Learning@Sitecore

Sitecore has recently release minor update on version its 10.4 version on 25th June 2025. Despite update on minor version, some important improvements have been made.  So, Let’s try to understand what key features has been improved. Solr Upgrade to v 9.8.1 First important change is in Solr service. The Sitecore XP 10.4.1 now supports upgraded version of Solr 9.8.1. Earlier it was using 8.11.2 version which has been deprecated. If you check the official release notes from Apache Solr 9.8.1 documentation, it shows key improvements and bug fixes which enhance the performance and these updates make Solr 9.8.1 a robust and reliable choice, especially if you're using HTTP/2 in SolrCloud. Another important change is also related to Solr, but it will be noticeable while installing the newer version of Sitecore XP via Sitecore Installation Framework (SIF). The setup process now, waits until the Solr server is fully available before proceeding, previously process waits for fixed period of ti...

In the previous blog , we discussed what is the xConnect Client API withpurpose and how we can start configuring a custom application to able to connect it.   In this blog, I am going to show how we can extract the interactions and contacts using the same application.   Recently, I came up with a requirement where I need to fetch the interactions from xDB for specific duration for some reporting purpose. Although we can access to those Shard database directly, BUT Sitecore best practises says we should always use xConnect Client API while dealing with xDB.   To do so, we need to setup a independent application and can be hosted on IIS server which is authorized to connect to xConnect thru secure channel.   Please note, you must have ssl certificate for your application in order to connect to xConnect API. Working with Interactions and Contacts I am assuming you have gone thru my previous blog , where we were able to connect to xConnect Client API.   I will be co...