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DocumentationAEM 6.4Release Notes

AEM Sites Release Notes aem-sites-release-notes

Last update: Wed May 03 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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AEM 6.4 has reached the end of extended support and this documentation is no longer updated. For further details, see our . Find the supported versions here.

Sites sites

See the following for AEM Sites 6.4 enhancements in detail:

Site Administration site-administration

  • New Content Tree rail to quickly navigate a site hierarchy. In combination with the list view, this restores the Classic UI interaction model to browse a site.
  • Improved scrolling in card and list view of large folders.
  • Improved interaction with the search results - the back button restores the prior search result.
  • Additional keyboard shortcuts, for most common actions, such as to open a particular rail, to edit, move and delete pages, or to open properties.
  • Ability to disable keyboard shortcuts (enable/disable in Preferences).
  • Stop showing time stamps across all UI relative after 7 days (set default in Preferences).

Page Editor page-editor

  • Updated device list for responsive site preview, now including Apple iPhone 8, 8 Plus and X, and Samsung S7
  • Moved default location for template design information away from /etc/design to support sites specific settings in /conf. Customers that upgrade from prior AEM releases can remain using /etc/design.

Component & Template Development component-amp-template-development

  • Project Archetype 13+, see .

  • HTL version 1.3.1, see .

  • Core Components 2.0.4+, see .

  • Style System

    • Added an all-new concept to assign CSS classes to components and allow users in Page Editor to select from a subset of styles via UI
    • Added ability to define the HTML element name rendered around the component e.g. <main>, <aside>

  • Grid System for Layout Container, see .

  • Template Editor and Policies

    • Policies now support Style System configurations per component, per container, per template.
    • Improved support for defining layout in templates on editable components

  • Reference Site We.Retail 3.0, see .

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AEM includes version 1.12.4 of the jQuery library to provide maximum compatibility with existing custom code. Modifications have been done by ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ to address known security issues.

Content Fragments & Editor content-fragments-amp-editor

  • Introduced Structured Content Models as foundation for content fragments

    • Model editor UI
    • Pre-configured data elements for content fragment models (single-line text, multi-line text, number, boolean, date&time, enumeration, content reference, tags)

  • Improved the usability of the AEM Content Fragment editor

    • View-all-elements overview
    • Full-screen editing for single elements
    • Enhanced rich text editing capabilities (bulleted lists, numbered lists, indendentation, hyperlinks, tables, find&replace, spell check)

  • Added enhanced output options for AEM Content Fragments

    • New Content Fragment component, as part of Core Components.
    • Content Services support with JSON output via Sling Model Exporter

Experience Fragments experience-fragments

  • Introduced Experience Fragment Building Blocks, to facilitate re-using content between Experience Fragments variations by grouping components and by allowing easy reference within variations.
  • Added the ability to add Experience Fragments to translation projects via the reference rail
  • Added the ability to start workflows with Experience Fragments via the timeline rail
  • Reference rail now shows where an Experience Fragment is being used in AEM
  • Configuration of template locations now allows authors to define on a global or folder level what Experience Fragment templates are allowed to use
  • Faceted search now supports advanced filtering, such as published/non-published, exported to social media and ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Target
  • Added single social media login when exporting Experience Fragments to Pinterest or Facebook
  • Integrated AEM Experience Fragments with ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Target. Synchronizing Experience Fragments to Target will create offers in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Target that can be used with Target’s Visual Experience Composer to embed it in any Target enabled experience.

Translation translation

  • Enhanced the usability of AEM Translation projects:

    • Support for multiple target languages in one project
    • Option to automatically promote and delete translation launches
    • Option to schedule recurring execution of translation projects (daily, weekly, monthly, yearly)
    • Enhanced translation project tiles with more detailed status information

  • Introduced Reverse Translation Memory Update, to update translation memory in 3rd-party translation management system after local content edits in AEM

  • Translation workflows now support grouped language roots

  • Added ability to assign arbitrary names to language roots, and use JCR property for mapping to ISO code

  • Smart translation updates now recognize new pages that were added to a language master branch

  • Introduced translation status reporting in Sites Admin list view

Multi-Site Management (MSM) multi-site-management-msm

  • Improved MSM scalability by using an Oak-based index vs in-memory (LiveCopyIndex)

Launches launches

  • Improved performance of launches that contain large site tree and if there are many Launches active
  • Improved auto-promotion and publish of launches with multiple root pages.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented the responsive device preview to work with pages edited in context of a launch.

Content Targeting & Simulation content-targeting-simulation

  • Support folders to organize segments based on site/context (CQ-94620)
  • Moved default location for segments into /conf to have site/context specific Segment lists.

AEM & ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Target  aem-amp-adobe-target-nbsp

  • Integrated AEM Experience Fragments with ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Target. Synchronizing Experience Fragments to Target will create offers in ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Target that can be used with Target’s Visual Experience Composer to embed it in any Target enabled experience.
  • ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Target mbox.js version 63 now included. ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ recommends to switch implementation to at.js.
  • at.js version 1.2.2 now included. ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ recommends to use either Dynamic Tag Management (DTM) or to provision at.js into the site.

AEM & ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ Analytics aem-amp-adobe-analytics

  • s_code.js H.27.5 now included. ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ recommends to switch implementation to AppMeasurement.js
  • AppMeasurement.js 1.8.0 now included. ÃÛ¶¹ÊÓƵ recommends to use either Dynamic Tag Management (DTM) or to provision AppMeasurement.js into the site.

Communities Add-On communities-add-on

See Communities Release Notes page

Screens Add-On screens-add-on

  • Added support for Screens Players to be connecting to AEM publish servers for command & control and channel downloads (instead of directly to AEM author).
  • Added ability to group channel assignments in Schedules
  • Channel assignments now have start and end date
  • Device Dashboard now shows player shell and firmware version
  • Device Dashboard list shows connection status of player
  • Added Google Chrome OS support for AEM Screens Player
  • Added Microsoft Windows 10 for AEM Screens Player
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