1. What's new

What's new in Sitecore Experience Platform 10.3

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This topic lists the new features and the changes in the most recent release of Sitecore Experience Platform.

Experience Platform and Experience Manager

The following table lists new features and improvements made in Experience Manager and Experience Platform 10.3.

AreaChangeDescription
GraphQL Authoring and Management APINew featureThe Sitecore Authoring and Management API provides a GraphQL endpoint for managing Sitecore content and more. You can use the API to perform custom authoring experiences and tasks previously possible only through the Sitecore user interface.

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WorkflowNew featureIn the Content Editor, you can create webhooks to receive real-time notifications about events and workflow actions that occur in XM. You can also integrate endpoint validation for item workflow state changes.

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FormsNew featureWith the new Embeddable Forms Framework, you can add a Sitecore Form to any webpage, including pages that are not running on a Sitecore application.

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xConnect and the xDBNew featurexConnect Data Tools now includes the Data Export Tool, which enables you to export contact and interaction data from your collection database to data files.

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xConnect and the xDBNew featureIf your application connects to xConnect using the xConnect Client API, you can now implement a transient fault handling strategy to detect HTTP transient faults and automatically retry sending failed requests.

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PublishingNew featureA new API has been added to enable you to identify which database raised a publish event.

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Items as resourcesImprovementFor items as resources, methods have been added to check for overridden items and to check if an item is stored in the database or the resource file.

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SecurityImprovementWe have added support  for MSSQL Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). TDE ensures that all data stored in MSSQL (across XM and XP) is encrypted at rest.
SearchImprovementIf you use a search string that is not enclosed in quotes, this now returns a list including exact and possible or close matches, instead of only returning exact matches.

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JavaScript Rendering SDKs (JSS) and Headless Services

The following table lists new features and improvements made in JSS and Headless Services 21.0. (formerly known as JSS Server Components).

AreaChangeDescription
JSS for Next.jsNew componentTo facilitate using the next/image component provided by Next.js in JSS applications, the @sitecore-jss/sitecore-jss-nextjs package provides the NextImage component (introduced in version 20.1.0).

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JSS for Next.jsRefactoringThe nextjs-styleguide add-on has been refactored to remove tracking functionality. The tracking examples now reside in the nextjs-styleguide-tracking add-on.

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JSS for Next.jsImprovementYou can now configure debug log messages in Next.js applications with the nextjs-sxa add-on with new namespaces.

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Developer Tools

The following table lists new features made in Developer Tools 10.3 and CLI 5.0.

AreaChangeDescription
DevEx CLI Login commandNew featureYou can log in to an existing environment and use its credentials with the help of the --ref parameter introduced with Sitecore CLI 5.0.

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DevEx CLI Publishing pluginNew featureStarting with version 5.0, the Publishing plugin provides the item subcommand which has a different default behavior for unspecified --targets.

The --path argument for the publish command is now deprecated.

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DevEx CLI Database pluginNew featureThe CLI Database plugin provides a command that helps you clean up the database with CLI commands (introduced with Sitecore CLI 5.0).

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Email Experience Manager

The following table lists new features in Email Experience Manager (EXM) 10.3.

AreaChangeDescription
SecurityNew featureOAuth support has been added in EXM for custom SMTP deployments.

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Sitecore Experience Accelerator

The following table lists new features and improvements made in Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) 10.3.

AreaChangeDescription
Components for headless sitesNew featureYou can use the following standard components with your headless sites: Image, Link List, Navigation, Page Content, Promo, Rich Text, Title, and Container.

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Duplicate pages without subpagesNew featureYou can duplicate a page without duplicating its subpages.

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Error pages for headless sitesNew featureYou can now create error pages for your headless sites.

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Filters with descending sorting orderNew featureYou can configure your filter components to sort in descending order.
Page branches for headless sitesNew featureYou can now use page branches with your headless sites.

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Redirect maps and redirect items for headless sitesNew featureYou can now redirect a specific page to a new location, or create a redirect map for your headless sites.

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Site-specific standard valuesNew featureYou can configure standard values that are specific to your sites instead of globally defined standard values.

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Sitemap performanceImprovementThe sitemap performance has been improved.
Sitemaps and robots.txt for headless sitesNew featureYou can now configure sitemaps and robots.txt files for your headless sites.

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