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Learn about new features and fixes in the Adobe Marketing Cloud. |
release notes |
Learn about new features and fixes in the Adobe Marketing Cloud. |
Release Notes - March 2016 |
Experience Cloud,Release Notes |
Release Notes - March 2016 |
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Learn about new features and fixes in the Adobe Marketing Cloud.
Note
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Release notes for the Experience Cloud and core services.
The iOS SDK version 4.8.6 (March 9, 2016) includes the following changes:
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Track app crashes | The iOS SDK version 4.8.6 contains critical changes that prevent false crashes from being reported. We highly recommend that you update to version 4.8.6. |
See Adobe Mobile Services for product documentation. To see the release notes for previous releases, expand Previous Release Notes in the left pane.
March 17, 2016
Version 1.5.4 includes the following changes:
| Feature | Description |
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| Opt-out support | The Marketing Cloud ID service supports visitor opt-out requests. (AAM-21725) |
| Change ID synchronization interval | The Marketing Cloud ID service now makes ID synchronization calls on every call to the data collection servers. Previously, the ID service made only 1 request on the first call to get a Marketing Cloud ID. (AAM-22934) |
Documentation
Revised ID service implementation procedures for [!DNL Analytics] customers. See Set Up the Marketing Cloud ID Service with Analytics.
March 17, 2016
Important
The following table provides Analytics notifications about issues that may affect data collection and reporting, product end-of-life, and so on.
| Notice | Date Added | Description |
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| SiteCatalyst 14, ExcelClient, etc. end of life in September 2016 | March 17, 2016 |
SiteCatalyst 14, ExcelClient, and a number of other legacy components will reach end-of-life in September 2016. This means that all access to the SiteCatalyst 14 user interface and several related features will be removed. To prepare for this event, view this list of affected components, along with required user actions and suggestions on how to move forward with alternatives. |
| Changes to visit processing for timestamped data |
March 17, 2016 |
In June, we will begin improving to the way visits are calculated for Timestamps Required and Timestamps Optional report suites. These changes will primarily affect data collected through Mobile SDKs and will result in lower overall visit counts going forward, in certain situations. Learn more in Compare visits and mobile app launches . To see which report suites might be affected, see Timestamps Optional . |
| Data processing change between February and March MRs | February 18, 2016 |
Sometime between the February and March Maintenance Releases, the following Analytics data processing change was implemented: Previously, when using the Product variable without having an event set, the event would default to "ProdView", set early in processing (before processing rules take effect). The event is now set after the processing rules to avoid conflicts with how mobile data processing works. This change has the following downstream effects:
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| Elimination of hashed values in Data Feeds |
February 18, 2016 |
In certain circumstances, hashed values ( ::hash::<hash value> ) may appear in data feeds for the following types of variables:
A change is being implemented that eliminates hashed values over time, and replaces them with actual values. Note: The max size of any particular value is 100 bytes or 255 bytes. For fields that support multiple values, such as post_product_list and List Vars, the max size of those fields is 64k. Therefore, if you are passing in a large number of values, some of the values may be lost as the field will be truncated at 64k. |
| Web Services v 1.2 API end-of-life |
February 18, 2016 |
Version 1.2 of the Web Services API was officially deprecated on February 20, 2014. It will reach end-of-life on September 15, 2016. At that time, Adobe will remove the ability of the API servers to respond to version 1.2 API requests. Any API requests made to the https://api.omniture.com/admin/1.2 endpoint will return a 404 error. Customers have until the end-of-life date to upgrade from the version 1.2 API to the version 1.4 API to prevent an outage in their API applications. |
| SSL v3 |
February 18, 2016 |
As of early Feb 2016, Adobe Analytics data collection and reporting APIs no longer supports SSL v3. |
| UK Postal Code |
February 18, 2016 |
Adobe's geo service provider is changing how we receive UK postal codes. We will be switching from providing truncated UK postal codes to full postal codes on or around March 18th. |
| Changes to backdating of session information |
October 15, 2015 |
