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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August 2026: the roadmap talk was AI, the useful writing was build tooling
Umbraco

August 2026: the roadmap talk was AI, the useful writing was build tooling

Ten days of Umbraco: an Umbraco 17 dashboard built with Vite, load-balancing prep, Windows Server 2025 setup, a Next.js release, and Codegarden roadmap coverage worth checking against the vendor.

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August 2026: Sitecore XP 10.5 landed, and only the community wrote it down
Sitecore

August 2026: Sitecore XP 10.5 landed, and only the community wrote it down

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.

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July 2026: the Package Designer is gone, and the replacement UI came from a community developer
Sitecore

July 2026: the Package Designer is gone, and the replacement UI came from a community developer

Package Designer left SitecoreAI on 7 July in base image 1.8.24, six days after the Content Transfer and Item Transfer APIs went GA. What that breaks, who filled the gap, and the rest of an 86-item month.

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