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 (2024.11.0) is November 21, 2024. The next feature release (2025.1.0) is planned for January 30, 2024.
Maintenance Release Notes maintenance
You can find the latest maintenance release notes here.
Release Video release-video
Have a look at the November 2024 Release Overview video for a summary of the features added in the 2024.11.0 release:
Experience Manager Sites as a Cloud Service sites
Edge Delivery Services Page templates with Universal Editor authoring
Turn quickly any Edge Delivery page into a page template. This allows you to start a new page with a pre-defined structure & content instead of a blank page. Read more.
Edge Delivery Services CSV Importer for publishing via an AEM instance
Manage your Edge Delivery spreadsheet data (e.g. redirects) efficiently in your favorite spreadsheet tool and upload it to AEM via the new CSV importer. Read more.
Prerelease capabilities in AEM Sites
Enhanced Content Fragment referencing with unique ID-based references, ensuring stable links that remain valid even when assets or fragments are moved—eliminating the need for updates or re-publishing. Current limitation: Page references are not yet supported with unique IDs. If pages are referenced in Content Fragments, this capability should not be used.
Early Adopter Program sites-early-adopter
AEM REST OpenAPI for Content Fragment Delivery
The AEM REST OpenAPI for Content Fragment Delivery, is available now for AEM as a Cloud Service.
Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service assets
Early access features in Dynamic Media dm-early-access
AI-generated video captions
AI-generated video captions in Adobe Dynamic Media 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.
To get early access to AI-generated captions support on your Dynamic Media account, create and submit an Adobe Customer Support case.
Dynamic Media delivery report
Get delivery insights for assets delivered with Dynamic Media, with asset level delivery count, referrer information, asset path in AEM Assets and unique asset ID. Reports can be generated for all assets delivered via Dynamic Media for AEM Assets repository or for a specific folder hierarchy in AEM Assets. Insights help measure ROI of assets delivered, measure channel performance, and help take informed asset management tasks for assets.
To get early access to Dynamic Media Delivery Report on your Dynamic Media account, create and submit an Adobe Customer Support case.
New features in Assets view assets-view-new-features
Dynamic Media panel
Assets view now enables you to access Dynamic Media and Dynamic Media with OpenAPI renditions from a separate panel made available to you. You can choose to copy the delivery URL or download the renditions based on the asset and rendition type. For more information, see Dynamic Media renditions and Dynamic Media with OpenAPI capabilities renditions.
Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service forms
New features in AEM Forms forms-new-features
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Update Adobe Sign scopes easily: You can modify the scopes of an Adobe Sign configuration directly from the AEM Cloud Configurations page, making it quicker and easier to update existing configurations.
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Asynchronous function support for Adaptive Forms: When your Adaptive Form requires asynchronous operations, such as waiting for external processes or data retrieval, you can implement these operations with custom functions and configure them in the Rule Editor.
Pre-release features in AEM Forms forms-new-prerelease-features
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Manage Publication: You can use the Manage Publication workflow to publish or unpublish forms across environments, typically from the author instance to the publish and preview instance(s). It allows users to publish, unpublish, or schedule the publication of content in a streamlined manner.
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Auto-save a draft for Core Components based Adaptive Forms: Users can now benefit from an auto-save feature that saves a partially completed form as a draft automatically. They can return later to finish filling it out on the same or other device. This feature improves conversion rates for organizations by reducing form abandonment, as users do not need to start over form filling from the beginning.
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Rule editor enhancements: For Adaptive Forms based on Core Components, you can now populate dropdown options using the output of Invoke Service, set repeatable panels using the output of Invoke Service, set individual panels using the output of Invoke Service and use the output parameter of Invoke Service to validate other fields.
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Enhance User Experience with Navigation Buttons in Panel Layouts: You can now add navigation buttons to your panel layouts, such as Horizontal Tabs, Vertical Tabs, Accordions, or Wizard. These buttons enhance the user experience by simplifying transitions between panels, focusing on the selected panel.
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, and help shape their development.
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.
