Sitecore has released the Sitecore Stream for Platform DXP
Here's what you need to know: https://tinyurl.com/2b7pepfr

SUGCON Europe 2025 Agenda is here: https://europe.sugcon.events/Agenda
The event takes place on April 3-4, 2025 in Antwerpen, Belgium.

Sitecore Stream for Platform DXP March Update 2025 - https://tinyurl.com/2ae426pk

Sitecore Stream is a suite of AI-powered tools that enhance your existing Sitecore products, redefining project management, workflows, and brand messaging across your content and marketing operations.

Agentic workflows - equip your marketing teams with advanced tools to view, organize, and manage projects across teams and Sitecore products, making it easier to orchestrate workflows and collaborate effectively :https://tinyurl.com/58sj8e49 - as below:

My day - a personalized dashboard that helps team members track their assigned tasks and project statuses, and prioritize their workload accordingly.

Projects - a centralized workspace where team members can access project details, identify deliverables and milestones, assign tasks, and monitor overall progress.

Roles and scope management - role-based permissions that define user access, ensuring the right level of control for every team member.

Task actions and improved task creation - a refined user interface for creating and managing tasks, enabling more efficient workflow execution.

Project tracking dashboard - a comprehensive view of projects across teams, with an All Projects filter to improve cross-project visibility.

Custom thumbnail for projects - the ability to personalize projects by uploading custom thumbnails for better organization and identification.

Project status progress bar - a dynamic progress bar that helps teams monitor project completion at a glance.

Funnel tactic flexibility - the option to create deliverables without predefined tactics, grouping them under a No Tactics section for greater workflow flexibility.

Portal quick links - updated quick links that improve navigation and access to key information and features

Brand-aware AI namely Brand kits (https://tinyurl.com/45stwbk3) - Ingest key brand documents per brand (e.g. brand books, guidelines etc.), thus allowing AI to create content that is always grounded and on brand:

Create brand kit - Upload and Ingest key brand documents per brand, as a result creating the brand knowledge and automatically filling the relevant brand kit sections.

Edit brand kit - Manually edit each brand kit section to adjust AI generated content where necessary.


Copilots and agents

Brand Assistant (https://tinyurl.com/3r4ve9df) - interact with our brand copilot using natural language. Create on-brand content and address brand-specific queries with:

Brand-aware chat - a chat assistant that provides access to brand knowledge and brand kits throughout the content creation process.

Brief-generation - an AI-driven tool that uses a simple prompt to generate a structured campaign brief grounded in brand information.

Brainstorming - a content creation feature that allows AI to process more complex, open-ended prompts and analyze multiple sources for content generation.

Artifact creation - a structured, editable response generated by AI within a conversation. The content is based on sources used by AI, such as the web or brand knowledge.

Quick actions - contextual options to simplify, rephrase, or adjust the length of AI-generated responses.

Read about Sitecore Stream: https://tinyurl.com/3cu4cphb

Takeaways from SUGCON 2025

- Sitecore Stream
- Strategiс partnerships
- Sitecore XM/XP version 10.5
- Sitecore Marketplace
- XM Cloud Content
- Content CDK and revised starter kits
- Content Hub updates

Read: https://blog.martinmiles.net/post/sugcon-europe-2025-takeaways

Sitecore Launches Martech Industry's First AI Innovation Lab to Fast-track Marketers' AI Journey

https://tinyurl.com/3bjdpwz7

As a quick reminder, Sitecore Telegram is not just a single-channel media, but rather a family of dedicated channels devoted to specific composable products from Sitecore. This channel is the main entry point, however, please consider subscribing to the others:

- XM Cloud: https://t.me/Sitecore_XM_Cloud
- Content Hub: https://t.me/SitecoreContentHub
- CDP/Personalize: https://t.me/PersonalizeCDP
- OrderCloud: https://t.me/OrderCloud
- Connect: https://t.me/SitecoreConnect
- Search: https://t.me/SitecoreSearch

.. and finally, the brand new one devoted exclusively to the headless development with Sitecore and Next.JS:

- Headless Sitecore: https://t.me/HeadlessSitecore

The more subscribers we've got - the more it motivates posting valuable content more regularly. Please share these channels with your colleagues and other Sitecore professionals using Telegram Messenger.

Sitecore would like to bring to your attention a critical security issue affecting all Experience Platform topologies (XM, XP, XC) from 8.0 Initial Release to 10.4 Initial Release.
https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1003650

Sitecore Accelerate Cookbook has got another release done with 17 recipes between new & updates for XM Cloud and Content Hub.

Content Hub
- Go Live Checklist
- Hypercare Strategy
- Identifying the Most Searched Terms on the Assets Page
- SSO on Content Hub
- Automatically set meta data on your entity on pre-commit

XM Cloud
- Go-Live checklist
- Enhancing search with documents
- Publishing Optimization, including updates to links in 𝘗𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘌𝘥𝘨𝘦
- Scope & Governance Framework approaches including updates to 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘚𝘢𝘢𝘚, 𝘙𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘎𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘵, 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘔𝘪𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 and 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘯 𝘟𝘔 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵.
- Further ASP.NET Core updates including 𝘚𝘦𝘵𝘶𝘱 𝘚𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘚𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 and 𝘔𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦.

SUGCON 2025 Europe recording are available here: https://tinyurl.com/3m2h4xrr

Stream Free is available for all customers. Accept the Sitecore Stream AI terms and conditions to enable it. With a free tier, you can:

- Organize and automate workflows
- Collaborate and track progress
- Work more efficiently with agents

JSS SDK 22.7 released with support for React 19 and Next.js 15, featuring updated framework support and removal of automatic GraphQL code generation.

This version of JSS uses the latest version (0.5) of the Sitecore Cloud SDK by default, meaning you can integrate your Next.js and Angular apps for XM Cloud with Sitecore Search capabilities.

Automatic generation of code (such as TypeScript types) based on GraphQL data was removed. This improvement reduces the complexity of JSS apps that do not require automatic code generation. It also removes a dependency on the graphql-let package, which is no longer maintained.

Upgrade guides:
- XM Cloud: https://tinyurl.com/3d48wyck
- XP/XM: https://tinyurl.com/2s4hc5r8

Today Sitecore launched a new site https://sitecore.ai, but it looks more promotional rather than technical

Sitecore 10.4.1 has been released

1. Identity Server Security Gets a Major Boost

One of the most notable changes in 10.4.1 is the enhanced security for the Identity Server's database connection. Previously, the SQL Server connection might have implicitly trusted the server certificate. Now, with the addition of Encrypt=true;TrustServerCertificate=false; in the connection string, Sitecore is taking a significant step towards a more robust security posture.

2. Solr Upgrade to Version 9.8.1: A Leap for Performance and Security

Another significant update in Sitecore 10.4.1 is the upgrade of Solr from version 8.11.2 to 9.8.1. This isn't just a minor version bump; it's a move to a more secure and actively supported search platform.

Official download: https://tinyurl.com/2t5uam2a
Release notes: https://tinyurl.com/yyxwty44

Sitecore partnered with Gradial https://www.gradial.com aspiring Gradial's help with AI adoption

More about Gradial from the CEO of Sitecore: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/eric-stine-ceo-sitecore_isnt-it-great-when-work-doesnt-feel-like-ugcPost-7358609012092805120-kqQR