New HCL DX and DX Compose CF237 Features & Enhancements Available + August 2026 Latest News

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August 2026

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This month HCL Software offers: HCL Digital Experience offerings v9.5 updates are available for entitled downloads through the My HCLSoftware portal platform to access software and manage deployments.

HCL Digital Experience v9.5 version CF237 updates and benefits:

  • Content authors and site designers can leverage new Practitioner Studio widgets, Presentation Designer features, Blueprint and Enchanted web design assets to add productivity and flexibility for Search V2 and site releases.

  • Administrators have new administrative controls supporting new HA Proxy and runtimeController options in the Helm charts which can reduce overall operations cost and complexity

HCL Digital Experience Compose v9.5 version CF237 adds these updates and benefits:

  • Administrators can configure HADR for IBM DB2, and update security settings for Oracle 21c. Additional flexibility is added to define rule-based dynamic user groups in the portal database instead of the primary LDAP directory.

  • Developers and administrators using the Java Transition Module for DX Compose gain support for custom adds new support for Authentication and Servlet filters, Content spot exits and Application objects for Personalization in their Compose deployments.

  • Updated OpenLiberty and JRE support levels

Key Features and Benefits

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 237 (All Versions)

  • Practitioner Studio Dashboard - New widgets - The Practitioner Studio Dashboard includes two new widgets, MyProjects and Tags & Keywords Manager to enhance content management and project tracking capabilities*.*

  • Presentation Designer - Feature updates - Site Designers and authors can leverage new automatic template locking, Layers panel to display a hierarchical tree view of canvas elements, Style items panel updates and to access DX Picker into the Canvas Context Preview.

  • The DX Help Center Doc IQ AI chatbot assistance adds natural language topic search for the DX Help Center that can speed access to guidance supporting deployments.

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Container Update and CF 237 (K8s deployments)

  • *Customizing HAProxy logs -*Administrators can apply an additive logging approach for HAProxy deployments that supports appending custom HAProxy variables for Layer 4 (TCP) and Layer 7 (HTTP) traffic to the log lines without changing the core format. The architecture also includes an automated validation fallback feature to protect the deployment from pod crashes if the custom configuration contains syntax errors.

  • New parameters for runtimeController automatic service account token mounting – Administrators can optionally apply new Helm parameters to support cluster security policies that restrict automatic service account token mounting.

  • Search V2 - Open-source Enchanted Web Components - Atomic Components used within Search V2 are now open source as part of the Enchanted Web Components library, in the public Storybook repository for interactive component APIs, properties, and testing playgrounds. The Search V2 documentation is also streamlined to show only the components utilized by the feature.

  • WAS and JDK levels - HCL DX 9.5 CF237 contains WebSphere Application Server 9.0.5.28, Java Development Kit 8.0.8.65, Red Hat UBI and iFix updates.

HCL Digital Experience 8.5 and 9 versions

  • Extended Support option is available for DX versions 8.5 and 9.0 – Customers needing support to update to 9.5 from EOS DX versions 8.5 and 9.0 can sign up for an Extended Support option.

  • 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 Compose v9.5

HCL Digital Experience Compose v9.5 is separately available lightweight, fast performing, cloud–only digital experience platform for delivering content-centric and transactional experiences. DX Compose includes a core container called WebEngine that is built on the Open Liberty platform and operates on Certified Kubernetes platforms.

Key Features and Benefits

HCL Digital Experience Compose 9.5 CF 237 (K8s deployments)

HCL Digital Experience Compose v9.5 CF237 adds many of the new capabilities available with DX CF 237 Container update, and:

  • DB2 HADR support for WebEngine – Administrators can configure IBM DB2 High Availability Disaster Recovery (HADR) in the DX Compose Helm chart to provide automated database failover and recovery.

  • Managing global settings using Helm values- Administrators can change global settings such as default language, unauthorized portlet visibility, post-login landing pages, and search engine URLs, update the parameters in custom Helm values.

  • Guidance for new Oracle 21c TCPS connection requirements - Oracle 21c database connections using TCPS require modern cipher suites due to security updates in JVM 21

  • Java Transition Module for DX Compose - Support for additional custom Java extension types - The HCL Java Transition Module for Digital Experience Compose adds new support for Authentication and Servlet filters, Content spot exits and Application objects for Personalization.

