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۶Ƶ Journey Optimizer continuously delivers new features, enhancements to existing features, and bug fixes. All changes are consolidated on the last week of each month in these release notes. ۶Ƶ Journey Optimizer is built natively on ۶Ƶ Experience Platform and inherits from its latest innovations and improvements. Learn more about these changes in ۶Ƶ Experience Platform Release Notes.
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Change in journey conditions ee-change@
Starting July 8th, in new customer organizations, creating expressions using experience events will no longer be supported in the expression editor used in journey conditions. As a result, experience events in the Experience Platform data source cannot be used for creating expressions. Alternative approaches and best practices for creating expressions/logic with experience events are referenced here.
There is no change to how journey context event data is accessed in unitary journeys. In the expression and personalization editors, users can continue to access data passed in with the initial journey event.
Learn more in this FAQ.
June '25 release notes 25-6-rn
Release date: June 18, 2025
New capabilities 25-06-features
New capabilities coming with this release are detailed below.
Previously available for personalization, ۶Ƶ Experience Platform datasets can now be leveraged for decisioning. This allows you to extend the definition of your decision attributes to additional data in datasets for bulk updates that change periodically without having to manually update the attributes one at a time. For example, availability, wait times, etc.
This capability is currently available to all customers as a public beta. Please contact your account representative if you would like access.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
Availability date: June 20th, 2025
Rich Communication Services (RCS) messaging is now supported in the Journey Optimizer, enabling the following enhanced messaging capabilities subject to provider and carrier support:
- Branded and verified sender support: Send messages using verified business profiles with branding elements (logo, sender name, etc.).
- Message delivery insights: Receive detailed delivery reports including message status updates (e.g., sent, delivered, read).
- Link tracking: Embed and track URLs within RCS messages for engagement analytics.
- Fallback to SMS: Automatic fallback to SMS when the profile's device does not support RCS or is temporarily unreachable via RCS.
- Basic message composition: Send text-based RCS messages with optional media and rich elements, depending on provider support.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
You can now define specific editable fields in JSON or HTML content templates which enable non-technical users to easily edit content in a form-view within the code-based experience channel authoring, without the need to manipulate any code.
More than that, when defining the code-based experience content templates you can now insert decision policies in the template, increasing reusability and ease of use.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
You can now include personalized offers in your journeys through a dedicated Content Decision activity in the journey canvas, and use them in journey activities, including conditions and custom actions.
This capability is only available for a set of organizations (Limited Availability), and will be rolled out globally in a future release.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
Journey Dry run is a special journey publication mode in ۶Ƶ Journey Optimizer that allows journey practitioners to test a journey using real production data without contacting real customers or updating profile information. This feature helps journey practitioners gain confidence in their journey design and audience targeting before publishing it live.
This capability is only available for a set of organizations (Limited Availability), and will be rolled out globally in a future release.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
You can now pause and resume your journeys. This capability gives journey practitioners greater control and flexibility by allowing live journeys to be temporarily suspended without disrupting customer experience. When paused, no communications are sent, and profiles remain in a suspended state until the journey is resumed.
You can pause and resume one journey only, or perform bulk pause and resume operations to a group of journeys.
In addition, you can apply global filters to paused journeys to exclude profiles based on their attributes.
This capability is only available for a set of organizations (Limited Availability), and will be rolled out globally in a future release.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
Scale your Experimentation winner enables you to automatically or manually roll out the winning variation of an experiment to your full audience. This feature ensures that, once a top performer is identified, you can maximize its reach and effectiveness without constant manual oversight.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
Availability date: June 2nd, 2025
In Journey Optimizer, managing the volume and timing of campaigns and journeys is essential to avoid overwhelming customers with too many interactions. Journey Optimizer now offers several tools for conflict management and prioritization - previously available only to limited-access (LA) organizations - that are now generally available (GA).
Previously released in Limited Availability, this capability is now available to all environments. With this General Availability release, the following enhancements have been introduced:
- Expanded Support: Conflict management tools now support both Unitary Journeys and Audience Qualification Journeys, in addition to Read audience journeys.
- Improved Troubleshooting: Two new step event fields are now available in the Query Service, enabling you to analyze why a profile was rejected from a journey or campaign.
- Enhanced Reporting: Reports now indicate which specific rule excluded a profile from a journey or campaign, providing greater transparency and actionable insights.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
Availability date: June 3rd, 2025
Improvements 25-06-improv
Improvements coming with this release are listed below.
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Channel rule sets
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Custom duration window for capping - A new Every field is now available in the channel rule sets configuration screen, allowing you to apply frequency capping rules over multiple days, weeks, or months, depending on the specified duration.
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Hourly reset capping frequency - You can now apply capping on an hourly basis for channel rule sets. This capability is only available for a set of organizations (Limited Availability). Please contact your customer care to get it enabled.
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Daily duration - Previously available in Limited Availability, “Daily” frequency capping in channel rule sets is now available to all customers.
For more information, refer to the detailed documentation.
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Code-based experiences
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Adding a decision policy is now available in code-based experience content templates, where it can be used to leverage offers in editable form fields. Read more
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From the code-based experience journey or campaign edition screen, you can now directly add a decision policy, without opening the personalization editor. Read more
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Custom CSS support in the Email Designer
Journey Optimizer now allows you to add custom CSS to your email content directly within the Email Designer. Read more
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New tabbed navigation for campaigns
A new navigation pattern allows for quicker access to content authoring and supports further expansion of settings across campaigns. Read more
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Decisioning
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Sandbox copy & Decisioning (availability date: June 3rd, 2025) - Decisioning objects can now be copied between sandboxes, streamlining testing and deployment workflows. Read more
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Decision item attribute support for decisioning rules (availability date: June 4th, 2025) - You can now leverage decision item attributes to create decisioning rules. Read more
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Interactive Message Execution API update - Availability date: June 6th, 2025
The Interactive Message Execution API now allows you to delete the schedule of upcoming campaigns execution.