Current Release Notes for Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service release-notes
The following section outlines the feature release notes for the current (latest) version of Experience Manager as a Cloud Service.
Release Date release-date
The release date of Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service current feature release (2026.3.0) is March 26, 2026. The next feature release (2026.4.0) is planned for April 30, 2026.
Maintenance Release Notes maintenance
You can find the latest maintenance release notes here.
AEM Beta Programs aem-beta-programs
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) beta programs are a way for customers to get access to prerelease features and code, provide feedback, and guide the future of AEM.
Benefits of participating
Getting early access to features that Adobe is developing lets customers and partners provide feedback and shape product development. It also helps them prepare to adopt new capabilities before general availability.
Current beta programs
The following sections list active beta programs.
Agents in AEM agents-in-aem
If you would like to explore the powerful, new AEM agentic capabilities across production, governance, optimization, discovery, and development, please learn about how you can access them here.
AEM Foundation (Beta programs) aem-foundation-beta-programs
See AEM Foundation beta programs.
Cloud Manager (Beta programs) cloud-manager-beta-programs
See Cloud Manager beta programs.
Experience Manager Sites as a Cloud Service sites
Content Fragment Check-Out/-In cf-checkout-in
To improve parity with AEM Touch UI, content fragments can now be checked out and checked back in using the new Content Fragment Admin UI as well. Check-out functionality is unchanged, effectively locking a checked-out content fragment and thereby preventing it from being edited in Content Fragment Editor by other users. Users who own a content fragment and administrators can check the fragment out and back in. Checking a fragment out has no effect on referenced child fragments or assets.
Content Fragment Launches Jobs Panel cf-launches-jobs
Asynchronous jobs for content fragments launches can now be viewed in the properties panel of the content fragment launches admin UI to observe their status - if a job is still running, has been completed, or was aborted, along with relevant detail information about the job.
Update to RTE of the Content Fragment Editor cf-rte-update
The rich text editor (RTE) of the Content Fragment Editor was migrated away from TinyMCE to TipTap. This change brings with it a number of benefits.
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The Universal Editor and Content Fragment Editor now use the same RTE technology stack.
- This means both editors now produce the same HTML.
- Extensions can now be reusable.
- The same functions and methods are now available using both editors (in headless use cases).
- The ultimate goal is that one configuration leads to a unified experience in both editors.
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The Content Editor now has a new look and feel in the Spectrum 2 style.
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New functionality is available in the Content Fragment Editor including find and replace and being content advisor ready.
Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service assets
Content Advisor in AEM Sites
Content Advisor is now available in AEM Sites, introducing intelligent asset discovery from AEM Assets directly. It enables users to effortlessly discover, browse, and reuse the most relevant assets directly within their workflow, eliminating the need to switch contexts.
Content Advisor provides intelligent features for assets such as campaign brief based suggestions, contextual suggestions, access to Dynamic Media renditions, and detailed asset metadata.
Coming soon - Content Advisor support for Adobe Workfront and AJO B2C applications, including ability to discover Content Fragments
New Features in Dynamic Media dynamic-media-new-features
Dynamic Media Template Editor updates dynamic-media-template-editor-updates
Layer Management Enhancements
- Drag-and-Drop Layer Reordering: Layers can now be reordered directly in the Layers panel by dragging, providing a faster and more intuitive way to organize layer stacking order beyond the existing Bring Forward or Send Backward actions.
- Copy, Paste & Duplicate: Full support for copying, pasting, and duplicating layers using keyboard shortcuts (Cmd/Ctrl+C, V, D) or the context menu, with support for multi-layer selections.
- Separate Layer Properties Button: Added dedicated Layer Properties button for easier navigation to layer settings, with double-click support on layers for quick access.
Text Formatting Features
- Line Spacing Control: New line spacing slider enables precise control over line height in text layers, with full end-to-end support including undo/redo and template save/load.
- All Caps Formatting: Text layers now support All Caps formatting option in the Font Style toolbar alongside Bold, Italic, and Underline.
