Engineering notes

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 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.

The month the community installed 10.4.1 and documented what broke: Identity Server's encrypted SQL requirement, Solr 9.8.1's max-fields limit, plus MCP Server 1.0.0, Stream REST APIs and the Content SDK beta.

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.

Fourteen items and not one from Sitecore. Stream documented by decompiling a DLL, an MCP server built by one person, and what SUGCON 2025 left behind.