1. What's new

What's new in Sitecore 10.1

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This topic lists the new features and the changes in the most recent release of Sitecore Experience Platform and Sitecore Experience Commerce. For an additional overview of the changes in 10.1, see the What's New in Sitecore Experience Platform 10.1 video on YouTube.

This release includes a redesigned Sitecore Launchpad. For more information, see Overview of the Sitecore Launchpad.

Experience Platform and Experience Manager

The following table lists new features and improvements made in Experience Manager and Experience Platform 10.1.

AreaChangeDescription
UpgradeNew methodologyThe upgrade process has been simplified and improved with the introduction of a new upgrade methodology.

There is now a single Upgrade Guide that describes how to upgrade from Sitecore XP 8.1.0 or later to Sitecore XP 10.1.0.
HorizonNew featureYou can now search for pages, content items, and media items in Horizon.

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HorizonImprovementYou can now edit link fields and number fields in Horizon Pages, and you can edit checklists and drop-down menu fields in Horizon Content.

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HorizonNew featureYou can now create and edit data source items.

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HorizonImprovementYou can now publish items with subitems.

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Digital marketingNew featureNew conditions and rules for marketing definition mapping enable you to assign profile cards to multiple items.

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FormsNew featureTo make work easier for form designers, you can create an autocomplete list of available CSS class options for each field type using easy-to-understand names.

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FormsNew featureYou can now send an email message automatically using the email message submit action.

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FormsNew featureWeb form validation ensures a website visitor enters the correct value in a field on a web form. This topic provides details on how to create custom validation.

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Contact Behavior ProfileNew featureThere are now two ways to calculate the ContactBehaviorProfile facet. With the new approach, the calculated facet contains the aggregated profile scores from all interactions, instead of the older approach that keeps only the profile scores from the latest interaction.

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Role scaling and configurationImprovementThe xDB Reporting role has been combined with the Content Management role to reduce hosting costs.
Role scaling and configurationNew featureThe xConnect Scalable Reads feature allows you to offload the primary database from read-only workloads using one of the read-only/secondary replicas.

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Role scaling and configurationChangeThe method for encrypting contact IP addresses that are stored by the Content Delivery role has changed.

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xConnect Data Purge for ContactsNew featureThe Data Purge tool allows you to clean up analytical data that is not used anymore to free up space and get rid of irrelevant data.

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Sitecore CLINew featureWith NuGet extensibility, you have the possibility to add different sets of plugins to your project.

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Sitecore CLINew featureYou can now use package referencing (NuGet and/or npm) to import serialized items into your solution.

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GeoIPNew featureIt is now possible to use GeoIP rules for personalization, and there have been changes to the API for retrieving GeoIP data.

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In addition, the setting for activating the geolocation services has changed.

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HTML cachingImprovementIt is now possible to configure the way Sitecore clears HTML caches.

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HTML cachingNew featureYou can configure dependencies for MVC renderings, and use this when you configure how the HTML is cached and cleared.

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Content searchNew featureYou can configure how Solr retries when an operation fails.

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Content searchNew featureYou can programmatically test if the Solr service is available.

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HADRNew featureThere are changes to the setup script, failover, and failback processes. These changes apply to all supported versions of high availability disaster recovery (HADR).

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  • The HADR hot-hot process (updated topic)

Experience Commerce

The following table lists new features and improvements made in Experience Commerce 10.1.

AreaChangeDescription
Entity archivingNew featureEntity archiving lets the Commerce Engine move eligible, inactive Commerce entities stored in the Shared Environments database to an archive database.

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Redis Connection PoolingImprovementThe Redis cache provider uses connection pools to help improve Commerce Engine and Commerce Engine Connect performance when responding to a high volume of complex requests for cached data.

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Redis compressionImprovementThe Redis cache provider compresses cached data at rest in the cache store and during network transport.

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Email Experience Manager

The following table lists new features and improvements made in Email Experience Manager (EXM) 10.1.

AreaChangeDescription
TemplatesImprovementThere are new default templates available for email campaigns

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RetryersNew featureYou can now configure the exponential retry mechanism for SMTP errors.

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Multilanguage managementImprovementYou can now create email messages in languages that you do not have as your own language to, providing that you have Language Write permissions to them.

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Sitecore Experience Accelerator

The following table lists new features and improvements made in Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) 10.1.

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ThemesNew featureYou can now assign themes to specific components.

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Page branchesNew featureYou can now create page branches that editors can use as templates for sites.

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HTML IncludesNew featureYou can now use HTML Includes to render externally hosted assets in your themes.

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Horizon integrationNew featureYou can now enable your editors to use the Horizon editor for SXA sites.

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Managed Cloud

In the documentation of Managed Cloud, we now differentiate between two versions and describe how to deploy Sitecore on Microsoft Azure:

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