Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 Latest Service Pack Release Notes

Release information

What is included in Experience Manager 6.5.15.0

Experience Manager 6.5.15.0 includes new features, key customer-requested enhancements, bug fixes, and performance, stability, and security improvements, that are released since the initial availability of 6.5 in April 2019. Install this service pack on Experience Manager 6.5.

Assets

• If the movement of an Asset in Experience Manager fails, the Asset can still be renamed. (NPR-38753)
• While viewing the Assets in a List View, some of the titles are missing. (CQ-4345746)
• Screen reader does not announce the sub menu of the Relate button on the Basic tab on Asset properties page. (ASSETS-6938)
• Screen reader incorrectly detects the folder icons on the Assets navigation page with the list of folders. (ASSETS-6936)
• While copying a Collection, the image is missing an empty alt attribute or role=“presentation”. As a result, the image is exposed to the screen reader users. (ASSETS-6932)
• The text displayed while annotating an asset does not have a 4:5:1 contrast ratio in comparison to the background color. (ASSETS-6931)
• On the IPTC tab of the Asset properties page, when you adjust page width, the page content does not fit properly and results in horizontal scrolling. (ASSETS-6929)
• When you filter assets, the filter text in the min and max fields disappears after a value is entered. (ASSETS-6925)
• In Experience Manager Collections, the screen reader does not announce the email field on the Download screen. (ASSETS-6923)
• An alternative text is missing while annotating the elements. (ASSETS-6922)
• If the text is written in Hours and Minutes in date picker field, no text error message is displayed. The error is only identified using the Red color. (ASSETS-6852, ASSETS-6921, ASSETS-6920, ASSETS-6907)
• The alternative text in [role='img'] in the Files filter is missing. (ASSETS-6919)
• Incorrect screen reader announcement for the Create submenu. (ASSETS-6916)
• In Experience Manager Collections, the remove button X does not have any text to announce for the screen readers. (ASSETS-6912)
• While using Color Contrast Analyzer in Experience Manager, there is no color differentiation between the current date and the chosen date in date picker of the calendar widget. It lacks at least 3:1 contrast ratio in odds to its adjacent colors. (ASSETS-6911)
• In Experience Manager Files, while selecting one of the options from Scheduling radio button in Manage Publication, the radio button options name and state are announced by the screen reader. However, the Scheduling label is not announced. (ASSETS-6908, ASSETS-6906)
• The alternative text is missing for the Sort icon. (ASSETS-6904)
• On Asset properties page, the field name Person in IPTC Extension tab labels are not announced by the screen readers. The screen reader only announces editable and currently blank field, but not the label name. (ASSETS-6903, ASSETS-6848)
• The annotation tool cannot be displayed using keyboard. A mouse is used to draw an image to display the Annotation tool. (ASSETS-6899)
• In Experience Manager Collections, an empty field on the Advanced tab displays incorrect contrast ratio between the boundary and either adjacent color. (ASSETS-6895)
• Incorrect ARIA attribute values for some of the elements while editing assets. (ASSETS-6894)
• The screen reader does not correctly identify the heading while creating a workflow. (ASSETS-6892)
• While copying a Collection, the SVG image remove button X with role=“img” is missing a role=“presentation”. As a result, the image is exposed to the screen reader users. (ASSETS-6890)
• In the Basic tab of Asset properties, the screen reader does not appropriately announce the expand or collapse state of the Tags field. (ASSETS-6889)
• The Basic tab under Asset properties contains pages with duplicate ID. (ASSETS-6888)
• The label of the text field to define a title while creating a workflow disappears when you specify a value in the text box. (ASSETS-6887)
• The list of recipients while sharing a link displays as a data table with headings, but it is not semantically identified as a data table to the screen reader users. (ASSETS-6886)
