Release Notes

Last update: October 5, 2026

This page documents the latest updates, new features, and improvements in Adobe Experience Manager Sites Optimizer.

Features marked (Early Access) are available on request — contact your account team or Customer Success Engineer to enable them for your organization.

September 28–October 4, 2026 september-28-october-4-2026

New Features

Personal AI Agent Opportunities (Early Access) — Filter opportunities that help personal AI agents read and interact with your site, with badges and guidance explaining the benefits.

Enhancements

Broken Internal Link Deployment (Early Access) — Provide a replacement URL for a link that cannot be fixed automatically and deploy the validated update.
Alt Text Published Status — See when an alt text change is confirmed live on the published page while retaining clear failure and re-detection states.
Core Web Vitals Code Patches — Review patches file by file with line numbers and highlighted additions and deletions.
Core Web Vitals Code Deployment (Early Access) — Submit eligible code patches as a pull request in your configured code repository.

Bug Fixes

Forms Accessibility opportunities now support creating Jira issues.
Deployment follow-up links now open the configured code repository.
Detailed accessibility reports now open and display their content instead of redirecting to the home page or appearing blank.
Alt Text deployed counts and date groups now match the displayed fixes, without empty failed-deployment groups.
Restoring skipped Sitemap and Core Web Vitals suggestions now updates their status reliably.

September 21–27, 2026

Enhancements

FAQ Structured Data Deployment (Early Access) — For pages managed with AEM Multi-Site Manager, choose whether to apply structured data updates to the source page or only the local page.
Form Deployment — Deploy the fix associated with the selected form variation reliably.
Localized Experiences — Permission labels and truncated table content are clearer across supported languages.

Bug Fixes

Core Web Vitals patch downloads are available whenever a patch exists.
CSV exports now preserve localized characters in Excel.
Performance metrics no longer remain stuck loading when source data is incomplete.

September 14–20, 2026

Enhancements

Granular Permissions — Administrators can grant members access to selected opportunity types while managing site-wide permissions separately.

Bug Fixes

Metadata deployment now restores the warning shown when fixing a local page breaks inheritance.

September 7–13, 2026

New Features

Google Ads Placement Exclusions — Review placement risks for connected Google Ads accounts and download site-specific exclusion lists for automated and Performance Max campaigns.

Enhancements

Deployment Failure Guidance — Failure messages now explain whether a content update needs connection access, a rescan, or support.

Bug Fixes

Accessibility report values and layouts now display more clearly across supported languages.
Paid Traffic channel and platform totals now include previously unclassified traffic.
Broken backlink deployed counts now match the rows shown, including rolled-back and backfilled deployment states.
Eligible Edge Delivery Services sites are no longer incorrectly blocked from broken-link deployment.

August 31–September 6, 2026

Enhancements

AEM Content Connections — Settings now recognize AEM-authored Edge Delivery Services configurations, preserve their source details, and block unsupported source URLs before saving.
Trial Onboarding — Domain entry now explains the supported production-site requirements before a trial site is added.

Bug Fixes

Paid Traffic month labels and selectors now display correctly across supported languages.
CSV exports now use each accessibility issue’s correct page URL.
Eligible Edge Delivery Services sites are no longer incorrectly blocked from Alt Text deployment.

August 20–27, 2026

New Features

Alerts View — Review a 90-day timeline of automatically detected site-health incidents, correlate changes with deployments and content updates, and inspect affected pages and performance metrics in one place.
Reports and Wins — Use the Reports section to review optimization history, performance trends, and before-and-after wins that help you communicate the impact of your optimization work.
What’s New and Help Center — Discover recently released capabilities, open product documentation, and access the release notes directly from the in-app Help Center.
Google Ads Connection (Early Access) — Connect a Google Ads account to bring paid-traffic performance data into Sites Optimizer opportunities and recommendations.

Enhancements

Opportunity List Controls — Filter and sort opportunities by URL, starred status, priority, or recency, save views in the URL for sharing, and export suggestion data to CSV.
Suggestion Workflow Controls — Edit AI-generated suggestions before deployment, ignore individual suggestions, skip complete opportunities, and restore skipped opportunities when they become relevant again.
Deployment History — Review deployment history by date, distinguish automatic deployments from changes marked as deployed manually, and follow pull-request links for code-based fixes.
Brand and Slack Integrations — Select an Adobe GenStudio brand for on-brand content generation and share relevant optimization updates with a configured Slack channel.

August 6–19, 2026

New Features

Preflight in AEM Sites Page Editor — If your authoring environment runs AEM 2026.7.0 or later, you can open Preflight directly from the Page Editor toolbar to analyze the current page without leaving your authoring workflow.
Preflight Export Options — Export Preflight results as a CSV or PDF, with options to include run metadata and audits that passed, making it easier to share findings and track readiness.

Enhancements

Preflight Session Details — When you continue a previous audit session, Preflight shows when the run was performed and makes affected elements easier to identify by displaying readable text or a CSS selector.

