Sitecore Experience Platform 8.0 Initial Release

This page contains all the resources for Sitecore Experience Platform 8.0 rev. 141212 (Initial Release).
Looking for a different update? See all available 8.0 updates.

  • Sitecore strongly urges customers on earlier versions of 8.0 to upgrade to 8.0 update-6 at the earliest possible opportunity.
  • Please note — although you will find all new documentation for Sitecore 8 on the Documentation site, much of the SDN documentation for 7.0 - 7.5 is still relevant. SDN documentation is in the process of being converted and migrated.

Download options

Resource Description
Sitecore web application installer

Choose this link to download the setup.exe (packaged as zip) installation program. This is everything you need to get started.

ZIP archive of the Sitecore site root Choose this link to install Sitecore manually (without the help of the setup.exe installation program).

Release Information

Resource Description
Release Notes The latest news about Sitecore Experience Platform releases.
Known issues

Choose this link to access the Sitecore Knowledge Base

Installation Guide The installation procedure for the Sitecore Experience Platform.
Upgrade Guide To upgrade from a previous Sitecore version please follow the instructions in this guide
Configuration File Changes Config file changes in Sitecore Experience Platform 8 compared to Sitecore 7.5 rev. 141003.

Modules

Resource Description
Email Experience Manager 3.0 Download files and release information for Sitecore Email Experience Manager 3.0 rev. 141215 (Initial Release)
Web Form For Marketers 8.0 Download files and release information for Web Forms for Marketers 8.0 rev.141217 (Update-1). Note: Initial Release and Update-1 of Web Forms for Marketers are identical and have been consolidated into Update-1.

Upgrade options

Resource Description
The Sitecore Update Package Download the files that you need for the upgrade process
Config Files for upgrade

Download this package if you need only web.config and App_config files and SQL upgrade scripts.

Sitecore Update Installation Wizard The Update Installation Wizard allows developers to update existing Sitecore Experience Platform using Sitecore update packages.
User to Contact Conversion Tool

Download the latest version of the User to Contact Conversion tool (Revision 150407) to transfer Sitecore User data from Membership profiles into analytics data. 

PhantomJS

Download this package to install the PhantomJS tool that is required by the Generate Screenshots functionality that is used by the Personalization and Content Testing features in Sitecore XP 8.

Redeploy Marketing Data

Download this file to redeploy the Marketing Data.

Additional Tools

Resource Description
Solr support package Solr is the popular, open source enterprise search platform. Download this package if you want to use Solr on your instance.

Client Translations

Resource Description
Chinese (zh-CN)

Chinese language client translation file. Read instructions how to import a new language into the Sitecore installation.

Danish (da-DK) Danish language client translation file. Read instructions how to import a new language into the Sitecore installation.
Dutch (nl-NL)

Dutch language client translation file. Read instructions how to import a new language into the Sitecore installation.

French (fr-CA) French (Canada) language client translation file. Read instructions how to import a new language into the Sitecore installation.
German (de-DE)

German language client translation file. Read instructions how to import a new language into the Sitecore installation.

Japanese (ja-JP)

Japanese language client translation file. Read instructions how to import a new language into the Sitecore installation.

Norwegian (nb-NO)

Norwegian language client translation file. Read instructions how to import a new language into the Sitecore installation.

Swedish (sv-SE)

Swedish language client translation file. Read instructions how to import a new language into the Sitecore installation.

Usage policies

Resource Description
Sitecore IP Geolocation Usage Policy This policy is applicable if you are using Sitecore IP Geolocations Service.
Sitecore xDB Cloud Usage Policy This policy is applicable if you are using Sitecore xDB Cloud.