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Sitecore has been recognized by Gartner as a Visionary in the DXP 2025 Magic Quadrant.

Sitecore announced Sitecore MVP award winners for 2025! The total number comes to 241 individuals, including 43 new faces with the distribution between 61 Ambassadors, 34 Strategy members, 145 Technology professionals.

You can browse all 2025 winners here: https://tinyurl.com/2bqu34f3

SUGCON Europe 2025 takes place on April 3-4 in Antwerp, Belgium. Early Bird tickets are available from €302.50. Hurry up!

Link: https://europe.sugcon.events

Sitecore Learning Newsletter: https://sitecorelearning.my.canva.site/sclnewsletter

Sitecore Telegram is wishing you all the best in 2025!

Introducing Sitecore Stream: Your Brand-Consistent, AI-Driven Marketing Ally

In the ever-shifting world of digital marketing, brands face a constant tug-of-war: deliver content faster, but never lose sight of what makes you unique. At the 2024 Sitecore Symposium in Nashville, Sitecore introduced Sitecore Stream, an AI-driven solution designed to help marketers create and refine content at scale - without compromising on brand integrity.

What Is Sitecore Stream?
Sitecore Stream is an add-on seamlessly integrated into the Sitecore Digital Experience Platform (DXP). It’s not a standalone AI gadget; it’s a built-in brand guardian that helps marketers ideate, produce, and manage content that always feels “on brand.” Powered by brand-aware AI, intelligent workflows, and generative copilots, Sitecore Stream offers a guided, end-to-end content creation process. Think of it as your personal content strategist who knows your brand inside and out, ensuring every campaign element—from hero images to landing page copy—matches your brand’s style and values.

When Will It Be Available?
Although the exact release date may vary, Sitecore Stream’s launch aligns closely with Sitecore’s broader “Intelligent DXP” vision rolling out in 2024 and beyond. Organizations running on Sitecore’s modern SaaS offerings, as well as those on the legacy Platform DXP, can incorporate Sitecore Stream as an integrated add-on. It’s part of Sitecore’s strategic response to today’s marketplace, providing an adaptable, secure, and cloud-native framework ready to meet marketers’ evolving needs.

How Can Companies Benefit?

Brand Consistency at Scale: Sitecore Stream’s “brand-aware AI” ensures that every piece of content- whether you’re drafting blog posts or designing landing pages—aligns perfectly with your brand guidelines.

Efficient Content Workflows: AI-enhanced workflows streamline the process of planning, organizing, and reviewing campaigns. Marketers can focus on storytelling and strategy, rather than spending time on manual approvals or asset tracking.

Generative Copilots to Spark Ideas: Need inspiration for a campaign tagline or guidance on layout options? Sitecore Stream’s generative copilots offer smart suggestions tailored to your brand’s voice, accelerating content creation and reducing creative bottlenecks.

Getting Started:

- If you’re already using Sitecore’s XM Cloud, Content Hub, CDP, Personalize, Search, or Platform DXP, integrating Sitecore Stream is straightforward.

- Rest easy knowing your security and data privacy remain intact; Sitecore guarantees that your data is not used to train external models.

Why Does This Matter Now?

The digital landscape is more complex than ever. As competition grows and generative AI tools proliferate, marketers need reliable solutions that deliver speed, creativity, and brand consistency. Sitecore Stream exemplifies Sitecore’s evolution—from a past Leader to a present-day Visionary in the DXP space—and reflects a renewed commitment to helping organizations thrive in a competitive future.

In short, Sitecore Stream is more than just another AI feature. It’s a strategic, future-focused investment that empowers marketers to produce top-notch content faster, while always respecting the brand story they’ve worked so hard to build. If maintaining brand integrity, accelerating content production, and staying ahead in a fast-evolving market are your priorities, Sitecore Stream may be the edge your team needs.

As a reminder: we're now in the middle of Sitecore MVP application. Here's what you need to apply https://mvp.sitecore.com/Become-an-mvp
Tip: don't delay your applications for the last day!

IMPORTANT!

Protocol change for URL scheme and external port defaults for XM Cloud.

Affected item:
/sitecore/content/<site collection>/<site>/Settings/Site Grouping/<site>

New values are:
- Scheme: https
- External Port: 443

Changes comes into effect on January 7th, 2025

Run this test patch to ensure nothing breaks on your environments:

<settings>
   <setting name="Temporary.SiteInfoDefaultSchema" value="https" />    
   <setting name="Temporary.SiteInfoDefaultExternalPort" value="443" />    
</settings>

Read more: https://tinyurl.com/28xlgdlt

Which cookies does Sitecore set on user?

1. XM Cloud Visitor: https://tinyurl.com/24vjp4cl
2. Cloud SDK: https://tinyurl.com/265bthsk
3. Search JS SDK: https://tinyurl.com/23ojm3wd
4. Content Hub: https://tinyurl.com/26mmey9a

The new major version of Sitecore CLI released!

