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Last update: Fri Apr 10 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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AEM Guides is made available through Adobe Software Distribution Portal. You can download AEM Guides from your Adobe Software Distribution Portal account and install it on all Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) instances in your setup. Typically, your authoring instance and production instance of AEM will be hosted on different servers. You will have to install AEM Guides on all instances of AEM that you intend to use.

Before installing Adobe Experience Manager Guides for On-Premise, ensure your system meets the technical requirements mentioned below for the given release.

Supported browser

  • Google Chrome
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Learn more about the Experience Manager Guides releases and download the build.
AEM Guides Release
Technical Specifications
AEM Guides 5.1.0

UUID 5.1.0

  • AEM 6.5 LTS SP1

    • Java:17 or 21

  • AEM 6.5 SP23, SP22, or SP21

    • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6
AEM Guides 5.0.0

UUID 5.0.0

  • AEM 6.5 SP 22, SP21, or SP20

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6
AEM Guides 4.6.0

Non-UUID and UUID 4.6.0

  • AEM 6.5 SP 21, SP20, or SP19

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6
AEM Guides 4.4.0

Non-UUID and UUID 4.4.0

  • AEM 6.5 SP20, SP19, SP18, or SP17

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6
AEM Guides 4.2

Non-UUID and UUID 4.2.1

  • AEM 6.5 SP15, SP14, SP13, or SP12

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6

Non-UUID and UUID 4.2

  • AEM 6.5 SP15, SP14, SP13, or SP12

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6
AEM Guides 4.1

Non-UUID and UUID 4.1.2

  • AEM 6.5 SP13, SP12, SP11, or SP10

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6

Non-UUID and UUID 4.1

  • AEM 6.5 SP13, SP12, SP11, or SP10

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6
AEM Guides 4.0

Non-UUID and UUID 4.0.3

  • AEM 6.5 SP12, SP11, SP10, or SP9

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6

Non-UUID and UUID 4.0.2

  • AEM 6.5 SP12, SP11, SP10, or SP9

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6

Non-UUID and UUID 4.0

  • AEM 6.5 SP11, SP10 or SP9

  • Java: 11 or 8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6
AEM Guides 3.8.5
3.8.5 is a SP release on top of 3.8.
3.8 release must not be installed
standalone as 3.8.5 SP contains
a critical fix.
Customers must first install 3.8
and then SP 3.8.5.

Non-UUID

  • AEM 6.5 SP9 or SP8
    AEM 6.4 SP8
    AEM 6.3 SP3

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6

    UUID

  • AEM 6.5 SP9 or SP8

  • Operating Systems:

    • Windows Server 2012 R2
    • Red Hat Linux 7 and 6
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