Adobe Experience Manager 6.5 Latest Service Pack Release Notes

Release information

Product	Adobe Experience Manager 6.5
Version	6.5.14.0
Type	Service Pack release
Date	August 25, 2022
Download URL	Software Distribution

What is included in Experience Manager 6.5.14.0

Experience Manager 6.5.14.0 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

• Unable to add or view tags for PDF files. (NPR-38452)
• When you configure Connected Assets, save the configuration, reopen the configuration page, and test the already saved configuration, the test connection fails. (NPR-38507)
• Unable to add users with numeric user ID to collections. (NPR-38538)
• Experience Manager fails to process the FFmpeg installed on the author instance. (NPR-38568)
• PDF processing fails with a NoClassDefFoundError error message. (NPR-38741)
• The Add button under Custom Columns does not display correctly while creating an asset report for de_DE locale. (ASSETS-10641)
• When you upload a duplicate asset to the Digital Asset Management repository and Experience Manager detects and provides an option to delete the duplicate asset, the original asset also gets deleted from the repository. (ASSETS-10826)
• Experience Manager does not save the folder metadata correctly when you specify special characters in multifields. (ASSETS-10721)
• Unable to save Asset properties until you click Save & Close twice. (ASSETS-12040)
• The screen reader only announces the Relate button. However, the Relate button also contains a submenu and can be expanded and collapsed. (ASSETS-6938)
• Required ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) attributes aria-expanded for role="combo box" is missing. (ASSETS-6928)
• In Card view, in the main file navigation area, the text content Sort by does not have at least a 4.5:1 contrast ratio against their background color. (ASSETS-6926)
• Experience Manager does not identify Select a Workflow model dropdown list as a required field while creating a workflow model. (ASSETS-6871)

Dynamic Media

• Add support for password reset for Dynamic Media Classic user within Experience Manager. (ASSETS-10298)
• Smart Crops generated for the images with transparent background have white background. (ASSETS-13148)
• Dynamic Media do not generate thumbnails for EPS files. (ASSETS-10959)
• Assets not getting uploaded to Dynamic Media account because of missing upload parameter. (ASSETS-13165)
• Allow assets with names greater than 127 characters to be uploaded into Dynamic Media. (ASSETS-9991)
• Enablement of JavaScript ES6 (ECMAScript 6) for Dynamic Media Viewers on Experience Manager 6.5.14.0. (NPR-38393)
• Configuring the options in Dynamic Media General Settings and Publish Setup should not be accessible by non-administrator users. (ASSETS-8628)
• Dynamic Media General settings page does not show the already configured upload parameters correctly. (ASSETS-10245)
• Experience Manager user interface does not show any failure message in case set creation/update fails. (ASSETS-10264)
• Unable to apply a saved policy to one of the containers of an editable template to let you add Dynamic Media components. (ASSETS-11044)
• Assets not getting uploaded to Dynamic Media account after running the Dynamic Media Reprocess Assets workflow on assets with incorrect job handle. (ASSETS-12084, ASSETS-9877)
• Screen reader users are impacted by the title attribute not being provided for <frame> and <iframe> in the Type to Search dialog box. (ASSETS-5483)
• In screen readers, related and meaningful alt= value should be provided for multiple images that are present under Assets heading in the left pane. (ASSETS-5644)
• Screen reader does not read Mute and Unmute button on video using Dynamic Media component. (ASSETS-10169)

Commerce

• Commerce products are not getting sorted using the column header and it is using remote sort mode; instead, Commerce products should be getting sorted using column headers with local sort mode. (CQ-4343750, NPR-38498)

Forms

Integrations

• Enable JavaScript ES6 (ECMAScript6 mode or better) compilation support for the minification of the /libs/cq/analytics/widgets.js library. (NPR-38433)
• Enable JavaScript ES6 (ESMAScript6 mode or better) compilation support for the minification of the /libs/cq/testandtarget/clientlibs/testandtarget/util.js library. (NPR-38435)
• The more content there is in /content/campaigns, the longer the call to targeteditor.html (/libs/cq/personalization/touch-ui/content/targeteditor.html) takes when you open the Page Editor. (NPR-38663)

Platform

• Unable to log on to Package Manager to deploy updates. (NPR-38646)
• In the assets tag picker user interface, tags appear in the order they were created. However, when there are many tags, viewing and managing the tags is difficult because they cannot be sorted. (CQ-4344279)
• Create a notification in the user interface when a user being impersonated by an administrator or anyone else using the Impersonate as field. (CQ-4345288)
• In a Smart Collection, all assets were being shown when filtering using a saved search. (CQ-4345326)
• An incorrect selected assets count is shown for Add to collection when Select All is selected. (CQ-4345424)
• An exception message occurred when using the Impersonate as field with a group or non-existent user. (CQ-4346098)

Sites

• Unexpected path deletions occurred while upgrading Experience Manager from 6.5.12.0 to 6.5.13.0. (NPR-38532)

