Engineering notes

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.

SUGCON Europe filled London and SitecoreAI took the stage, but the month's operational content was written by individuals: the JSS 22.x migration path, App Studio extensions, and a second search model.

From 1 June, Extended Support stops including security patches and production incident support. Content SDK 2.0 requires Next.js 16 and renames middleware.ts. And the manual for Sitecore's AI surface is being written by volunteers.

Sixty Sitecore items cleared the February window and none came from sitecore.com. What SitecoreAI bundles, what it costs and how fast Pathways migrates all came from personal blogs — one author says outright he never ran the tool.

Thirteen items worth reading from January 2026 and not one from sitecore.com. Editing hosts in preview, Agentic Studio, custom fields via the Marketplace, and the only hard numbers of the month coming from a 10.4 stress test.

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.