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 (2021.9.0) is October 6, 2021.
The following release (2021.10.0) is on November 4, 2021.
Have a look at the September 2021 Release Overview video for a summary of the features added.
Users can now sort the assets displayed in the search results in Column and Card views. The sorting works on Name, Created, Modified, or None columns.
Figure: Sort the search results in Assets in Column and Card views.
To programmatically invoke processing using asset microservices, a new API is introduced. Developers can now apply an existing folder-level processing profile on one or more specific assets in a folder. The processing profile gets applied based on custom metadata properties updates. See AssetProcessor
in the Experience Manager API reference. As before, it is possible to use asset microservices from the user interface.
Use Adobe Sign roles in an Adaptive Form: Adobe Sign for business and enterprise service levels have the option to expand the roles for Agreement recipients, beyond just the Signer, to better match their workflow requirements. You can now enable each recipient of agreement to configure their role in an Adaptive Form, with Signer being the default role.
Analytics for Adaptive Forms: You can now capture and track end user behavior via Adobe Analytics for Adaptive Forms to gather end user insights. It helps make informed decisions based on data to improve end user experience.
Easily connect AEM Forms with Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce: The service provides out of the box data source configuration and data models for Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce, making it faster and easier for developers to configure Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce as data sources for an adaptive form.
E-Sign an adaptive form using DocuSign: You can use DocuSign to e-sign an adaptive form. The service provides a custom submit action to use DocuSign with an adaptive form. You can install the package available on Software Distribution to import the submit action.
Unified Storage Connector: Use Unified Storage Connector to externalize in-process data in customer-managed repositories. For example, you can
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 allows you to generate documents in synchronous mode. The APIs enables you to create applications that let you:
You can write to formscsbeta@adobe.com to sign up for the beta program.
New “associated commerce content” tab in Sites editor increases author efficiency by quickly getting access to relevant AEM product content for the current context
Improved product picker UI for better user experience, increased efficiency and support for complex product catalog
Respect “include_in_menu” property in navigation component
Menu cache flush is not working as expected
JS errors during AEM CS deployment step and when not using clientside components
Cannot create CIF cloud config in folders that have a sling:configs node
Screens as a Cloud Service now supports basic playback monitoring. The player will now report various playback metrics with each ping (defaults to 30 seconds). Based on the metrics, it provides the ability to detect various edge cases (stuck experience, blank screen, scheduling problem, etc.). This feature allows the team to remotely monitor if a player is properly playing content, improves reactivity to blank screens or broken experiences in the field, and decreases the risk of showing a broken experience to the end user.
See Basic Playback Monitoring for more details.
Thumbnail Support for videos in now supported in Screens as a Cloud Service. A content author can define a thumbnail for videos so that the image can be used as a placeholder and properly test content playback and targeting, while the actual video is being finalized by the appropriate team. The image can also be used, in case the playback of the video fails.
See Thumbnail Support for Videos for more details.
Player could not show content from Embedded page and this issue is now fixed.
After a successful login, navigating to the default page (channels) ended up in a Internal Server Error page.
Associated tag entries were not removed when removing playlist(s).
Advanced Networking
The advanced networking feature is part of the 2021.9.0 release, and will be enabled for customers in mid-October.
Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service now offers several types of advanced networking capabilities, including:
Read the documentation for more information, including how to self serve provision advanced networking using Cloud Manager APIs.
Index Optimizations
To improve the performance of search queries and indexing, the full-text index lucene-2 is no longer used out-of-the-box in Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service from this release. In order to remove this full-text index on AEM environments in accordance with AEM customers, Adobe Engineering works individually and pro-actively with customers for a gentle and sustainable removal of the Lucene full-text index. Please visit the Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service documentation for more information and contact our support directly if you have any questions.
This section outlines the Release Notes for Cloud Manager in AEM as a Cloud Service 2021.9.0 and 2021.8.0.
The Release Date for Cloud Manager in AEM as a Cloud Service 2021.9.0 is September 09, 2021.
The next release is planned for October 07, 2021.
The version of the AEM Project Archetype used by Cloud Manager has been updated to version 30.
The program cards on Cloud Manager landing page and the associated experience has been refreshed.
The Code Quality Step Log now includes verbose logging information on the OakPal scanning process.
The Activity page menu options will now include an option to Download Log for completed Code Generator executions. Selecting this will download the log of the build step.
Clicking directly on the Program card will now navigate to Cloud Manager Overview page.
User will now see a more comprehensible message when trying to add a new IP Allow List in a program that has reached the maximum allowed number of IP Allow Lists that can be configured.
Wrong URL was copied when selecting the copy URL menu option from Repositories screen.
The Release Date for Cloud Acceleration Manager is October 04, 2021.
The Release Date for Content Transfer Tool v1.6.0 is October 04, 2021.
Improved User Mapping with a simplified User Experience, including the following features listed below. For more details, refer to Using User Mapping Tool.
To increase CTT robustness, content can be ingested to either Author instance or Publish instance at a time.
When versions are included, the path /var/audit
is automatically included to migrate audit events.
The Release Date for Best Practices Analyzer v2.1.18 is September 02, 2021.
Ability to detect and report on total node count.
Ability to detect and report on the node store type and size.