Experience Manager Releases Roadmap aem-releases-roadmap
Last update: October 27, 2026
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Adobe Experience Manager consistently provides new features and improvements to existing functionalities. It provides bug fixes for users across Cloud Service, Managed Services, and on-premise versions. This article lists the upcoming releases for Experience Manager.
The dates below and roadmap updates available in this article are for information only and are subject to change at any time.
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service aem-as-cloud-service
Experience Manager as a Cloud Service new features are delivered through a monthly feature activation, while enhancements and bug fixes are delivered twice a month through maintenance releases.
The upcoming releases for Experience Manager as a Cloud Service are planned as follows:
For customers on outdated versions: to help ensure the security and stability of your AEM environments and related instances, your programs must be updated to the latest Experience Manager as a Cloud Service release.
To coordinate a plan to update your environment to the current version, contact your Adobe technical representative (CSME, TAM). Versions that are more than six months older than the current release require scheduled updates with Adobe assistance.
Be advised that if you take no action by April 30, 2026, Adobe can deactivate deployment pipelines and impact other AEMaaCS functionalities. Continued operation on an unsupported version can negatively affect application stability and uptime, and further increase security exposure.
Experience Manager On-premise and Managed Services aem-on-prem-managed-services
Product updates in terms of new features, enhancements, and bug fixes for supported Experience Manager on-premise and Managed Services are delivered through Service Packs and Cumulative Fix Packs (CFPs). This approach allows for quicker adoption of product updates through frequent releases. The schedule for upcoming product update releases is as follows.
Experience Manager 6.5 LTS aem65lts
Experience Manager 6.5 LTS product updates are delivered through Service Packs. These Service Packs include new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. For details about the latest released service pack, see Experience Manager 6.5 LTS release notes.
Release
Version
Type
Schedule
Status
6.5.LTS.SP1
Service Pack
August 28, 2025
Activated
6.5.LTS.SP2
Service Pack
February 19, 2026
Activated
6.5.LTS.SP3
Service Pack
August 20, 2026
Activated
Experience Manager 6.5 LTS Service Pack 4
6.5.LTS.SP4
Service Pack
February 18, 2027
Target
Experience Manager 6.5 LTS Service Pack 5
6.5.LTS.SP5
Service Pack
May 20, 2027
Target
Experience Manager 6.5 LTS Service Pack 6
6.5.LTS.SP6
Service Pack
August 19, 2027
Target
Experience Manager 6.5 LTS Service Pack 7
6.5.LTS.SP7
Service Pack
November 18, 2027
Target
Experience Manager 6.5 aem65
Experience Manager 6.5 product updates are delivered through Service Packs. These Service Packs include new features, enhancements, and bug fixes. For details about the latest released service pack, see Experience Manager 6.5 service pack release notes.
Release
Version
Type
Schedule
Status
6.5.21.0
Service Pack
June 6, 2024
Activated
6.5.22.0
Service Pack
November 21, 2024
Activated
6.5.23.0
Service Pack
May 22, 2025
Activated
6.5.24.0
Service Pack
November 26, 2025
Activated
6.5.25.0
Service Pack
May 21, 2026
Activated
Experience Manager 6.5 Service Pack 26
6.5.26.0
Service Pack
November 19, 2026
Target
AEM 6.5 support continues through AEM 6.5 LTS. Current 6.5 support timelines:
- Adobe Managed Services customers: ends by August 31, 2026.
- On Prem customers: core support currently planned to end by February 2027.
6.5.26.0 is the last supported service pack release for AEM 6.5.
Each Service Pack is supported for up to 18 months from its release, until February 28, 2027. See
Products and technical support periods. If you have approved extended support for 6.5 until February 2028, critical security fixes will only be available on the last released Service Pack 26.
Experience Manager Forms releases the add-on packages one week after the scheduled Experience Manager Service Pack release date.