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Adobe Journey Optimizer follows a continuous delivery model, allowing Adobe to deliver new capabilities, enhancements, and fixes on an ongoing basis. This approach enables a scalable, phased rollout of capabilities to ensure performance and stability across all environments. Because of this model, release notes are updated between monthly releases. For full details about the release cycle and availability phases, see Journey Optimizer release cycle.

Adobe Journey Optimizer is built natively on Adobe Experience Platform and inherits from its latest innovations and improvements. Learn more about these changes in Adobe Experience Platform Release Notes.

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Capabilities listed in these release notes include an Availability date indicating when each change becomes accessible in your environment. Entries in the Coming soon accordions are expected in the upcoming days or weeks. Information in these sections is subject to change.

Usability improvements

Each month, Adobe Journey Optimizer delivers usability improvements to make everyday work easier. Look for the [Usability]{class="badge positive"} badge within each product area to spot these improvements at a glance.

November '26 updates nov-26-release-notes

Campaigns nov-26-orchestrated-campaigns

Orchestrated campaigns skills in Coworker

You can now find and inspect orchestrated campaigns conversationally from the Coworker chat interface. This release covers three read-only skills:

  • Orchestrated Campaign List: list, filter, and count campaigns, for example by status or channel.

  • Orchestrated Campaign Get: retrieve a specific campaign's details, lifecycle history, and execution history, and visualize its activity graph.

  • Orchestrated Campaign Workflow Renderer: render a workflow graph as a visual diagram.

This provides teams with live visibility into campaign data without requiring API access or navigation through the Journey Optimizer user interface. Creating, editing, or publishing campaigns via Coworker is not yet supported.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: November 3, 2026

Decisioning nov-26-decisioning

Profile and context features for Personalized optimization models (Limited Availability)

You can now enrich Personalized optimization AI models with profile and context features, in addition to or instead of audiences. When creating an AI model, select up to 50 profile attributes from your profile schema, such as loyalty tier or churn propensity score, and up to 20 context attributes sent with the decision request, such as device type, language or page URL. Models use these signals to score decision items in real time and deliver more relevant offers. Context features are only available for decisioning policies used in inbound channels.

This capability is only available for a set of organizations (Limited Availability). To gain access, contact your Adobe representative.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: November 3, 2026

Integrations nov-26-integrations

  • Dynamic token substitution for Experience Manager fragments - Use attribute paths such as {{profile.person.name.firstName}} directly in Experience Manager Content Fragments, with no token map needed. This works only for fragments added directly to a message, not for fragments served through Experience Decisioning. Learn more

    This capability is only available for a set of organizations (Limited Availability). To gain access, contact your Adobe representative.

    Availability date: November 5, 2026

October '26 release notes oct-26-release-notes

New in Coworker this month

This release brings several new and improved Coworker features and skills, listed here for visibility. Each one is also detailed in its relevant section below.

Channels oct-26-channels

Override email channel configuration settings

Email header fields and delivery settings can now be overridden at the journey or campaign action level, without requiring a separate channel configuration. From name, From email prefix, Reply-To, recipient address, and list-unsubscribe values can each be set using profile attributes or contextual data.

This change allows each individual journey or campaign to carry its own sender identity, useful when the same channel configuration serves multiple programs, regions, or teams that each need a distinct From address or reply routing.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: October 26, 2026

Self-serve setup for High throughput email and push

If you have purchased the High throughput transactional messaging add-on, you can now set up High throughput for API-triggered email and push campaigns yourself in the product UI through a dedicated channel configuration. You no longer need to request a manual setup for each resource.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: October 26, 2026

Custom outbound channel (General Availability)

Custom outbound channels let administrators bring any outbound HTTP-based messaging channel — such as WeChat, Kakao Talk, Messenger, or a proprietary provider — directly into Journey Optimizer through a no-code Channel Builder. Once configured, custom channels are available across campaigns, journeys, and orchestrated campaigns, with the same full set of capabilities as native channels: personalization with the expression editor, content experimentation, preview and proof, out-of-the-box reporting, and consent and governance enforcement.

With this release, custom outbound channels also gain several new capabilities:

  • Use Journey Optimizer Decisioning in the custom channel payload through the Personalization Editor, the same way as in code-based experiences.
  • Apply business rules to custom channels, the same way you already can on native channels.
  • Select custom channels in the channel list for API-triggered campaigns, which was not previously possible.

