What's new in the 26.07.22 release

Important changes

Feature enhancements

Migration

Migrate an existing HCL Commerce version 9.1.20.0 or later environment to Commerce+.

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Search

Commerce+ introduces Search to simplify modernization from legacy Solr infrastructure. This capability preserves existing search APIs, indexing workflows, and marketing rules to maintain continuous storefront and management operations. It also expands platform compatibility to PostgreSQL and replaces legacy runtime components dependent on IBM with open standards (such as Open Liberty) to lower total infrastructure costs.

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Deployment

Kubernetes Gateway API support

HCL Commerce+ now uses the Kubernetes Gateway API instead of the traditional Ingress API for application networking. The Gateway API provides a more flexible, scalable, and Kubernetes-native networking model by separating infrastructure management from application routing. Platform administrators can centrally manage shared gateways, while application teams define routing behaviour by using resources such as HTTPRoute. It also supports advanced traffic management capabilities, including header-based and path-based routing, traffic splitting, request mirroring, and redirects.

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Updated technology stack

HCL Commerce+ has been modernised with the latest supported technology stack to improve performance, security, and maintainability. The Transaction server now runs on Open Liberty instead of WebSphere Application Server, providing a lightweight, cloud-native runtime that is optimised for Kubernetes environments. HCL Commerce+ also adopts JDK 21 as the standard Java runtime, replacing JDK 8 to take advantage of the latest language features, performance improvements, and long-term support.

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Database support

HCL Commerce+ supports PostgreSQL, IBM Db2 12.1, and Oracle 19c. PostgreSQL is introduced as a modern, open-source relational database option, while IBM Db2 12.1 and Oracle 19c continue to be fully supported for enterprise workloads. This flexibility enables both cloud-native deployments and existing enterprise applications to be supported.

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SDKs

Modern development environment

HCL Commerce+ replaces the legacy HCL Commerce+ 9.1 RAD-based development toolkit with a modern SDK that supports industry-standard IDEs such as Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, and IntelliJ IDEA. These IDEs include support for AI-powered coding assistants that provide intelligent code completion, code generation, refactoring suggestions, and automated documentation. Combined with integration for Git, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud-native development tools, the new development environment provides a faster and more productive developer experience.

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Store

Remote storefront toolkit

Use the HCL Commerce+ remote storefront development kit to create a local development environment for customizing and testing the HCL Commerce+ remote storefront.

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