December 2022 – released Sitecore Experience Platform 10.3.0 rev. 008463
This a feature release. Sitecore recommends that you upgrade to this release if it includes features that meet the specific needs of your organization. This release contains significant new feature functionality, and we encourage you to evaluate it.
Highlights
Sitecore Experience Platform (SXP) 10.3 delivers new capabilities and quality improvements that enable organizations to deliver unforgettable experiences with increased ease and convenience.
Whether self-hosted, implemented in Sitecore Managed Cloud, or used as Experience Manager (XM) through Sitecore Experience Manager Cloud (XM Cloud), the 10.3 release improves how organizations extend and integrate the Sitecore Experience Platform with other applications in their marketing tech stack. New management and administration APIs and webhooks enable developers to take an API-first and industry-standard approach to customization, reducing the reliance on in-process custom code. This separation makes it easier for developers to upgrade to new versions of the Experience Platform in the future.
Additionally, the introduction of Headless SXA, Headless Services 21.0, and enhancements to developer tools with 10.3 makes it easier for organizations to use SXP as a headless CMS, and to build engaging experiences using modern front-end frameworks.
Other highlights include:
- Headless SXA: Benefit from site scaffolding and templating, and new Next.js components, when building applications with XM as a headless CMS.
- EXM enhancements: Added OAuth support for custom SMTP deployments.
- Headless Services 21.0: Includes the new starter framework to accelerate the creation of new projects, and support for Next.js 12.3.x and React 18.
- Management Services 5.0: Enhanced Experience Edge publishing, resolved default publishing target, and added support for single-item publishing.
- Sitecore CLI 5.0: Added Linux support and new telemetry.
- System updates: Upgraded Identity Server and Publishing Service to support .NET 6, added support for Solr 8.11.2, and SQL Server Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for encryption of data at rest. Support for Windows Server 2022 coming in January.
New features/improvements
| Context | Description | ADO no. |
|---|---|---|
| Containers | Database prefix support can now be configured during deployment. | 421400 |
| Containers | Log-level customization is now added for all Sitecore roles. | 427142 |
| Containers | Persistent storage is now used for a device detection database. | 487053 |
| Containers | The ID role is now based on the .NET 6.0 image. | 529430 |
| Containers | The Solr container has been updated to version 8.11.2. | 545838 |
| Containers | Sitecore GraphQL settings has been added to the parameters. | 553271 |
| Email Experience Manager | OAuth support has been added for EXM Custom SMTP. | 429737 |
| Experience Optimization | To improve performance, an index is added to the Fact_Personalization table in the analytics database. | 454089 |
| Installation | Sitecore Installation Assistant 1.5.0 supports Sitecore XP 10.3.0. | |
| List Manager | You can now assign a user from an external identity service as the owner of a segmented list. | 502516 |
| Miscellaneous | Sitecore now supports MS SQL Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). With TDE enabled, data can be encrypted at rest to secure customer data and protect intellectual property. | |
| Platform | The X-Content-Security-Policy header has been removed from the Content-Security-Policy response. | 482758 |
| Platform | The implementation of TemplateFieldCacheKey has been changed to reduce memory allocations. | 484186 |
| Platform | An API has been added that identifies every change that is made to the default items in Sitecore XP - items in resources. This helps you to safely upgrade your solution to a newer version. | 495854 |
| Platform | The performance of Factory.GetSiteInfoList() has been improved to avoid excessive memory allocation. | 505774 |
| Platform | The performance of the FilteredItemsCache has been improved. | 505778 |
| Platform | For jobs where the job.Status.Processed property is not set, the number of units processed is no longer logged. | 538296 |
| Platform | You can now receive real-time notifications about events or workflow actions by creating a webhook. You can also use a webhook to run external validation of the workflow state changes of an item. | 493334, 504626, 504714 |
| Platform | To ensure that customers receive security updates promptly Sitecore has introduced Sitecore Identity Server 7.0.0 based on .NET 6. | 531140, 516330 |
| Platform | The new clearroleswhensignin setting for the identity provider determines whether the roles assigned to a user are managed in Sitecore or in an external identity provider. | 583085, 534067 |
| Search | The functionality of the Search tab and related components (Multilist with Search) was extended to support new search syntax. | 448443 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | Searching by ID and path has been improved. | 474407 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | A warning is now logged when FullRebuildItemCountThreshold has been reached. | 497050 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | IHttpRequestInitializer has been made public. This allows clients to modify request parameters for connections to Solr. | 512890 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The initializeOnAdd setting is now ignored in Solr search indexes. | 517923 |
Deprecated/Removed
Horizon End-of-Support with SXP 10.3
Sitecore is discontinuing support for the Horizon visual page builder beginning with the SXP 10.3 release. If you are using Horizon, you should remain on 10.2, as an upgrade to 10.3 or later will cause you to lose access to Horizon.
