2026 Search & Navigation release notes

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March 3, 2026

EPiServer.Find 16.7.1

Enhancement

  • Added support for Search and Navigation for Content Management System 12 sites with Opti ID enabled. See Configure Opti ID for CMS 12 for more information.

Bug fixes

  • FIND-14387 – Fixed a performance issue that caused excessive CPU and memory consumption during content indexing. The system now uses a pre-compiled static Regex instance to reduce processing overhead.
  • FIND-14641 – Fixed an issue where items in the event indexing queue were not automatically removed after reaching the maximum retry count (default 10). 
  • FIND-14642 – Fixed an HTTP 500 error that occurred when filtering on a $$string field with a null value. The proxy now substitutes null string values with empty strings, and the .NET client ignores filters with null values.
  • FIND-14951 – Fixed a PdfDocumentFormatException error that occurred during PDF attachment text extraction due to an outdated PdfPig library version.