Previously available in Limited Availability, this capability is now available to all environments (General Availability), with the enhancements described above.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: October 2, 2026

Honor tracking consent without blocking email delivery

To support compliance with open-tracking consent requirements such as the CNIL guidance in France, you can now honor a recipient's tracking consent without excluding them from an otherwise eligible email send. Tracking consent is stored in the Adobe Experience Platform profile and evaluated for each recipient at send time.

A new Honor open tracking consent option in the email settings of the channel configuration removes the Journey Optimizer open-tracking pixel for recipients who have not consented. Email delivery, content, and unsubscribe links are unaffected.

You can turn on the option at any time, without editing your existing journeys and campaigns. Note that some existing messages, such as transactional messages, need to be republished for the setting to apply.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: October 29, 2026

  • Channel Builder skill in Coworker to create a new custom channel - This skill helps administrators create custom channels faster by guiding users through the required setup steps, such as channel configuration, authentication, throttling, and payload definition, making it easier to launch new messaging integrations with less manual effort.

    Availability date: October 2, 2026

  • Suppression list override at Email action level - Journey Optimizer now includes a per-action toggle that allows delivery to locally-suppressed addresses for a specific email action in a journey or campaign. This is designed for compliance scenarios where a communication must be demonstrably attempted, such as a required notification to an address that has previously bounced. This capability is available in Limited Availability for a set of customers. Contact your Adobe representative to request access.

    Availability date: October 28, 2026

Journeys oct-26-journeys

New journey alerts (Limited Availability)

Five new alerts help you monitor journey message bounce and delivery error rates, receive notifications when journey Read Audience exports start and complete, and detect journey event delays due to queueing when the event throughput guardrail has been exceeded. Threshold-based alerts support configurable thresholds, and Read Audience export notifications support journey-level subscriptions.

This capability is only available for a set of organizations (Limited Availability). To gain access, contact your Adobe representative.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: October 29, 2026

Stop action journey activity

A new "Stop action" activity in the journey canvas now allows you to remove a profile from up to five inbound activities or experiences directly from a journey. This decouples inbound disqualification from journey exit.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: October 12, 2026

On-demand journey validation

A new Validate button lets you run configuration checks, including message checks, when you're ready to test or publish, reducing repeated checks during editing and helping keep larger journey canvases responsive.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: October 9, 2026

  • HMAC-signed JWT authentication for custom actions (Limited Availability) - Certificate-based custom authentication now supports JWT client assertions signed with your OAuth client secret (HS256, HS384, HS512; client_secret_jwt), as an alternative to Adobe’s RSA certificate. Configurations without alg continue to use RS256.

    This capability is available in Limited Availability for a set of customers. Contact your Adobe representative to request access. Learn more in Custom actions and External data sources.

    Availability date: October 13, 2026

  • Business Performance Analysis skill - Analyze journey performance and get concrete optimization recommendations in Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker chat. Learn more

    Availability date: October 7, 2026

  • Journey Hygiene Analysis skill - Coworker scans journeys for configuration hygiene issues and suggests fixes in chat. The first release has 7 checks: missing or generic names, stale draft journeys, stale live journeys, oversized journeys, long-existing closed journeys, and similar action or event names. Learn more

    Availability date: October 20, 2026

  • Trace Journey Profile skill - CX Coworker can now return read-only, profile-level execution data for a published journey. Check how many profiles entered each node and how they split across branches, find which profiles errored and why, or follow a single profile’s node-by-node path through the journey. Learn more

    Availability date: October 22, 2026

  • Journey Execution Timeline skill - Coworker can now return the end-to-end timeline of a Read Audience (batch or scheduled export) journey batch. See how long a batch took, when the audience export, the journey execution, and the delivery started and ended, and the profile-level P95 and P99 for entry, exit, or execution time. Learn more

    Availability date: October 26, 2026

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AI recommendation cards for journey alerts

Spend less time investigating journey issues and get a head start on resolving them. When a Journey Custom Action failure or Journey Anomaly Detected alert fires, an AI Recommendations card on the Journey Optimizer home page highlights the issue. Select the card to review analysis and recommended next steps already prepared in Coworker, without having to request an investigation first. Continue the conversation to explore the findings and decide how to address the issue.

