL DX and Volt MX by following the steps here.
Explore Resources
- The Volt MX v10.0 release is now available for all existing customers, both on-premises and on Volt MX Cloud. To upgrade, use the update feature within Volt Iris or Download the latest software from our new MHS (My HCL Software) portal: Iris Foundry Utilities.
- Explore our continually updated video tutorials and learn the product through short, easy-to-follow videos on our Volt MX YouTube Playlist.
- Accelerate your app development with sample apps, adapters and AI components from our Volt MX Marketplace.
- Access all our latest trainings on HCL Volt MX from HCLSoftware U.
- Visit our Developer Community forum here.