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 (2026.8.0) is August 27, 2026. The next feature release (2026.9.0) is planned for September 24, 2026.
Maintenance Release Notes maintenance
You can find the latest maintenance release notes here.
Release Overview overview
The 2026.8.0 release of Experience Manager as a Cloud Service delivers new capabilities across Assets, Forms, and Foundation, with a continued emphasis on AI-assisted workflows, content authenticity, and preparing customers for upcoming platform changes.
Highlights of this release
- Content authenticity with C2PA — Asset renditions now carry C2PA metadata based on the original, and C2PA support extends to Dynamic Media (OpenAPI and Scene7), helping customers label Gen AI content and meet transparency requirements.
- AI-powered Assets workflows — Content Hub can generate Dynamic Media renditions on the fly, and Assets Insights now supports the Adobe Analytics 2.0 API with OAuth Server-to-Server authentication ahead of the Analytics 1.4 API retirement.
- Foundation and platform — Agentic permission management for real-time ACL auditing, AEM Edge Functions for running JavaScript at the CDN, and IMS authentication rich errors for easier troubleshooting.
- Plan-ahead notices — Important timelines for Java API deprecations and the upcoming Java 25 runtime upgrade help customers prepare their environments.
A range of beta, early adopter, and alpha programs are also available this release. See the sections below for details.
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
Cloud Manager (Beta programs) cloud-manager-beta-programs
See Cloud Manager beta programs.
AEM Assets (Beta programs) aem-assets-beta-programs
Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service assets
C2PA metadata support
Renditions of assets now supports C2PA metadata based on the original, enabling easy labelling of Gen AI manipulated content. This helps Experience Manager customers comply with Gen AI labelling laws; customers should validate compliance with regulations on their own. Metadata can be inspected using any C2PA inspection tool. See Adobe C2PA inspection tool.
New JCR properties for a C2PA manifest (dam:hasC2PAManifest) and Gen AI (dam:isAiGenerated) labels are available on Assets processed with an embedded C2PA manifest. The Gen AI label property can be used in cases where C2PA is not utilized. This is not recommended since management of the property is manual and many of the Adobe and 3rd party tools use C2PA.
Assets Insights now supports Adobe Analytics 2.0 API
Assets Insights in AEM Admin View now supports the Adobe Analytics 2.0 API with OAuth Server-to-Server authentication, enabling continued access to current asset usage insights following the retirement of the Adobe Analytics 1.4 API. Customers can reconfigure their Assets Insights integration to resume synchronization of impressions and clicks from Adobe Analytics, including data collected during the transition period, without losing existing insights data.
New Features in Dynamic Media new-features-dynamic-media
C2PA metadata support in Dynamic Media
You can now apply C2PA metadata to assets in Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities and Dynamic Media Scene7. C2PA metadata embeds secure metadata that helps viewers verify an asset’s origin, edit history, and whether generative AI was used during its creation, enabling greater transparency and trust in digital content.
New features in Content Hub new-features-content-hub
Generate on-the-fly Dynamic Media renditions in Content Hub
Generate on-the-fly Dynamic Media renditions in Content Hub to quickly create asset variations tailored to different channels and content needs. This eliminates the need to maintain multiple pre-generated renditions, making it easier to adapt and reuse assets across experiences. With optimized renditions available on demand, teams can accelerate content activation and deliver the right asset variation for every experience.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Assets Limited Availability Features assets-limited-availability-features
Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities: Multi-caption and multi-audio track support for videos multi-caption-multi-audio
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.
Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities: AI-generated video captions ai-generated-video-captions
AI-generated video captions in Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities use artificial intelligence to generate captions automatically for video content. This feature is designed to improve accessibility and enhance the user experience by providing accurate, real-time captions. The AI analyzes the video’s audio track to transcribe speech and create captions, which can be edited for accuracy or customization. These captions help meet accessibility requirements and improve video engagement for audiences who rely on or prefer text-based video support.
Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities: Secure Delivery with Attribute-based Access Control secure-delivery-attribute-based-access-control
Attribute-based access control lets admins govern access to Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities assets using metadata-driven rules defined for each user group. IMS-based restrictions allow DAM admins and brand managers to restrict delivery of specific assets to designated Adobe IMS users or groups. Users outside the permitted list receive a 404 response, and the asset is not delivered. This provides a secure way to manage asset delivery for campaigns, product launches, and other controlled distribution scenarios.
Dynamic Media: New Video Viewer new-video-viewer
The new video viewer delivers a performant, accessible, and fully customizable playback experience. Configurable playback modifiers, including autoplay, loop, and muted, give you complete control over viewer behavior. Custom CSS support ensures a consistent, on-brand experience across all touchpoints. Actionable analytics track views, watch time, completion rate, and engagement score, providing your teams with meaningful insights into video performance.
Content Hub: AI Search ai-search-content-hub
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 relevant 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.
