AEM Communities Release Notes aem-communities-release-notes
This section provides information on the improvements to AEM Communities since the 6.3 release. To learn about the new features in greater detail, see What’s New in AEM 6.4 Communities.
To obtain the latest release, see the Deploying Communities section of the documentation.
Main improvements main-improvements
Community Sites:
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Community Administrators can now:
- Delete permanently Community Sites
- Select a context-aware configuration folder for Community Sites
Community Groups:
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Community Administrators can now:
- Delete permanently Community Groups
- Create Community Groups in multiple languages
- Add enablement catalog & assignments within Community Groups
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Enablement Managers can now
- Create and assign resources and learning paths within Community Groups
File Library:
- Community Members now have multiple enhancements to the File Library e.g. sort orders, tagging…
Notifications:
- Community Members now receive notifications upon approval of contributions that went through a moderation process
Moderation:
- Automated Spam Detection Filter
- Community Moderators have additional Moderation filters (e.g. answered/unanswered questions)
- Community Moderators can bookmark and link moderation to predefined filters (e.g. all posts pending approval)
Overall compatibility with foundational changes in AEM 6.4.
Note: all these features are also available for AEM 6.3. Please check the AEM Communities release notes for 6.3.
Known Issues known-issues
- Moderation - Not able to delete parent post as a single delete operation from the bulk moderation UI (CQ-4236797)
- Console - Forgot Username or Password link is redirecting to the Login Page instead of the corresponding password retrieval form (CQ-4237682)
Select Features select-features
Expert Scoring (Powered by Sensei) - is used to enable gamification, which is an effective way of encouraging and rewarding valuable community behavior. It can also be used to identify experts for recommendation or marketing purposes.
Demonstrations demonstrations
All these features can be demonstrated using the AEM Demo Machine available publicly on GitHub.com when using the AEM Communities demo scenario and also within the new We.Retail reference implementation.