2026.2.0 Release Notes for Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service release-notes
The following section outlines the feature release notes for the 2026.2.0 version of Experience Manager as a Cloud Service.
Release Date release-date
The release date of Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service current feature release (2026.2.0) is March 3, 2026. The next feature release (2026.3.0) is planned for March 26, 2026.
Maintenance Release Notes maintenance
You can find the latest maintenance release notes here.
Release Video release-video
Have a look at the February 2026 Release Overview video for a summary of the features added in the 2026.2.0 release:
AEM Beta Programs aem-beta-programs
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) beta programs are a way for customers to get access to prerelease features and code, provide feedback, and guide the future of AEM.
Benefits of participating
Getting early access to features that Adobe is developing lets customers and partners provide feedback and shape product development. It also helps them prepare to adopt new capabilities before general availability.
Current beta programs
The following sections list active beta programs.
Agents in AEM agents-in-aem
If you would like to explore the powerful, new AEM agentic capabilities across production, governance, optimization, discovery, and development, please learn about how you can access them here.
AEM Foundation (Beta programs) aem-foundation-beta-programs
See AEM Foundation beta programs.
Cloud Manager (Beta programs) cloud-manager-beta-programs
See Cloud Manager beta programs.
Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service assets
Content Advisor to access AEM Assets in Adobe Express
Content Advisor is now available in Adobe Express, introducing intelligent asset discovery for AEM Assets directly within the Express interface. Content Advisor provides context-aware recommendations based on canvas content and campaign briefs, supports AI-powered search, enables native support for channel-ready on the fly renditions powered by Dynamic Media, and so many other features. Content Advisor transforms how you discover and use approved assets, helping you find the right content faster to streamline your creative workflows.
New Features in Dynamic Media with OpenAPI dynamic-media-openAPI-new-features
Attribute-based access control (ABAC) for Dynamic Media with OpenAPI
Attribute-based access control (ABAC) enables administrators to control access to Dynamic Media with OpenAPI assets using metadata-driven rules. Administrators can define rules for user groups based on asset metadata to determine which assets are visible to specific groups. When an asset’s metadata matches the defined conditions, access is granted automatically. This capability helps organizations enforce better governance, ensuring that users can only view and work with Dynamic Media with OpenAPI assets that are relevant to their role or permissions.
Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service forms
Early Access Features in AEM Forms forms-early-access-features
Display labels for multi-select dropdown in Submission PDF
Multi-select dropdown components in Adaptive Forms now render their selected display labels in the generated Submission PDF, ensuring the document accurately reflects what users see on the form.
Enhanced accessibility for checkbox, radio button, and panel components
Adaptive Forms Core Components introduce WCAG 2.2 -compliant semantic markup for checkbox groups(v2), radio button groups(v2), and the Panel component. These components leverage <fieldset> and <legend> HTML elements to establish meaningful relationships between group labels and their options, enabling accurate interpretation by screen readers and other assistive technologies.
Versioning support in Forms Manager
Forms Manager now supports versioning for Adaptive Forms (Core Components and Foundation Components), form fragments, themes, XDP templates, and binary assets. Create versions, view complete version history, and restore earlier states of your form assets directly from the Forms & Documents console.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation foundation
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation New Features foundation-new
Pause Automatic Maintenance Updates pause-updates
Go‑live days, live events, peak sales—these moments can’t break. Our new self‑service features stop automatic mainteanance updates when it matters, so your teams stay focused.
- Quiet Hours: Block automatic maintenance during set times each day. Ideal for working hours, nightly runs or morning cutovers.
- Update‑Free Period: Block automatic maintenance for a full week. Use it for launches, promos, or yearly freezes.
Code Quality Pipeline Troubleshooting with the Development Agent devagent-codequality
The Development Agent’s pipeline troubleshooting capabilities help developers more efficiently diagnose and resolve issues in AEM as a Cloud Service deployments.
Previously focused on the Build & Unit Testing step, pipeline troubleshooting now also supports the Code Scanning step in Full Stack Deployment and Code Quality pipelines.
The Code Scanning step evaluates code against quality rules, detects security vulnerabilities, and generates detailed quality reports. If this step fails, you can use the AI Assistant to prompt the Development Agent for a root cause analysis along with recommended remediation guidance.
Learn more about the Development Agent and pipeline troubleshooting.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation Important Notices foundation-notices
Java API Deprecations java-api-deprecation
The deprecated APIs targeting 2/26/2026 removal should no longer be used in code. To prevent deployment blocks, remove API usage before March 30, 2026. Important dates:
- Starting January 26, 2026: Actions Center notification emails are sent as a reminder to remove usage of these APIs.
- February 26, 2026: Cloud Manager pipelines that contain code using these APIs will pause during the Code Quality step. A Deployment Manager, Project Manager, or Business Owner can override the issue to allow the pipeline to proceed. This may slow your ability to validate and release code changes.
- March 30, 2026: Cloud Manager pipelines that contain code using these APIs will fail during the Code Quality step. Deployments will be blocked until the deprecated API usage is removed. This may prevent you from releasing time-sensitive updates and could impact your business operations.
- May 4, 2026: Environments still using deprecated APIs will not receive critical Adobe release updates and are not subject to Adobe’s standard commitments around performance and availability. As a result, you will not receive new features or bug fixes, application stability and uptime may be negatively affected,and security risk exposure may increase further.
