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 (2024.3.0) is April 11, 2024. The next feature release (2024.4.0) is planned for April 25, 2024.
Maintenance Release Notes maintenance
You can find the latest maintenance release notes here.
Release Video release-video
Have a look at the March 2024 Release Overview video for a summary of the features added in the 2024.3.0 release:
Experience Manager Sites as a Cloud Service sites
New features in Experience Manager Sites sites-features
AEM Authoring for Edge Delivery Services
AEM Sites can now be used as a content source for Edge Delivery Services. Authors manage their websites in AEM using the new Universal Editor with in-context wysiwyg authoring. This enables companies to build fast high performance webpages with Edge Delivery Services while leveraging AEM’s powerful capabilites for content management.
For more information, see the documentation and watch the AEM Gems - Getting started with AEM Authoring and Edge Delivery Services
Universal Editor for Headless Implementations
The Universal Editor enables also decoupled web applications to harness the same intuitive in-context WYSIWYG authoring previously exclusive to traditional sites. Content creators can now visually compose layouts using Content Fragments with the same ease as components within pages.
What sets the Universal Editor apart is its adaptability to diverse web architectures, accommodating both server- and client-side rendering, remaining framework-agnostic, and eliminating the necessity for AEM hosting. Integrating existing web applications with the Universal Editor for content editing is straightforward, primarily requiring developers to incorporate specific data attributes into their markup.
With that, the Universal Editor ensures a consistent editing experience, regardless of content structure or underlying technology stack. For more information, see the Universal Editor Introduction.
Content Management OpenAPIs for Content Fragments and Models
Developers can now programmatically interact with Content Fragments and Content Fragment models and perform CruD operations on them using Content Management OpenAPIs. For more information, see API documentation
Multisite Management support for Experience Fragments
Multisite Management support has been extended for folder structures that store experience fragments, allowing users to rollout a complete content structure with experience fragments.
Compare Content Fragment Versions
The new Content Fragment Editor now allows content authors to compare and view differences between the current version of a content fragment and a previous version.
Early Adopter Program sites-early-adopter
Generate Variations
Leverage GenAI through AEM’s new feature, generate variations, accessible now in Cloud Service. Generate variations helps you generate and scale content creation through the use of generative AI. Reach out to your Adobe account team for consideration in the program.
Asset browsing in Content Fragment Console
Content authors can now browse, view, and take actions on images, and other assets without having to leave the Content Fragment Console.
Interested in trying out the feature and sharing feedback? Send an email to aemcs-headless-adopter@adobe.com from your official email ID to learn more about the early adopter program.
Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service assets
New features in Admin view admin-view
Native integration with Adobe Express
AEM Assets integrates natively with Adobe Express, which allows you to directly access the assets stored in AEM Assets from within the Adobe Express user interface. You can place content managed in AEM Assets in the Express canvas and then save new or edited content in an AEM Assets repository.
Preview renditions for all supported video types
Experience Manager Assets now generates preview renditions of all supported video types by default without requiring a processing profile configuration.
New features in Assets view assets-view
Manage permissions for collections
Assets Essentials allows the administrators to manage access levels for private collections available in the repository. As an administrator, you can create user groups and assign permissions to those groups to manage access levels. You can also delegate the permission management privileges to user groups.
Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service forms
New features for AEM Forms forms-new-features
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Adobe Experience Manager Forms Edge Delivery Services: AEM Forms Edge Delivery Services is a composable set of services that enables a rapid development environment where authors can update, publish, and launch new forms rapidly. These services deliver exceptional and high impact forms experiences that drive engagement and conversions. These forms experiences are easy to author and develop.
These services enable you to:
- Work with multiple content sources on the same forms site and use your preferred authoring tools, such as Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, or Adaptive Forms Editor.
- Deliver Digital Enrollment experiences that load and render quickly and continuously monitor your forms performance through real user monitoring (RUM).
- Use plain HTML, modern CSS, and vanilla JavaScript to create exceptional experiences, avoiding the steep learning curve of a specific framework.
