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What's new in CF237

The following features and updates are available to customers installing HCL Digital Experience (DX) Container Update CF237 on supported platforms:

All Digital Experience Versions (8.5, 9.0, 9.5)

  • Blueprint updates
  • My HCLSoftware delivery portal
  • New How-to articles now available
  • Practitioner Studio Dashboard - New widgets
  • Presentation Designer - Feature updates

Digital Experience 8.5 and 9.0 Versions

  • Extended Support option now available for DX versions 8.5 and 9.0
  • Automatically apply 9.5 from a later CF installation

Digital Experience 9.5 Container Version

  • Customizing HAProxy logs
  • Helm values updates
  • New parameters for runtimeController automatic service account token mounting
  • Search V2 - Open-source Enchanted Web Components
  • WAS, JDK, UBI, and iFix versions

Notices of deprecation

  • CKEditor Rich Text Editor (8.5, 9.0, and 9.5)
  • Removal of automated Pod restart on ConfigMap updates (9.5)
  • Woodburn Studio demo site (9.5)

Go to the HCL Software Support Site/HCL DX Software Fix list for the list of software fixes, including Container Update releases.

All Digital Experience Versions (8.5, 9.0, 9.5)

Blueprint updates

The HCL DX Blueprint design system has been updated for CF237. For more information on the changes, improvements, and bugfixes, refer to the Blueprint changelog.

The HCL DX Blueprint design system has been updated for CF237. For more information on the changes, improvements, and bugfixes, refer to the Blueprint changelog.

My HCLSoftware delivery portal

HCL DX software is available through the My HCLSoftware portal for customers licensed for the HCL Digital Experience v9.5 offering. For more information, refer to the following knowledge article and help center topics:

HCL DX software is available through the My HCLSoftware portal for customers licensed for the HCL Digital Experience v9.5 offering. For more information, refer to the following knowledge article and help center topics:

New How-to articles now available

A new batch of How-to articles has been migrated from the knowledge base to the HCL DX Help Center. For more information, refer to the New and migrated articles section.

A new batch of How-to articles has been migrated from the knowledge base to the HCL DX Help Center. For more information, refer to the New and migrated articles section.

Practitioner Studio Dashboard - New widgets

The Practitioner Studio Dashboard includes two new widgets to enhance content management and project tracking capabilities:

  • My Projects: Tracks assigned project workflows, approval statuses, and recent updates to streamline content delivery.
  • Tags & Keywords Manager: Centralizes tag and keyword administration to manage content taxonomies across sites.

For more information, refer to My Projects and Tags & Keywords Manager.

The Practitioner Studio Dashboard includes two new widgets to enhance content management and project tracking capabilities:

  • My Projects: Tracks assigned project workflows, approval statuses, and recent updates to streamline content delivery.
  • Tags & Keywords Manager: Centralizes tag and keyword administration to manage content taxonomies across sites.

For more information, refer to My Projects and Tags & Keywords Manager.

Presentation Designer - Feature updates

The following features have been added to Presentation Designer:

  • Added automatic locking for presentation templates during active editing sessions to prevent conflicting edits. These locks release upon exiting Edit mode, saving and closing the template, or cancelling and navigating back to the Authoring portlet. For more information, refer to Automatic presentation template locking.
  • Added the Layers panel to display a hierarchical tree view of canvas elements. The panel maps out parent containers and child contents to help you navigate complex presentation templates without clicking through nested elements in the workspace. For more information, refer to Layers.
  • Updated the Style items panel to validate style values in real time by highlighting syntax errors in red, preventing invalid CSS from rendering on the canvas. The Save button is disabled until all errors are resolved. For more information, refer to Style validation.
  • Added Button and Video static elements. For more information, refer to Static elements.
  • Integrated DX Picker into the Canvas Context Preview feature, allowing you to select content items and digital assets directly from WCM libraries to evaluate real-time layout rendering. For more information, refer to Canvas Context Preview.

