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HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
Overview
HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints, such as web, mobile, hybrid mobile/web applications, and more.
What's new?
HCL Digital Experience 9.5 provides new features for administrators, developers, and content authors. Learn what's new in HCL Digital Experience 9.5.
Cumulative Fix (CF) releases
Learn what's new in the HCL Digital Experience Combined Cumulative Fixes for the traditional on-premise releases and the Kubernetes Container Update releases.
DX Traditional 8.5, 9.0, and 9.5 releases
The HCL Digital Experience CF releases offer new features and software fixes for the DX on-premise deployments.
What's new in CF209
Combined Cumulative Fix (CF209) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.

HCL Digital Experience 9.5 [Legacy content]
- Overview
  HCL Digital Experience provides a single access point to web content and applications, while it delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints, such as web, mobile, hybrid mobile/web applications, and more.
  - What's new?
    HCL Digital Experience 9.5 provides new features for administrators, developers, and content authors. Learn what's new in HCL Digital Experience 9.5.
    - What's new in HCL Digital Experience 9.5?
      Learn about the new features, updates, and fixes in the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 release.
    - Cumulative Fix (CF) releases
      Learn what's new in the HCL Digital Experience Combined Cumulative Fixes for the traditional on-premise releases and the Kubernetes Container Update releases.
      - DX Traditional 8.5, 9.0, and 9.5 releases
        The HCL Digital Experience CF releases offer new features and software fixes for the DX on-premise deployments.
        What's new in CF213
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF213) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF212
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF212) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF211
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF211) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF210
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF210) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF209
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF209) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF208
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF208) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF207
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF207) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF206
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF206) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF205
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF205) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF204
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF204) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF203
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF203) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF202
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF202) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF201
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF201) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF200
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF200) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF199
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF199) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF198
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF198) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF197
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF197) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on – premises platforms and container deployments are available.
        What's new in CF196
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF196) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Beginning with CF19 and Container Update release CF196, release updates for both on–premises platforms and container deployments will be available.
        What's new in CF19
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF19) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience.
        What's new in CF18
        This HCL Digital Experience 9.5 CF18 release includes new WCM REST APIs, updated releases of Content Composer and Digital Asset Management Tech Preview releases, Rich Text Editor and JavaServer Faces bridge updates, and more.
        What's new in CF17
        Combined Cumulative Fix (CF17) includes new software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience.
      - DX 9.5 Kubernetes Container Update releases
    - Combined Cumulative Fix strategy
      The Combined Cumulative Fix is a package of HCL Digital Experience fixes. Cumulative fixes can only be applied to an existing functional version of HCL Portal Version or an HCL Portal Version with a previous cumulative fix applied.
  - Product capabilities
    HCL Digital Experience capabilities let you quickly implement web experiences that are engaging, flexible, and high performing. It delivers differentiated, personalized experiences for each user across multiple touchpoints (web, mobile, and hybrid mobile/web applications, and more). The HCL Digital Experience platforms, including foundation components such as HCL Portal, Web Content Manager, and Digital Asset Management services, support requirements for modern and adaptable digital experience platforms. Its capabilities and digital site delivery platform services enable designers, developers, marketers, and business professionals to collaborate and deliver digital experiences that are engaging, targeted, relevant and productive.
  - HCL Digital Experience Cloud Native 9.5
    HCL Digital Experience Cloud Native is a powerful digital experience platform optimized for deployment to Kubernetes container environments and supported on-premises platforms.
- Supported migration paths
  Migration is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Supported installation and upgrade paths
  Installation and upgrade is supported between equivalent HCL Digital Experience offerings.
- Getting the software
  New and existing users need to register at the HCL Software License Portal and download their entitled HCL Digital Experience package(s).
- Creating your website
  Review the following topics to understand how to create your website using the latest HCL Digital Experience.
- Installing HCL Digital Experience
  Review the planning information on HCL Digital Experience, then select your operating system and installation pattern that most reflects your business needs.
- Configuring
  Run the following tasks after you install and deploy HCL Digital Experience. They address tasks that are typically run one time and have a global effect. Some configuration changes are made more frequently or do not have a global effect. These tasks are addressed in the Administering section.
- Backup and restore
  Backup and recovery of data files and databases is an essential operation for any business system, particularly for data and applications that run in production environments. Create and follow a plan for backing up and recovering data on all tiers of your HCL Digital Experience deployment. IBM Installation Manager must also be included in backup and recovery planning. If you back up the HCL Portal file structure and then install a fix pack, your HCL Digital Experience and IBM Installation Manager become out of sync after you restore the HCL Portal file system. This condition is not recoverable.
- Migrating
  Successful migration requires significant planning and preparation, understanding the tools that are involved, and careful execution of the appropriate steps in the order provided.
- Integrating
  Integrate HCL Digital Experience with software such as HCL Sametime to enable your users to collaborate more easily. You can also use the unified task list portlet to integrate HCL with your backend business process software, such as IBM Process Server.
- Administering
  Use the administration tools that are provided with the HCL Digital Experience to do various day-to-day administration tasks.
- Securing
  Security tasks include setting up property extension databases and custom user repositories, configuring and activating SSL, and configuring authentication. In addition, tasks such as activating Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) and NIST SP800-131a security modules and configuring external security managers such as Security Access Manager might be required to secure your portal environment.
- Monitoring
  HCL Portal includes tools and features to help you monitor the portal site.
- Setting up a website
  Setting up a website includes, creating pages, adding navigation, setting up search, and adding content to the site. Themes are used to customize the portal's look-and-feel. Out-of-the-box templates and the site wizard can help you set up your portal site faster. You can add wikis and blogs to your site and let users tag and rate content on your site.
- Staging to production
  During portal solution development, the solution is initially developed, tested, and refined on one server or a limited number of servers. The solution is deployed later on live systems, referred to as the production environment. The process of moving the solution from the development environment to the production environment is called staging.
- Developing
  This section includes developer documentation on extending applications and development assets for HCL Portal and HCL Web Content Manager.
- Docker and Containerization
  Find topic information about Docker and Containerization for HCL Digital Experience.
- Practitioner Studio
  Practitioner Studio is a newly designed user experience for HCL Digital Experience. Please see the following pages to understand how the new navigation is organized.
- HCL Experience API
  This shows developers how to provision, configure, and use the HCL Experience API with the HCL Digital Experience 9.5 platform.
- HCL Content Composer
  The HCL Content Composer delivers simplified processes for creating and managing Digital Experience site content.
- HCL Digital Asset Management
  HCL Digital Asset Management (DAM) adds a central platform to store and include rich media assets in Digital Experience site content to present engaging, consistently branded experiences across digital channels.
- The Woodburn Studio demo site
  The Woodburn Studio is a website that demonstrates the use of some of the popular HCL Digital Experience features.
- Reference
  View information that can help you use our product documentation including terms of use, trademarks, and more.

