Maintenance Release Notes maintenance-release-notes

Last update: Tue Sep 16 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 22450 22450

Summarized below are the continuous improvements for maintenance release 22450, which was publicly released on September 16, 2025. The previous maintenance release was release 22171.

The 2025.9.0 feature activation will provide the full feature set for this maintenance release. See the Experience Manager Releases Roadmap for more information.

New Features new-features-22450

SITES-32595: Workflows that complete with skipped or rejected fragments can now be identified. A new property is available in the workflow API response, listing fragments that were excluded due to being invalid or having invalid references.
SITES-33642: A new API event is now produced and consumed for modified Content Fragments.
SITES-33320: It is now possible to search for a Content Fragment Model using its technicalNamevia the Search API.

Enhancements enhancements-22450

SITES-34023: The technicalName field has been added to the responses of the Content Fragment Model endpoints for better identification.
SITES-32766: The Content Asset References in Content Fragment Models now support a wider range of binary file types.
SITES-33974: Improved OpenAPI documentation making it more accurate and user-friendly.
SITES-9173: Cache ContentPolicyStatus.
SITES-9290: Improve caching of TouchEditContext.
SITES-33355: Open new CF Editor on “View payload” in workflow console.
SITES-33356: Open new CF Editor on Create CF → Open in TouchUI Admin UI.
SITES-32952: Inconsistent handling of default values for CFM fields when using delivery API.
SITES-31539: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor: Add support for Universal Editor configuration meta tags in head.html.
SITES-20672: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor: Add support for additional bulk metadata spreadsheets in authoring.
SITES-32963: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor: Add new experimentation metadata for optimization target, auto-allocate and self-learning.
SITES-30847: Release Core Components 2.30.0.
SITES-29617: The referencedBy endpoint has been updated to use the ReferenceSearch class, improving its performance and reliability.
SITES-19308: Enhanced the performance of the page deletion process by optimizing the reference validation step.
SITES-34293: Implemented lazy loading for templated resources to improve performance.
SITES-33892: Added a feature toggle to skip reference checks for pseudo pages, which can improve performance.

Fixed Issues fixed-issues-22450

CQ-4360550: Fixed Unexpected Disappearance of Language Copy After Reverting Page Move in AEM Cloud Service.
SITES-25232: Set Date and Exit Timewarp links do not have a visible focus indicator.
SITES-25258: Focus is not managed with Delete Annotation modal dialog.
SITES-25305: The Demographic toolbar does not receive focus in a logical orde.
SITES-25366: Loading state of teaser modal is not announced by the screen reader.
SITES-34276: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor: fix automatically created CORS policy not applied on publish-tier.
SITES-34811: Edge Delivery with Universal Editor: fix hlx selector not being added to links to spreadsheets in authoring.
SITES-31669: Unlocalized strings “This page redirects to” in Tools > Sites > Launches.
SITES-30879: Unlocalized strings in Sites > Page Editor > Search component.
SITES-30959: Unlocalized strings in Page Editor > Image component.
SITES-21743: Unlocalized “Please select a document to display.” string in Page Editor > PDF Viewer
SITES-19785: Strings is unlocalized in Core Components site > Tabs.
SITES-22059: Unlocalized “File preview not available” string in Core Components site > PDF Viewer.
SITES-33360: Unlocalized “Error during operation. Provided path is not a launch” string in Launches > Edit.
SITES-32975: Unlocalized date format in Headless UI > Launches > Compare Launch to Source.
SITES-32973: Hardcoded strings in Headless UI > Launches > Rebase.
SITES-13540: Unlocalized strings in Launches > Promotion.
SITES-13085: Unlocalized error strings in Sites > Launch creation page.
SITES-21499: Unlocalized string is Sites > Launches > Edit.
SITES-14961: Truncation of date field in Sites >Properties > Blueprint > Rollout dialog.
SITES-33764: Launch filters (Source Path / Workflow-created Launches) not working.
SITES-33884: “Promote current page and sub pages” unintentionally promotes out-of-scope pages.
SITES-33611: Live copy overview not working for high volume markets.
SITES-34331: 503 Timeout When Loading Rollout Overlay for Non-Admin Users.
SITES-34403: NullPointerException in GraphqlClientImpl deactivate() during shutdown.
SITES-33817: Resolved synchronization problems between the UI Schema and the JCR model to ensure consistency.
SITES-31141: Content references which are not represented by path are now correctly returned in the API response.
SITES-34080: The Content Fragment creation process is now more robust and will not fail if no fields are provided to the request.
SITES-30773: The regular expression for finding words using “Find and Replace” has been improved to correctly match UTF-8 characters.
SITES-33742: Resolved a bug that prevented the successful moving of a Content Fragment when using the workflow API.

Known Issues known-issues-22450

None.

Deprecated Features and APIs deprecated-22450

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-22450

AEM as a Cloud Service is dedicated to optimizing your platform’s security and performance. This maintenance release addresses 18 identified vulnerabilities, reinforcing our commitment to robust system protection.