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 (2024.7.0) is July 25, 2024. The next feature release (2024.8.0) is planned for August 29, 2024.

Maintenance Release Notes maintenance

You can find the latest maintenance release notes here.

Release Video release-video

Have a look at the July 2024 Release Overview video for a summary of the features added in the 2024.7.0 release:

Experience Manager Sites as a Cloud Service sites

New feature in Experience Manager Sites new-feature-sites

Early Adopter Program sites-early-adopter

Generate Variations

Leverage GenAI through AEM’s new feature, generate variations, accessible now in Cloud Service. Generate variations helps you generate and scale content creation through the use of generative AI. Reach out to your Adobe account team for consideration in the program.

Asset browsing in Content Fragment Console

Content authors can now browse, view, and take actions on images, and other assets without having to leave the Content Fragment Console.

Interested in trying out the feature and sharing feedback? Send an email to aemcs-headless-adopter@adobe.com from your official email ID to learn more about the early adopter program.

Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service assets

Upload assets using Asset Selector

Asset Selector now offers ability for content authors to upload final assets directly from the selector, by either dragging or by browsing from the local file system. This allows final assets to be uploaded to the DAM from the application of your choice.

New features in Assets view assets-view-new-features

Content credentials integration

Experience Manager Assets now supports content credentials for supported image formats. This provides information on the lineage of the asset and how it was created, including if it was modified using GenAI.

Visual previews of folder contents

Experience Manager Assets now displays visual previews of folder contents on the folder thumbnail when browsing or searching for content, which improves the discoverability of assets available within AEM Assets repository.

Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service forms

New features in AEM Forms forms-new-prerelease-features

Enhanced Visual Rule Editor for Core Component Based Adaptive Forms

Adaptive form authors can use repeatable form fields in out of the box functions available in visual rule editor for core components to build complex business logic in the forms, without requiring customization or development team’s assistance.

Early Access features in AEM Forms forms-new-early-access-features

The AEM Forms Early Access Program program offers a unique opportunity to you to get exclusive access to cutting-edge innovations before anyone else, and help shape their development. The program offers access to multiple innovations.

This release notes lists the innovations delivered in the current release. For the complete list of innovations available under the Early Access Program, see AEM Forms Early Access Program documentation.

Author adaptive forms using Universal Editor

Leverage the Adobe Experience Manager Universal Editor to create adaptive forms using WYSIWYG drag-drop authoring, for both headless and headful enrollment experiences, delivered via Edge Delivery Service. Adaptive form authors can easily create and launch experiments for variations of the forms in the web pages and determine the best performing experiences for end users.

Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation foundation

Purge Content at the CDN with a Self-Serve API Key purge-cdn

Setting TTL using the HTTP Cache-Control header is an effective approach to balance content delivery performance and content freshness. However, in scenarios where it is critical to immediately serve updated content, it may be beneficial to directly purge the CDN cache .

Learn how to self-serve configure a purge API token using the Cloud Manager configuration pipeline, so you can invoke the purge APIs, with any of these variations:

Self-Serve Configuration of X-AEM-Edge-Key for Customer-Managed CDN customermanaged-keys

Previously, a support ticket was needed to generate the X-AEM-Edge-Key required for configuration of a customer-managed CDN. This is now self-service by declaring the key value in a configuration file that is deployed using the Configuration Pipeline, removing any delay in onboarding a new environment. Learn more.

Traffic Filter Rules Alerts traffic-filter-rules-alerts

Traffic Filter Rules, which include the optionally licensable Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules, lets you configure what traffic should be blocked.

Now you can subscribe to alerts whenever your traffic filter rules are triggered. Actions Center email notifications keep you informed when certain traffic conditions occur so you can take appropriate measures.

Content Delivery-related Early Adopter Programs foundation-early-adopter

Email aemcs-cdn-config-adopter@adobe.com, indicating which of the early adopter programs below you are interested in.

Basic Authentication at the CDN (Early Adopter Program) basicauth-cdn

Protect certain content resources by popping up a basic auth dialog requiring a username and password. This feature primarily targets light authentication use cases, like business stakeholders reviewing content, rather than serving as a comprehensive solution for end-user access rights. The list of username and passwords in managed through a configuration file in git that is deployed via Configuration Pipeline, with a reference to secret-type Cloud Manager environment variables. Learn more.

Client-Side Redirects (Early Adopter Program) client-side-redirects-early-adopter

Configure 301/302 client-side redirects in source control, and deploy to the CDN. Learn more. Note that there are several other features already available related to CDN configuration, including request and response transformations, and routing traffic to off-AEM sites.

Business Users Can Declare Redirects Outside of Git (Early Adopter Program) apache-rewritemaps-early-adopter

Similar to AEM 6.5, Apache/dispatcher ingest rewrite maps placed in a specific location in the publish repository, and load them, without requiring a web tier pipeline execution. This approach let business users declare redirects using a spreadsheet or a UI, like ACS Commons Redirect Map Manager or a custom application.

Edge Side Includes (ESI) for Loading Dynamic Content (Early Adopter Program) esi-early-adopter

The Adobe Managed CDN now supports Edge Side Includes (ESI), a markup language for edge level dynamic web content assembly. By including ESI snippets, you can cache the overall HTML page at the CDN with higher TTLs, while more frequently fetching from origin those smaller sections that require higher cadence updates (lower TTLs).

Content Health-Related Actions Center Notifications Early Adopter Program actions-center-notifications

Actions Center sends email notifications when important incidents happen, or if something is noticed about your code or configuration where you should take proactive action. Adobe has now introduced several new types of notifications associated with your content health. This feature is available through an early adopter program. To participate, please reach out to Adobe Customer Care.

Pages Contain a Large Number of Nodes page-nodes

A large number of nodes can degrade rendering performance and reduce page load times. Receive a proactive notification through Actions Center when a large number of nodes are detected on a page, allowing you to take the necessary steps to reduce the total number of nodes within a page.

Large Number of Running Workflow Instances running-workflows

The workflow engine performance is impacted when there is a large number of running workflows in the author environment. You receive a proactive notification through Actions Center when a large number of running workflow instances are detected. This process lets you configure a purge job to terminate unnecessary running workflows.

Users Added Directly to Custom Groups users-customgroups

You receive a proactive notification through Actions Center when users are added directly to custom groups. This process lets you follow IMS best practices by adding users to relevant IMS groups and then including those IMS groups as members of AEM groups.

Missing JCR Content jcr-content

Actions Center proactively notifies you when missing JCR content is detected. This approach lets you add the missing content and prevent the failure of certain AEM Assets features.

Completed Workflows Not Purged workflows

Actions Center proactively notifies you when completed workflows over 90 days old have not been purged. This approach helps improve the performance of your workflow engine by reducing the number of workflow instances.

Missing Sling Resource sling-resource

Actions Center proactively notifies you when a missing Sling resource is detected. This approach lets you add the missing resource and prevent the failure of certain AEM Assets features.

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.