July 1–19, 2026

New Features

Permissions Management (Early Access) — Users with the Manage users capability can now control site access from a new Permissions tab — search people by name or email and grant or revoke specific capabilities. Actions a user isn’t allowed to perform appear disabled with a tooltip explaining how to request access.
Deployment Status Badges — Fixes marked as deployed manually now display a distinct “Marked as deployed” badge in the Deployed view, making it easy to tell manual updates apart from automatic deployments.

Enhancements

Auto-Fix for GitHub (Cloud Manager) — Code-patch autofix for opportunities like Core Web Vitals, Security, and Form Accessibility can now raise pull requests on Cloud Manager bring-your-own-git repositories hosted on GitHub, matching existing support for GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. A new Settings toggle lets you control the one-time setup confirmation for your site.
Auto-Fix via Branch (Cloud Manager Standard) — Auto-fix via branch is now available for Cloud Manager standard repositories when enabled for your site.
Deployed View: Performed By — The Deployed view now shows who marked each fix as deployed and when its status was last updated, via new “Performed by” and “Status last updated” columns.
Google Ads Disconnect Feedback — Disconnecting a Google Ads account in Settings now shows a “Disconnecting…” status, with a dismissible error message if the disconnect fails so you can retry.

Bug Fixes

The Fix ARIA Labels opportunity now shows the correct page URL in the Details dialog when a fix spans multiple pages.
The Skip dialog’s info message now displays correctly, with properly aligned text, in Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese.
Related-pages dialogs for Alt Text and Invalid or Missing Metadata now load reliably, and the Invalid or Missing Metadata Deployed view and meta-tag fixes now work correctly with the latest suggestion format.

May 11–22, 2026

New Features

Site Alerts Report (Early Access) — A new 90-day Site Alerts Report provides a quarterly view of your site’s health, using color-coded daily blocks to highlight periods of elevated alerts so you can quickly identify and investigate trends over time.
Operational Telemetry Onboarding — Sites that have not yet connected operational telemetry data now receive a persistent banner on the home page and a guided onboarding dialog to complete setup, ensuring you get full visibility into real-user performance.
Alt Text: Multi-Site Manager Awareness — When generating Alt Text fixes for sites that use AEM Multi-Site Manager or Language Copy, Sites Optimizer now checks whether fixes can be safely applied to each language variant before suggesting them.

Enhancements

Alt Text Accuracy — Alt Text suggestions now draw from the most recent audit signal, and re-detected issues are surfaced in both the Current Issues and Deployed tabs for a complete picture.

Bug Fixes

The Deploy button state now correctly reflects whether a fix can actually be deployed.
Dark theme is now correctly applied on page refresh.
Reports show dates in the user’s locale.
Regional preferences for language and number/date format can now be configured independently.
Broken image alt text is now accessible to screen readers.

April 21–May 10, 2026

New Features

No Site Onboarded State — Customers who have not yet added a site now see a clear, actionable prompt on the home page to get started quickly.
Documentation in Help Center — The AEM Sites Optimizer documentation on Experience League is now accessible directly from the in-app help center, without leaving the product.

Bug Fixes

Sites with no active suggestions now correctly display an Action Required dialog.
Skipped suggestions now appear in the Ignored tab as expected.
Paid Traffic picker dropdowns no longer truncate translated text.
Sitemap page picker is now correctly sized.

March 13–April 20, 2026

New Features

Trials Onboarding — New trial users now experience a guided setup flow: enter your domain, wait for analysis, then explore your first opportunities — no configuration required to get started.
Trial Opportunities Page — Trial users can search, sort, and filter opportunities, with three suggestions unlocked and remaining suggestions shown in a locked preview with an upgrade prompt.
Monthly Optimization Progress — A progress bar on the home page tracks how many optimization actions you have taken this month, helping you stay on top of your site health goals.
Audit Target URLs (Early Access) — Under Settings, you can now specify up to 100 custom URLs to ensure those pages are always included in audits.
Delivery Type Configuration — Settings now lets you specify your site’s delivery type (Edge Delivery Services, AEM Cloud Service, or AEM Managed Services) and connect your content provider.
Core Web Vitals Redesign — The Core Web Vitals opportunity has been redesigned with Jira linking, CSV download, and multi-select support for batch actions.
Broken Backlinks Unified Table — Broken backlinks from all sources are now shown in a single unified table, with the ability to export CDN redirect rules directly.
No CTA Above the Fold: Deploy to Author — Fixes for the No CTA Above the Fold opportunity can now be deployed directly to AEM Author.
Forms Autofix Deploy — Forms opportunity fixes can now be deployed directly to AEM Author.
AEM Multi-Site Manager Support — Opportunities that affect multiple language copies of a site now indicate which root site the fix was applied at, using a “Fixed at” column.
Skip Failed Fixes — You can now skip individual fixes that have failed deployment, keeping your workflow unblocked.
Open in AEM Editor — Opportunity suggestions now include a direct link to open the affected page in AEM’s visual editor for quick inline edits.

