--- title: "What's new in Sitecore Experience Platform 10.3" slug: "what-s-new-in-sitecore-experience-platform-10-3" abstract: "A list of the new and changed features in XP 10.3." --- # What's new in Sitecore Experience Platform 10.3 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. | Area | Change | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | GraphQL Authoring and Management API | New feature | The 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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| | Workflow | New feature | In 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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| | Forms | New feature | With 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 xDB | New feature | xConnect 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 xDB | New feature | If 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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| | Publishing | New feature | A new API has been added to enable you to identify which database raised a publish event.

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| | Items as resources | Improvement | For [items as resources](https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/103/sitecore-experience-manager/using-items-as-resources.html), 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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| | Security | Improvement | We 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. | | Search | Improvement | If 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). | Area | Change | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | JSS for Next.js | New component | To 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.js | Refactoring | The `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.js | Improvement | You 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. | Area | Change | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | DevEx CLI Login command | New feature | You 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 plugin | New feature | Starting with version 5.0, the Publishing plugin provides the `item` subcommand which has a different default behavior for unspecified `--targets`.

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| | DevEx CLI Database plugin | New feature | The 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. | Area | Change | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | Security | New feature | OAuth 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. | Area | Change | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | Components for headless sites | New feature | You 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 subpages | New feature | You can duplicate a page without duplicating its subpages.

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| | Error pages for headless sites | New feature | You can now create error pages for your headless sites.

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| | Filters with descending sorting order | New feature | You can configure your filter components to sort in descending order. | | Page branches for headless sites | New feature | You can now use page branches with your headless sites.

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| | Redirect maps and redirect items for headless sites | New feature | You 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 values | New feature | You can configure standard values that are specific to your sites instead of globally defined standard values.

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| | Sitemap performance | Improvement | The sitemap performance has been improved. | | Sitemaps and `robots.txt` for headless sites | New feature | You can now configure sitemaps and `robots.txt` files for your headless sites.

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