General Release Notes for Adobe Experience Manager 6.4

Getting Sites Built Quicker

AEM 6.4 completes the transformation to the next generation component model. The Core Components concept introduced in AEM 6.3, and now joined by the Style System, provides an efficient way to build new and extend existing sites.

Recommended tutorial to learn on how to best leverage the new component model: Getting Started with AEM Sites - WKND Tutorial

Screens Add-on

Delivering a consistent message across all marketing channels including Digital Signage and kiosk networks is what AEM Screens stands for. AEM 6.4 adds support to run the Signage Player on Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome OS hardware. Further, enhancements to remote device management and schedules (groups of channels) are available.

For more information on the Screens updates, see AEM Screens User Guide.

Experience Manager Communities

AEM 6.4 adds many new features and enhancements to Communities. Full list of changes is available in AEM Communities. Highlights for this release are:

Enhancements to Moderation

Automatic spam detection

New spam detection engine has been provided to filter out unwanted user generated content on community sites and groups. Once enabled from system/console/configMgr, it marks a piece of user generated content as spam based on a pre-defined set of spam words. To know more about spam detection engine, refer automoderating community user generating content.

New filters for QnA

New filters, named Answered and Not Answered, have been added to bulk moderation console to filter QnA questions. To know how the Answered and Unanswered status filters work, refer bulk moderating user generated content.

Bookmark moderation filters

Ability to bookmark the pre-defined moderation filters on moderation console has been provided. These filters are appended toward the end of the URL string, therefore can be shared, reused and revisited later. Know how to bookmark filters in bulk moderation console.

Delete UGC and user profiles

AEM 6.4 Communities exposes out-of-the-box APIs and sample servlet to enable end users have control over their data. These APIs also enable data processing and data controlling organizations to serve EU GDPR compliance requests.

Enhancements to Site and Group Management

Create multi-locale groups in a single step

Capability to create multi-lingual groups in single operation has been provided. To create such groups, users can navigate to Group Collection of the desired communities site from the Sites console. Create a group, and specify the desired languages in Community Group Template page. To know more about this functionality, refer community groups console.

Delete community sites and groups in a click

Delete icon is now available on respective sites and groups, while navigating from global navigation. Using this icon deletes all the items and content associated with the site or group, and removes all the user associations. To know more about this functionality, refer managing community sites and managing community groups.

Enhancements to Enablement

Assignment and Catalog functions are now available within groups. This enables learning content to be created, managed and published for a specific set of targeted community members. To know more about enabling community groups, refer managing enablement resources.

Experience Manager Assets

AEM 6.4 brings in several new features and enhancements to Assets including new, improved CreativeCloud integration, key Artificial Intelligence innovations, improved metadata management, reporting enhancements, and overall user experience improvements. The full list of changes available in AEM Assets. The highlights of the release are:

Adobe Asset Link

Adobe Asset Link in Creative Cloud for enterprise streamlines collaboration between creatives and marketers in the content creation process. It is a new native capability in Creative Cloud for enterprise that connects Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign to AEM — without creatives having to leave their tools of choice.

To learn more about this capability, prerequisites, and how to access it, see Adobe Asset Link.

AEM desktop app

AEM desktop app has been updated to Version 1.8, which is compatible with AEM 6.4. The full list of changes for AEM desktop app is provided in a dedicated AEM desktop app release notes document.

Improvements introduced since the AEM 6.3 release include the ability to upload hierarchical folders in the background, a new UI to monitor asset background operations, enhanced caching, networking and login, as well as overall stability improvements. The documentation also includes a best practices guide.

Adobe Sensei Services

New capabilities include Enhanced Smart Tags, with the ability to learn customer business taxonomy, automatically tag digital assets with customer-specific tags and Smart Translation Search, which improves discoverability in multiple languages by translating search terms on the fly. To learn more about this feature, see Enhanced Smart Tags.

Metadata

Various enhancements include the ability to import and export metadata simultaneously for large numbers of assets and advanced metadata constructs, such as Cascading Metadata.

Reports

Asset reporting underwent a big overhaul in AEM 6.4 with new reporting framework, user experience, and more OOTB reports for customer use cases. To learn how to generate various reports, see Asset Reports.

User Experience

Multiple enhancements to improve browsing, searching and admin experience for Assets users such as scrolling experience, search back button, improved search filters and many more. The full list available in AEM Assets.

Brand Portal

Various enhancements in areas of metadata, reporting, digital rights, login experience, and publish performance for asset distribution. To know about the new enhancements and features, see What’s new in AEM Assets Brand Portal.