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 2025: agents got write access to the backoffice
Umbraco

August 2025: agents got write access to the backoffice

Four of the month's eleven Umbraco items are about MCP and AI. An agent built an element type from a single prompt, Umbraco Commerce got an MCP proof-of-concept, and the only post that said anything about who should be allowed to do that was a uSync patch note.

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August 2025: Sitecore 10.4.1 wants an encrypted SQL connection, and a personal blog is where you find out
Sitecore

August 2025: Sitecore 10.4.1 wants an encrypted SQL connection, and a personal blog is where you find out

Sitecore 10.4.1 requires encrypted SQL for Identity Server and greets upgraders with a login failure. Plus the Marketplace SDK's first wall, Stream on XP, and a month of XM Cloud migration guides.

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