Removed features
| Context | Description | ADO no. |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | An unused Microsoft.IdentityModel.Clients.ActiveDirectory reference was removed. | 430895 |
| Platform | The Developer Center has been marked as obsolete and will be removed in a future version. The GridDesigner, IDE, RenderingLister, PageDesigner, Layouter, Imager, and PageScreenshots that were previously marked as obsolete have been removed. | 540188 |
Known issues
The following is a known issue:
| Context | Description | ADO no. |
|---|---|---|
| Media | When a media blob is referenced by multiple duplicated media items, deleting one of these duplicated items will result in the deletion of the media blob. | 563054 |
Resolved issues
The following issues have been fixed:
| Context | Description | ADO no. |
|---|---|---|
| Containers | The mssql-init and solr-init jobs fail to start in the containerd container runtime. | 524541 |
| Email Experience Manager | General UI improvements have been made. | 468918 |
| Email Experience Manager | If you set the value of Analytics.ForwardedRequestHttpHeader to X-Forwarded-For, the EmailOpenedEvent tracking logs an error. | 473430 |
| Email Experience Manager | If you add domains in EXM, there are no notifications about the new domains. | 485161 |
| Email Experience Manager | The Delete button is not disabled after a campaign has been deleted. | 485314 |
| Email Experience Manager | If you specify a filter in Marketing Automation, the automated email campaign is not sent to the recipient list. | 490233 |
| Email Experience Manager | The Export button for a suppression list is enabled even when there are no items in the list or Sitecore Delivery Cloud is not enabled. | 494592 |
| Email Experience Manager | Even when Sitecore Delivery Cloud is not enabled, an error message related to it is shown. | 494601 |
| Email Experience Manager | If you export a suppression list using a date range where the date in the From field is later than the date in the To field, no validation error is displayed. | 495802 |
| Experience Analytics | If you delete an item when xConnect is unavailable, an exception error is thrown. | 497506 |
| Experience Editor | If you change the date and time format in the Region and Language Settings dialog box, an incorrect format is displayed in the Experience Editor. | 51661 |
| Experience Editor | If you open the Personalization wizard after you have reset a shared layout, an error occurs. | 166528 |
| Experience Editor | The Experience Editor Insert button does not work correctly in EXM. | 234193 |
| Experience Editor | In the Experience Editor, if you replace compatible renderings, the UniqueId changes. | 361317 |
| Experience Editor | The performance of Sitecore.ExperienceEditor.Speak.Ribbon.Requests.DatasourceUsages.GetDatasourceUsagesDropdown.ProcessRequest is not optimized. | 406728 |
| Experience Editor | In the Experience Editor, if you click the Edit Experience Editor Options button or the Add associated content button, the page scrolls up. | 458264 |
| Experience Editor | The enableWebEdit parameter is always read from the Preview.DefaultSite value. | 489128 |
| Experience Editor | In a multi-line text field, if you paste text that contains formatting, the HTML tags are not removed. | 500606 |
| Experience Editor | If HtmlEditor.RemoveScripts=false and the field type is removed from Rendering.HtmlEncodedFieldTypes, FieldRenderer.Render() returns an empty string. | 507001 |
| Experience Editor | An extra <br> tag is added at the end of a multi-line text field. | 509260 |
| Experience Editor | In the Experience Editor, if you edit an empty Rich Text field, a JavaScript error occurs. | 509296 |
| Experience Editor | In the Do you want to open the start Web page instead? dialog, if you click the Cancel or X button, the start Web page opens in a new tab. | 511601 |
| Experience Editor | The fallback value of a field changes after another field has been saved with a new value. | 517115 |
| Experience Editor | The HTML tags of a single-line text are removed when editing and saving other fields. | 520726 |
| Experience Editor | If you enter any HTML tags in a multi-line text field using a field editor dialog in Experience Editor, the HTML tags are removed. | 531146 |