- Vertical Alignment Options: Added vertical alignment controls for text layers, providing more precise text positioning within text boxes.
Size & Dimension Controls
- Aspect Ratio Unlock: Users can now unlock aspect ratio when adjusting size properties, allowing independent width and height adjustments for more flexible layer sizing.
- Copyfit Lines Configuration: Added support for
copyfitlinesandcopyfitmaxlinessettings in text copyfit properties, providing finer control over text fitting behavior.
Visual Polish
- Updated icons for Timer and Shape layers with refined Spectrum 2 (S2) design system icons.
Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service forms
Early Access Features in AEM Forms forms-early-access-features
Display labels for multi-select dropdown in Submission PDF
Multi-select dropdown components in Adaptive Forms now render their selected display labels in the generated Submission PDF, ensuring the document accurately reflects what users see on the form.
Enhanced accessibility for checkbox, radio button, and panel components
Adaptive Forms Core Components introduce WCAG 2.2 -compliant semantic markup for checkbox groups(v2), radio button groups(v2), and the Panel component. These components leverage <fieldset> and <legend> HTML elements to establish meaningful relationships between group labels and their options, enabling accurate interpretation by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Versioning support in Forms Manager
Forms Manager now supports versioning for Adaptive Forms (Core Components and Foundation Components), form fragments, themes, XDP templates, and binary assets. Create versions, view complete version history, and restore earlier states of your form assets directly from the Forms & Documents console.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation foundation
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation New Features foundation-new
Simplified Index Management simplified-index-management
Simplified Index Management provides a simpler way to define custom indexes and customize out-of-the-box (OOTB) indexes using one JSON file, without copying full definitions or managing versions manually. Customizations merge with the latest OOTB index, and a new index version is created when needed.
Cloud Manager MCP Server cm-mcp-server
Modern IDEs use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable large language models (LLMs) to invoke tools exposed by MCP servers. Instead of integrating directly with low-level API specifications, developers can simply describe their intent in natural language.
The Cloud Manager MCP Server allows you to interact with Cloud Manager APIs directly from your IDE using prompts. Supported scenarios include executing pipelines, checking environment status, and more.
Learn more about AEM MCP Servers.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation Important Notices foundation-notices
Java API Deprecations java-api-deprecation
The deprecated APIs targeting 2/26/2026 removal should no longer be used in code. To prevent deployment blocks, remove API usage before March 30, 2026. Important dates:
- Starting January 26, 2026: Actions Center notification emails are sent as a reminder to remove usage of these APIs.
- February 26, 2026: Cloud Manager pipelines that contain code using these APIs will pause during the Code Quality step. A Deployment Manager, Project Manager, or Business Owner can override the issue to allow the pipeline to proceed. This may slow your ability to validate and release code changes.
- March 30, 2026: Cloud Manager pipelines that contain code using these APIs will fail during the Code Quality step. Deployments will be blocked until the deprecated API usage is removed. This may prevent you from releasing time-sensitive updates and could impact your business operations.
- May 4, 2026: Environments still using deprecated APIs will not receive critical Adobe release updates and are not subject to Adobe’s standard commitments around performance and availability. As a result, you will not receive new features or bug fixes, application stability and uptime may be negatively affected,and security risk exposure may increase further.
See the deprecation article for full details, but for convenience, these APIs are listed below:
org.apache.sling.commons.authorg.apache.felix.webconsoleorg.eclipse.jettycom.mongodborg.apache.abderaorg.apache.felix.http.whiteboardorg.apache.cocoon.xmlch.qos.logbackorg.slf4j.spiorg.slf4j.eventorg.apache.log4jcom.google.commoncom.dreworg.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.memory
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation Early Adopter Features foundation-early-adopter
IDE AI tooling for AEM Java and Dispatcher Development (Public Beta Program) ai-dev-beta
Java-stack teams are increasingly using AI-assisted development in tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Visual Studio, and IntelliJ to speed up feature delivery and improve code quality.
Participate in the public beta (no sign-up necessary) to try out IDE tooling that can be used by coding agents to generate and debug AEM code and dispatcher configuration.
