Maintenance Release Notes maintenance-release-notes
The following section outlines the technical release notes for the maintenance release of Experience Manager as a Cloud Service associated with 2025.5.0 feature activation.
Release 21005 21005
Summarized below are the continuous improvements for maintenance release 21005, which was publicly released on May 27, 2025. The previous maintenance release was release 20626.
The 2025.5.0 feature activation will provide the full feature set for this maintenance release. See the Experience Manager Releases Roadmap for more information.
Enhancements enhancements-21005
- GRANITE-58927: Semantic Search toggle improvements.
- GRANITE-58800: Update of Apache Commons Collections to version 4.5.0.
- GRANITE-58866: Update of Oak to 1.80.0.
- SKYOPS-106509: Enhanced GSON compatibility via reflective access in Java 21.
- SKYOPS-107761: Update of Sling Models Jackson Exporter to 1.1.6.
- SKYOPS-107813: Update to Sling ResourceResolver 1.12.8.
Fixed Issues fixed-issues-21005
- CNTBF-443: Fixed SearchSlingJob
EVENT_JOB_TOPICproperty. - GRANITE-57853: Fixed dropdown alignment issues in UI.
- GRANITE-58107: Fixed 404 errors on Publish by disabling user-based pod affinity in OAuth handler.
- GRANITE-58276, SLING-12755: Fixed OSGi dependency cycles that could prevent the HTL Script Engine factory from starting correctly, causing intermittent server-side rendering errors.
- SKYOPS-105151: Fixed NPE when accessing bundle list.
- SKYOPS-83910, SKYOPS-82371 - Fixed JSP compilation concurrency issues.
AEM Guides guides-21005
- GUIDES-26919 : When opening a DITA map with the unified shell enabled, the editor refreshes intermittently.
- GUIDES-26282: Failing to close JCR session connections while updating or creating topics result in memory leaks and service downtime.
- GUIDES-26434: Native PDF publishing continues indefinitely, if the DITA content has a weblink without having scope as
external. - GUIDES-26516: Publishing of Native PDFs and AEM sites stalls and gets queued, when there are errors in the content.
For more information about the new and enhanced features and issues fixed in the release, view the Experience Manager Guides release roadmap.
Known Issues known-issues-21005
None.
Deprecated Features and APIs deprecated-21005
- GRANITE-54164: Removed
org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.blobfrom public API. - GRANITE-54280: Removed
org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.cachefrom public API. - GRANITE-58332: Deprecated
org.apache.jackrabbit.oak.plugins.memoryin public API. - YUI compressor for javascript has been deprecated.
- The Experience Cloud Setup Automation functionality has been deprecated.
Deprecated and removed features and APIs in AEM as a Cloud Service are detailed in the Deprecated and Removed Features and APIs document.
Security Fixes security-21005
AEM as a Cloud Service is dedicated to optimizing your platform’s security and performance. This maintenance release addresses 5 identified vulnerabilities, reinforcing our commitment to robust system protection.
Change Notice change-notice-21005
- This release contains the following new product index versions:
- damAssetLucene-12
Custom versions of the previous index versions will be automatically merged with the new product index version. Please apply further custom updates to the merged version.
Update aem-cloud-testing-clients update-aem-cloud-testing-clients-21005
Upcoming changes will require the library used in your custom functional tests to be updated to at least version 1.2.1 (Recommended: latest version 1.2.9)
Make sure that your dependency in it.tests/pom.xml has been updated.
<dependency>
<groupId>com.adobe.cq</groupId>
<artifactId>aem-cloud-testing-clients</artifactId>
<version>1.2.9</version>
</dependency>
This change needs to be performed before June 15, 2025.
Failing to update the dependency library will result in pipeline failures at the “Custom Functional Testing” step.
Embedded Technologies embedded-tech-21005
Release 20626 20626
Summarized below are the continuous improvements for maintenance release 20626, which was publicly released on April 29, 2025. The previous maintenance release was release 20476.
The 2025.5.0 feature activation provides the full feature set for this maintenance release. See the Experience Manager Releases Roadmap for more information.
Enhancements enhancements-20626
- ASSETS-46413, ASSETS-46580: Added a new review status “Preview”.
- ASSETS-49542: Expansion of supported languages for video and audio transcribe and translate.
- ASSETS-48264: Expansion of PNG quality support for renditions.
Fixed Issues fixed-issues-20626
- ASSETS-50387: Correct Content Fragment default thumbnail for use in GenStudio.
- ASSETS-49006: Display video properties when the user does not have write permissions.
- ASSETS-46757, ASSETS-46997: Improve Accessibility in the smart crop editor.
- ASSETS-48018: Improve asset reference tracking in the Assets Publish Report.
- ASSETS-35846: Improve consistency of access between author and delivery tier.
- ASSETS-48171: Improve consistency of Dynamic Media Templating with Canvas.
- ASSETS-49813: Improve Expiration Notification.
- ASSETS-47768, ASSETS-49825, ASSETS-49008, ASSETS-48287: Improve management and visibility into bulk operations.
- ASSETS-50003, ASSETS-50004: Improve naming and control over the renditions included in an asset download.
- ASSETS-47939: Improve organization of responses for Content Hub.
- ASSETS-46738: Improve performance for very large collections.
- ASSETS-50121: Improve reliability of asset published events.
- ASSETS-48490: Improve resiliency of automated processing during image ingestion.
- ASSETS-28106, ASSETS-49404: Improve robustness of full text searching.
- ASSETS-50006, ASSETS-50423: Improve search and traversal performance within a large folder.
- ASSETS-46021: Improve video display for Safari and mobile browsers.
- ASSETS-49002: Improve handling of editing Dynamic Media Templates.
- ASSETS-48376: Miscellaneous improvements in Content Hub UI.
- ASSETS-48504, ASSETS-49378: Miscellaneous improvements to UI behavior.
- ASSETS-49540: Move Asset Relations OpenAPI out of experimental phase.
- ASSETS-40284: Update documentation around ۶Ƶ Stock integration.
- ASSETS-49739: Work to integrate Figma from Asset Selector.
AEM Guides guides-20626
- GUIDES-21734: New IDs fail to generate for elements when such elements are added via snippets or created via templates, even when the auto generate ID option is enabled in XMLEditorConfig.
- GUIDES-25969: If the
scope=externalattribute is missing from external links in a DITA topic, HTML5 publishing fails without indicating the files where this attribute is missing in the error logs, especially when the microservice is enabled. - GUIDES-27288: Unable to pass the metadata properties to map landing pages generated using new AEM Sites publishing.
For more information about the new and enhanced features and issues fixed in the release, view the Experience Manager Guides release roadmap.
Known Issues known-issues-20626
None.
Deprecated Features and APIs deprecated-20626
Deprecated and removed features and APIs in AEM as a Cloud Service are detailed in the Deprecated and Removed Features and APIs document.
Security Fixes security-20626
AEM as a Cloud Service is dedicated to optimizing your platform’s security and performance. This maintenance release addresses 11 identified vulnerabilities, reinforcing our commitment to robust system protection.