HCL Commerce 9.1.6.0
Security updates
Important changes
If you update your HCL Commerce Developer installations to IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition 8.0.6.25, you must apply the IJ31256 iFix. This fix, specific to HCL Commerce, is to address failures that occur when using security-related utilities.
Feature enhancements
The following features have been introduced in this release. Review the following list to ensure that your site is prepared once this update is applied.
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- Foundation
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- Security enhancements
- Security enhancements have been made to session cookies, server-side session invalidation, and account lockout policy.
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- All session cookies now have
the secure attribute set by default.
- Session invalidation has
been enhanced when it comes to security related events
and actions.
- Account lockout has been enhanced. Site users can now
reset their passwords to re-enable their own accounts
after too many incorrect password attempts.
This is facilitated by the Logon command returning a new error code,
2490, instead of disabling the account. Ensure that you update your store login flow to handle this new error code.
- OpenAPI 3.0
- HCL Commerce now supports OpenAPI 3.0 specification.
- Search
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- Enhanced preview capability in workspaces
- Workspace support for the HCL Commerce Search solution based on Elasticsearch. Using workspaces in an authoring environment, business users can work on catalog-related changes in an isolated environment. They can then preview their changes in the storefront before submitting them for approval.
- Enhanced Search Ingest Service API
- Extend the default Ingest connectors using Search Ingest Service API.
- Easily configure multi-dimensional matchmaker
- The product depth dimension can also be configured in the zookeeper .
- Store
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- HCL Customer Service for React
stores
- HCL Customer Service for HCL Commerce provides customer service enhancements that enable a customer service representative (CSR) to resolve common issues and capture orders. These capabilities are built into the HCL Commerce Reference Store application and enable a CSR to complete key tasks on behalf of a guest and registered customers for both B2B and B2C stores.
- Email Templates for React stores
- The Store SDK contains email templates to send order confirmation, order cancellation, and order shipment notification emails. It also contains email templates for password reset request notifications, password change notifications, and to support shopper email activation scenarios.
- Integration with Google Analytics 4 supported
- HCL Commerce now supports integration with Google Analytics 4. HCL Commerce continues to support integration with Google Analytics Universal Analytics.
- Tools
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- More native dashboards
- Additional dashboards are available from within the Management Center. These track and control such things as revenue, orders, products, visitors and top search hits.
- CKEditor
- Updated UI for default text editor with new icons for better user experience.