We’re thrilled to announce the release of Content SDK v2.0, a major milestone that takes developer experience, performance, and AI integration to the next level. This release delivers a reimagined framework for building data-driven, AI-powered Sitecore applications.
What’s New
Agent support and AI skills
Expanded AI coding assistance with revamped guides and integrated configuration through
AGENTS.md.Added
Skills.md, and.agents/skills/directories to define capabilities for AI tools and agents, each with clear usage rules, hard limits, and stop conditions.Scaffolded agent skills now ship with Next.js templates via
create-content-sdk-app.
Analytics packages
Consolidated functionality from the Cloud SDK into new analytics-core, events, and personalize packages.
Simplified initialization through the new
initContentSdkfunction.
Integrated search package
Introduced a new @sitecore-content-sdk/search package, that provides an easy and powerful way to add a type-safe search layer. Includes the
SearchServicewith pagination, sorting, and cancellation support.New React hooks (
useSearchanduseInfiniteSearch) for simplified query and infinite scroll patterns.
Other improvements
Support for custom Edge hostnames via
SITECORE_EDGE_PLATFORM_HOSTNAME.New
rewriteMediaUrlsoption to transform layout media URLs dynamically.
Upgrades
Upgraded to Next.js 16 and Node.js 24
Breaking Changes
Decoupled architecture
@sitecore-content-sdk/contentis now fully decoupled from@sitecore-content-sdk/coreto allow more modular usage and independent updates.
Next.js 16 upgrade
middleware.tsrenamed toproxy.tsDeprecated configs like
images.domains, replaced withremotePatterns.
React 19 refactor
Unified context through
SitecoreProviderwith newcomponentMapandloadImportMap.Deprecated HOCs replaced by modern hooks (
useSitecore).Improved performance defaults by disabling suspense for better response times.
Redirect & locale behavior updates
Redirects now default to using the default locale unless language preservation is explicitly toggled, ensuring predictable localization across multi-site setups.
Check out the upgrade guide for detailed instructions on how to get started with Content SDK 2.0.