| Experience Editor | The Insert Image button in the WebEdit ribbon only works if the image has an en version. | 533388 |
| Experience Editor | If you set the Date field value to 5/23/2080 and use the ar-sa language, the page does not render the date field. | 540755 |
| Experience Optimization | If you change the standard values item and apply personalization, the final rendering changes are not saved. | 457081 |
| Experience Optimization | If you select the Enable variation of component design check box, the setting does not persist and the selected component design renderings are reverted. | 460603 |
| Experience Optimization | If you run multiple tests for a single page, the historical tests list does not display all previous tests. | 496833 |
| Experience Optimization | Items in draft state are published when creating a page test for an item. | 505988 |
| Experience Optimization | Disabling Track effect of personalization on this component does not work when more than one component is personalized. | 509251 |
| Experience Optimization | If you use a filter using a goal taxonomy facet rule, there is no rule fact resolver found for the ISegmentationServiceContext. | 516003 |
| Experience Optimization | Items in draft state are published when creating a version test for an item. | 527227 |
| Experience Optimization | If you create an A/B page test between a parent and a child item, the items may not be completely published. | 530482 |
| Experience Optimization | The Experience Optimization dashboard fails to load if there are empty experiences in the index. | 537304 |
| Experience Profile | In Firefox, if you open Experience Profile, the search box is rendered incorrectly. | 371711 |
| Federated Experience Manager | When you use Azure Request Routing, the FXM SCBeacon service uses an internal domain name instead of a public domain name. | 221942 |
| Federated Experience Manager | The FXM folder contains configuration files related to Azure Search. | 501534 |
| Headless Services | The Edge Preview and Edge delivery endpoints return an inconsistent order of child items. | 529047 |
| Headless Services | Publishing fails and throws an ArgumentNullException error due to TemplateFieldDeliveryEntityGenerator. | 534137 |
| List Manager | If a contact does not have a last name specified, {LastName} is displayed. | 324998 |
| List Manager | If you import a CSV of contacts, ListManager does not identify duplicate entries and creates multiple dedicated contacts. | 469483 |
| Marketing Automation | The IContactRepository is registered with an incorrect DI lifetime. | 331761 |
| Marketing Automation | The delimiters in Marketing Automation reports are not rendered based on the user's culture. | 464103 |
| Marketing Automation | A potential ThreadPool starvation issue has been resolved. | 504859 |
| Marketing Automation | If you start and stop a campaign in the previous month and open it in the next month, an error occurs when you select a start date. | 515379 |
| Marketing Automation | The ScheduledPlanEntryWorker and ActivityTimeoutWorker classes can stop working unexpectedly. | 515456 |
| Marketing Automation | If you create an automation plan in multiple languages, a duplicate key error occurs in the ActivityTimeoutWorker class. | 525976 |
| Marketing Automation | If you switch the pages in the SelectPlanActivity dialog, a The data could not be loaded error occurs. | 533272 |
| Marketing Automation | The Move to another campaign activity does not prevent subsequent actions on the same path. | 535686 |
| Marketing Automation | The Move to another campaign activity does not allow Remove from Campaign to be added to the flow. | 542482 |
| Marketing Foundation | The interaction and device profile ID reference to an incorrect contact after a known-to-known identification. | 470569 |
| Marketing Foundation | If you use Redis Session State Provider and set AlloConcurrentRequestPerSession to true, a NullReferece exception is thrown. | 505522 |
| Marketing Foundation | Marketing definitions search indexes reference an obsolete computed index UrlLink field. | 521532 |
| Marketing Foundation | Tolerance has been increased to handle transient faults when trying to access Submit Queue. | 531111 |