• No error message to represent an empty field is displayed in Add Email Address field. The error is only represented using a color. (ASSETS-6885, ASSETS-6843)
• Placeholder texts, Path, and Alt Text do not have at least a 4.5:1 contrast ratio in comparison to their background color. (ASSETS-6884, ASSETS-6865)
• Invalid values for some of the ARIA attributes while saving a Smart Collection. (ASSETS-6882)
• When you save a Smart Collection, some of the labels are not appropriately associated with the screen reader. (ASSETS-6881)
• In IPTC tab of Asset properties, the screen reader does not announce the label for the keyword form fields. (ASSETS-6879)
• In Experience Manager Collections, the Email field is not identified as a mandatory field and no error message is displayed if you do not specify a value. (ASSETS-6877)
• In Experience Manager Files, no error message in Link Sharing screen is displayed in Add Email Address. The error is only identified in using a color. (ASSETS-6876, ASSETS-6875)
• Crop and Map options do not have the programmatic names while editing an asset. (ASSETS-6874)
• The Filter text lacks 4.5:1 contract ration in comparison to the background color. (ASSETS-6873)
• The text for the folder name on the main navigation page does not have a 4.5:1 contrast ratio in comparison to the background color. (ASSETS-6872)
• While performing the Copy operation for Collections, the Add User combo box form control is not correctly associated with its visible label. (ASSETS-6870)
• Screen reader does not announce the Create button sub-menu options. (ASSETS-6869)
• The Scope, Workflows, and Timezone options do not have a 4.5:1 contrast ratio in comparison to the background color. (ASSETS-6868)
• The screen reader incorrectly announces the collapse state of the Timeline column. (ASSETS-6864)
• Missing child elements for some of the ARIA roles while saving a Smart Collection. (ASSETS-6862)
• While sharing an asset, required ARIA attributes for Search/Add Email Address field are not specified. (ASSETS-6860)
• The map dialog box cannot be displayed using keyboard. Instead, a mouse click is required to display the map dialog box. (ASSETS-6859)
• Missing child elements for some of the ARIA roles on the Basic tab of the Asset properties page. (ASSETS-6858)
• The empty text input fields, available in the IPTC tab of Asset properties, do not have a 3:1 contrast ratio in comparison to its adjacent colors. (ASSETS-6854, ASSETS-6847)
• The profile icons in the Timeline section are incorrectly detected by the screen readers. (ASSETS-6850)
• Screen reader does not announce that the Review Status combo box, available in the Basic tab of Asset properties, is a read-only field. (ASSETS-6849)
• Screen reader does not announce the label of the Select All and Annotation checkboxes appropriately. (ASSETS-6846)
• The keyboard focus skips the About Adobe Experience Manager option available in the Show Help menu. (ASSETS-6845)
• Screen readers do not correctly announce the selected folders while navigating through the list of folders using keyboard arrow keys in Card view. (ASSETS-6844)
• While uploading a PDF to the Experience Manager, the memory usage is constantly increasing. (ASSETS-16889)
• When a workflow converts a .ZIP file to a folder name in Assets, it does not retain the casing of the .ZIP file name. (ASSETS-16712)
• While switching from Brand Portal to Experience Manager 6.5, the user predicate filter does not display appropriate results when you apply the filter for the first time. (ASSETS-15932)
• Unable to annotate a video. (ASSETS-15217)
• Manage Publication option disappears for a user with no replicate access and READ and WRITE access to ETC and VAR. (ASSETS-15007)
• The load time for the properties page increases for an asset with multiple references. (ASSETS-14182)
• When an image is unpublished from Brand Portal, Experience Manager also unpublishes it from Dynamic Media and as a result there is no image displayed on the live website. (ASSETS-14118)
• XSS issues on Smart Crop cards in Dynamic Media. (ASSETS-14212, ASSETS-14208, ASSETS-13704)
• XSS issue in Viewer Presets in Dynamic Media. (ASSETS-13822)
• Validate user access while previewing DM assets on AEM. (CQ-4314757)

