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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 9.5 Kubernetes Container Update releases

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.
      - 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.

DX 9.5 Kubernetes Container Update releases

Important: This section is moved to the new HCL Digital Experience Help Center (Beta). Go to the new website for the latest information: What's new in HCL Digital Experience Container Update release (beta)

The new website is our endeavor to enhance the user experience by providing concise and as-needed information, making collaboration and contribution easier, and encouraging customers to provide feedback through a Git pull request (PR). For more information on how to provide feedback through Git PR, read me.

Restriction: Note that the new site is under construction and contains only a subset of the DX documentation, such as Helm-based deployment and what's new topics for the CF releases. For all other feature documentation, you must refer to our existing Help Center.