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.

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From here, you can navigate to release notes of previous versions such as 2023 or 2024.
Have a look at the Experience Manager Releases Roadmap to learn about the upcoming feature activations for Experience Manager as a Cloud Service.
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Release Date release-date

The release date of Adobe Experience Manager as a Cloud Service current feature release (2025.1.0) is January 30, 2025. The next feature release (2025.2.0) is planned for February 27, 2025.

Maintenance Release Notes maintenance

You can find the latest maintenance release notes here.

Experience Manager Sites as a Cloud Service sites

Content Fragment Editor Commenting now generally available

Easily collaborate with coworkers when authoring AEM Content Fragments by using the new and modernized commenting service in the AEM Content Fragment Editor.
Read more.

Content Fragment Editor and Admin User Interfaces, updated AEM as a Cloud Service version support

Minimum supported AEM as a Cloud Service version for new Content Fragment Admin and Editor user interfaces is now 2023.8.13099. Earlier versions from before the general availability release of the new user interfaces are not supported anymore

Early Adopter Program sites-early-adopter

Enhanced Content Fragments

Enhanced Content Fragment referencing with unique ID-based references, helping to ensure GraphQL queries for individual content fragments can remain stable even if the fragment was moved to another location. This is now possible with “ByID” queries. While paths can change, potentially breaking “ByPath” queries, UUIDs are stable. The new IDs can also be returned as properties in any query or other applicable API request. Current limitation (2025.1): Page references are not yet supported with unique IDs. If pages are referenced in Content Fragments, this capability should not be used. The limitation is planned to be removed in the next AEM as a Cloud Service release.

AEM REST OpenAPI for Content Fragment Delivery

The AEM REST OpenAPI for Content Fragment Delivery is available now for AEM as a Cloud Service.

Deprecated Features sites-deprecated

SPA Editor spa-editor

The SPA Editor has been deprecated for new projects starting with release 2025.1.0. The SPA Editor remains supported for existing projects, but should not be used for new projects.

The preferred editors for managing headless content in AEM are now:

PWA Features pwa-features

The progressive web app (PWA) features for AEM Sites are deprecated for new projects starting with release 2025.1.0. This feature remains supported for existing projects, but should not be used for new projects

Experience Manager Assets as a Cloud Service assets

New features in AEM Assets new-features-assets

Dynamic Media templates

Personalize image and text banners on-the-fly with an easy-to-use WYSIWYG Dynamic Media Template Editor, by embedding the URL in any 1st or 3rd party application, to drive highly engaging experiences with real time banner content updates.

dynamic renditions

Dynamic Media delivery reports

Gain delivery insights for assets delivered through Dynamic Media, including asset-level delivery counts, referrer details, asset paths in AEM Assets, and unique asset IDs. Generate reports for all assets in the AEM Assets repository or specific folder hierarchies. These insights let you measure the ROI of delivered assets, evaluate channel performance, and make informed decisions for asset management.

dynamic renditions

Dynamic Media Multi-audio and caption

Multi-caption and multi-audio track support for videos in Dynamic Media - You can now easily add multiple captions and multiple audio tracks to a primary video. This capability means that your videos are accessible to a global audience. You can customize a single, published primary video to a global audience in multiple languages and adhere with accessibility guidelines for different geographical regions. Authors can also manage the captions and audio tracks from a single tab in the user interface.

Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP support

New protocol support launched (DASH - Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP) for Adaptive streaming in Dynamic Media video delivery (with CMAF enabled):

  • Adaptive streaming (DASH/HLS) ensures better user viewing experience for videos.

  • DASH is the international standard protocol for adaptive video streaming and is widely adopted in the industry

Asset relations

The Assets View now supports viewing and editing asset relations in a simplified asset Details panel. Easily add relationships like Source and Derivative to content so that uses can more effectively find relevant hero content.

Reprocess assets

Assets view now supports reprocessing assets available in a folder. You can select to either use the Full Process option or use advanced options, such as, default preview renditions, metadata, post-processing workflow, and processing profile.

Early Access features in AEM Assets early-access-features-assets

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. Captions are generated from the original audio, any additional audio tracks, or extra captions provided in the “Captions and Audio” tab on the video properties page. With support for more than 60 languages, captions can be reviewed and previewed before publishing the video.

Experience Manager Forms as a Cloud Service forms

New features in AEM Forms forms-new-features

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 instances. It allows users to publish, unpublish, or schedule the publication of content in a streamlined manner.

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.

Rule editor enhancements

For Adaptive Forms based on Core Components, you can use the output of Invoke Service to populate drop-down options and set repeatable or individual panel. Additionally, this output can be used to validate other fields.

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.

HTML email Templates in Adaptive Forms

Adaptive Forms allows you use HTML email templates. HTML email templates enable you to send rich, personalized, and visually appealing emails when a form is submitted. These emails can be customized with form data and enhanced using various email tags, such as images and links. With Adaptive Forms, you can either upload a file containing an HTML template or use a plain-text editor to create these templates.

HTML email templates

Enhanced Cloud Storage Support: Direct PDF Upload to Azure Blob Storage

AEM Forms Document Generation APIs now allows you to directly upload generated PDF documents to Azure Blob Storage. This enhancement streamlines storage and retrieval, improving efficiency and integration with cloud workflows.

Experience Manager as a Cloud Service Foundation foundation

Java 21 support java21

You can now build code with Java 21, which includes new features (e.g., pattern matching for switch statements, sealed classes) and performance improvements; Java 17 builds are newly supported as well. For configuration steps, including updating your Maven project and library versions, see the Build environment article.

The more performant Java 21 runtime will be automatically deployed when a Java 17 or 21 build is detected. However, we also recommend opting into the Java 21 runtime for environments built with Java 11, by emailing aemcs-java-adopter@adobe.com. Learn about Java 21 runtime requirements.

IMPORTANT
Java 21 runtime will be gradually deployed to all environments (aside from those already built with Java 17 or 21, which already have Java 21 runtime), starting with sandboxes and dev/RDE in February, and then stage/production in April.

Sandbox programs support config pipelines sandbox-config-pipelines

Sandbox programs now support config pipelines, which can be configured in Cloud Manager to deploy yaml files persisted in git.

Learn more about config pipelines, which allow for configuration of the CDN, log forwarding, and version purge/audit log purge maintenance tasks.

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 follow the OpenAPI specification, with a goal of being consistent, well-documented, and user-friendly. Credentials for endpoints requiring authentication are 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. Adobe would love to hear if you find this technology useful for AEM Publish Delivery and Edge Delivery Services projects. Additionally, let us know what you envision using it for as input into the product roadmap. 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.

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