New features in Prerelease for AEM Forms forms-pre-release
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Enhanced Visual Rule Editor for Core Component Based Adaptive Forms: This release brings a significant upgrade to the visual rule editor for adaptive forms based on core components. This release brings a significant upgrade to the visual rule editor for adaptive forms based on core components. This update focuses on streamlining interactions with custom functions, empowering you to build more robust and efficient forms.
You can now streamline custom function interactions by:
- Leveraging new annotations to provide clearer function definitions.
- Using caching mechanisms for custom functions, leading to faster form performance.
- Seamlessly working with global objects within custom functions.
- Defining and utilizing optional parameters within custom functions.
This update also brings the following enhancements to rule editor functionality. You can:
- Implement powerful “when-then-else” logic for conditional execution.
- Leverage modern JavaScript features like let and arrow functions (ES10 support).
- Validate or reset not only fields, but also entire panels and forms, expanding control over user interactions.
These advancements provide a more intuitive and powerful experience for crafting rules and custom functions within the visual rule editor.
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Create multiple versions of an Adaptive Form: You can now easily manage variations of existing forms. This simplifies version control and facilitates comparison for form optimization, all within a single, streamlined workflow.
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Compare Adaptive Form: You can now easily compare two forms to dentify differences between two forms. It facilitates smooth collaboration by enabling team members to compare revisions and discuss changes efficiently.
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Accessibility Enhancements for Scribble Signature Component: This update brings significant accessibility improvements to the Scribble Signature component:
Improved Keyboard Navigation:
- Pressing the Tab key allows users to navigate through all interactive elements within the signature dialog box.
- Signing with a brush or keyboard and pressing Enter closes the dialog.
- Focus remains on the signature control after signing and clicking “OK”.
Clear Signature Functionality:
- A clear cross icon for erasing the signature is accessible via the Tab key.
- The “Clear Signature Confirmation” dialog is also accessible through Tab navigation.
Enhanced Labels and Controls:
- The label for the keyboard signature button is now clearer, using “aria-label” to announce functionality (such as “aria-label=‘Sign using Keyboard’”).
- Improved contrast ensures all controls within the scribble signature are easily distinguishable.
- The OK/check mark button now visually indicates when it’s inactive.
Signature Feedback for Screen Readers:
- When a signature is typed, screen reader users can hear the text used to create the signature.
This update ensures a more inclusive experience for users with disabilities by improving navigation, clarity, and feedback for the Scribble Signature component.
Early Adopter Program forms-early-adopter
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Submit an Adaptive Form to Adobe Workfront Fusion Scenario: Forms as a Cloud Service offers an out-of-the-box option to effortlessly connect an Adaptive Form with Adobe Workfront. This simplifies the process of submitting an Adaptive Form to an Adobe Workfront scenario, allowing you trigger a Workfront Fusion scenario on submission of an Adaptive Form.
Using the Adobe Workfront Fusion Connector, you can design workflows that are triggered automatically upon submission of an Adaptive Form. For instance, envision a scenario where a workflow is initiated to assign a specific individual the task of reviewing submitted data, allowing approval or rejection of an application based on the information captured through the adaptive form. This streamlined integration enhances efficiency and brings a new level of automation to your workflow processes.| -
Reader Extension Service: AEM Forms Communication APIs has brought Reader Extension Service to allow you to add functionalities like form filling and commenting to regular PDFs, making them interactive for users with the free Adobe Reader.
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Right to left languages support: Adaptive Forms built on Core Components can now be presented in a Right-to-Left (RTL) language like Arabic, Persian, and Urdu. The RTL languages are spoken by over 2 billion people globally. Using a form in RTL language allows you to extend the reach of your adaptive forms to cater to these diverse audiences and select into RTL markets. In certain regions, it’s also a legal mandate to provide forms in the local language. By accommodating local languages, you not only open doors to a broader audience but also ensure compliance with relevant laws and regulations.
