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 (2026.4.0) is April 30, 2026. The next feature release (2026.5.0) is planned for May 28, 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 Sites as a Cloud Service sites

AI Translation Integration ai-translation-integration

AEM users can now leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) for content translation, delivering human-translation quality at machine-translation speed. Similar to traditional third-party translation services, Azure OpenAI can be configured as a translation provider in AEM, with support for additional LLMs planned for future releases. Customers use their own LLM licenses for this capability. Additionally, corporate translation style guides can be uploaded to AEM, enabling the extraction of translation rules to ensure brand and style consistency. See Configuring AI Translation Integration for more information.

Content Fragment Editor cf-editor

The new Content Fragment Editor now allows you to preview the JSON representation of a content fragment. This helps validate the content structure independently of rendering and restores parity with the previous Content Fragment Editor in AEM Touch UI for this capability.

Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service assets

Content Advisor now available for Adobe Workfront and non-Adobe applications

Content Advisor is now available for Adobe Workfront and non-Adobe (third-party) applications, extending intelligent asset discovery and content reuse beyond Adobe Express and AEM Sites. This release brings the full Content Advisor experience, including AI-powered search, context-aware recommendations, campaign brief–based discovery, access to Dynamic Media renditions, Content Fragment discovery, filters, and asset metadata to Adobe Workfront workflows and external applications.

You can now discover, evaluate, and reuse approved assets from AEM Assets directly within your preferred applications, enabling consistent asset usage, improved efficiency, and streamlined content creation across both Adobe and non-Adobe applications.

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

IDE AI tooling for AEM Java and Dispatcher Development ai-dev

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.

IDE tooling can be used by coding agents to generate and debug AEM code and dispatcher configuration. As one example, the video walkthrough below demonstrates building an AEM component using Agent Skills.

Learn more about Local Development with AI Tools and feel free to email aemcs-ai-ide-tools-feedback@adobe.com with questions or feedback.

Experience Governance MCP Server gov-mcp-server

The Experience Governance MCP Server is now generally available (GA). It integrates with AI developer tools and chatbots that support the Model Context Protocol (MCP), allowing you to safeguard brand integrity and compliance using natural language prompts in your chatbot or IDE. You can evaluate content (text, images, pages) against brand governance rules, and retrieve brand configurations and available governance checks.

Learn more about AEM MCP Servers and the Governance Agent.

Claude Connector aem-claude-connector

Claude users can browse Anthropic’s Connector marketplace to 1-click install the Adobe Experience Manager Connector. This MCP server exposes a growing set of tools to interact with AEM, including editing content through prompting.

AEM OIDC on Publish New Features aem-oidc-on-publish-new-features

Mail Service support for Microsoft Graph API mail-service-graph-api

AEM’s Mail Service now supports Microsoft® Outlook (via Microsoft 365) using the Microsoft Graph API. This is particularly helpful for organizations that do not allow SMTP, which is already supported by the Mail Service. Authentication is via OAuth 2.0. Learn how to configure.

CDN Logs can be Forwarded to Sumo Logic sumo-cdn-logforwarding

The Log Forwarding feature now supports sending CDN logs to Sumo Logic. Previously, log forwarding to Sumo Logic was limited to AEM logs.

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

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:

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.

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 (Alpha 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 Alpha Program, email aem-devagent@adobe.com, describing your interest.

IDE AI tooling for AEM 6.5 to AEM Cloud Service Migration (Beta 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 aemcs-ai-ide-tools-feedback@adobe.com for more information and to request access to the feature.

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.

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

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.