Commerce

• The creation of a store page failed, stopping the overall catalog rollout process. (CQ-4347181)

Forms

Sites

• Experience Manager Sites Launches console was coming up blank. (NPR-39188)
• References were not adjusted when the page that had the reference also needed to be activated during the page move. (NPR-39061)
• When a Layout container is unhidden using parent container, layout changes are not getting applied to all components inside the nested container. (NPR-39041)
• Content now no longer overlaps with other content at 320-pixel width. (SITES-8885)
• Added focus after closing a dialog box. (SITES-8885)

Accessibility

• The Annotation button is missing its accessibility name. (SITES-2892)
• The state of an ACTIVE user interface component (Cut, Copy, Paste, Insert Components, Group, and so on) does not have at least a three to one luminosity contrast ratio with either the inner or outer adjacent background. (SITES-8889, SITES-8756, SITES-8885)
• Status message not automatically announced. (SITES-8889, SITES-8756, SITES-8885)
• Text content lacks 4.5:1 contrast ratio. (SITES-8756, SITES-8885)
• Link or button text lacks 4.5:1 contrast ratio on hover or focus. (SITES-8756, SITES-8885)

Content Fragments

• GraphQL raises an exception. For example, you cannot get variation tags from a content fragment. There is no variation with the name ‘electric’. This issue is due to calling getVariationTags for a non-existing variation which raises an exception. (SITES-8898)
• Sorting title orders in List view, both ascending and descending, how the titles with the order A, C, B. (SITES-7585)
• Added tagging support for content fragment variations. (SITES-8168)
• Identified and removed Odin-specific code from Experience Manager 6.5 that was unnecessary. (SITES-3574)
• When publishing a language copy fragment from the Content Fragment Editor user interface, the associated references were getting published under the English folder. (NPR-39182)
• Date fields are getting pre-populated with a date. (NPR-39124)
• Tags disappeared the second time that you select the radio button option. (NPR-39071)

Fluid XP

• Enable ES6 compilation support for the client library /libs/cq/gui/components/siteadmin/admin/restoretree/clientlibs/restoretree.js. (NPR-39067)
• The Multifield in a Content Fragment Model cannot be emptied and saved because validation occurs even if Required is not selected. (NPR-39063)
• In either Copy or Livecopy tasks, the cq:targetMetadata information was incorrectly being duplicated. This functionality caused two or more Experience Fragments in Experience Manager to point to the same offer exported in target. (NPR-38970)
• Following a Restore Tree action, the message Un-publication pending. #0 in the queue appears in the user interface for a page that was never published in the first place. (NPR-38847)

Page Editor

• Undo did not delete the last change made to text that was added into the component. Instead, when the page was refreshed, the entire component got deleted. (SITES-8597)
• Upgrading jquery-ui to the latest version resulted in the Page Editor not working correctly. (NPR-38596)
• Content now no longer overlaps with other content at 320-pixel width. (SITES-8756)
• added focus after closing the Dialog (SITES-8756)

Sling

• Repoinit did not support the creation or management of groups with whitespace in the principal name because the group name was treated as a string, and it did not support being quoted. (SLING-10952)
• Logs are inadvertently filled with error messages and exceptions. (NPR-39024)

Translation projects

• Destination page was getting added to the translation job for Updated Language Copies through the Projects panel; source page was not updated. (NPR-39278)
• Translation process was failing while generating a preview for all the pages in a translation project. (NPR-39059)
• If language locale does not exist, it is still getting created in a locale folder when reference rules are configured for an event. (NPR-39054)

User interface

• JavaScript errors occur inside the file multifield.js for certain fields in the Content Fragment model in the Content Fragment model editor and also in the Content Fragment editor. (NPR-39350)

Workflow

• Workflow’s that ran successfully on Experience Manager 6.5.11 were not running consistently on 6.5.13 of Experience Manager. (NPR-39023)

Install Experience Manager 6.5.15.0

• Experience Manager 6.5.15.0 requires Experience Manager 6.5. See upgrade documentation for detailed instructions.
• The service pack download is available on Adobe Software Distribution.
• On a deployment with MongoDB and multiple instances, install Experience Manager 6.5.15.0 on one of the Author instances using the Package Manager.

Install the service pack on Experience Manager 6.5

1. Restart the instance before installation if the instance is in update mode (when the instance was updated from an earlier version). Adobe recommends a restart if the current uptime for an instance is high.

2. Before installing, take a snapshot or a fresh backup of your Experience Manager instance.

3. Download the service pack from Software Distribution.

4. Open Package Manager, then select Upload Package to upload the package. To know more, see Package Manager.

5. Select the package, then select Install.

6. To update the S3 connector, stop the instance after installation of the Service Pack, replace the existing connector with a new binary file provided in the install folder, and restart the instance. See Amazon S3 Data Store.

Automatic installation

There are two different methods that you can use to automatically install Experience Manager 6.5.15.0.

• Place the package into ../crx-quickstart/install folder when the server is available online. The package is automatically installed.
• Use the HTTP API from Package Manager. Use cmd=install&recursive=true so that the nested packages are installed.

Validate the installation

To know the platforms that are certified to work with this release, see the technical requirements.

1. The product information page (/system/console/productinfo) displays the updated version string Adobe Experience Manager (6.5.15.0) under Installed Products.

2. All OSGi bundles are either ACTIVE or FRAGMENT in the OSGi Console (Use Web Console: /system/console/bundles).

3. The OSGi bundle org.apache.jackrabbit.oak-core is version 1.22.13 or later (Use Web Console: /system/console/bundles).

