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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March 2025: the Umbraco patch you could not apply where you stood
Umbraco

March 2025: the Umbraco patch you could not apply where you stood

March's advisory fixed two moderate CMS issues plus a high-severity ImageSharp CVE, but only on the latest minor of each supported major. Also: uSync 13.2.7 and 15.1.5, a V8-to-V13 upgrade written up honestly, and a backoffice accessibility fix.

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March 2025: Sitecore called itself AI-first, and the field spent the month writing retry loops
Sitecore

March 2025: Sitecore called itself AI-first, and the field spent the month writing retry loops

SUGCON Europe put Stream, the Marketplace SDK and an AI-first message on stage. The same month, practitioners published workarounds for Edge revalidation 429s, Sitecore Send rate limits, thin XM Cloud analytics and manual SSG filtering.

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