February 28–March 13, 2026

New Features

Ad Intent Mismatch Opportunity — A new opportunity type identifies paid traffic landing pages that are not converting, surfacing bounce rate, cost-per-click, and traffic metrics to help you prioritize landing page improvements.
No CTA Above the Fold — This opportunity is now a dedicated first-class type with its own detail page and filtering, making it easier to track and prioritize conversion improvements.
Sitemap URL Suggestions — The Sitemap opportunity now suggests replacement URLs for pages returning 404 errors, making it easier to correct broken sitemap entries.
Redesigned Broken Backlinks — The Broken Backlinks detail page has been redesigned for improved clarity and usability.

Enhancements

Top Organic Search Pages V2 — Organic traffic data is now sourced from a 30-day Ahrefs dataset, providing more comprehensive and actionable search performance insights.
Security Vulnerabilities: Dependency Tree — Security vulnerability details now include a dependency tree visualization so you can understand the full impact of a vulnerability across your project.

February 14–27, 2026

New Features

Top Organic Search Pages — Site Health Monitor now includes a dedicated tab showing your site’s top organic traffic pages, giving you visibility into which content drives the most search traffic.
Alt Text Autofix V2 — Before deploying an Alt Text fix, you can run a pre-flight “Check Fixability” assessment to verify the fix can be successfully applied to your content.
Deployed View for Alt Text — Alt Text fixes now appear in a Deployed tab, giving you a full history of accessibility improvements alongside the current outstanding issues.
External Organization Deploy Gate — When deploying fixes to an externally managed site, an explicit confirmation step is now required to prevent accidental changes.

Enhancements

Meta Tags URL Exemptions — Specific URLs can now be excluded from Meta Tags validation via configuration, reducing false positives for intentionally short or non-standard titles.
Advanced URL Filtering — Opportunity lists now support sub-route prefix matching when filtering by URL, making it easier to focus on specific sections of your site.
Improved Trend Charts — Traffic trend charts now handle year-over-year data correctly, removing misleading dips at year boundaries.

February 6–13, 2026

New Features

Maintenance Mode — Sites Optimizer now handles planned maintenance windows gracefully, displaying a clear status message instead of incomplete or misleading data during downtime.
Deployed View for Broken Backlinks — Fixed backlinks are now tracked in a Deployed tab, grouped by date so you can see your remediation history at a glance.
No CTA Above the Fold Opportunity — A new opportunity type surfaces pages where no clear call-to-action is visible above the fold, helping you identify and improve pages with low conversion potential.
Jira Integration for Accessibility & Color Contrast (Early Access) — Forms and Color Contrast accessibility opportunities can now be linked directly to Jira tickets for streamlined issue tracking within your existing workflow.

Enhancements

Deployed Views for Meta Tags & Security — Meta Tags and Security opportunities now include date-grouped Deployed tabs, consistent with other opportunity types.
Alt Text Deployment Tracking — “Mark as Deployed” is now available for Alt Text fixes, and manually edited alt text is preserved across re-analysis runs.

January 26–February 6, 2026

New Features

Deployed View for Canonical & Hreflang — Changes to Canonical and Hreflang opportunities are now grouped by deployment date in a Deployed tab, giving you a clear history of what was fixed and when.
CSV Export — You can now export opportunity data for High Organic Low CTR and Forms opportunities to CSV for offline analysis and reporting.
Favorite Opportunities — Star any opportunity from its header to add it to your favorites, making it faster to navigate back to the opportunities you are actively working on.
Deployed View for Redirect Chains — Redirect Chain fixes can now be marked as Deployed directly from the details page.

Enhancements

Improved Cookie Banner Cost Estimates — Cost calculations for the Cookie Banner opportunity have been refined for greater accuracy.

January 16–23, 2026

New Features

Site Health Monitor (General Availability) — Site Health Monitor is now available for all customers, providing a continuous view of your site’s performance health. New sites are set up automatically upon onboarding.
Subpath Site Support — Sites scoped to specific URL subpaths are now fully supported in Site Health Monitor.

Enhancements

Actionable Data Sufficiency Notices — Paid Traffic opportunities with fewer than 1,000 pageviews now display a data sufficiency notice, helping you focus optimization efforts where traffic data is statistically meaningful.
Flexible Meta Title Validation — The minimum character requirement for meta titles has been reduced, giving you more flexibility in crafting concise page titles.
Localized What’s New Dialog — The in-app feature announcements dialog now displays in your preferred language.
Published Badge — Variations in the High Organic Low CTR opportunity that have been deployed now show a “Published” badge, making it easier to distinguish active from pending changes.
Pull Request Links in Accessibility — The Accessibility opportunity’s Deployed tab now shows the associated pull request URL for each fix, making it easier to trace changes back to your source control history.

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