See the deprecation article for full details, but for convenience, these APIs are listed below:
org.apache.sling.commons.authorg.apache.felix.webconsoleorg.eclipse.jettycom.mongodborg.apache.abderaorg.apache.felix.http.whiteboardorg.apache.cocoon.xmlch.qos.logbackorg.slf4j.spiorg.slf4j.eventorg.apache.log4jcom.google.commoncom.dreworg.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.memory
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation Early Adopter Features foundation-early-adopter
AEM Edge Functions (Beta Program) edge-functions
AEM Edge Functions allows you to execute JavaScript at the CDN layer, bringing data processing closer to the end user. This reduces latency and enables responsive, dynamic experiences at the edge.
Common use cases include:
- Personalizing content based on geolocation, device type, or user attributes
- Acting as middleware between the CDN and your origin
- Reformatting responses from third-party APIs (and perhaps aggregating multiple API responses) before delivering them to the browser
- Composing and serving server-rendered HTML at the edge using content stitched from various backends
- Exposing an MCP server for LLMs like ChatGPT and Claude to access custom tools
We have a limited number of opportunities available for either AEM Publish Delivery or Edge Delivery Services projects for live production sites. If you’re interested in participating or want to learn more, please email aemcs-edgecompute-feedback@adobe.com with a brief description of your use case.
Cloud Manager MCP Server (Beta Program) cm-mcp-server
Modern IDEs use the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable large language models (LLMs) to invoke tools exposed by MCP servers. Instead of integrating directly with low-level API specifications, developers can simply describe their intent in natural language.
Now available in beta, the Cloud Manager MCP Server allows you to interact with Cloud Manager APIs directly from your IDE using prompts. Supported scenarios include executing pipelines, checking environment status, and more.
Learn more about AEM MCP Servers. To request access to the Cloud Manager MCP Server beta, email aemcs-mcp-feedback@adobe.com and include a description of your use case.
Web Tier Config Pipeline Troubleshooting with the Development Agent (Beta Program) devagent-webtier
The Development Agent’s pipeline troubleshooting capabilities help developers efficiently diagnose and resolve issues in AEM as a Cloud Service deployments. In addition to supporting Full Stack pipelines (Deployment and Code Quality), the Development Agent now supports troubleshooting for the Web Tier Config Pipeline as part of a beta program.
To request access to the beta, email aem-devagent@adobe.com. Pre-existing access to Agents in AEM is required.
IDE AI tooling for AEM Java and Dispatcher Development (Beta Program) ai-dev-beta
Java-stack teams are increasingly using AI-assisted development in tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, Visual Studio, and IntelliJ to speed up feature delivery and improve code quality. Join the beta to:
- Share real-world experiences to help shape future Adobe-supported AI capabilities
- Try out IDE tooling that can be used by AI agents to generate and debug AEM code and dispatcher configuration
Email aemcs-java-adopter@adobe.com for more information.
IDE AI tooling for AEM 6.5 to AEM Cloud Service Migration (Alpha Program) cm-ide-migration
Accelerate your migration from AEM 6.5 to AEM as a Cloud Service (Java stack) by using IDE AI tooling to act on the recommendations of the Best Practices Analyzer Report.
Email aem-devagent@adobe.com for more information.
Edge Authentication for Edge Delivery Services (Beta Program) edge-authentication
Edge Authentication lets you restrict access to Edge Delivery Services pages to only those who have authenticated with your identity provider (IdP). This is achieved by deploying an OpenID Connect (OIDC) configuration YAML file.
If interested, please email aemcs-edgecompute-feedback@adobe.com with a brief description of your use case and any questions you may have.
Canary Production Deployments to Test Code Before Accepting Live Traffic (Beta Program) canary-beta
Validate a production build with internal-only test traffic before exposing it to end users. Ship to production, route only canary traffic (using a special header), monitor behavior, then either promote to live traffic or roll back—without impacting customers.
Deploy your code releases to production, but restrict it to only internal test traffic before deciding whether to accept live traffic versus rolling back.
Email aemcs-canary-deployments-beta@adobe.com to request access and share feedback.
Snapshots for RDEs (Beta Program) rde-snapshot-program
In beta, Rapid Development Environments (RDEs) now support a feature to take a snapshot of the current state of code and content, which can be restored at a later time. This can be useful when syncing code that may need to be reverted, or when switching between development of different features. It’s also possible to restore just the mutable content as a known starting point for testing.
Please email aemcs-rde-support@adobe.com if there is interest in using and providing feedback on this feature.
Expanded Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (Alpha program) apm-alpha
For observability, AEM Cloud Service currently supports Adobe-provided New Relic One and customer-managed Dynatrace. As we explore support for additional APM options, please email us at aemcs-apm-beta@adobe.com with your preferred vendor or technology, along with use cases.
Experience Manager Guides guides
You can find a complete list of new and enhanced features of the latest release of Adobe Experience Manager Guides here.
Cloud Manager cloud-manager
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Migration Tools migration-tools
You can find a complete list of Migration Tools releases here.
Universal Editor universal-editor
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Generate Variations generate-variations
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Experience Cloud Release Notes experience-cloud
You can find information about releases of other Experience Cloud applications here.