  Fits to the final combined HERA deep-inelastic scattering cross-section data
within the conventional DGLAP framework of QCD have shown some tension at low
$x$ and low $Q^2$. A resolution of this tension incorporating
$\ln(1/x)$-resummation terms into the HERAPDF fits is investigated using the
xFitter program. The kinematic region where this resummation is important is
delineated. Such high-energy resummation not only gives a better description of
the data, particularly of the longitudinal structure function $F_L$, it also
results in a gluon PDF which is steeply rising at low $x$ for low scales, $Q^2
\simeq 2.5$ GeV$^2$, contrary to the fixed-order NLO and NNLO gluon PDF.
