Sitecore 10.2 Feature summary

Filip Jönsson

Sitecore released the new version, 10.2 recently and I wanted to make a quick summary of some of the features that stood out to me.
For full Release Notes please check Sitecores doc here: 10.2 Release Notes

Decrepcated

  • Update Center is going away.
  • Support for Azure Search has been removed. They are going back to Solr after moving over to Azure Search in Version 10.0. Solr has been there through all 10.x but now their fully relying their internal indexes on Solr.

New features

  • EXM DDS role now supports containers. For fast deployment of a Dedicated Dispatch Server.
  • Solr version 8.8.2 is now the recommended version.
  • MVC components are now supported in Experience Edge. This is so projects can gradually go towards Headless and not have to throw away their existing projects.
  • Sitecore Identity Server 6.0.0 now runs on .Net Core 3.1. A big security update.
  • Use xConnect CLI to purge interactions you don’t need. Clear up space.
  • There is a new “Content Explorer” in Horizon which is a search and filter based way of finding items in Sitecore. This looks promising for future Headless endeavours.
  • Horizon now fully integrated with SXA.
    SXA now has Bootstrap 5 support, upgrades to Scriban templates and lots more.

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