Content Hub: Custom Sorting options custom-sorting-options-content-hub
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.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Assets Beta Features assets-beta-program-features
Dynamic Media: Video Engagement Report video-engagement-report
Turn video playback into actionable insight by providing per-video engagement metrics for the New Video Viewer, including views, impressions, watch time, completion rate, and engagement score, delivered as a monthly CSV to help teams measure content performance.
To participate or learn more, send an email to dm-beta-feedback@adobe.com.
Dynamic Media: Operations and Error Report operations-and-error-report
Give teams visibility into delivery health by reporting operational activity such as delivery request counts, smart crops, video encodes, and templates created, while surfacing failed delivery URLs with their referrer and failure count so issues can be pinpointed and fixed.
To participate or learn more, send an email to dm-beta-feedback@adobe.com.
Dynamic Media: Auto Reflow and Auto Translate auto-reflow-and-auto-translate
Eliminate repetitive redesign and manual localization by using AI to automatically adapt a single master template into layouts that fit different formats and aspect ratios (web, social, display, and email) and to instantly translate text across languages, all while preserving the visual integrity of the design, turning one master asset into variants across many device sizes and locales.
To participate or learn more, send an email to dm-beta-feedback@adobe.com.
Content Hub: Smart Collections smart-collections
Smart Collections enable you to automatically organize assets based on defined search criteria.
When you create a Smart Collection, the collection stores the search query and filter criteria instead of storing individual assets. Assets that match the configured criteria are automatically displayed in the collection.
Smart Collections automatically remain up to date. When newly approved assets satisfy the configured search criteria, they are automatically added to the collection.
To participate or learn more, send an email to aemcontenthubbeta@adobe.com.
Multi-portal Content Hub multi-portal-content-hub
Deliver tailored Content Hub experiences for each brand or business unit, while managing content centrally from a single source of truth.
To participate or learn more, send an email to aemcontenthubbeta@adobe.com.
AI-powered content onboarding and content supply chain automation ai-powered-content-onboarding-content-supply-chain-automation
The Content Supply Chain Agent provides two cooperating AI-powered agents:
- CSC Blueprint Agent maps your end-to-end content supply chain, identifies gaps and anti-patterns, and helps define an agreed future state and prioritized action plan.
- CSC Integration Agent implements governed content and metadata movement between systems through configured connections, supporting both one-time migrations and recurring synchronization.
To participate or learn more, send an email to aem-assets-coinnovation-interest@adobe.com.
UI Extensibility for Assets View ui-extensibility-assets-view-beta
Assets View supports UI Extensibility, a developer-first capability that empowers customers to tailor the out-of-the-box experience to meet their specific business requirements.
Customers can leverage existing stable extension points by following Adobe’s developer documentation to build and deploy extensions with minimal effort. For use cases where a required extension point is not yet available, Adobe works directly with customers to explore the requirements and assess the technical feasibility of delivering new extensibility APIs tailored to their needs, and may deliver such new APIs as Beta Releases.
Additionally, Adobe has developed a GenAI-powered extension generation tool currently available in an internal early adoption phase. This tool can significantly accelerate extension development time. Customers participating in this beta program will receive access to the tool and are encouraged to share feedback to help shape its evolution.
To participate or learn more, send an email to ASSETSVIEWUIEXTENSIBILITY@adobe.com.
Brand Aware Metadata (BAM) brand-aware-metadata-beta
AEM Assets now supports Brand Aware Metadata, an AI-powered capability that automatically generates custom metadata for assets when uploaded or re-processed. This reduces the need for manual entry by orders of magnitude, helping teams find assets and deliver new experiences much faster. Customers maintain a library of prompts that define how AI should populate any given metadata field, tailored to their own brand vocabulary and taxonomy. This prompt library includes a playground to preview results and a prompt optimizer that automatically drafts suggested improvements.
Adobe is actively expanding BAM’s capabilities through direct co-innovation with customers. Where a specific use case is not yet supported, Adobe works with participating customers to understand their needs and may deliver expanded capabilities as the beta progresses. Customers in this program gain early access to new features as they ship and are encouraged to share feedback that directly shapes the roadmap.
To participate or learn more, send an email to AEM-ASSETS-BRANDAWAREMETADATA@adobe.com.
Assets Sourcing portal for AEM Assets asset-sourcing-aem-assets
The Assets Sourcing Portal provides a secure, self-service experience for collecting assets from external contributors without granting them access to Adobe Experience Manager Assets. Contributors can upload assets, provide the required metadata, and submit content directly to a designated intake location while administrators maintain control over asset organization and governance.
Adobe works with participating customers to understand their needs and may deliver expanded capabilities as the limited availability program progresses. Customers in this program gain early access to new features as they ship and are encouraged to share feedback that directly shapes the roadmap.
To participate or learn more, send an email to AEM-Assets-Sourcing-Portal@adobe.com.
