Content SDK 2.1 delivers improvements across Next.js integrations, event tracking, search, and preview security, along with key bug fixes that improve reliability and safety in production environments.
New features & improvements
Lightweight visit tracking with bot classification - introduces a lightweight visit tracking pipeline for Next.js that identifies automated traffic and forwards properly classified visit signals to SitecoreAI, enabling more accurate visit metrics with minimal overhead. This enables future analytic features within SitecoreAI, including dedicated dashboards to show exactly how your site's content is being indexed and interacted with by AI agents.
Next.js 16.2 support - updated Next.js to v16.2 for improved compatibility and stability.
Improved ESLint setup for App Router templates -
create-content-sdk-appnow uses the native flat ESLint configuration for App Router templates.Redirect support in the Next.js redirect proxy - added support for redirect items within the redirect proxy.
CDP session support in Search queries - Search service now accepts the CDP session ID in queries, enabling improved, session-aware search behaviour.
Notable bug fixes
Preview security hardening (Next.js internal host) - fixed an issue where Preview could allow access to pages without proper permissions.
Draft Mode compatibility for statically generated pages - addressed issues with accessing preview data when Draft Mode is enabled on statically generated pages on Vercel.
Preview mode content visibility - resolved a bug where Preview mode could show content that should not be publishable.