| Marketing Foundation | The Redis session lock does not work as expected leading to inconsistent data. | 535277 |
| Miscellaneous | Some security issues have been resolved. | 373821, 498938, 506984, 506986, 508237, 509802, 512209, 513368, 514144, 525885 |
| Miscellaneous | Localization has been improved. | 489199, 489394, 489680, 492791, 492793, 492795, 493348, 496745, 504663, 507540, 508987, 509455, 526858, 549833, 550452, 550453, 550454, 550942 |
| Path Analyzer | Custom goal maps do not display any data. | 501157 |
| Platform | In the ValueLookupField class, the ValidateLinks method slows down rebuilding the LinkDatabase. | 115854 |
| Platform | Too much information is serialized to the EventQueue for clone items. | 146631 |
| Platform | The encodeNameReplacements rules break GUID-based media URLs. | 158936 |
| Platform | Sitecore Query can be run every time the Translate.Text(string) method is invoked. | 178849 |
| Platform | When you try to delete or archive an item, a Relink | System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null error occurs. | 211195 |
| Platform | If you set the RequireLogin attribute, it breaks the authentication logic of a front-end site. | 229436 |
| Platform | The Copy To button on the Final Layout tab copies the rendering to the other item but does not show an updated list in the Layout Details dialog. | 287225 |
| Platform | The CleanupAgent does not clean up log files created by RollingFileAppender. | 313137 |
| Platform | The AddClonesToPublishQueue method slows the locking and unlocking of an item if clones are widely used. | 329904 |
| Platform | The AddClonesToPublishQueue method could make changing the workflow state of an item that has a lot of clones to be slow. | 331567 |
| Platform | The default ScavengeStrategy.DoCleanup method can clean up less than the value specified in CacheScavengePercent. | 384576 |
| Platform | If you delete an item that has a clone, a Guid should contain 32 digits with 4 dashes… error occurs. | 445206 |
| Platform | If ItemCloning.DeleteClonesWithOriginalItem is true, the PublishManager.DataEngine_DeletedItem method can throw a NullReferenceException. | 450353 |
| Platform | If security is set to null on any item, a security rules parsing error occurs. | 461985 |
| Platform | If the AllowDuplicateItemNamesOnSameLevel setting is set to false and parallel publishing is enabled, the PublishAgent fails. | 462837 |
| Platform | The GetTargetItem() method returns null for cross-database links. | 479550 |
| Platform | If you rename an item to its initial name, the PathCache is not cleared on a CD instance. | 493542 |
| Platform | In the Sitecore.Sites.config file, if the enforceVersionPresence setting is set to true, an item may not be identified as a content item. | 494792 |
| Platform | If you use a .jiff file with an incorrect MIME type, it is not displayed in Internet Explorer 11. | 494964 |
| Platform | If the previewUnpublishableItems setting is set to true, you cannot preview unpublishable items. | 498395 |
| Platform | The PublishEndRemote EventArgs do not determine the name of the context database. | 498865 |
| Platform | If you access LayoutCache.GetCacheKeys(), the entire concurrent dictionary gets locked. | 499061 |
| Platform | Cache size recalculation slows down full cache clearing. | 499631 |
| Platform | If an item does not have a parent item in the EN language and the enforceVersionPresence setting is set to true for all items, links to the item in the EN language are incorrect. | 499753 |
| Platform | If changes in the context of the StatisticDisabler are made by StatisticDisablerState.ForItemsWithoutVersionOnly, they are not published incrementally. | 500567 |
| Platform | If you use OWIN and have a large number of web sites, application startup is interrupted by a StackOverflowException. | 500740 |
| Platform | If you republish a blob, the blobIDs cache is not updated on the CD instance. | 503173 |
| Platform | If the Caching.CacheKeyIndexingEnabled.ItemCache setting is set to true, the Sitecore caches are not cleared on a CD instance. | 503828 |
| Platform | The __Standard Values of the Rendering parameters are not read. | 505185 |
| Platform | If you publish a clone item, the FilteredItemsCache is cleared for every sites. | 505342 |
