Sitecore Experience Platform 10.2 focuses on increasing performance and stability while helping to reduce costs so organizations can deliver unforgettable experiences faster than ever before. By providing the ability to incrementally convert to headless Sitecore architectures without a full rebuild, 10.2 also offers a bridge to our composable DXP for those who are interested in that path.
In addition, the developer experience is also vastly improved in 10.2 thanks to increases in agility and capabilities in SXA, publishing enhancements, headless rendering, and general upgrades and improvements.
Other highlights include:
EXM DDS Container Support: Dedicated email dispatch servers (DDS) are supported in Kubernetes and Docker compose files allowing for quicker setup.
Introduction of GetTargetContact: Helps deliver efficient communication between tracker and xConnect to help increase overall performance.
UX Improvements in Experience Analytics: Gives marketers more control of and access to their data, providing better visualization and more actionable reporting for stakeholders.
Personalization Effect Reporting: Marketers can now see the impact of personalization on the conversions for individual goals which helps evaluate campaign effectiveness.
Data Purge on Interactions: The ability to purge interactions, based on date, channel or if they contain a certain event.
Streamlined Horizon editing: Further enhancemens of SXA on Horizon provides an a more integrated coherent platform and streamlined editing experiences.
Scriban Template Improvements: Now at full parity with the classic Rendering Variants, frontend developers have more flexibility to fully express the HTML without the need to log in to Sitecore.
Headless Rendering 19.0: Includes enhancements and new documentation to facilitate the inclusion of Sitecore MVC components in the output of the Layout Service and Experience Edge, and conversion of existing Sitecore MVC sites to Jamstack architectures using Next.js.
Sitecore CLI 4.0: Provides improved release velocity with Items as resource plugin and security role serialization.
The Sitecore Container Deployment Package contains the Docker Compose and Kubernetes specification files used to deploy Sitecore in development and production container environments.
Explains how to use the Sitecore Container Deployment Package to upgrade the SQL Server databases of an existing Sitecore XP 10.0.X installation to Sitecore XP 10.2.0.
Follow this link to download the Sitecore Installation Framework (SIF) PowerShell module. Please refer to the Sitecore Experience Platform installation guide for further information on how to install Sitecore with SIF.
The package contains Sitecore Install Framework deployment templates that can be used to deploy Sitecore Experience Platform remotely to a scalable distributed server cluster from a single workstation or server.
The Sitecore Install Assistant's user interface guides you through the Sitecore XP Developer Workstation (XP Single) installation. Use it to review system requirements, install prerequisites, and complete the entire installation process.
The Sitecore Install Assistant's user interface guides you through the Sitecore XM Developer Workstation (XM Scaled) installation. Use it to review system requirements, install prerequisites, and complete the entire installation process.
Explains how to install the Sitecore Experience Management (XM1) topology to run the Content Delivery (CD) and Content Management (CM) server roles, and the Sitecore Identity server. This topology does not support xDB and xConnect.
Explains how to install the fully featured Sitecore Experience Platform Installation (XP1) topology. This topology can be configured to run separated server roles.
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Please note that as part of your system upgrade to Sitecore Version 10.2, Sitecore may collect additional information such as product version, number of site visits, generic hardware and software information, and recovery actions. This information will be used to help us to optimize your experience. All data will be processed in accordance with Sitecore’s privacy policy here. Should you have any queries or wish to discuss this, please refer to our FAQ, or contact your Sitecore Account Manager.