Engineering notes

The first ten days of August 2026 in Sitecore: an XP 10.5 release described as Solr 10 only, package installation off by default, Pathway's migration boundaries, and a CVE fix in Next.js 16.3.0.

Package Designer left SitecoreAI on 7 July in base image 1.8.24, six days after the Content Transfer and Item Transfer APIs went GA. What that breaks, who filled the gap, and the rest of an 86-item month.

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.

One product story told twelve ways. Content SDK 1.6.0 closed a preview permission hole, a community guide puts JSS end-of-support in June 2026, and Sitecore's own two posts were about readiness rather than product.

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.