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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June 2025: Sitecore shipped 10.4.1 quietly, and personal blogs wrote the release notes
Sitecore

June 2025: Sitecore shipped 10.4.1 quietly, and personal blogs wrote the release notes

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.

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May 2025: Sitecore's AI story was written by everyone except Sitecore
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May 2025: Sitecore's AI story was written by everyone except Sitecore

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.

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April 2025: the Sitecore Stream install guide came from Blogspot
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April 2025: the Sitecore Stream install guide came from Blogspot

Nothing from sitecore.com in the month's harvest. What did land: a community install guide for Sitecore Stream, part four of an XP 10.4 to XM Cloud media migration, Content Hub GraphQL written up twice in one week, and an Astro SDK for JSS.

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March 2025: Sitecore called itself AI-first, and the field spent the month writing retry loops
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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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January 2025: twelve field reports and nothing from the vendor
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January 2025: twelve field reports and nothing from the vendor

A backfilled month, reached through feed archives. Twelve Sitecore posts worth your time, all written by practitioners: Edge webhook timeouts, two 10.4 upgrade logs, Astro on XM Cloud, and two posts called Sitecore Search that mean different things.

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