Integrations
- Integrate Adaptive Forms with Adobe Marketo Engage: AEM Forms as a Cloud Service now includes an easy-to-use option to connect Adaptive Forms with Adobe Marketo Engage. This integration allows you to create Adaptive Forms directly with Marketo Engage’s lead capture and related custom objects. You can now prefill form fields with data from Marketo Engage and submit data back to automate workflows like smart campaigns and email automation. You can also connect an Adaptive Form with the Munchkin library to track the number of visits, clicks, and form submissions.
Adaptive Forms and HTML5 Forms
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Create Adaptive Forms based on existing XFA template: You can now create Core Component-based Adaptive Forms using XFA form templates (*.XDP files). This capability facilitates AEM Forms On-Premise customers with existing investments in XFA technology to adopt AEM Forms as a Cloud Service.
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HTML5 Forms (XFA-based Web Forms): Now, AEM Forms On-Premise customers using XFA technology can effortlessly transition to AEM Forms as a Cloud Service while preserving their existing user experience with HTML5 Forms (XFA-based Web Forms). This capability enables the rendering of XFA form templates in HTML5 format, making forms accessible on devices that do not support XFA-based PDF forms.
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Base64 Encoded String Support for File Attachment: The File Attachment component in Adaptive Forms based on Core Components now includes an option to submit attached files as Base64-encoded strings.
Interactive Communications and Communication APIs
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Interactive Communication Editor: The Interactive Communication Editor is a user-friendly, graphical Communication design tool that simplifies the creation of personalized, data-driven correspondences and runs in any modern browser. It supports seamless data integration, intricate logic definition, and rich media integration, ensuring professional and compliant document, Communication, and template generation for various business needs.
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PDF/A Compliance Enhancements: You can now use Communication APIs to convert PDF documents to PDF/A formats (1a, 2a, 3a) for archival purposes while ensuring accessibility and verifying compliance with these standards.
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Signature API (Document Assurance): A new RESTful API in Communication APIs enables easy management of PDF signatures. It supports operations like:
- Clear Signature: Removes a signature from a specified field.
- Remove Signature Field: Deletes a specified signature field.
Automated Forms Conversion Service
- Convert PDF Forms to Core Components based Adaptive Forms: You can now use Automated Forms Conversion Service to transform PDF forms, AcroForms, or XFA-based forms into Core Components based Adaptive Forms.
CIF Add-on cif
Bug fixes bug-fixes-cif
- Fixed UI tests to work properly with Core CIF components.
- Resolved issue with category URL format not functioning as expected in the cloud instance.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation foundation
Improved Tree Replication Performance (and deprecation of Publish Content Tree Workflow) tree-replication-performance
Tree Activation Workflow Step is a new workflow model step recommended for replicating deep content hierarchies. Of note, it allows independent replications (e.g., through quick publish or manage publication) to proceed in parallel with the in-progress tree replication workflow. This is particularly useful if you need to publish some time-sensitive content while a bulk replication is still in-progress. Tree Replication Step replaces Publish Content Tree Workflow and its related Workflow Step, which are now deprecated.
OpenAPI-based APIs - Early Adopter Program open-apis-earlyadopter
Developers can deeply integrate AEM as Cloud Service features into their own applications and tools. New AEM as a Cloud Service APIs will follow the OpenAPI specification, with a goal of being consistent, well-documented, and user-friendly. Credentials for endpoints requiring authentication will be generated by creating Adobe Developer Console projects.
Learn more about OpenAPI-based AEM APIs and try out an end-to-end tutorial illustrating configuration and usage.
Concretely, the API endpoints listed below are available as part of an early adopter program. If interested, email aem-apis@adobe.com describing how you intend to make use of them.
Edge Computing - Request for Feedback! edge-computing-feedback
Edge computing brings data processing closer to the browser, which has benefits including reduced latency. As input into the roadmap, we’d love to hear if you’d find this technology useful for AEM Publish Delivery and Edge Delivery Services projects and what you envision using it for. Email aemcs-edgecompute-feedback@adobe.com with questions and comments!
New AEM Developer Console (Public Beta) aem-developer-console-beta
Try out a revamped AEM Developer Console, which offers a more interactive experience for debugging code in Cloud environments.
Anyone can access the public beta by clicking the New Console Available button in the current AEM Developer Console. Adobe welcomes feedback, which you can email to aemcs-new-devconsole-ui-beta@adobe.com
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.