The latest release of the SitecoreAI base image 1.7.5 includes the following improvements:
Improvement to synchronization of CMP entities
In the integrated Sitecore Connect for Content Hub connector, the synchronization of CMP entities has been made more resilient. The improvement has been achieved by altering the management of the client’s lifecycle and by adding additional retry and throttling handling for common network transient errors.
Reduced memory consumption by interning strings and IDs from resource files
Strings and IDs from Item as Resource files have been added to interned dictionaries to reduce duplicate strings and IDs, including those read from SQL storage. This improvement results in reduced memory consumption.
Enhancement to logging in the MemoryLimitCachePurgeAgent task
The logging level in SitecoreAI's MemoryLimitCachePurgeAgent scheduled task has been increased from DEBUG to INFO. This improvement makes it easier to detect potential cache size issues.
Tracking of Solr behavior
Functionality has been added to allow further investigation of Solr performance and behavior issues on the SitecoreAI backend.
The latest release of the SitecoreAI base image 1.7.5 includes the following resolved issues:
Fixed a defect in the Content Editor where a NullReferenceException was being thrown when an item with a Multiroot Treelist field had a datasource that does not contain a tokenized query.
Resolved incorrect logging of publishing errors when no entities had failed. Now errors are only logged when failures occur.
Added a deadline timeout to every unary gRPC call to prevent potential stalling of publishing process.
Ensured item statistics are sent to Publishing API even when no items are published.
Fixed intermittent race condition in publishing process that caused NullReferenceException by improving thread safety checks.
Resolved issue where validation errors for datasource items in the Page builder were not displaying the field name when using language fallback.
Fixed defect where StandardValues field value was not being updated when the serialization push command is used for the first time.
Breaking Change - Sitecore PowerShell extensions upgrade from 7.0 to 8.0
Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) 8.0 is being upgraded to 8.0, and any PowerShell script that is not compatible with the later version may stop functioning after the upgrade.
The SPE upgrade has also resulted in the SitecoreAI base image release version being increased to 1.7.5.
Release timeline for SPE update:
14 April 2026 – SitecoreAI base image released and automatic update for non‑production environments.
22 April 2026 – Automatic update for production environments.
Optional early update for production
Customers who wish to benefit from the update earlier may manually update their production CM instance by performing a deployment activity as soon as the new base image is released.
Script validation recommendation
There are no changes to the planned feature set, but we strongly recommend validating your existing scripts to ensure compatibility with SPE 8.0. You can use the following guide to verify and adjust your scripts before the automatic rollout:
How-to's - How to validate PowerShell scripts for compatibility with Sitecore PowerShell Extensions…
More details on the deployment process are available here: https://doc.sitecore.com/sai/en/developers/sitecoreai/sitecoreai.html