Accessibility

• In Experience Manager Sites, when you expand the Switch display format and adjust display setting button, then select List View, the Drag and Drop button is missing an accessible name. (SITES-2863, NPR-38760)
• Screen reader must announce the accessible name such as Show description for Archive or Show description for mini shopping cart. However, the current accessible name is announced as Info Circle button show description for all the tooltip information buttons. (SITES-3104)
• Improve undo for components that do not have inlineEditing or dropTarget feature in cq:editConfig. (NPR-38361)
• The Style System drop-down may have been positioned at the top of the page instead of in-context of the component - for components that use cq:editConfig “afteredit: REFRESH_PAGE”. (NPR-38384)
• Text component is misaligned when added to nested Layout Containers. (NPR-38193)
• An empty style tab was displayed when there was no Style System configuration for a component. The tab is now hidden when no configuration is present. (NPR-38218)
• The property useLegacyResponsiveBehaviour works only when authenticated. (NPR-37996)
• Upgrading jquery-ui to latest version resulted in the breaking of the Editor. (SITES-5647)

Content Fragments

• Content Fragments enumeration field validation issue the first time that the content fragment is loaded. (SITES-7140)
• Need to add Campaign personalization fields in the Rich Text Editor of the Content Fragments editor. (NPR-38526)
• When creating or editing a new content fragment in the Content Fragment editor, by way of the Dispatcher, the content fragment model is not saved. Furthermore, the Content Fragment editor is not closed, and an error is displayed in the browser log. (NPR-38691)
• Persistent query validation error. (NPR-38523)
• In the Content Fragment dialog box, under Properties, the Content Fragment field does not retain the saved path in the selection pop-up. (NPR-38632)
• When you create a content fragment model and add an enumeration field of the drop-down type, the correct validation for is required fails. (NPR-38237)

Core Components

• The new Page Email component should not force you into the classic user interface while editing /etc. (NPR-38648)

Page Editor

• The user is not able to resize the component to the desired number of columns. (NPR-38688)

Template Editor

• Missing Delete and Cut buttons on the Menu bar in an editable template after a cq:actions property was customized. (NPR-38521)
• If a component includes another component, it is not possible to delete the component within the template structure because the Delete button is missing from the Menu bar. (NPR-38585)

Sling

• An increase in the number of open files on production was experienced due to a memory leak in module DiscoveryLiteDescriptor in org.apache.sling.discovery.commons, version 1.0.20. (NPR-38288)
• In Experience Manager, from Operations > Diagnosis, you experience an error when you select Download Status ZIP > Download. (NPR-38514)

Translation projects

• Launch for subpages that were added as a reference in a parent page were not getting promoted when the isDeep property was set to false. (NPR-38531)

User interface

• When using Select All > Quick Publish, Experience Manager was not publishing all the assets or showing how many assets would be published in Card view or List view. (NPR-38546)
• Incorrect selected assets count is shown for Add to collection in Select All case. (NPR-38633)
• Disabled users can still be added to Collections and Projects. (NPR-38651)
• Deleting a filter without saving the Search Form creates an error. (NPR-38698)
• A user’s session cannot obtain a ModifiableValueMap instance for the groups in order to establish the direct group membership. (NPR-38710)

Workflow

• Enable JavaScript ES6 (ESMAScript6 mode or better) compilation support for the minification of the /libs/cq/inbox/gui/components/inbox/clientlibs/commons.js library. (NPR-38304)
• After the workflow runs and the process steps are complete, the same comment is repeated multiple times. (NPR-38364)

Install Experience Manager 6.5.14.0

• Experience Manager 6.5.14.0 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 6.5.14.0 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 6.5.14.0.

• 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 (6.5.14.0) 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 1.22.12 or later (Use Web Console: /system/console/bundles).

Install Experience Manager Forms add-on package

Fixes in Experience Manager Forms are delivered through a separate add-on package a week after the scheduled Experience Manager Service Pack release.

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 6.5.13.0 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>6.5.13</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.

Area	Feature	Replacement
Integrations	The AEM Cloud Services Opt-In screen is deprecated since the Experience Manager and Adobe Target integration is updated in Experience Manager 6.5. The integration supports the Adobe Target Standard API. The API uses authentication by way of Adobe IMS and Adobe I/O Runtime. It supports the growing role of Adobe Launch to instrument Experience Manager pages for analytics and personalization, the opt-in wizard is functionally irrelevant.	Configure system connections, Adobe IMS authentication, and Adobe I/O Runtime integrations via the respective Experience Manager cloud services.
Connectors	The Adobe JCR Connector for Microsoft® SharePoint 2010 and Microsoft® SharePoint 2013 is deprecated for Experience Manager 6.5.	N/A

Known issues

• AEM Content Fragment with GraphQL Index Package 1.0.3

• 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 6.5.14.0:

• List of OSGi bundles included in Experience Manager 6.5.14.0
• List of Content Packages included in Experience Manager 6.5.14.0

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.