Why? Because of the full support for Microsoft .NET 8, which Sitecore CLI 6.0.18 introduces.

To install CLI use this link https://tinyurl.com/2cgr4jdp or follow this walkthrough https://tinyurl.com/24a8vb7d to upgrade you CLI to version 6.

Here's the guide on how to upgrade default CLI plugins - https://tinyurl.com/2757bju5

Sitecore Experience Platform 10.3.2 rev. 010837 released today

This is a product update. Sitecore recommends that you upgrade to this release to apply the fixes and improvements implemented since the initial release of this product version.

Link: https://tinyurl.com/2ce7v8df

CRITICAL Patch Released for Vulnerability SC2024-001-619349

Sitecore has announced a critical security vulnerability (SC2024-001-619349) that exposes certain Sitecore products to the risk of unauthenticated arbitrary file reads. A patch has been released to address this issue, and Sitecore urges all customers and partners to promptly apply the fix to all affected Sitecore instances.

Impacted Sitecore Products
- Experience Manager (XM)
- Experience Platform (XP)
- Experience Commerce (XC)
- Managed Cloud: Affected (specifically Content Management (CM) and Standalone instances)

This vulnerability affects all Experience Platform topologies (XM, XP, XC) from version 8.0 Initial Release to 10.4 Initial Release, including PaaS and containerized deployments.

1. Download and unpack the Sitecore.Support.619349.zip archive. It is also attached here for you convenience, but you should of course refer to the oficial URL with it, which is https://support.sitecore.com/sys_attachment.do?sys_id=0b4b8096eb330ed091d6f044bad0cd22

2. Place the Sitecore.Support.619349.dll file in the \bin directory.

3. Place the Sitecore.Support.619349.config file in the \App_Config\Include\zzz directory.

Hotfix: https://tinyurl.com/23jkllzu

Official Sitecore's Security Bulletins - https://tinyurl.com/2wjhnma8

Has Sitecore updated and re-vamped their website? https://www.sitecore.com

Sitecore Symposium 2024 released the agenda!

Agenda: https://symposium.sitecore.com/en/agenda

State of the automation for Sitecore products and modules

If you missed out SUGCON Europe 2024, here's a playlist with all the recordings for you:

YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/2bwm8l33

Sitecore Symposium 2024 registration opens today,Tuesday, June 18. Super Early Bird pricing available through June 30.

Link: https://symposium.sitecore.com

Great news for all those working on legacy Windows machines!

As promised, Sitecore released XP/XM 10.4 LTSC2019 images.
The previous initial release only featured LTSC-2022 images.

‘We disrupted ourselves’

Sitecore outpaced a chunk of its customers base on cloud and composability shift, admits new CEO Dave O'Flanagan, but troubled integration claims rejected

Read article: https://www.mi-3.com.au/14-05-2024/sitecore-likely-pushed-customers-hard-shift-cloud-and-composability-says-new-ceo-dampens

What's new in SXA?

- Ability to configure headless sites using the Tailwind grid system
- Additional roles for finer grained access control
- Added the ability to create modules at the Project layer
- Sitemap improvements for multi-lingual sites
- Enhanced 500 error page to support multiple languages
- Data source workflow action allowing workflow to effect descendants

If you still prefer containers and are a lucky one working on Windows 11 or other LTSC2022-powered machine, here's preconfigured 10.4 XP and XM containers archive for you!

Running the below archive(s) for XM/XP is fast and easy:

1. First of all, you need to initialize .env file with the right settings for your desired topology, as below:
.\compose-init.ps1 -Topology "xm1" -LicenseXmlPath c:\Projects\license.xml -IdHost id.sitecore.localhost -CdHost cd.sitecore.localhost -CmHost cm.sitecore.localhost -SitecoreAdminPassword b -SqlSaPassword YourPasswOrdShouldBeStrongToComp1y!!!

2. Once initialized, you can run it:
docker-compose up --detach

3. When containers are spun up, run Sitecore:
Start-Process https://cm.sitecore.localhost/sitecore

Enjoy Sitecore 10.4!

Curious to get hands on 10.4 but don't want to bother with setting up containers running on ltsc2022? You want to run it locally but the amount of prereqs for XM/XP platform makes you insane?

