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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July 2026: the Package Designer is gone, and the replacement UI came from a community developer
Sitecore

July 2026: the Package Designer is gone, and the replacement UI came from a community developer

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.

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February 2026: everyone explained SitecoreAI except Sitecore
Sitecore

February 2026: everyone explained SitecoreAI except Sitecore

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.

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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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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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