What's new in CF209? | HCL Digital Experience

Combined Cumulative Fix (CF209) includes new features and software fixes for the latest version of HCL Digital Experience. Release updates for both on-premises platforms and container deployments are available.

The HCL Digital Experience CF209 release includes the following new features and updates:

Ability to change the default Page Template
Login portlet Anonymous sign-up feature disabled by default
Notice of deprecation of Textbox.io

Go to the HCL Software Support Site for the latest list of software fixes. Product software can be accessed from the HCL Software Licensing Portal. Go to this Step-by-step guide to downloading DX products and accessing Customer Support for more information.

The following HCL Digital Experience CF209 features and updates are available to customers installing HCL Digital Experience on supported on-premises platforms:

Ability to change the default Page Template

Guidance is added for Page Template authors and designers to change the default Page Template. See the topic Page templates for more information.

Login portlet Anonymous sign-up feature disabled by default

Starting with CF209, the anonymous sign-up feature is disabled by default for anonymous users. Administrators can choose to enable this feature using supplied tasks or configuration steps. See the Help Center topic Registration/Edit My Profile and Login portlets for more information.

Notice of deprecation of Textbox.io

The Textbox.io component in the HCL Digital Experience software is being deprecated effective January 31, 2023 and will End of Support (EOS) on January 31, 2024. See the Deprecated features for more information.

Access the latest HCL Digital Experience 9.5 Education Materials on HCL Software Academy

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

Go to the HCL Software Support Site for the latest list of software fixes. Product software can be accessed from the HCL Software Licensing Portal. Go to this Step-by-step guide to downloading DX products and accessing Customer Support for more information.