February 2021 – released Sitecore Headless Rendering 16.0.0
Highlights
- The new headless Next.js SDK and sample site are now available for the Sitecore JavaScript SDKs. They include static and server rendering options, Experience Editor support, and much more.
New feature/improvements
| Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|
| An assembly list NuGet package is now available for the Sitecore Headless Services. | 411428 | |
| The ASP.NET Core SDK can now model bind custom values that are added to the Layout Service context. | 430939 | |
| A new headless Next.js SDK and sample site are now available for the Sitecore JavaScript SDKs. They include static and server rendering options, Experience Editor support, and more. | CS0179767,CS0181401 | 439737,398529 |
| The ASP.NET Core getting started template has been updated for Sitecore XP 10.1.0, Headless Rendering 16.0.0, and Sitecore CLI 3.0. | 444585 | |
A new read-only GraphQL schema is available for use with headless SDKs. It mirrors the schema which will be available with Sitecore Experience Edge for XM. | 448071 | |
| Developers can now configure the webhook URLs which should be invoked after completing a Sitecore publishing. | 452880 | |
| The Headless Services have been updated to GraphQL .Net 2.4.0. | 454948 | |
| The Headless Services HTTP Rendering Engine now supports a shared secret for securing communication between the Sitecore instance and the rendering host. Validation of the shared secret is currently only supported by the Next.js SDK. | 455009 | |
| The Headless Services HTTP Rendering Engine now sends the item URL along with the payload to the rendering host. | 455569 | |
A new getting started template is available in Sitecore.DevEx.Templates for Next.js-based solutions. | 456051 | |
| The JSS CLI now supports reading environment variables from dotenv-style variable files. | 459416 |
Breaking changes
| Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- | ------- | --- |
| The Sitecore JavaScript Services Server module has been renamed to Sitecore Headless Services. It is still a dependency for both the JavaScript and ASP.NET Core headless SDKs. | | 397308 |
| The default configuration of the Layout Service is now aligned with the JSS configuration. | | 445521 | |
| The Headless Services HTTP Rendering Engine can now automatically rewrite relative URLs when rendering for the Experience Editor. This functionality has been removed from the ASP.NET Core SDK. | | 455006 |
Resolved issues
The following issues have been fixed:
| Description | Customer ticket ID (or other) | TFS no. |
|---|---|---|
| Sitecore JSS uses npm packages that contain security vulnerabilities. | CS0195691, CS0205247, CS0195391 | 439683, 442065 |
| The Headless Services form controller can return a 500 error / NullReferenceException for invalid input. | CS0199423 | 447420 |
The JSS CLI deploy command does not exit on success for non-English languages. | 451342 | |
In Integrated mode, some Unicode characters are not rendered correctly. | CS0199300 | 458320 |
Outputting the search result score when using the GraphQL search query throws a GraphQL.ExecutionError exception. | CS0203644 | 458747 |