Support for additional asset types in Adobe Express integration assets-express-integration-asset-types-beta
Adobe Express integration with Assets helps all users create and edit on-brand content and increase content reuse. We have worked on supporting a growing list of asset / file types to be supported by the integration, and some of them are available early to customers interested in using them:
Asset view UI - “Open in Express” to import an asset into a new Express document in the embedded Express editor:
- .mp4 video assets
Assets plugin in Adobe Express to import an asset into the current Express document:
- .ai Adobe Illustrator assets
- .indd Adobe InDesign assets
- .mov video assets
- .mp3 audio assets
- .gif animated assets
To participate or learn more, send an email to aem-assets-express@adobe.com.
Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service forms
Early Access Features in AEM Forms
Table component in Adaptive Forms based on Core Components
Adaptive Forms based on Core Components can now include a Table component to present complex, structured data in tabular layouts. Government and financial services forms often require tabular layouts for numeric data, line items, and multi-column inputs. The Table component supports:
- Structured row and column authoring with header and body rows
- Repeatable rows with add and remove actions at runtime
- Column sorting with ascending and descending order
- Disable sorting on individual columns for accessibility compliance
- Proportional column widths
- Merge and split table row cells
- Replace default text box cells with other Adaptive Form components
- Row-level calculations using the Rule Editor
- Table rendering in Submission PDF (Document of Record).
For more information, see Add a table to an Adaptive Form (Core Components).
Document conversion APIs
Added support for new document conversion APIs that enable applications to convert documents to supported formats and optimize PDFs for printing and processing. The following APIs are available:
- HTML to PDF – Converts HTML documents to PDF while preserving page layout and styling.
- PostScript (PS) to PDF – Converts PostScript documents to PDF.
- PDF to Image – Converts PDF documents into one or more image files.
- PDF to PostScript (PS) – Converts PDF documents to PostScript format.
- Flatten PDF Transparency – Flattens transparent objects in PDF documents to improve compatibility with print and document processing workflows.
Locale support for Interactive Communication
Interactive Communication Editor now allows authors to configure the locale for an Interactive Communication. The selected locale determines language and region-specific formatting, such as dates, numbers, and currencies, enabling localised content for different audiences
Virus scanning and custom validation for file attachments
Validate file attachments in Adaptive Forms before or on submission using custom validation logic, such as integrating a malware or virus scanning service. You can use form rules to trigger validation, or configure validation to run on form submission. Both approaches reject invalid or infected files before persistence, helping protect sensitive data and systems. For details, see Implement a custom validator and Tutorial: Antivirus scanning integration.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation foundation
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation New Features foundation-new
Permission Management Agentic Capabilities in AEM permission-management-in-aem
Ask plain-language questions about who can do what on a content path, and the governance agent audits effective ACLs on your author environment in real time — explaining access decisions and their source policies, listing who holds a given privilege, pinpointing what causes a denial, and recommending groups for grants that follow the least privilege principle. For more information, see Permission Management in AEM
AEM Edge Functions edge-functions
AEM Edge Functions allows you to execute JavaScript at the Adobe-Managed CDN, bringing data processing closer to the end user. This reduces latency and enables responsive, dynamic experiences at the edge. It’s available for both AEM Cloud Service Java Stack and Edge Delivery Services projects, for AEM Sites customers.
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
Follow this tutorial for a concrete walk-through for both Edge Delivery Services and AEM as a Cloud Service Java-stack variations.
AEM Developer Console refresh aem-developer-console
The AEM Developer Console brings a more interactive debugging experience for Cloud environments. Previously available as a public beta, it has been rolling out progressively as the new default and so many organizations already have access. Full rollout completes in early September.
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, 2026, 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 September 14, 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:
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
Preparing for Java 25: AEM Cloud Service Runtime Upgrade Timeline
Java 25 is the next long-term support (LTS) release after Java 21, delivering improvements across performance, developer productivity, and security:
- Performance — Reduced memory footprint, more efficient garbage collection, and faster JVM warm-up benefit cloud-native deployments.
- Developer productivity — Cleaner object initialization, more expressive pattern matching, and simplified concurrent task management reduce boilerplate and improve code clarity.
- Security — Modernized cryptographic key derivation API to simplify common security workflows.
To help organizations plan testing and validation ahead of the necessary Java 25 runtime upgrade, Adobe is providing the following target dates. Any updates to this timeline will be communicated via release notes.
AEM Cloud Service continues to support compiling customer code with Java 11, Java 17, and Java 21. However, Adobe recommends building with Java 25 (once available in AEM) to take full advantage of the latest language features and performance improvements.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation Early Adopter Features foundation-early-adopter
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.
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.
Replication AI Troubleshooting (Beta Program) replication-ai-troubleshooting-beta
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.
OpenTelemetry for Application Performance Monitoring (APM) (Alpha Program) apm-alpha
AEM as a Cloud Service now supports OpenTelemetry-based telemetry export, letting you monitor AEM alongside the rest of your systems in the APM tools your teams already use.
Use this integration to:
- Investigate slow or failing requests
- Track JVM health and resource usage over time
- Build dashboards and alerts for your AEM tiers
- Correlate AEM behavior with other services during incidents
To join the alpha, email aemcs-apm-beta@adobe.com, describing your use case.
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