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Deploying Communities deploying-communities

Prerequisites prerequisites

Installation Checklist installation-checklist

For the AEM platform

For the Communities capability

Latest Releases latest-releases

AEM 6.5 Communities GA includes Communities package. To know more about updates to AEM 6.5 Communities, see the AEM 6.5 Release Notes.

AEM 6.5 Updates aem-updates

Starting in AEM 6.4, updates to Communities are delivered as part of AEM Cumulative Fix Packs and Service Packs.

For the latest updates to AEM 6.5, see ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓÆµ Experience Manager 6.4 Cumulative Fix Packs and Service Packs.

Version History version-history

As on AEM 6.4 and beyond, AEM Communities features and hotfixes are part of AEM Communities cumulative fix packs and service packs. There are, therefore, no separate feature packs.

JDBC driver for MySQL jdbc-driver-for-mysql

One Communities feature use a MySQL database:

  • For DSRP: storing UGC

The MySQL connector must be obtained and installed separately.

The necessary steps are:

  1. Download the ZIP archive from

    • Version must be >= 5.1.38
  2. Extract mysql-connector-java-<version>-bin.jar (bundle) from the archive

  3. Use the web console to install and start the bundle :

    • For example, https://localhost:4502/system/console/bundles
    • Select Install/Update
    • Browse… to select the bundle extracted from the downloaded ZIP archive
    • Check that Oracle Corporation’s JDBC Driver for MySQLcom.mysql.jdbc is active, and start it if not (or check the logs)
  4. If installing on an existing deployment after JDBC has been