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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July 2026: two high-severity advisories, both on paths that need no login
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July 2026: two high-severity advisories, both on paths that need no login

July forced two jobs: patch the Delivery API flaw (13.15.1 / 17.5.3 / 18.0.2) and patch Umbraco Forms (13.9.8 / 17.4.7 / 18.0.5). Everything else in the month was the December calendar, argued from four directions.

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May 2026: Umbraco 18 went from beta1 to release candidate in fifteen days
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May 2026: Umbraco 18 went from beta1 to release candidate in fifteen days

Umbraco 18 beta1 landed 13 May, beta2 on 14 May, the RC on 28 May, with thirty-five breaking entries in the notes. Elements phase one, typed OpenAPI schemas, Swashbuckle gone, and the field notes worth your afternoon.

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March 2026: patch first, then notice that Umbraco HQ wrote half the month
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March 2026: patch first, then notice that Umbraco HQ wrote half the month

Three vulnerabilities patched in Umbraco 16.5.1 and 17.2.2 on 10 March. The rest of the month was mostly umbraco.com itself: Agent Skills, the Q1 product update, an AI community team.

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February 2026: Umbraco's AI answer is a governance layer, not a feature
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February 2026: Umbraco's AI answer is a governance layer, not a feature

Umbraco shipped Umbraco.AI (open source, provider-agnostic) and Umbraco Compose (commercial SaaS) in the same month. What each one costs you, plus the 13 to 17 upgrade 403 and uSync 17.0.4.

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January 2026: nine Umbraco items all month, and the one that matters is a uSync patch
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January 2026: nine Umbraco items all month, and the one that matters is a uSync patch

A thin month. Nine Umbraco items in thirty-one days, no vendor release and no advisory. What landed: uSync 17.0.2 fixing a v13 picker migration defect, the first hands-on Umbraco Compose writeup, and ISO 27001.

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July 2025: the Delivery API cache that forgot to check the API key
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July 2025: the Delivery API cache that forgot to check the API key

A moderate-severity Content Delivery API advisory patched in 13.9.3, 15.4.4 and 16.1.1; three uSync releases in nine days, all of it v13 upgrade debt; and Umbraco's roadmap post on MCP, Compose and search.

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January 2025: the patch was easy, getting to the patch was not
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January 2025: the patch was easy, getting to the patch was not

Three moderate-severity issues patched on 21 January 2025 in Umbraco 10.8.8, 13.5.3, 14.3.2 and 15.1.2 — and the catch is that you must already be on the latest minor. Six items in the whole month, half of them from Umbraco HQ.

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