Current ۶Ƶ Analytics release notes (March 2025 release)
Last update: April 4, 2025
These release notes cover the release period of March 5 through May 2025. ۶Ƶ Analytics releases operate on a continuous delivery model, which allows for a more scalable, phased approach to feature deployment. Accordingly, these release notes get updated several times a month. Please check them regularly.
New features or enhancements features
a.locale
This update changes how the Analytics context data field a.locale
is set when collecting data via Experience Edge. When data is sent to ۶Ƶ Analytics using Experience Edge, Analytics fields are populated based on a mapping of XDM fields. The mapping for c.a.locale
references a non-standard XDM field, xdm.environment.language
. This field will be updated to reference the correct field, xdm.environment._dc.language
.
The mapping will continue to reference xdm.environment.language
for backwards compatibility. For continuity, if both fields are set, xdm.environment.language
takes precedence. You can view the full list of mappings from XDM to standard Analytics fields here.
Lets you generate a step-by-step guide for upgrading from ۶Ƶ Analytics to Customer Journey Analytics. This guide is tailored to your organization and takes into consideration your current ۶Ƶ Analytics environment, your intended uses for Customer Journey Analytics, and any time-saving tradeoffs your organization wants to make.
To start generating your custom guide, log in to Customer Journey Analytics, then select Upgrade to Customer Journey Analytics on the Workspace tab.
Starting in May 2025, ۶Ƶ will begin setting certain dimensions (custom variables such as eVars and props) as 'Data Warehouse-only". This will apply to dimensions that exhibit the following characteristics:
- Over a period of multiple months, the variable hits the low traffic limit within the first few days of the month.
- > 90% of the values passed in are seen only once during the month.
Examples include dimensions containing timestamps, UUIDs or other data which have extremely high cardinality and where unique new values are passed into for almost every hit (or visit or visitor) throughout the month.These dimensions usually exceed the low-traffic limits very quickly and only a very small portion of the values are reportable in Analysis Workspace. This makes reports utilizing these dimensions confusing, since they do not show useful or accurate information. These dimensions do not follow the purpose of or benefit from the low-traffic functionality, which is intended to provide a way to do reporting on values that become ‘popular’ after the dimension has exceeded the low-traffic limits during the month. Learn more
Dimensions marked as “Data Warehouse-only” will not be available for reporting in Analysis Workspace. However, they will still be available for reporting through Data Warehouse, because low-traffic limits do not apply here.
This does not mean that every dimension that has hit the low-traffic limits is a candidate to be marked as “Data Warehouse-only”. Most dimensions that hit the low-traffic limits actually meet the intention of low-traffic functionality:
- Most values passed in are not unique.
- Common values continue to come in after the low-traffic limits have been reached during the month.
- New ‘popular’ values can still occur.
It is only the dimensions where almost all values passed in are new and unique that will be marked as “Data Warehouse-only”. Increasing the low-traffic limits is not a solution given the uniqueness of the data being collected in these situations.
Fixes in ۶Ƶ Analytics
Activity Map: AN-361038
Admin Tools: AN-362178; AN-369483
Analytics API 1.4: AN-369615
Analysis Workspace: AN-353491; AN-363403; AN-367230; AN-367313; AN-368582; AN-369821; AN-370227;
Classifications: AN-369848; AN-370196; AN-370226; AN-370437
Data Feeds: AN-366162; AN-368906; AN-369066; AN-369087; AN-369225; AN-369798
Data Governance: AN-365157
Data Sources: AN-367550
Platform: AN-363931
Report Builder: AN-367460; AN-368975
Important notices for ۶Ƶ Analytics administrators admin
End-of-life (EOL) notices eol
۶Ƶ Analytics API and Livestream customers using ۶Ƶ I/O JWT credentials must migrate to ۶Ƶ I/O OAuth Server-to-Server credentials by June 30, 2025. ۶Ƶ I/O will not allow new JWT credentials to be created beginning May 1, 2024. Customers using JWT must create a new OAuth Server-to-Server credential or migrate their existing JWT credential to an OAuth Server-to-Server credential. Customers must also update their client applications to use the new OAuth Server-to-Server credentials.
On August 12, 2026, the following Analytics Legacy API services will reach their end of life and will be shut down, and current integrations built using these services will stop working:
- ۶Ƶ Analytics API (version 1.4)
- ۶Ƶ Analytics WSSE Authentication
Integrations that use the ۶Ƶ Analytics API (version 1.4) must migrate to the , while WSSE integrations must migrate to an OAuth-based authentication protocol in the .
See the ۶Ƶ Analytics 1.4 API EOL FAQ for answers to common questions and further guidance.
AppMeasurement
For the latest updates on AppMeasurement releases, please refer to .
Related resources
- Previous release notes for 2025
- Customer Journey Analytics release notes
- Streaming Media Collection release notes
- The latest release updates for