- Sitecore 9 is a major new release with new features and brand new framework.
- Sitecore requirement: Win Server 2016/ 12 R2 / Win 10 /8.1 IIS 8.5 / 10 .Net Framework 4.5 + SQL server 2016 / 2014 SP2 for XM or CMS mode. Mongo DB + Cosmos DB (future release)
- Solr 6.6 and Azure Search
- Silverlight is not supported
- Sitecore 9 is secure out of the Box (HTTP's enabled)
- Sitecore Installation framework (SIF) for sitecore installation.
- SIM is not supported in Sitecore 9.
- Solr or Azure Search support (for xConnect)
- Search API feature ( Highlight, Spellcheck, Suggest etc)
- Config Load Order – Customize your order of loading component.
- New Rule-based configuration
- Support for Federated Authentication (FB, Google, MS, OpenID, AzureAD, Twitter, SAML custom Auth.
- Support for Custom Roles
- Dynamic Placeholders (most wanted feature)
- xConnect - is the service layer that sits in between the xDB and any trusted client, device, or interface Ref: https://doc.sitecore.net/developers/xp/xconnect/xconnect-overview/index.html
- WFFM is dead (but will be supported till Sitecore 9)
- Newly designed web forms, scalable e-mail marketing, and rich automation for marketers
- New Marketing Automation UI / Dashboard
- Speak 3 is based on Angular JS.
- Support for Live Events
- JavaScript Service (JSS) is a newly introduced feature– Powerful headless capabilities for front-end developer, personalization.
- JSS is based on JS/ NodeJS/ Json, Custom JS Controller.
- JSS feature is under Tech Preview.
- New Experience editor.
- Support for device detection
- New documentation site–
- https://doc.sitecore.net/developers/
- https://jss.sitecore.net/
- http://helix.sitecore.net/
- Future release – Sitecore Cortex / Zenith / Commerce 9 / SXA Storefront
- Sitecore 6 & 7 Support is Discontinued.
I have summarized one-pager details of new Sitecore 9 features. Hope
this might be helpful. Please feel free to provide your feedback/comments.