Release Notes for Cloud Manager 2023.12.0 in Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service release-notes

This page documents the release notes for Cloud Manager release 2023.12.0 in AEM as a Cloud Service.

NOTE
See this page for the current release notes for Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service.

Release Date release-date

The release date for Cloud Manager release 2023.12.0 in AEM as a Cloud Service is 14 December 2023. The next release is planned for 18 January 2024.

What’s New what-is-new

  • Cloud Manager custom permissions let you create custom permission profiles with configurable permissions to restrict access to programs, pipelines, and environments for Cloud Manager users.

    • This feature will be rolled out in a phased manner with completion expected with the February 2024 Cloud Manager release.
    • Please send an email to Grp-CloudManager-custom-permissions@adobe.com from the email address associated with your Adobe ID, if you wish to be enabled sooner.
  • Build containers now support Node.js version 18 for frontend pipelines.

  • For newly-created Cloud Manager programs, the associated New Relic sub-account is not activated by default.

    • For existing programs where the New Relic sub-account has not been accessed for more than 90 days, it will be deactivated.
    • If you wish to use the New Relic sub-account, you will need to opt-in via Cloud Manager.
  • The rollouts of updates to the build environment that were announced and begun with the October release of Cloud Manager have been completed.

    • Support for Node 18 was added for front end pipelines.

    • Java 8 minor version was updated to jdk1.8.0_371.

    • Java 11 minor version was updated to jdk-11.0.20.

    • Maven was updated to version to 3.8.8.

      • Maven now disables all insecure http://* mirrors by default.
      • Adobe recommends users update their Maven repositories to use HTTPS instead of HTTP.
    • The build container base image was updated to Ubuntu 22.04.

Early Adoption Program early-adoption

For a chance to test some upcoming features, be a part of Adobe’s early adoption program.

Client-Side Collection via Real Use Monitoring (RUM) rum

You can leverage the Real Use Monitoring (RUM) Data Service to enable client-side collection for AEM as a Cloud Service.

Real Use 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. This is beneficial for customers who use either Adobe-managed CDN or non-Adobe managed CDN. 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 from the email address associated with your Adobe ID. Please include the domain name for production, stage, and dev environments in your email. Availability of the early adopter program of this feature is limited.

Bring your own GitHub byo-github

If you use GitHub to manage your repositories, you can now validate code directly within your GitHub repositories through Cloud Manager. This integration eliminates the need to consistently sync code with the Adobe repository and allows you to verify pull requests before merging them into the main branches.

If you are interested in testing this new feature and sharing your feedback, send an email to Grp-CloudManager_BYOG@adobe.com from your email address associated with your Adobe ID.

Self-Service Content Restore content-restore

A new self-service content restore feature now provides backup restoration for up to seven days and is available to early adopters for evaluation purposes featuring:

  • Point-in-time backup restoration for the previous 24 hours
  • Fixed time restorations for up to seven days

If you are interested in testing this new feature and sharing your feedback, send an email to aemcs-restorefrombackup-adopter@adobe.com from your email associated with your Adobe ID.

  • The early adopter program is limited to development environments only.
  • Availability of the early adopter program of this feature is limited.
  • This feature is for recovering accidentally deleted content and is not intended for disaster recovery.

Experience Audit Dashboard experience-audit-dashboard

The Cloud Manager Experience Audit dashboard includes a trended view of your page performance scores along with insights and recommendations to help you improve them. Experience Audit is included as a step in the Cloud Manager production pipeline.

The dashboard uses Google Lighthouse, an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of your web apps. You can run it against any web page, public, or requiring authentication. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more.

Interested in test-driving the new dashboard? To get started, send an email to aem-lighthouse-pilot@adobe.com from your email associated with your Adobe ID.

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