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Banner image for Security Bulletin SC2024-001-619349 Is Needed for Your CM/Standalone Instances article

A critical vulnerability has been announced, which allows for unauthenticated file reads on a CM or Standalone instance. It's recommended this patch is installed on all instances from version 8.0 initial release to 10.4 initial release.

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I'm going through a number of Sitecore upgrades this year, and for the most part there have been no gotchas in our coding. This week one of our team members came across a RenderingContext issue that will be sure to catch some teams off guard.  

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Banner image for A New Security Exploit Is Making Its Rounds via Polyfill.io and Must Be Removed Immediately article

The polyfill.io domain, which used to be the source for a library that helps resolve inconsistencies across different browsers, has been purchased by the Chinese company Funnull in February 2024, and is now using it to inject malware into well over 100,000 websites around the world.

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It's safe to say the one thing on almost everyone's mind lately is, how do we get our websites modernized so they remain under support, and even better, headless and in the cloud. Like many of you, I recently drew up the roadmap for such an effort for a bunch of supported clients. In one project, I'll be upgrading my company's v9.1 managed cloud multisite instance to XM Cloud-based v10.x. When the words “full rewrite” hit our stakeholders, the request was to break this down into digestible chunks, so it could be dispersed across a couple budget cycles.

So here we are. This is the first installment in my series called, “The Road to Headless”.

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Banner image for A System's Default Regional Iso Code and the Trouble of Parsing Different Date Formats article

I recently migrated a project to a new environment, only to find that rendering a date field was inconsistently working. Not Sitecore's fault, but I've never seen this before, and I know as a seasoned developer I should have all (ok most) of the answers. It's a good catch and I wanted to share.

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