What's new in Sitecore Experience Platform 10.4

Accessibility

Improvement

There's a new range of accessibility features in the Content Editor, in accordance with the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Guide. You can now use a keyboard to:

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Digital marketing

New feature

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.

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xConnect integrations

New feature

An xConnect endpoint is now available in Sitecore Connect. This allows you to build your own recipes and send your data to many of the martech solutions available in Sitecore Connect.

Content authoring

New feature

You can now add a custom language or regional language such as en-EU directly in the Content Editor. This allows you to extend beyond the language formats that are registered in .NET.

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Security roles

Improvement

Added the Sitecore Client Content Reader role which grants read access to the content tree items in the Content Editor and the Media Library.

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Solr search

Improvement

You can now configure Solr search to use soft commits.

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Webhooks

Improvement

Webhook requests now include the TemplateName property.

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Media files

Improvement

You can turn off the feature that blocks SVG files with JavaScript code when you upload media files to the Media Library.

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Item API

Improvement

You can now use the Sitecore.Context.Language.CultureInfo property to return culture information related to the current language context.

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Grid systems

New feature

You can now configure your headless sites to use the Tailwind grid system.

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Security roles

Improvement

With the new Sitecore Client Site Managing security role, users have the right to create, rename, write to, and delete sites and site collections.

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Modules

Improvement

You can install modules at the Project layer.

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Sitemap

New feature

You can enable or disable language codes in sitemap URLs.

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Renderings

New feature

You can show or hide renderings in the Experience Editor toolbox for specific sites based on the page template.

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Experience Edge

Improvement

Mark non-content sites as internal to prevent them from being published.

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Asset Optimizer

Improvement

You can now exclude unsupported CSS or JS files from minification.

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JSS

Improvement

JSS sample applications now use Next.js 14 and Angular 16. The JSS_APP_NAME environment variable was renamed to SITECORE_SITE_NAME. There are also updates for React packages. If you are on version 21.5 or earlier, upgrade to 21.6 then 21.7 to get all the latest features.

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JSS

New feature

You can apply retry strategies for Experience Edge requests to prevent build failures on large websites.

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JSS

Improvement

Sensitive information in component-level getStaticProps and getServerSideProps functions is included in the client-side bundle in development mode, but not in production mode.

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JSS

Improvement

If you use Netlify for hosting your Next.js JSS applications, you can follow our guide for deploying Next.js applications to Netlify.

JSS

Improvement

JSS applications have improved .env support.

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