| Platform | If you publish a clone item, the ItemPathsCache is partially cleared. | 505584 |
| Platform | Unnecessary blocking occurs in Logger.CallAppenders(LoggingEvent). | 506173 |
| Platform | If you run an incremental publishing from the Publish Agent, a number of unintended update jobs are executed. | 507191 |
| Platform | There is a typo in Sitecore.Sites.DefaultItemSiteResolver.CanResolve. | 507668 |
| Platform | If one language falls back to another language, a StackOverflowException occurs in Sitecore.Globalization.Translate.Text(). | 509668 |
| Platform | The Custom Properties of a virtual user are not fetched from the database. | 510291 |
| Platform | If you log in an external Sitecore site via an external identity provider, the Sitecore title appears on the browser tab. | 510418 |
| Platform | A 404 error for non-existent media files is still cached in web[paths] cache even after publishing. | 512303 |
| Platform | The Sitecore.Diagnostics.Statistics class is not thread-safe. | 512493 |
| Platform | The behavior of the Current.ContextItem field was changed. Now it points to datasource item, if specified. | 517662 |
| Platform | Download filename becomes garbled when using non-ASCII characters. | 518999 |
| Platform | When entries are added to a cache, the cache size is calculated incorrectly. | 520870 |
| Platform | Sitecore.Collections.TemplateDictionary is not thread-safe. | 526344 |
| Platform | If you rebuild the Links database, many records are duplicated multiple times. | 526584 |
| Platform | The Customize My Toolbar dialog does not use Client translations. | 526616 |
| Platform | Exclude Robots does not work correctly with the IP ranges specified in IPv6. | 528926 |
| Platform | If you use the where the current user is a member of the specific role personalization condition, an Application access denied error occurs. | 528947 |
| Platform | The publishing behavior for items as resource files is incorrect. | 529023 |
| Platform | If you restore an item from resources, it can cause a StackOverflowException. | 529187 |
| Platform | Reading the child items of items as resource is not thread-safe. | 530961 |
| Platform | The Custom Properties of a virtual user are lost during RuntimeSetting serialization. | 531248 |
| Platform | If an item has a large number of language and numeric versions, the output of the Gallery Links form becomes unmanageable. | 531872 |
| Platform | If you change the client settings in the identityServer.xml file, users are not logged out. | 535578 |
| Platform | If you publish related items to one publishing target, it fails when another publishing target is unavailable due to an error in the LinkDatabase. | 535675 |
| Platform | If a user has not been assigned any Sitecore roles and the Identity Server login page is disabled, a redirect loop occurs. | 536782 |
| Platform | When Sitecore XP resolves a target site, it uses the site root path and the language but ignores the database. | 537827 |
| Platform | References to items that have a large number of language and numeric versions degrade the performance of the GalleryLinksForm and the Experience Editor. | 542261 |
| Platform | If a username contains a single quote, the My Items dialog throws a ParseException error. | 555436 |
| Platform | If you rename a __Standard Values item and have enabled language fallback, a StackOverflowException occurs. | 118166, 187731 |
| Platform | Some security vulnerabilities have been fixed. | 390129, 363636, 500712, 513299, 525345, 92375, 539826, 492315, 390299, 459146, 504543, 533235, 525192, 531019, 548363, 539965 |
| Platform | In the Rich Text Editor, if you use Alt codes, an extra unnecessary symbol is output. | 489654, 549048 |
| Platform | If the Publishing.CheckSecurity setting is set to true, it does not work with external users. | 526576, 526577 |
