What's new in CF19 | HCL Digital Experience

This Combined Cumulative Fix (CF19) includes new software fixes for HCL Digital Experience 8.5, 9.0, and 9.5 users.

Go to the HCL Software Support Site for the list of software fixes, including CF19. Product software can be accessed from the HCL Software Licensing Portal. For more information, follow the Step-by-step guide to download DX products and to access Customer Support.
Note: the CF19 update is available for HCL Digital Experience 8.5, 9.0 and 9.5 Windows, AIX, and Linux deployments.

For the latest information on available Combined Cumulative Fix releases CF19 and later, see the following Help Center topic: Latest Combined Cumulative Fixes

Web Developer Toolkit

The Web Developer toolkit for HCL Digital Experience provides the ability to sync themes, content and script portlets (also known as Script Applications). It is available on the HCL Digital Experience Github repository.

See Web Developer Toolkit for details.

Hybrid Deployment

The HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Hybrid deployment and topics deliver capability to deploy and manage HCL Digital Experience 9.5 core Portal Server and Web Content Manager services on premises, and connect to cloud native components Digital Asset Management, Content Composer, Experience API and related services in a production environment.

See the Hybrid Deployment - Helm topic for more information.

Progressive Web Application support

Develop support that adds native mobile application experience and performance to your web site using browser-based functionality.

See the Progressive Web Application topic for more information.

Google Analytics integration

Learn how to set up integration of Digital Experience sites with Google Analytics and view the resulting web analytics tracking to assess the effectiveness of your DX site pages with end user audiences.

See the Integrate Google Analytics with HCL Digital Experience topic for more information.

Mobile Preview

Use the Mobile Preview simulator to view the presentation of Digital Experience site page components on select mobile devices.

See the Mobile Preview topic for more information.

DXClient and DXConnect tooling supporting CICD release processes

HCL Digital Experience CF19 and higher includes a DXClient toolset, and DX Connect servlet that provides developers and administrators with an approach to deploy changes or improvements to the HCL Digital Experience platform,and automate processes in the development and delivery process.

See the DXClient and DXConnect tooling supporting CICD release processes topic for more information.

New Digital Experience REST APIs

New HCL DX APIs are available with the HCL DX CF19 release:

New HCL Digital Experience ‘How To’ Videos

Take advantage of new step by step guidance for HCL Digital Experience practitioners presented in several new videos. See the following HCL Digital Experience Help Center topics: