Engineering notes

Specific Sitecore and Umbraco problems, the code that solved them, and the part that still does not work. Written by the people who did the work.

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May 2026: Sitecore renamed the platform and the community wrote the manual
Sitecore

May 2026: Sitecore renamed the platform and the community wrote the manual

One product story told twelve ways. Content SDK 1.6.0 closed a preview permission hole, a community guide puts JSS end-of-support in June 2026, and Sitecore's own two posts were about readiness rather than product.

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March 2026: Sitecore put a price on standing still
Sitecore

March 2026: Sitecore put a price on standing still

From 1 June, Extended Support stops including security patches and production incident support. Content SDK 2.0 requires Next.js 16 and renames middleware.ts. And the manual for Sitecore's AI surface is being written by volunteers.

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February 2025: Pages caught up with Experience Editor, and the field wrote the invoice
Sitecore

February 2025: Pages caught up with Experience Editor, and the field wrote the invoice

February 2025 brought field editing into XM Cloud Pages. The rest of the month was practitioners documenting what the move costs: media URLs that expire, Solr CPU, a 10.1 to 10.4 upgrade break, and a CVE that is not in the bulletin.

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