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Protect your documents with DocAssurance APIs (Part of Communication APIs): The DocAssurance APIs empower you to safeguard sensitive information by signing and encrypting the documents. Through encryption, the contents of a document are transformed into an unreadable format, ensuring that only authorized users can gain access. This fortified layer of protection not only shields valuable data from unauthorized eyes but also provides peace of mind. The Signature APIs let your organization protect the security and privacy of Adobe PDF documents that it distributes and receives. This service uses digital signatures and certification to ensure that only intended recipients can alter documents.
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You can leverage the Real User Monitoring (RUM) Data Service to enable client-side collection for AEM as a Cloud Service.
Real User Monitoring (RUM) Data Service offers a more precise reflection of user interactions, ensuring a reliable measure of website engagement. It is a great opportunity to gain advanced insights into your page performance. While this is beneficial for customers who use either Adobe-managed CDN or non-Adobe-managed CDN. Additionally, for customers using a non-Adobe managed CDN, automated traffic reporting can now be enabled for them, thus removing the need to share any traffic report with Adobe.If you are interested in testing this new feature and sharing your feedback, please send an email to
aemcs-rum-adopter@adobe.com, along with your domain name for each of the environments that you would like to enable RUM for from your email address associated with your Adobe ID. Adobe’s product team will then enable the Real User Monitoring (RUM) Data Service for you.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation foundation
Early Adopter Programs foundation-early-adopter
Traffic Filter Rules Alerts (Early Adopter Program) traffic-filter-rules-alerts-early-adopter
The recently released Traffic Filter Rules, which include the optionally licensable Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules, lets you configure what traffic should be allowed or denied.
Now you can email aemcs-cdn-config-adopter@adobe.com to join the early adopter program so you can be alerted whenever your traffic filter rules are triggered. Actions Center email notifications will keep you informed when certain traffic conditions occur so you can take appropriate measures.
CDN Configuration (Early Adopter Program) cdn-config-early-adopter
In addition to the recently released Traffic Filter Rules, which include the optionally licensable Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules, there’s an opportunity to use the Configuration Pipeline to declare and deploy other types of CDN configuration. Learn more and join the early adopter program by emailing aemcs-cdn-config-adopter@adobe.com to gain access to:
- 301/302 client-side redirects
- proxying requests at the edge to arbitrary origins (such as non-AEM applications)
- URL transformations
- setting or modifying request or response headers
- custom error pages when the CDN can’t reach AEM
Apache/Dispatcher Runtime Ingestion of Rewrite Maps (Early Adopter Program) apache-rewritemaps-early-adopter
Similar to AEM 6.5, Apache/dispatcher will ingest rewrite maps placed in a specific location in the publish repository, and load them, without requiring a web tier pipeline execution. This opens up opportunities for a business user to declare redirects using a UI, such as that offered by ACS Commons Redirect Map Manager. Please reach out to aemcs-cdn-config-adopter@adobe.com for more information.
Edge Side Includes (ESI) for Loading Dynamic Content (Early Adopter Program) esi-early-adopter
The Adobe Managed CDN now supports Edge Side Includes (ESI), a markup language for edge level dynamic web content assembly. By including ESI snippets, you can cache the overall HTML page at the CDN with higher TTLs, while more frequently fetching from origin those smaller sections that require higher cadence updates (lower TTLs). Please reach out to aemcs-cdn-config-adopter@adobe.com for more information.
RDE Support for Front-End Code using Site Themes and Site Templates (Early Adopter Program) rde-frontend-early-adopter
Rapid Development Environments (RDEs) now support front-end code based on site themes and site templates, for early adopters. With RDEs, this is done using a command line directive, rather than a front-end pipeline. Please reach out to aemcs-rde-support@adobe.com to try it out and provide feedback.
Enhanced logging for RDEs (Early Adopter Program) rde-logging-early-adopter
While debugging code in a Rapid Development Environment (RDE), developers can now configure and stream logs more efficiently, using the command line, and without modifying OSGI properties in version control. Features include:
- declare log levels on a per package or class level
- customize the log output format
- stream multiple logs in parallel
Please reach out to aemcs-rde-support@adobe.com to try it out and provide feedback.
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