Sitefinity Release Notes

What's new

• Hybrid backend search powered by Progress Agentic RAG

Backend search in content list grids - such as News, Blog posts, Lists, Events, Documents & Files, Images, Videos, and dynamic content types - now supports a hybrid search experience powered by Progress� Agentic RAG. By combining traditional keyword matching with AI-powered semantic search, Sitefinity delivers more accurate and contextually relevant results for supported backend resources. Learn more...

• Configurable knowledge scope for Sitefinity AI Assistant

By default, the AI Assistant can access all content of the site where it has been created. You can now limit the scope of the information available to the AI Assistant by configuring�its knowledge scope, providing greater control over relevance, governance, and data exposure. Learn more...

What's fixed

• Cannot browse existing user profile avatars when updating users via the Users backend screen (588062)
• The Related data selector does not display "Show all posts" option until search text is entered (596055)
• SchemaMarkupResolver throws ArgumentException when detail-item resolution fails with DataStoreException (596007)
• Forms: Double-quote encoding in form validation messages (596044)
• Next.js Renderer: Section or Template placeholder renaming causes widgets to be lost (595243)
• Next.js Renderer: JSON-LD from Content markup for AI rendered via next/script instead of native <script> tag (596160)
• Next.js Renderer: Missing header in AI answer box and AI assistant widgets causes error 400 (595553)
• ASP.NET Core Renderer: Added 'type' support to script tag helper (597023)
• ASP.NET Core Renderer: StackOverflowException in 'LayoutOperationProvider.GetSiteNode' when a redirect page targets a page with 'RequireSsl' via query string (592550)
• Content blocks: Double encoding within the HTML (596581)
• Site Sync: "Publish and Sync" button displayed for content and page instead of "Sync" (596657)
• Azure Blob Storage: SAS token authentication doesn't work due to different connection string format (583859)
• Azure Blob Storage: Container-level SAS token authentication doesn't work because these tokens cannot create new containers (596100)
• Sitefinity AI agents can generate and surface suggestions that are longer than the field max length (592859)

Third-party libraries update

• Lucene.NET -> 4.8.0-beta00018

API and breaking changes

Changes in Telerik.Sitefinity.Search/IBackendSearch.cs:

• IBackendSearch interface has been removed to simplify the backend search API.
• IBackendSearchByViewPermissions interface has been removed to simplify the backend search API.