Many new components were delivered in the new version of Sitecore, as well as, renaming of existing features and packaging of popular modules used in pre-Sitecore 8 versions.
Renamed Components
- Page Editor = Experience Editor
- Marketing Center = Marketing Control Panel
- Email Campaign Manager = Email Experience Manager
New Components
- Experience Analytics
- Experience Profile
- Experience Optimization
- List Manager
- Path Analyzer
- App Center
- Executive Dashboard
New Features
- Versioned Layouts
- Web API Services (SPEAK components and building applications dependent upon Sitecore data)
Existing Features Packaged With Sitecore 8
- Federated Experience Manager (available in pre Sitecore 8 versions)
- Social (previously Sitecore Social Connected)
Pipeline Changes
While new pipeline processors have been added to accommodate the new Sitecore 8 features, others have been moved with Content Testing and Experience Editing in mind. Below are the main areas of change with regards to pipeline processing:
- Social related pipelines come configured out of the box.
- FXM related hooks
- Everything Analytics
- Moving of existing pipelines, such as:
- SPEAK components
- Experience Editor
- Web API request handling (higher up in the httpRequestBegin pipeline)
- RenderField (immediately after httpRequestBegin)
Content Testing
Outside of Analytics, Sitecore.ContentTesting.config changes dominate the difference in Sitecore 8. Take a look at the config patch file. Content tests need to insert themselves in areas to override existing Sitecore rendering and processing handlers, such as:
- Insert Renderings
- RenderLayout
- GetChromeData
- Data Aggregation
- Database Agent (background processing to determine if a test has reached statistical relevancy)
- Content Testing provider (used by ItemManager)
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