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

The following section outlines the feature release notes for the current (latest) 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 (2026.5.0) is May 28, 2026. The next feature release (2026.6.0) is planned for June 25, 2026.

Maintenance Release Notes maintenance

You can find the latest maintenance release notes here.

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

New features in Content Hub new-features-content-hub

AI Search

AEM Assets Content Hub now includes AI Search, an advanced search capability that understands the meaning and intent behind user queries instead of relying only on exact keyword matches. AI Search delivers more accurate and context-aware results by recognizing relationships between words, concepts, and user intent. It supports multilingual queries, handles misspellings and typos, understands synonyms, and surfaces relevant assets even when users do not use exact metadata terms.

For example, a search for Woman drinking coffee can also return assets tagged with related terms such as Lady, Girl, Latte, or Cappuccino.

Administrators can enable or disable AI Search in Content Hub using the Configurations menu by selecting either AI Search or traditional keyword search.

Custom Sorting options

Content Hub now allows administrators to enable custom metadata fields as sorting options on the Content Hub home page. In addition to the default sorting options, Size, Modified, Name, and Relevance, administrators can configure business-specific metadata fields such as Channel, Region, SKU, or Campaign to help users organize search results more effectively.

Asset Search and Download Event Support for Delivery APIs

AEM Assets Delivery APIs now support asset search and asset download events, enabling organizations to track and respond to how assets are discovered and consumed across connected applications and experiences. These events help improve visibility into asset usage patterns, support analytics and reporting workflows, and simplify integrations with external systems and automation processes.

With event-driven insights, teams can better understand content engagement and build more connected digital asset workflows. For more details, see the API documentation.

New features in Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities new-features-dynamic-media-openapi

Video Smart Crops

Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities now support Video Smart Crops for video assets in AEM Assets. Video Smart Crops use AI-powered analysis to automatically keep the primary subject in focus across different aspect ratios and devices, helping deliver optimized viewing experiences on web and mobile. Once enabled and configured by administrators, organizations can generate smart cropped video outputs for approved assets and dynamically deliver the most appropriate framing during playback.

Multi-caption and multi-audio track support for videos

Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities now support multiple captions and multiple audio tracks for video assets. It enables organizations to deliver localized and accessible video experiences to global audiences by associating multiple language-specific caption and audio tracks with a single primary video. Authors can efficiently manage these tracks from a unified interface, simplifying multilingual content delivery and supporting regional accessibility requirements.

Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service forms

New Features in AEM Forms

Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation foundation

Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation New Features foundation-new

AI-Assisted Code Migration to AEM as a Cloud Service aem-ide-cs-migration

Accelerate your migration from AEM 6.5 (or earlier) to AEM as a Cloud Service (Java-stack) by using IDE AI tooling to act on the recommendations of the Best Practices Analyzer Report.

Learn more about IDE AI tooling for Cloud Migration, and also other Local Development with AI tools (Agent Skills and local MCP servers).

Replication Queue Status Display Changes replication-queue-status-display

In the Author UI, Replication agents now display two consolidated queues—persisted and fully published—instead of separate queues per publish pod, reducing complexity while reflecting the automatic scaling of the publish tier.

Learn more about Replication Queues.

Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation Important Notices foundation-notices

IMS Authentication Rich Errors ims-auth-rich-errors

To help troubleshoot IMS integrations, imsauth has added support for rich errors.

Instead of returning only an HTTP status code, these errors provide additional context to help diagnose and resolve issues that can block authentication and access.

Java API Deprecations java-api-deprecation

It is critical to remove usage of deprecated APIs.

Since April 14, Cloud Manager pipelines that contain code using APIs targeting 2/26/2026 removal 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.

Starting June 11, 2026, environments still using these deprecated APIs will not receive critical Adobe release updates and will not be 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:

Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation Early Adopter Features foundation-early-adopter

Manage Quiet Hours and Update Free Periods with the AEM AI Assistant (Limited Availability) quiet-hours-ai

You can now view, create, and edit Quiet Hours and Update Free Periods directly through the AEM AI Assistant.
The key benefit is fewer scheduling errors. As you make a request, the assistant guides you through what is possible and flags the limits that apply, such as the three-period cap, the mandatory one-week gap between periods, and the planned maintenance exclusion windows you cannot schedule over. So instead of discovering a constraint after a failed configuration, Business Owners and Deployment Managers are steered to a valid schedule in the same conversation. This protects critical business windows from automatic maintenance updates while reducing back-and-forth and misconfiguration.

Snapshots for RDEs (Public Beta Program) rde-snapshot-program

In public beta (early June), 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.

In early June, updating to the latest aio plugins will enable this feature.

By using the RDE Snapshots Beta, you acknowledge that it is still in development and that you should not rely on the correct functioning of the technology or availability of data. While we have tested this feature extensively, there is a small possibility that your RDE could become unstable. If this occurs, a reset will restore it to a working state.

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:

Join the beta 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.

Web Tier Config Pipeline Troubleshooting (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.

Replication AI Troubleshooting (Beta Program) replication-ai-troubleshooting-alpha

Using the AI Assistant in AEM Author and other interfaces, you can troubleshoot replication-related issues such as blocked queues. To join the Beta Program, email aem-devagent@adobe.com, describing your interest.

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.

Email aemcs-canary-deployments-beta@adobe.com to request access and share feedback.

AEM code issue detection and auto-fix via IDE AI agent (Alpha Program) ide-ai-aemcode-issues

Java-stack teams using AI-assisted development in tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Visual Studio, and IntelliJ can now go further: a new IDE agent skill detects and auto-fixes issues directly in your AEM codebase, reducing review cycles and catching problems earlier in development.

This feature is in alpha. Join the program to try it and share feedback with the team at aemcs-ai-ide-tools-feedback@adobe.com.

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

You can find a complete list of Cloud Manager monthly releases here.

Migration Tools migration-tools

You can find a complete list of Migration Tools releases here.

Universal Editor universal-editor

You can find a complete list of Universal Editor releases here.

Generate Variations generate-variations

You can find a complete list of Generate Variations releases here.

Experience Cloud Release Notes experience-cloud

You can find information about releases of other Experience Cloud applications here.