Upgrade instructions for the 4.6.0 Service Pack 1 release (October 2024)

This article covers the upgrade instructions and the compatibility matrix for 4.6.0 Service Pack 1 release of Adobe Experience Manager Guides.

For the list of issues that have been fixed in this release, view Fixed issues in the 4.6.0 Service Pack 1 release.

Compatibility matrix

This section lists the compatibility matrix for the software applications supported by Experience Manager Guides 4.6.0 Service Pack 1 release.

Adobe Experience Manager

4.6.0 Service Pack 1 Non-UUID
Version 6.5 Service Pack 21, 20, and 19

4.6.0 Service Pack 1 UUID
Version 6.5 Service Pack 21, 20, and 19

For more details, view the Technical requirements section in the On-Premise Installation and Configuration Guide.

FrameMaker and FrameMaker Publishing Server

Release
FMPS 2022
FMPS 2020
FM 2022
FM 2020
4.6.0 Service Pack 1 (Non-UUID)
2022 or higher
2020.2 or higher*
2022 or higher
2020.3 or higher
4.6.0 Service Pack 1 (UUID)
2022 or higher
2020.2 or higher*
2022 or higher
2020.4 or higher

*Baseline and conditions created in AEM are supported in FMPS releases starting from 2020.2.

Oxygen Connector

Release
Oxygen Connector Windows
Oxygen Connector Mac
Edit in Oxygen Windows
Edit in Oxygen Mac
4.6.0 Service Pack 1 (Non-UUID)
2.8-regular-10
2.8-regular-10
1.6
1.6
4.6.0 Service Pack 1 (UUID)
3.6-uuid.9
3.6-uuid.9
2.3
2.3

Knowledge base template version

Components package name
Components version
Template version
Experience Manager Guides Components Content Package for Cloud Service
dxml-components.all-1.2.2
aem-site-template-dxml.all-1.0.15

New AEM Site template version

Components version
Site version
guides-components.all-1.0.0
aemg-docs.all-1.0.0

Upgrade to 4.6.0 Service Pack 1 release of Experience Manager Guides

You can easily upgrade your current version of Guides to 4.6.0 Service Pack 1. Before you proceed with the upgrade, you must consider the following points:

  • If you are using version 4.6.0, then you can directly upgrade to 4.6.0 Service Pack 1.
  • If you are using version 4.4, 4.3.1, or 4.3.0 , then you need to upgrade to version 4.6.0 before upgrading to 4.6.0 Service Pack 1.
  • If you are using version 4.2, 4.2.1 (Hotfix 4.2.1.3), 4.1, or 4.1.x then you need to upgrade to version 4.4 before upgrading to version 4.6.0.
  • If you are using version 4.0 you need to upgrade to version 4.2 before upgrading to version 4.3.x.
  • If you are using version 3.8.5, you need to upgrade to version 4.0 before upgrading to version 4.2.
  • If you are on a version prior to 3.8.5, refer to the Upgrade Experience Manager Guides section in the product-specific installation guide available on Adobe Experience Manager Guides help PDF archive.
NOTE
You must install AEM service pack before upgrading Experience Manager Guides version.

The upgrade process for the 4.6.0 Service Pack 1 release follows the same steps as the 4.6.0 release. For detailed instructions, view Upgrade instructions for the On-premise releases of Experience Manager Guides.

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