The following features have been added to Presentation Designer:

  • Added automatic locking for presentation templates during active editing sessions to prevent conflicting edits. These locks release upon exiting Edit mode, saving and closing the template, or cancelling and navigating back to the Authoring portlet. For more information, refer to Automatic presentation template locking.
  • Added the Layers panel to display a hierarchical tree view of canvas elements. The panel maps out parent containers and child contents to help you navigate complex presentation templates without clicking through nested elements in the workspace. For more information, refer to Layers.
  • Updated the Style items panel to validate style values in real time by highlighting syntax errors in red, preventing invalid CSS from rendering on the canvas. The Save button is disabled until all errors are resolved. For more information, refer to Style validation.
  • Added Button and Video static elements. For more information, refer to Static elements.
  • Integrated DX Picker into the Canvas Context Preview feature, allowing you to select content items and digital assets directly from WCM libraries to evaluate real-time layout rendering. For more information, refer to Canvas Context Preview.

Digital Experience 8.5 and 9.0 Versions

Extended Support option now available for DX versions 8.5 and 9.0

HCLSoftware announced End of Support for HCL Digital Experience versions 8.5 and 9, effective June 30, 2025. Customers are encouraged to upgrade to HCL Digital Experience version 9.5, released in a continuous delivery model. Refer to the Deprecated features page for more information.

To accommodate the customers who might be unable to update from DX versions 8.5 and 9.0 to DX version 9.5 by that date, customers can sign up for Extended Support. For more information, see the article Starting on August 30, 2024, Extended Support will be available for HCL Digital Experience V8.5.x and 9.

Automatically apply 9.5 from a later CF installation

In CF219, a feature was introduced where DX version 9.5 is automatically applied to an 8.5 or 9.0 installation if the configuration setting install_95=true is set. Note that a later CF might apply 9.5 by default unless you set install_95=false. This statement is not a guarantee of future releases or their features.

Digital Experience 9.5 Container Version

Customizing HAProxy logs

The DX Helm chart now supports an additive logging approach for HAProxy deployments. This feature allows you to append custom HAProxy variables for Layer 4 (TCP) and Layer 7 (HTTP) traffic (such as client IPs or SSL cipher suites) directly to the baseline 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. For more information, refer to HAProxy logging configuration.

Helm values updates

Helm value properties in HCL DX that were added, removed, deprecated, or changed for this release are documented in DX Helm values updates.

New parameters for runtimeController automatic service account token mounting

Two new Helm parameters are now available to support cluster security policies that restrict automatic service account token mounting:

  • The automountServiceAccountToken parameter allows explicit configuration of token mounting per component. If your environment prohibits token automounting, set this parameter to false to revoke token access.
  • The configuration.runtimeController.projectedServiceAccountToken parameter specifies settings for projected token volumes in runtimeController. If token automounting is disabled, set enabled to true to supply a projected token volume and maintain Kubernetes API access.

For configuration details and examples, refer to Managing service account token automounting.

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. This update renames the component prefix from dx- to enchanted- and connects you directly to 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 and now includes definitions for CSS shadow parts, allowing you to use ::part() selectors to apply custom styles to the components. For more information, refer to the following topics:

WAS, JDK, UBI, and iFix versions

HCL DX 9.5 CF237 contains the following:

For more information, refer to WAS, JDK, UBI, and iFix versions.

Notices of deprecation

Advanced Rich Text Editor (CKEditor) (8.5, 9.0, and 9.5)

The Advanced Rich Text Editor (CKEditor) component in HCL DX was deprecated on August 05, 2025 and will reach End of Support (EOS) on August 04, 2026. For more information, refer to Deprecated features.

The Advanced Rich Text Editor (CKEditor) component in HCL DX was deprecated on August 05, 2025 and will reach End of Support (EOS) on August 04, 2026. For more information, refer to Deprecated features.

Removal of automated Pod restart on ConfigMap updates (9.5)

Runtime Controller triggering Pod restarts for direct configuration changes in ConfigMaps is removed. You must restart the appropriate Pods manually to apply the changes made to the ConfigMaps for testing configurations. For more information, see Deprecated features.

Woodburn Studio demo site (9.5)

The Woodburn Studio demo site in HCL DX has been deprecated on August 05, 2025 and will reach End of Support (EOS) on August 04, 2026. For more information, refer to Deprecated features. It has been replaced by Nex Haven.

The Woodburn Studio demo site in HCL DX has been deprecated on August 05, 2025 and will reach End of Support (EOS) on August 04, 2026. For more information, refer to Deprecated features. It has been replaced by Nex Haven.

Access the latest HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Education Materials on HCLSoftware U

The HCLSoftware U offers technical education for the HCL Software portfolio of products, organized by practitioner role. See the HCL Digital Experience section of HCLSoftware U and the What’s New for Digital Experience section for more information.