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.

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.

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.

The new Content Hub import/export engine is now the default and existing CI/CD pipelines break. Everything else in December was the community explaining SitecoreAI, Blok, Connect and App Router without a single post from sitecore.com.

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.

Sitecore 10.4.1 requires encrypted SQL for Identity Server and greets upgraders with a login failure. Plus the Marketplace SDK's first wall, Stream on XP, and a month of XM Cloud migration guides.

The month the community installed 10.4.1 and documented what broke: Identity Server's encrypted SQL requirement, Solr 9.8.1's max-fields limit, plus MCP Server 1.0.0, Stream REST APIs and the Content SDK beta.

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.