The following section outlines the general Release Notes for the current (latest) version of Experience Manager as a Cloud Service.
From here, you can navigate to release notes of previous versions; for example, for those in 2020, 2021 and so on.
See Recent Documentation Updates for details of documentation updates not directly related to a release.
The release date of Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service current release (2021.7.0) is July 29, 2021.
The following release (2021.8.0) is on August 26, 2021.
Have a look at the July 2021 Release Overview video for a summary of the features added.
org.apache.sling.datasource-1.0.4.jar
for Sling datasource support has been removed, as it has outdated functionality and is not in use by customers.Content Automation functionality lets Experience Manager Assets use the Adobe Creative Cloud APIs to automate asset production at scale. It improves content velocity by dramatically decreasing the time taken and iterations required to create variations of the same asset. The functionality does not require any programming and works from within the DAM. See generate variations of assets using Creative Cloud integration.
Experience Manager Assets includes the Document Cloud PDF Viewer to preview PDF documents natively. This feature lets users preview multi-page PDF files without any file processing or conversion. This feature improves the parity with Experience Manager 6.5. The controls available in the viewer include zoom, navigate to pages, undock controls, and to view in full screen. Users case also preview and jump to pages and bookmarks. Comments on the file itself are supported. Commenting and annotations on content within the PDF file will be added in a future release.
The Linkshare download functionality uses asynchronous downloads that boost the download speed. See Download assets shared using link sharing.
The view settings are enhanced to let users choose a default view and a default sorting parameter.
Users can search and filter the folders based on property predicates.
The API com.day.cq.dam.api.collection.SmartCollection
is not available in Experience Manager as a Cloud Service. (CQ-4326322)
AEM Forms as a Cloud Service - Communications: Communication APIs help you combine XDP templates and XML data to generate print documents in various formats. The service lets you generate documents in synchronous mode. The APIs enables you to create applications that let you:
Variable Data Externalizer: You can save data of AEM Workflow variables on an external storage system managed by your organization.
Acroform-based Document of Record: You can also use Adobe Acrobat Form PDF (Acroform PDF) as a template for Document of Record besides XFA-based form template.
Microsoft Azure data store connector: You can now connect Form Data Model to Microsoft Azure Storage. It lets you retrieve and store adaptive form data to Microsoft Azure Storage as a BLOB.
CIF Core Components v2
Support for Adobe Commerce Sensei Product Recommendation, powered by Adobe Sensei in AEM Storefront using pre-defined or on-the-fly created recommendations
Content Provider settings are now validated during create or update.
All displays views have folders column.
You can expand Screens Content Structure.
bulk-offline-update-service
was missing all permissions for some environments.
Updated Help link to match the new screens cloud documentation.
Un-assign playlists and disallow removing playlist(s) with player(s) assigned, now works.
Player now re-downloads Assets when “ALL” Cache is cleared.
Repeat Scheduling now works, if the End Time is set for following day.
Back&Forward
now works in Screens as a Cloud Service UI.
Tags with same name but different namespaces could not be created earlier.
XML Documentation for Experience Manager as a Cloud Service is generally available. It allows Experience Manager as a Cloud Service customers to procure XML Documentation addon to import, create, manage, and deliver technical content across multiple channels including Experience Manager Sites.
This section outlines the Release Notes for Cloud Manager in AEM as a Cloud Service 2021.7.0.
The Release Date for Cloud Manager in AEM as a Cloud Service 2021.7.0 is July 15, 2021.
The next release is planned for August 12, 2021.
Customers are now able to use Azul 8 and 11 JDKs for their Cloud Manager build processes and can either select to use one of these JDKs for toolchains-compatible Maven plugins or the entire Maven process execution.
The outbound egress IP will now be logged in the build step log file.
Stage and Production environments running old versions of AEM will now report a status of Update Available.
The maximum SSL certificates supported has increased to 20 per program.
The maximum number of domains that can be configured has increased to 500 per environment.
The Manage Git buttons has been retitled to Access Git Info and the dialog has been visually refreshed.
The version of the AEM Project Archetype used by Cloud Manager has been updated to version 28.
In some situations, Preview was not an available option when binding an IP Allow List to an environment.
Manually navigating to the execution details page for a non-existing execution did not show an error, just an endless loading screen.
The error message shown when the maximum number of SSL certificates was reached was not helpful.
In some circumstances, there could be a discrepancy in the release version shown in the pipeline card on the Overview page.
Add program wizard incorrectly stated that name cannot be changed after creation.
Customers switching to use the Azul JDKs should be aware that not all existing applications will compile without error on Azul JDK. It is highly recommended to test locally before switching.
The Release Date for Cloud Acceleration Manager is July 15, 2021.
Cloud Acceleration Manager is a cloud-based application designed to guide your IT teams throughout the transition journey starting from planning to going live on Cloud Service. Set up your teams for a successful migration with Adobe-recommended best practices, tips, documentation, and tools to help at every phase of the journey to AEM as Cloud Service. Learn more here.
Check this Cloud Acceleration Manager demo video.