This capability is only available for a set of organizations (Limited Availability). To gain access, contact your Adobe representative.

Campaigns oct-26-orchestrated-campaigns

The following improvements are coming to campaigns in this release.

Coming soon — Information below is subject to change.
  • Increased message activity limit for Orchestrated campaigns - Orchestrated campaigns now support up to 25 message actions on a single canvas, up from the previous limit of 10. This allows complex cross-channel orchestrations, spanning email, push, SMS, and other channels, to be built and managed as a single campaign rather than split across multiple smaller ones.

    For enterprise teams running sophisticated multi-step programs, this reduces operational overhead and simplifies publication and rollback handling when managing large campaign launches.

User interface oct-26-user-interface

  • [Usability]{class="badge positive"} Unified calendar for Campaigns, Journeys, and Orchestrated campaigns (Limited Availability) - The calendar view for journeys and campaigns now moves out of separate inventories into a unified menu accessible from the left rail that shows all three in one combined view. Learn more

    This capability is only available for a set of organizations (Limited Availability). To gain access, contact your Adobe representative.

    Availability date: October 29, 2026

Landing pages oct-26-landing-pages

Public landing pages (Limited Availability)

Journey Optimizer now allows you to create public landing pages accessible to anyone, and from there capture data from anonymous visitors into Experience Platform non-profile enabled datasets. You can share the landing page URL anywhere, such as in emails, SMS messages or on your website.

To reuse your existing Journey Optimizer branded subdomains for public landing pages, you need to migrate them to Cloudflare.

This capability is available in Limited Availability. Contact your Adobe representative to request access.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: October 28, 2026

Administration oct-26-administration

Custom metadata for campaigns and journeys (Limited Availability)

Define your own business fields, such as line of business, product or cost center, in the schemas provided for Action campaigns, journeys and Orchestrated campaigns. Select up to 10 fields per entity type, then fill them in from the Metadata fields section of the properties of each journey or campaign. The values are recorded in dedicated datasets that you can use for reporting, exports and audience creation.

This capability is available in Limited Availability for a set of customers. Contact your Adobe representative to request access.

For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.

Availability date: October 29, 2026

Decisioning oct-26-decisioning

  • Decisioning rule generation skill in Coworker - Use natural language in Coworker to generate, simulate, and optimize eligibility rules and ranking formulas for Adobe Journey Optimizer Decisioning. Marketers can create, validate, and test decisioning logic faster, enabling smarter personalization and more time spent optimizing outcomes without requiring PQL syntax expertise. Learn more

    Availability date: October 22, 2026

Coming soon — Information below is subject to change.
  • Decisioning item creation skill in Coworker - Use natural language in Coworker to create offers (decision items) with AI assistance, so marketers can build and populate items faster without manually filling in each field.

  • Decisioning audit skill in Coworker - Ask Coworker questions about your Decisioning objects in natural language. Check your inventory (for example, how many offers you have), explore how objects relate to each other, and run audit queries such as who last edited a given offer.

  • Decisioning migration assistance in Coworker - Get AI-enabled assistance in Coworker when migrating from Offer Decisioning to Adobe Journey Optimizer Decisioning.

Loyalty oct-26-loyalty

  • Performance settings in Loyalty configurations - Use the Performance settings tab to select your loyalty profile and event datasets and configure your organization’s priority Key performance indicator for loyalty insights. Choose Revenue, Engagement, Redemptions, or Conversions to determine which insights receive emphasis in your feed. Learn more

    Availability date: October 1, 2026

  • Streak challenge configuration update - The non-consecutive option has been removed when creating Streak challenges. Streak challenges now use the Task completion requirements drop-down to require either one task or all tasks together to be completed on consecutive days. Learn more

    Availability date: October 1, 2026

  • Autosave for challenge drafts - Challenge edits in Loyalty are now saved automatically as you work, so you can publish a challenge or generate a journey without saving first. Learn more

    Availability date: October 1, 2026

Integrations oct-26-integrations

Coming soon — Information below is subject to change.
  • AEM Managed Services content fragments support in Decisioning - AEM Managed Services content fragments are now supported in Decisioning when managing decision items.
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