2026.02.0 AEM Release Overview Video

Transcript

Get ready because the latest Adobe Experience Manager release just dropped. We’re breaking down all the new enhancements and must-see features that are going to make your workflow a whole lot smoother. You won’t want to miss this. Let’s get into it.

Delivering intent-aware experiences starts with the ability to generate winning experiences faster, and activation puts the content to work.

In order to drive intent-aware experiences, optimization needs to happen continuously. Trust and governance is embedded in Experience Manager in every aspect, from generation to optimization. Foundational services leverage AI to power the broad range of AEM applications. This release brings several innovations and features to enhance your experience. Features like content fragment management and launches open API, quiet hours, update free periods, and general availability. AEM content advisor in Adobe Express and pipeline troubleshooting code quality. First up, the innovation that actually puts the intelligence in content generation. Let’s dive in. Content fragment management and launches, open API side port to 6.5 LTS SP2.

A modern open API footprint for content fragment management operations is now available on AEM 6.5 LTS SP2 as well. This update includes new open APIs for content fragment launches which has been validated on AEM 6.5 LTS. This now enables developers to create custom applications and user interfaces for working with AEM content fragments. Next up, we’re looking at the upgrades that change the game for how you actually activate your content. AEM content advisor in Adobe Express product capability, value to the customer. It’s all about empowering teams across the whole enterprise to easily find and grab trusted brand approved content, right inside the apps they use every day. Now you can discover the exact assets you need at the moment you need them so you can jump straight into reusing or remixing that content in Express.

Content advisor surfaces those high quality governed assets for you, which really just drives better reuse and consistency while scaling efficiency across the entire content supply chain.

What problem does it solve? Content advisor was built to address the growing challenge of content sprawl and reuse at scale. By using AI to surface the right brand approved assets, it helps teams move faster, reduce inefficiencies, and drive consistent reuse across the content supply chain.

Outcome. Content advisor powered by AI surfaces the right brand approved assets, so teams can quickly discover, activate, and reuse content at scale across the content supply chain.

Use trusted content in flow.

Access trusted assets directly within Adobe Express. No downloading, re-uploading, or manual handoffs. Content is ready for reuse exactly where work happens.

Intelligent discovery. Contextual recommendations based on what is being authored, or simply upload a brief and let content advisor surface what you need. Native support for channel ready on the fly renditions powered by dynamic media. In addition, alleviate Adobe Express file size restrictions and work with any asset. For example, 300 megabyte TIFF becomes a 2.5 megabyte JPEG dynamic media rendition. Quiet hours. Update free periods. GA.

This feature really ensures that those critical business moments, like a big go live or a major sales event, aren’t interrupted by maintenance release updates. It gives you direct control over your maintenance schedule right in Cloud Manager. You can protect specific hours every single day, or even block updates entirely for up to three separate weeks a year, all without having to wait for a request approval. We built this to eliminate the friction of the manual exception process. That old system was slow and created unnecessary stress for customers for their most important work windows.

We wanted to move away from a model that required Adobe approval for every change. This update gives that power back to the customer so they can manage their own stability without any middleman. In this last section, let’s explore agentic AI enhancements.

Content MCP server.

The development agents pipeline troubleshooting job helps developers save time when debugging AEM as a cloud service deployments.

In addition to diagnosing issues with the build and unit testing step, with this release, the pipeline troubleshooting job now works with the code scanning step in full stack deployment and code quality pipelines.

The code scanning step checks code quality rules, security vulnerabilities and generates code quality reports. When a failure occurs, customers can type a prompt in the AI assistant to ask the development agent for a root cause analysis and suggestions on how to mitigate. These innovations are really designed to help you move faster, collaborate better and deliver those more intelligent experiences at scale.

If you want to dive deeper, definitely check out the release notes on Experience League. And don’t forget to like, comment and subscribe so you can stay up to date on what’s coming next. Thanks for watching and we’ll see you in the next release.