Learn more in the Local Development with AI Tools beta documentation and email aemcs-ai-ide-tools-feedback@adobe.com with questions or feedback.
AEM Edge Functions (Beta Program) edge-functions
AEM Edge Functions allows you to execute JavaScript at the CDN layer, bringing data processing closer to the end user. This reduces latency and enables responsive, dynamic experiences at the edge.
Common use cases include:
- Personalizing content based on geolocation, device type, or user attributes
- Acting as middleware between the CDN and your origin
- Reformatting responses from third-party APIs (and perhaps aggregating multiple API responses) before delivering them to the browser
- Composing and serving server-rendered HTML at the edge using content stitched from various backends
- Exposing an MCP server for LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude to access custom tools
We have a limited number of opportunities available for either AEM Publish Delivery or Edge Delivery Services projects for live production sites. If you’re interested in participating or want to learn more, please email aemcs-edgecompute-feedback@adobe.com with a brief description of your use case.
Web Tier Config Pipeline Troubleshooting with the Development Agent (Beta Program) devagent-webtier
The Development Agent’s pipeline troubleshooting capabilities help developers efficiently diagnose and resolve issues in AEM as a Cloud Service deployments. In addition to supporting Full Stack pipelines (Deployment and Code Quality), the Development Agent now supports troubleshooting for the Web Tier Config Pipeline as part of a beta program.
To request access to the beta, email aem-devagent@adobe.com. Pre-existing access to Agents in AEM is required.
IDE AI tooling for AEM 6.5 to AEM Cloud Service Migration (Alpha Program) cm-ide-migration
Accelerate your migration from AEM 6.5 to AEM as a Cloud Service (Java stack) by using IDE AI tooling to act on the recommendations of the Best Practices Analyzer Report.
Email aemcs-ai-ide-tools-feedback@adobe.com for more information.
Edge Authentication for Edge Delivery Services (Beta Program) edge-authentication
Edge Authentication lets you restrict access to Edge Delivery Services pages to only those who have authenticated with your identity provider (IdP). This is achieved by deploying an OpenID Connect (OIDC) configuration YAML file.
If interested, please email aemcs-edgecompute-feedback@adobe.com with a brief description of your use case and any questions you may have.
Canary Production Deployments to Test Code Before Accepting Live Traffic (Beta Program) canary-beta
Validate a production build with internal-only test traffic before exposing it to end users. Ship to production, route only canary traffic (using a special header), monitor behavior, then either promote to live traffic or roll back—without impacting customers.
Deploy your code releases to production, but restrict it to only internal test traffic before deciding whether to accept live traffic versus rolling back.
Email aemcs-canary-deployments-beta@adobe.com to request access and share feedback.
Snapshots for RDEs (Beta Program) rde-snapshot-program
In beta, Rapid Development Environments (RDEs) now support a feature to take a snapshot of the current state of code and content, which can be restored at a later time. This can be useful when syncing code that may need to be reverted, or when switching between development of different features. It’s also possible to restore just the mutable content as a known starting point for testing.
Please email aemcs-rde-support@adobe.com if there is interest in using and providing feedback on this feature.
Expanded Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (Alpha program) apm-alpha
For observability, AEM Cloud Service currently supports Adobe-provided New Relic One and customer-managed Dynatrace. As we explore support for additional APM options, please email us at aemcs-apm-beta@adobe.com with your preferred vendor or technology, along with use cases.
Experience Manager Guides guides
You can find a complete list of new and enhanced features of the latest release of Adobe Experience Manager Guides here.
Cloud Manager cloud-manager
You can find a complete list of Cloud Manager monthly releases here.
Migration Tools migration-tools
You can find a complete list of Migration Tools releases here.
Universal Editor universal-editor
You can find a complete list of Universal Editor releases here.
Generate Variations generate-variations
You can find a complete list of Generate Variations releases here.
Experience Cloud Release Notes experience-cloud
You can find information about releases of other Experience Cloud applications here.