Sitecore Experience Platform 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 (SXP) 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 of concerns 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, added support for single-item publishing.
Sitecore CLI 5.0: Added Linux support, new telemetry, and XM Cloud support.
System updates: Upgraded Identity Server and Publishing Service to support .NET 6, added support for Solr 8.11.2, and Windows Server 2022.
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 10.3.0.
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 10.3, 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.