  • DX Compose entitled software is available through the My HCLSoftware portal for customers licensed for the HCL Digital Experience Compose offering. Also see the HCL Support Knowledge Article

  • HCL DX Compose Evaluation software: Is available for HCL DX customers with select offering entitlements. See this HCL Digital Experience Developer Community post and HCL Support Knowledge Article.

See the latest features and updates in action in the HCL Digital Experience section of HCLSoftware U and the What’s New for Digital Experience section for more information.

HCL Leap 9.3.13

Analyst Reports, Webinars and Education

Webinar: Beyond LDAP: Strengthening Security with Modern Cloud Identity – Thursday, July 30, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Identity has become the new security perimeter. While LDAP has been a trusted foundation for enterprise authentication, modern cloud identity providers offer advanced capabilities such as MFA, passwordless authentication, and adaptive access controls to help organizations meet today’s security challenges. Join HCL DX Security engineer Jason Wicker as he shares practical guidance for evaluating and planning a move from LDAP to cloud-based identity services. Learn about key considerations, common challenges, and the security benefits of modernizing identity for your HCL DX environment. Speaker: Jason Wicker, HCL DX Lead Software engineer. Register and view the replay at: https://hclsw.co/tx-webinar

How the New Mexico Department of Health is Transforming Digital Health Access using HCL DX

In this discussion, the CIO of the NM DOH shares the strategic roadmap behind their massive digital transformation. Moving away from a legacy ASP.NET system that created severe IT bottlenecks, the department is building a modern, highly accessible, and personalized hub for public health information. Key topics covered in this interview:

- Breaking the Bottleneck: How the NM DOH is decentralizing content publishing to empower teams and speed up updates.

- Massive Scale Integration: The strategy for consolidating over 200 external sites and payment gateways into a single, scalable framework without relying on iframes.

- Responsible AI Adoption: A look at their “crawl” phase approach to AI, prioritizing data classification and the security of sensitive PII/PHI data. View the 10-minute discussion here.

Are you looking for training for HCL DX capabilities and best practices? Do you have new team members just getting started, or are you an experienced HCL DX expert and need to understand the latest capabilities? Access over 50 free courses available for you on the HCL Software Business U, organized by proficiency level and role and strengthen your expertise. Register, Select Product – Digital Experience, check out the Digital Experience Technical Navigator, and build up your self-paced learning today!

How AI is Redefining Digital Experiences with HCL DX – Thursday, August 13, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

AI is changing the way organizations engage customers and citizens—but what does that look like in practice? Join Streebo to see how AI-powered solutions built on HCL DX are delivering personalized experiences, intelligent search, content automation, and measurable results through real customer success stories like a city in Ontario, Canada. Speaker: Rahul Sharma, Customer Solutions Leader, Streebo Register and view the replay at: https://hclsw.co/tx-webinar

Webinar: AI-Powered Content Creation & Management in HCL DX – Thursday, June 4, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Learn how HCL Digital Experience (DX) connects with AI to automatically create, review, and manage content more efficiently. HCL DX includes built-in OpenAI support to get started easily, plus flexible options to connect with other AI platforms. In this session, we’ll demonstrate the native OpenAI features and show how to build custom AI automations with — including with Azure AI Foundry — to streamline your content processes. Speakers: Leon Cruywagen, Avnet Digital Architect HCL DX, Robert Holt, Senior Technical Advocate, HCL DX. See the session here: https://hclsw.co/tx-recordings

Keep your product requests coming in!

Contributions from our experienced and new HCL DX practitioners help us prioritize DX and DX Compose requirements for continuous delivery releases. Let us know your key requests and how they can help improve your platform operations and business goals. Visit the HCL Digital Experience Ideas Portal to review requests and submit yours. https://dx-ideas.hcltechsw.com/

Participate in discussions of DX platform successes, challenges and best practices approaches with community leaders and expert practitioners in an open conversation at the HCL Digital Solutions Developer Community https://developer.ds.hcl-software.com/ and DX User Group: https://www.dxers.ug/