Engineering notes

The first ten days of August 2026 in Sitecore: an XP 10.5 release described as Solr 10 only, package installation off by default, Pathway's migration boundaries, and a CVE fix in Next.js 16.3.0.

Sitecore acquired Scrunch on 3 June and the ecosystem spent the month writing about AI search. The one post with a date in it says JSS 22 maintenance ends and Content SDK is the path forward.

The new Content Hub import/export engine is now the default and existing CI/CD pipelines break. Everything else in December was the community explaining SitecoreAI, Blok, Connect and App Router without a single post from sitecore.com.

Symposium folded XM Cloud, CDP, Personalize, Search and Content Hub into SitecoreAI. 106 items harvested, 14 cited, zero published by the vendor. What is confirmed, what is second-hand, and what to check before signing.

A YAML error that writes a 0 KB resource package and still returns success, the JSS to Content SDK decision, and an agentic product surface explained by practitioners instead of by Sitecore.

Content SDK 1.1 landed and the Experience Editor did not come with it. Every account of that migration in our September 2025 harvest came from a personal blog, not from a vendor page.

Sitecore 10.4.1 landed on 25 June 2025 with encrypted SQL connections, Solr 9.8.1, Identity Server on .NET 8 and a critical security fix. The community wrote it up. The same month, it wired AI agents into live instances.

Nothing from sitecore.com in the month's harvest. What did land: a community install guide for Sitecore Stream, part four of an XP 10.4 to XM Cloud media migration, Content Hub GraphQL written up twice in one week, and an Astro SDK for JSS.