Maintenance Release Notes maintenance-release-notes

The following section outlines the technical release notes for the current maintenance release of Experience Manager as a Cloud Service.

Release 20476 20476

Summarized below are the continuous improvements for maintenance release 20476, which was publicly released on April 15, 2025. The previous maintenance release was release 20133.

The 2025.4.0 feature activation will provide the full feature set for this maintenance release. See the Experience Manager Releases Roadmap for more information.

Enhancements enhancements-20476

  • CNTBF-411: Add possibility to delete sling job in case it is dropped by JCR.
  • CQ-4359813: AEM Translation Kit: March 20.
  • CQ-4359811: Granite Translation Kit: March 20.
  • GRANITE-57863: Update Filevault to version 3.8.4.
  • GRANITE-56154: Configure exponential retries in oak-segment-azure.
  • GRANITE-55999: Improve performance of UserPropertiesService.
  • GRANITE-55781: Avoid redundant reconfiguration of user membership.
  • GRANITE-53956: Upgrade Azure SDK V8 to V12 for oak-segment-azure.
  • GRANITE-50654: On principal permissions tab, remove “everyone” load by default on the front end.
  • SKYOPS-103444: Update to Sling ResourceResolver 1.12.6.
  • SKYOPS-101147: Update caconfig impl.
  • SKYOPS-97124: Add analyser warnings for outdated versions of the SPIFly bundle.
  • SKYOPS-95826: Update runtime Java versions to 11.0.26 and 21.0.6.
  • SKYOPS-53671: Use customer installed artifacts from feature models on (RDE) AEM restarts.

Fixed Issues fixed-issues-20476

  • ASSETS-49027: [Regression] The AemRequestEventFilter breaks POST requests to the OSGI web console.
  • ASSETS-44956: Can’t Select Any Dynamic Media Rendition - script tags should be loaded in top level component.
  • CNTBF-410: CheckJob getId null pointer in ContentCopy Bundle.
  • CNTBF-341: ContentCopy export Index Out Of Bounds.
  • CQ-4355411: Tooltips remain on the display in “User Preferences” dialog.
  • GRANITE-57265: Dropdown selection values are not getting selected.
  • GRANITE-57067 - Missing effective policies on UI.
  • SITES-30727: drag and drop may fail for sub-components within the AEM editor.
  • SKYOPS-90607: Sling Jobs are executed in inactive deployment / mutable content.
  • SKYOPS-95722: Remove MaxPermSize size from quickstart flags in AEM-SDK.
  • SKYOPS-103569: Certain images cannot be loaded with Java 21: javax.imageio.IIOException: Cannot create Sun JPEGImageReader backend.

Known Issues known-issues-20476

None.

Deprecated Features and APIs deprecated-20476

Deprecated and removed features and APIs in AEM as a Cloud Service are detailed in the Deprecated and Removed Features and APIs document.

Security Fixes security-20476

AEM as a Cloud Service is dedicated to optimizing your platform’s security and performance. This maintenance release addresses 5 identified vulnerabilities, reinforcing our commitment to robust system protection.

Embedded Technologies embedded-tech-20476

Technology
Version
Link
AEM Oak
1.78.0
Oak API 1.78.0 API
AEM SLING API
2.27.6
Apache Sling API 2.27.6 API
AEM HTL
1.4.26-1.4.0
HTML Template Language Specification
AEM Core Components
2.28.0
AEM WCM Core Components
recommendation-more-help
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