SitecoreAI Release Notes: February 10, 2026

• Updated Workflow Experience in SitecoreAI
  • A basic workflow has been enabled in SitecoreAI to support consistent publishing and future flexibility.
  • At this time, the workflow is intentionally simple: all submitted items are automatically approved.
  • This foundational setup allows us to introduce more advanced workflows in the future if and when they are needed.

What this means for content authors

• Publishing behavior is largely unchanged.
• The only new step is entering a short comment when submitting content.
• Once submitted, content is automatically approved and added to the publishing queue.
• There are no additional review steps, approvals, or delays introduced with this release.

How publishing works behind the scenes

• Approved content is added to an automated publishing queue.
• Incremental publishes (most page and content updates) run every 10 minutes.
• Site root publishes (changes that affect site-wide structure or settings) also run on a scheduled cycle, offset within the same 10-minute window.
• This means most changes will appear shortly after submission, without requiring authors to manually trigger publishing.

In practice, authors should expect content to publish within a few minutes, just as it does today.

• Modernized Form Handler
  • Introduces a new, secure form submission handler to replace legacy email-based processing.
  • Improves security, reliability and alignment with current platform standards.
• Site Administrator Role
  • Adds a Site Administrator role with scoped permissions for site-level management and configuration.
• Per-Site Workflow Configuration
  • Enables support for managing workflows on a per-site basis, allowing flexibility while maintaining governance.
• Web Application Firewall Enabled by Default for New Sites
  • Newly created sites now automatically have the Web Application Firewall enabled in active mode to improve baseline security.

• Navigation & Structural Accessibility Improvements
  • Improves semantic structure, landmarks, and heading usage across main navigation, subnavigation, contextual navigation and curated navigation.
  • Enhances keyboard navigation, focus management and accessible naming for navigation elements.
• Carousel & Media Accessibility Enhancements
  • Improves accessibility and usability of carousel and media components, including keyboard navigation, focus containment, semantic markup and mobile presentation.
  • Resolves issues with conflicting play/pause controls and missing visual indicators.
• Default Module Updates for New Sites
  • Updates default modules for new sites, including Page Title, People Directory, News and Events, Programs and related components to improve consistency and accessibility.
• Redirect and URL Handling Improvements
  • Enhances redirect handling and middleware behavior to support cleaner URLs and more consistent routing.
• Deployment & Infrastructure Improvements
  • Improves deployment performance and reliability through Netlify scripting enhancements.
  • Enhances WAF-related tooling and configuration scripts to support safer operational changes.

Accessibility & Keyboard Support

• Fixes multiple issues affecting keyboard navigation, focus trapping, and screen reader announcements across navigation, carousels, tabs, accordions, tables and other interactive components.
• Ensures browser default font size settings are respected across navigation and content areas.

Navigation & Layout

• Resolves issues with navigation hover behavior, dismissibility, semantic markup and column placement.
• Fixes mobile navigation issues where elements overlapped content, appeared in the wrong position or behaved unexpectedly on scroll.

Content Rendering & Publishing

• Fixes issues where contextual and curated navigation did not publish correctly using standard publishing actions.
• Corrects rendering inconsistencies in mixed content grids, side tabs, landing pages and listing pages.

Stories Page Loading Fix

• Fixes a platform-wide issue preventing Stories pages from loading correctly when accessed through internal links.
• This fix applies across all sites using the shared Stories page.

• MSUToday
  • Fixes issues affecting collections listings, RSS feed behavior, social media directory accessibility and internal story navigation.
• Enterprise Sites
  • Fixes site-specific issues related to navigation updates after publishing, sitemap loading and search-related behavior.

• Improves global redirect handling and URL consistency.
• Enhances Web Application Firewall configuration, scripting and default enablement.
• Updates tag management configuration to support improved search tracking.

• New workflow requirements in SitecoreAI change how content is submitted, reviewed and published.
• Improved accessibility and keyboard support across navigation and interactive components.
• More reliable publishing behavior for contextual and curated navigation.
• Improved consistency across people listings, news, events, programs, and collections.
• Stronger security defaults for new sites.
• Faster and more reliable deployments.

The Feb. 10 production release introduces a major update to Workflows in SitecoreAI, changing how all content authors submit and publish content. In addition, the release delivers significant accessibility improvements, mobile navigation fixes, publishing reliability enhancements, and stronger security and infrastructure defaults. Together, these updates improve governance, usability, and consistency across the platform.

• Workflows are now required for submitting and publishing content in SitecoreAI.
• Approved content is automatically added to the publishing queue.
• Navigation, tabs, accordions, carousels and tables are more accessible and keyboard-friendly.
• Browser font size settings now work consistently across navigation and content.
• Stories pages load reliably across all sites.
• New sites launch with stronger security defaults.