| Publishing | The Content Availability - HTML cache is not cleared when a data source is updated. | 508762 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | If ContentDatabase is null for a context site, LinqHelper throws an NullReferenceException error. | 186703 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The Name (Lookup) Value List field containing IDs without braces is not indexed. | 283431 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The unused _url and _lastestversion virtual fields cause performance issues. | 314849 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | Populate Solr Managed Schema does not cover all default Sitecore languages. | 437509 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | Sitecore connects to the old SolrCloud server after a warm Disaster Recovery has been triggered. | 447307 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The indexing.getDependencies pipeline causes an InvalidOperationException error after an item has been deleted. | 485321 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The GetDataSourceItemByQuery processor aborts the pipeline even if it could not process the data source. | 486907 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | CultureExecutionContext is lost if the index field name cannot be resolved from the configuration. | 487890 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | SolrFieldNameTranslator attempts to resolve an index field name based on a Virtual Field name. | 487891 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The index properties are saved into the same database regardless of the database being crawled. | 497496 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The Location Finder component does not work on items that do not have an English version. | 505615 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The IEnumerable``<T> properties of a search result POCO remain unassigned. | 508786 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | PDFsharp media content extraction can omit delimiters between words or paragraphs. | 509467 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The web index rebuild performance degrades after applying Hotfix 494627. | 520721 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | In OperationsMonitor, the number of queued actions is always zero. | 524509 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | The search operations are run in the context of a sitecore\Anonymous user instead of the actual user. | 529807 |
| Sitecore.ContentSearch | If the culture of a thread is set to ar-SA, the search result is not loaded because the date cannot be populated. | 540756 |
| Sitecore Forms | If you change the value of a specific form item, the Revision field is changed in all form items. | 404956 |
| Sitecore Forms | The hidden File Upload field is validated and does not redirect the request to the correct URL. | 483476 |
| Sitecore Forms | If you save a language version of a form and languagefallback is enabled, a You cannot edit the 'the form' item because it is protected error occurs. | 485274 |
| Sitecore Forms | In the Experience Editor, the form is not displayed until you click the Save button. | 485487 |
| Sitecore Forms | If you add a form with two navigation buttons, the page source code of the form contains duplicated IDs. | 486154 |
| Sitecore Forms | Field validation can be bypassed by changing related inputs. | 490008 |
| Sitecore Forms | The Text field is not decoded in list elements and displays an incorrect list name. | 491143 |
| Sitecore Forms | If you submit a form with an empty File Upload element, a NullReferenceException occurs. | 491488 |
| Sitecore Forms | Language-specific or special characters are not allowed in form labels. | 493648 |
| Sitecore Forms | The validation message for a required element is displayed after the form element has been disabled. | 500992 |
| Sitecore Forms | Searching a form with multiple keywords does not work. | 503212 |
| Sitecore Forms | A reference to the core databases breaks the indexing on CD instances. | 510810 |
| Sitecore Forms | If you submit a multi-page form after the session has expired, an unexpected Redirected to Page submit action is executed. | 513277 |
| Sitecore Forms | The Form data entries deleted successfully message is displayed incorrectly when a form data entry deletion has failed. | 513372 |
| Sitecore Forms | The radio button list labels behave incorrectly in multi-language forms. | 513382 |
| Sitecore Forms | If you save a form with a Text field tag set to span, a The form was not saved error occurs. | 525169 |
| Sitecore Forms | Test cases do not account for time zone differences of agents. | 558874 |