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Last update: Thu Nov 13 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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

Release 23385 23385

Summarized below are the continuous improvements for maintenance release 23385, which was publicly released on November 13, 2025. The previous maintenance release was release 22943.

The 2025.11.0 feature activation will provide the full feature set for this maintenance release. See the Experience Manager Releases Roadmap for more information.

NOTE

Releases 23320 and 23122 have been made private.

Enhancements enhancements-23385

CQ-4361363: Latest AEM and Granite translations.
FORMS-21594: Enable Locking of Interactive Communications Template Content & Layout for Content Authors.
FORMS-20385: Support XDP Editing in Interactive Communications Editor.
FORMS-10883: Support for JSON with XHTML namespace tags in DoR generation to ensure accurate rendering of rich-text data submitted via APIs.
FORMS-21751: Canvas Features - Text Overflow, UI for Page Break.
FORMS-22049: Interactive Communications Editor - Migration to Spectrum 2.
FORMS-22050: Support for dynamic page numbering in Interactive Communications Editor.
FORMS-21606: Public OSGi Render SPIs for Interactive Communications.
FORMS-21613: Transaction reporting and performance logging for Render Interactive Communications SPIs.
GRANITE-62394: Updated joda-time to 2.12.7.
GRANITE-36205: Update Oak release to 1.88.0.
GRANITE-62020: Improve retry policy on RepositoryServiceHttpClient.
GRANITE-62169: Update commons-lang to 3.19.0.
SITES-35092: Content Fragments - New mixin and upgrade procedure for semantic search.
SITES-32319: Delivery OpenAPI - Support page references.
SITES-20123: GraphQL: Support superscript elements in JSON response.
SITES-34744: New “card” property in the Content Fragment response which contains data which can be used for rendering a thumbnail.
SITES-34571: Allow enumeration fields to be empty.
SITES-34812: Added capability to retrieve a Content Fragment without its references, by using the “references” parameter with the value “none”.
SITES-35176: Checking out a content fragment via Touch UI now prevents the editing of the content fragment in the new editor by other users.
SITES-30371: Added support for uuid based reference fields.
SITES-19309: retrieve a maximum of 150 references when opening the move page wizard.
SITES-32515: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - Add support for multi-fields and composite multi-fields (early access).
SITES-33784: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - Add support for ld-json in page metadata.
SITES-34832: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - Add public path of a page to page info servlet response.
SITES-25893: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - Add support for strong and emphasize to text rendering in blocks.
SITES-26158: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - Add support for table markup in blocks and columns (early access).
SITES-27949: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - Make path mapping optional.
SITES-35811: Use new index in Content Fragments queries.
SKYOPS-120857: Update filevault to 4.1.4.
SKYOPS-118390: Update JCR Resource to 3.3.6.
SKYOPS-121082: Update versions of org.apache.sling.discovery.standalone, org.apache.sling.jcr.packageinit and org.apache.sling.commons.fsclassloader sling bundles.

Fixed Issues fixed-issues-23385

ASSETS-58926: Fix video change thumbnail feature in DM.
ASSETS-58623: Fix npe in omnisearch when config exists.
CQ-4361144: Fixed the skipping of Content Fragments from Translation Jobs.
CQ-4355446: Fixed the unlocalised string in Translation project occurring on Cancel translation job dialog.
CQ-4360747: Fix an issue where Repeatable Translation Jobs create empty payloads & trigger too often.
GRANITE-61318: Fix an issue where the page creation wizard only highlights mandatory fields in basic tab.
GRANITE-60514: Fix an issue where stopped scheduled publications during full-stack pipeline run.
GRANITE-61019: Fix issue with GC on first run after AEM restart.
GRANITE-60456: Fix issue when administrator open any user’s property page.
SITES-34555: GraphQL - QueryValidationError after deployments.
SITES-35077: Content Fragments - Unpublish fails for fragments with parentheses due to incorrect URL-encoding.
SITES-35374: Content Fragments - Edited Content Fragment Disappears After Navigating Back.
SITES-36130: NPE in EditorRestrictionsStatusImpl.
SITES-35810: NullPointerException in Launches blocks publishEdgeDeliverySubscriber queue.
SITES-34368: AEM CIF generates 12 GraphQL aliases – exceeds Magento 2.4.6-P12 limit of 10.
SITES-36193: CCS connector fixes.
SITES-35169: Resolved issue that would cause incorrect pagination when invalid fragment resources were returned by the search.
SITES-34574: Fixed an issue where in some cases the cursor would not be returned by the Content Fragment Search API.
SITES-35520: Fixed an issue that caused ClassCastException or timeouts when attempting to publish content.
SITES-35210: Fixed a NullPointerException that would occur when attempting to publish a broken fragment with empty references filter.
SITES-35933: Fixed a bug that would result in empty “Request for Activation” workflows being triggered after the content fragment was published.
SITES-35925: Fixed a bug related to patching Content Fragment Models which would delete the “translatable” and “showThumbnail” properties from the model.
SITES-35409: Fixed a bug that prevented the republishing of adjusted fragments when moving a page.
SITES-15757: Fixed a bug that prevented the republishing of adjusted pages when moving a page.
SITES-34638: Fixed a bug where properties from grandparent pages would not be included when creating new versions.
SITES-35226: Fixed a regression that caused the asset selector in page editor to fail loading under certain circumstances.
SITES-35071: CSV export returns unfiltered results when omnisearch uses quoted phrase.
SITES-32182: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - fix encoding issues with URLs containing already encoded request parameters.
SITES-34324: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - fix rendering of links with a tel: protocol.
SITES-35333: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - fix asset rendition selection for images in page metadata.
SITES-35549: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor - fix double-encoded html entities in page metadata.

AEM Guides guides-23385

GUIDES-33597: If an empty prop element with no attributes or values is added to a DITAVAL file, then additional prop elements cannot be added.
GUIDES-33693: When you re-upload an edited image through the Experience Manager Guides UI, the image’s original rendition gets updated but the associated DITA content continues to display the previous version of the image.
GUIDES-35607: Error logs that are generated while uploading an asset via the Assets UI or creating a new file from the Editor interface, incorrectly use the term predecessor instead of successor in the log message.
GUIDES-37649: When publishing a DITA map using baseline on AEM Sites (with legacy component mapping), the map elements with the attribute processing-role = resource-only are also getting published.

For more information about the new and enhanced features and issues fixed in the release, view the Experience Manager Guides release roadmap.

Known Issues known-issues-23385

FORMS-22633: Form submissions may fail when custom code relying on the GuideBridge APIs (getData or getDataXML) is being used. If you experience this issue, please contact Adobe Support for assistance.

Deprecated Features and APIs deprecated-23385

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-23385

AEM as a Cloud Service is dedicated to optimizing your platform’s security and performance. This maintenance release addresses 31 identified vulnerabilities, reinforcing our commitment to robust system protection.