  This is an invited short update of the topic covered by the review article,
which aims to briefly survey progress made in theoretical and experimental
studies of multidimensional solitons since the publication of the review. The
Commentary was invited as an addition to the original review article that will
be reprinted in an e-book celebrating the 50th anniversary of Journal of
Physics B (incorporating Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semiclassical
Optics).
