Dated product & company events, latest first. Recent entries come from DAM Wiki's weekly news digests; earlier milestones come from the vendor's own announcements and release notes.
| Date | Category | Event | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-12-01 (planned) | leadership | Anil Chakravarthy becomes Adobe president & CEO; Shantanu Narayen becomes executive chair (announced 2026-09-03) | S80 |
| 2026-11-19 (target) | release | AEM 6.5 Service Pack 26 (6.5.26.0) — last 6.5 service pack; 6.5 support continues through AEM 6.5 LTS | S40 |
| 2026-10-29 (target) | release | AEM Cloud Service feature release 2026.10.0 | S40 |
| 2026-10-10 | api-change | Maintenance release 28871 (replaces 28386): new Assets OpenAPI endpoints for tagging (incl. async bulk tag creation), collections (item updates, delete, search, smart-collection and collection metadata), async asset copy and metadata export, task search, download job status, named-rendition deletion; Folders API now excludes hidden folders; Content Credentials indicator in Assets Admin UI. Exact release day not stated on the page (notes last updated 2026-10-10) | S112 |
| 2026-09-29 | ai | CX Enterprise Coworker plugin in ChatGPT: natural-language AEM Assets search with brand/compliance checks and Workfront project creation; Workfront integration with OpenAI Agents API announced for October 2026 | S110 S111 |
| 2026-09-28 | deprecation | Deadline for removing deprecated Java APIs from Cloud Service customer code (Sling Commons Auth, Guava, log4j 1.x, Logback, Jetty, MongoDB packages); non-compliant environments stop receiving critical updates and Code Quality checks block deployment. Java 21 runtime decommission planned for June 2027 (move to Java 25) | S38 |
| 2026-09-24 | release | Release 2026.9.0: Content Hub AI Search, custom sorting, Smart Collections; Dynamic Media with OpenAPI multi-caption/multi-audio, AI video captions, attribute-based secure delivery; new video viewer; DM Template component in Journey Optimizer (all Limited Availability) | S37 |
| 2026-09 | ai | AEM agentic capabilities generally available in Adobe CX Enterprise Coworker; AEM MCP Server adds Cloud Manager operations | S37 |
| 2026-08-31 | deprecation | End of classic AEM 6.5 support for Adobe Managed Services customers (on-premise core support planned to end February 2027) | S40 |
| 2026-08-20 | release | AEM 6.5 LTS Service Pack 3 | S40 |
| 2026-07-30 | release | Release 2026.7.0; unified AEM MCP Server (single endpoint replacing domain-specific MCP servers) introduced with the July 2026 release | S40 S41 |
| 2026-04-20 | release | Adobe Summit 2026: AEM Assets positioned as "agentic DAM" (Content Advisor Agent, Brand Governance Agent, multi-brand Content Hub, smart collections) | S79 |
| 2026-02-19 | analyst | Leader in The Forrester Wave: Digital Asset Management Systems, Q1 2026 | S77 |
| 2025-11-10 | analyst | Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Asset Management Platforms | S76 |
| 2025-08-28 | release | AEM 6.5 LTS Service Pack 1 | S40 |
| 2024-10-31 | api-change | AEM release 2024.10.18459 — prerequisite ("modernization") for OpenAPI-based AEM APIs and new product profiles | S13 |
| 2024-08-14 | release | Content Hub provisioning switches to a delivery-suffixed Admin Console instance (earlier: contenthub) | S33 |
| 2024 (2024.6) | release | Content Hub available (minimum release 2024.6.16799, production author environments) | S35 |
| 2023-08 (mid) | api-change | AEM Cloud Service returns HTTP 429 instead of 503 when request rates exceed healthy levels | S25 |
| 2020-01-13 | release | AEM as a Cloud Service announced as available | Unverified S93 |
| 2012-10-24 | market | Adobe Marketing Cloud (now Experience Cloud) unveiled, including AEM | S94 |
| 2010-10-28 | m-and-a | Adobe completes acquisition of Day Software (WCM/DAM, basis of AEM), ~USD 248.3 m | S92 |
| 2007 | m-and-a | Adobe acquires Scene7 (origin of Dynamic Media) | S82 |
| 1982-12 | market | Adobe founded | S81 |