Install Experience Manager Forms add-on package

1. Ensure that you have installed the Experience Manager Service Pack.
2. Download the corresponding Forms add-on package listed at AEM Forms releases for your operating system.
3. Install the Forms add-on package as described in Installing AEM Forms add-on packages.
4. If you use letters in Experience Manager 6.5 Forms, install the latest AEMFD Compatibility package.

Install Experience Manager Forms on JEE

For information about installing the cumulative installer for Experience Manager Forms on JEE and post-deployment configuration, see the release notes.

UberJar

The UberJar for Experience Manager 6.5.15.0 is available in the Maven Central repository.

To use UberJar in a Maven project, see how to use UberJar and include the following dependency in your project POM:

<dependency>
     <groupId>com.adobe.aem</groupId>
     <artifactId>uber-jar</artifactId>
     <version>6.5.15</version>
     <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Deprecated features

Below is a list of features and capabilities that are marked as deprecated with Experience Manager 6.5.7.0. Features are marked deprecated initially and later removed in a future release. An alternate option is provided.

Review if you use a feature or a capability in a deployment. Also, plan to change the implementation to use an alternate option.

Known issues

• AEM Content Fragment with GraphQL Index Package 1.0.5
  This package is needed for customers using GraphQL; this enables them to add the required index definition based on the features they actually use.

• As Microsoft® Windows Server 2019 does not support MySQL 5.7 and JBoss® EAP 7.1, Microsoft® Windows Server 2019 does not support turnkey installations for AEM Forms 6.5.10.0.

• If you are upgrading your Experience Manager instance from 6.5 to 6.5.10.0 version, you can view RRD4JReporter exceptions in the error.log file. To resolve the issue, restart the instance.

• If you install Experience Manager 6.5 Service Pack 10 or a previous service pack on Experience Manager 6.5, the runtime copy of your assets custom workflow model (created in /var/workflow/models/dam) is deleted.
  To retrieve your runtime copy, Adobe recommends to synchronize the design-time copy of the custom workflow model with its runtime copy using the HTTP API:
  <designModelPath>/jcr:content.generate.json.

• Users can rename a folder in a hierarchy in Assets and publish a nested folder to Brand Portal. However, the title of the folder is not updated in Brand Portal until the root folder is republished.

• When a user selects to configure a field for the first time in an adaptive form, the option to save a configuration does not display in Properties Browser. Selecting to configure some other field of the adaptive form in the same editor resolves the issue.

• The following errors and warning messages may display during installation of Experience Manager 6.5.x.x:

  • "When the Adobe Target integration is configured in Experience Manager using the Target Standard API (IMS authentication), then exporting Experience Fragments to Target results in wrong offer types getting created. Instead of type “Experience Fragment”/source “Adobe Experience Manager,” Target creates several offers with type “HTML”/source “Adobe Target Classic.”
  • com.adobe.granite.maintenance.impl.TaskScheduler: No maintenance windows found at granite/operations/maintenance.
  • Adaptive Form server-side validation fails when aggregate functions such as SUM, MAX, and MIN are used (CQ-4274424).
  • com.adobe.granite.maintenance.impl.TaskScheduler - No maintenance windows found at granite/operations/maintenance.
  • Hotspot in a Dynamic Media interactive image is not visible when previewing the asset through Shoppable Banner viewer.
  • com.adobe.cq.social.cq-social-jcr-provider bundle com.adobe.cq.social.cq-social-jcr-provider:1.3.5 (395)[com.adobe.cq.social.provider.jcr.impl.SpiSocialJcrResourceProviderImpl(2302)] : Timeout waiting for register change to complete unregistered.

• When trying to move/delete/publish either Content Fragments or Sites/Pages, there is an issue when Content Fragment references are fetched, as the background query fails; i.e. the functionality does not work.
  To ensure correct operation, you must add the following properties to the index definition node /oak:index/damAssetLucene (no reindexing is required):

  "tags": [
      "visualSimilaritySearch"
    ]
  "refresh": true
  

OSGi bundles and content packages included

The following text documents list the OSGi bundles and Content Packages included in Experience Manager 6.5.15.0:

• List of OSGi bundles included in Experience Manager 6.5.15.0
• List of Content Packages included in Experience Manager 6.5.15.0

Restricted websites

These websites are only available to customers. If you are a customer and need access, contact your Adobe account manager.

• Product download at licensing.adobe.com
• Contact Adobe Customer Support.

Business.Adobe.com resources

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