Try out Sifon - the best Sitecore installer ever!
(of course it is not just an installer but much more than that)

You can get Sitecore XM/XP up and running in a matter of few clicks!
No need to download and configure SQL Server, Solr and of course Sitecore itself - Sifon knows all about how to download and install the things:

- don't have SQL Server on locally? One "click" downloads and installs it!
- the same works for Solr, you don't even need to mess with versions!
- one click to run the installer, choose the topology, and set the defaults.
- the next click downloads (!) everything you need and installs XM or XP.
- plugin system is extremely helpful for hashtag#Sifon - add one more "click"
- you may want to install SXA with SPE - that would cost you another "click" to auto download and install these modules
- speaking about SPE - installing remoting is optional and is supported
- need Publishing Service? One more click to install and configure it along with module
- same for Headless Services v22 - one more click if you need it.
- lots of other handy options - choose what you need from the UI

Just try it yourself. Yoг can get it either:
- from Chocolatey gallery by running: choco install sifon
- download from the official site: https://sifon.uk

The website contains docs and how-to videos.
Hope you find Sifon helpful!

Сompatibility tables updated to include 10.4

Сompatibility table for XP 9.0 and later: https://tinyurl.com/2kbopes8

Modules compatibility table for XP 10.0 and later: https://tinyurl.com/24p9mzfb

Solr compatibility table: https://tinyurl.com/2af94kfv

10.4 SUMMARIZED

🚀 SXP 10.4 Release Highlights
📢 Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 10.4 includes updates for improved security, prolonged supportability, performance, and usability. Highlights include:
👉 Updated Javascript libraries throughout SXP components.
👉 Improved security hardening throughout SXP to decrease risks due to vulnerabilities.
👉 Updated 3rd party compatibility: SQL Server 2022, latest Azure Kubernetes Service.
👉 Improved accessibility - enabling content authors with poor vision to better manage content in the Content Editor. For example, you can now:
✅ Navigate the ribbon and use these actions: create, rename, move, and delete items
✅ Navigate and expand items in the content tree.
✅ Navigate and select various types of fields in the content area.
✅ Listen to information about UI elements through assistve third-party technology.
👉 Implemented Solr soft commits to make index changes visible to search.
👉 Added a new ​Sitecore Client Content Reader​​ user role that grants read access to Content Tree items in the Content Editor and Media Library.
👉 Added the ability to create a custom or regional language directly in the Content Editor, such as en-EU, which extends beyond those ISO language formats that are registered in .NET.
👉 Added the ability to trigger campaigns or goals based on rules. This is relevant, for example, if you want to display content from a campaign when certain pages are visited.
👉 Added the ability to bulk assign marketing definitions in xDB to content, improving the usability and efficiency in associate a marketing campaign to multiple content items at the same time.
👉 Added a new Codeless Schema Extension module, enabling business users to extend the xConnect schema without requiring code development.
👉 Added an open source module with the ability to extract data from xDB and transform the schema to feed external analytics tools. This also includes templates that show how the reports can be recreated in Power BI.
📢 In addition, SXP 10.4 release adds flexibility in interworking with new SaaS products across Sitecore's portfolio and with the community ecosystem, enabling current customers to continue with existing investments in SXP, while innovating on their own pace with Sitecore's other SaaS-based products. Related tooling released along with SXP 10.4 include:
👉 XM to XM Cloud Migration Tool for migrating content, media, and users from a source XM instance to an XM Cloud environment. This tool provides an aid for the routine and sometimes recurring back-end migrations, so our customers/partners can focus on migrating developing new front-end sites.
👉 xDB to CDP Migration Tool for transferring site visitor contact facets to Sitecore's CDP and Personalize products, and also via Sitecore Connect to external systems. This provides the ability to interwork with or eventually adopt other SaaS based innovation.
👉 10.4 SXA got support for Tailwind

Sitecore XP 10.4 is available with more than 200 enhancements

For marketers:

- You can now enhance personalization by targeting specific audiences more effectively with custom languages, perfect for global companies targeting diverse geographies.

- There’s more intuitive customization of visitor data tracking and targeting. This enables marketers to create personalized experiences for their customers based on behavior, preferences, and demographics without the need for developer involvement.

- We’ve refurbished the content editor experience with new visual focus indicators, aligning with the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Guide, making this our most accessible version yet.

- A new security role has been introduced, granting users read access to items in the Content Editor and Media Library. This improves visibility for marketers while maintaining overall content and media security.

- Enhanced security with system administrators having the power to enable or disable SVG files containing JavaScript from being uploaded to the Media Library by default.

- The Publish Manager now supports the publishing of multiple items, speeding up page deployment times and time to value.

For developers:

- Composable martech orchestration with Sitecore Connect allows customers the flexibility to connect their XP instance with over 1,000 martech solutions.

- Connect Sitecore XP contact data to Sitecore CDP systems using ready-to-go connectors, allowing you to enrich the migration with other data sources.

- Gain deeper insights for informed decision-making by exporting and combining faceted contact data in Power BI. This allows you to combine Sitecore xDB data with other data sets for greater insights. You can also retain long-tail analytics in your BI infrastructure, reducing hosting complexity in your XP environment.

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