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What's new in CF226

The following features and updates are available to customers installing HCL Digital Experience (DX) Compose Container Update CF226 on supported platforms:

  • Documentation for using custom certificates
  • DX Compose software now available in the My HCLSoftware portal
  • DX Compose software now available in Harbor
  • Documentation for using Docker Compose
  • Search V2 enabled by default
  • People Service and Search V2 integration
  • Presentation Designer - Canvas settings
  • DXClient - TLS certificate validation
  • DXClient - New limitations for LiveSync
  • DAM - New parameter for access control

Documentation for using custom certificates

Documentation for Using custom certificates in WebEngine is now available. This topic provides the steps on how to add custom certificates to the WebEngine server configuration through the Helm values.yaml file.

DX Compose software now available in the My HCLSoftware portal

HCL DX Compose software is now available through the new My HCLSoftware portal for customers licensed for the HCL Digital Experience Compose v9.5 offering. This is in parallel to the existing HCL Software License Portal delivered in FlexNet, through June 30, 2025. For more information, refer to the HCL Digital Experience offerings are now available for download from the My HCLSoftware portal knowledge article.

DX Compose software now available in Harbor

Customers with entitlements to HCL Digital Experience Compose 9.5 may access the DX Compose container images and Helm charts from the HCL container repository on Harbor. Customers with credentials to access entitled software on the HCL Software Licensing Portal can apply those credentials to optionally access these components of DX Compose v9.5. For more information, see Downloading and deploying DX Compose from a Harbor repository.

Documentation for using Docker Compose

Instructions for developers on how to deploy HCL DX Compose 9.5 for non-production purposes using Docker Compose are now available. For more information, see Docker Compose for HCL DX Compose.

Search V2 enabled by default

By default, Search V2 is enabled for DX Compose when the parameter configuration.searchMiddleware.enabled is set to true in the HCL DX Deployment Helm chart. For more information, see Enabling Search V2.

People Service and Search V2 integration

You can integrate People Service with Search V2 to enhance user discoverability and search performance. With this integration, you can access user profile data with real-time synchronization. For more information, see People Service and Search V2 integration.

Presentation Designer - Canvas settings

Canvas settings are now available in Presentation Designer. With these settings, you can configure various aspects of the presentation such as canvas dimensions, direction, zoom level, and orientation. For more information, see Accessing Presentation Designer and Canvas settings in Presentation Designer.

DXClient - TLS certificate validation

To improve security and maintain best practices in development and production environments, DXClient no longer ignores certificates that cannot be properly validated when using Transport Layer Security (TLS) connections. You can validate and trust custom certificates such as self-signed or third-party CAs without entirely disabling validation. For more information, see Configuring TLS certificate validation for secure connections.

DXClient - New limitations for LiveSync

New limitations are documented for using LiveSync. For Themes, if files are deleted from the DX server while the LiveSync process is in progress, the files will not be restored from the local system. For WCM Design Library, various scenarios and their limitations for concurrent users are added. Steps on how to resolve these limitations to the LiveSync process are also provided.

DAM - New parameter for access control

New parameter allowEditorToCreateCollections is available to enable or disable creating collections for users assigned the Editor role. By default, this parameter is set to true. For more information, see DAM Access Control Management.