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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January 2026: Sitecore renamed the platform and left the community to document it
Sitecore

January 2026: Sitecore renamed the platform and left the community to document it

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.

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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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February 2025: Pages caught up with Experience Editor, and the field wrote the invoice
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February 2025: Pages caught up with Experience Editor, and the field wrote the invoice

February 2025 brought field editing into XM Cloud Pages. The rest of the month was practitioners documenting what the move costs: media URLs that expire, Solr CPU, a 10.1 to 10.4 upgrade break, and a CVE that is not in the bulletin.

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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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