For report suites with timestamp data, backdating will no longer create a visit, as described in Compare Visits and Mobile App Launches (published October 2015). |
Fixes were applied to the following products and services:
| Product | Fixes |
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| Reports & Analytics |
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| Analysis Workspace Fixes |
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| Ad Hoc Analysis Fixes |
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| AppMeasurement (Legacy and Mobile SDKs) | JavaScript version 1.5.4
AppMeasurement for Other Platforms See AppMeasurement Release History the following for a release history of AppMeasurement on the following platforms:
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Fixes, Enhancements, and Deprecations
- Fixed a bug that cased Trend reports to show results a day off from the current date. Affects Eastern European time zones only. (AAM-22321)
- Fixed a bug in Audience Marketplace that prevented data providers from activating a private, unbranded data feed. (AAM-23377)
- Changed ID type option in the data source creation workflow to "Device Advertising ID" (from "Mobile"). (AAM-22947)
- Added
mathcesword, a new named operator that helps build trait rules without the complexity of regular expressions. (AAM-22368)
New Features
| Feature | Description |
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| Publish Anywhere | You can now expand the Publish Anywhere interface to full-screen mode to allow yourself more room to create, edit, and review your posts. |
Fixes
The fixes highlighted below describe resolutions for the more important customer-reported issues:
- Fixed an issue that prevented some tweets from being collected and displayed in the [!UICONTROL Post Analytics] report.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some metrics from displaying in the [!UICONTROL Properties] report.
- Fixed an issue that prevented the [!DNL 1_documents.xlsx] file from being included in the zip file after exporting data from the [!UICONTROL Social Buzz] report.
- Fixed an issue that caused [!DNL Social] to send repeated bulk email messages when using auto-moderation rules.
- Fixed a UI issue so that posts in moderation feeds with long links contain horizontal scroll bars.
- Fixed an issue that prevented some posts from displaying in escalation moderation feeds.
Refer to the Adobe Target Release Notes for the latest release information about the following products:
- Target Standard and Premium
- Target Classic
- Recommendations Classic
Advertising Management help is available in the product at [!UICONTROL Help > Help Contents].
[!DNL Adobe Campaign] provides an intuitive, automated way to deliver one-to-one messages across online and offline marketing channels. You can now anticipate what your clients want using experiences determined by their habits and preferences.
For product documentation, see:
- Adobe Campaign Standard Release Notes
- Adobe Campaign Standard Documentation
- Adobe Campaign v6 Release Notes
- Adobe Campaign v6 Documentation
Adobe recommends customers with on-premise deployments to deploy the latest recommended patches in order to ensure higher stability, security, and performance.
| AEM Assets Forum | Description |
|---|---|
| AEM Assets Forum | Our new AEM Assets sub-forum is now live. This forum covers: Assets (on premise), Assets on Demand, Brand Portal, Dynamic Media and Scene7. Anyone is free to login and post, just sign in with your Adobe ID. |
| Conference | Description |
|---|---|
| Adobe Immerse | Immerse is a virtual Adobe Experience Manager developer conference April 25-29. This event is a "must attend" for anyone responsible for the design, development, deployment or maintenance of Adobe Experience Manager implementations. For tickets & details please see the Adobe Immerse website. |
| Dispatcher | Description |
|---|---|
| Dispatcher 4.1.12 | A new Dispatcher release is available for download. |
| Hotfixes | Description |
|---|---|
| AEM 6.1 hotfixes | List of recommended hotfixes for AEM 6.1, including OAK 1.2.11 hotfix. |
| AEM 6.0 hotfixes | List of recommended hotfixes for AEM 6.0. OAK 1.0.27 is now available for download. |
| AEM 5.6.1 hotfixes | List of recommended hotfixes for AEM 5.6.1. |
| Security bulletins |
Description |
|---|---|
| Security bulletin for Adobe Experience Manager. |
| Service packs |
Description |
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| AEM 6.1 Service Pack 1 |
AEM 6.1 Service Pack 1 is an important update that includes performance, stability, security and key customer fixes and enhancements released since the general availability of AEM 6.1 in May 2015. SP1 can be installed on AEM 6.1 GA. The overview on this page lists the changes added with SP1. Some of the key highlights of the service pack are:
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| AEM 6.0 Service Pack 3 |
AEM 6.0 Service Pack 3 (SP3) is an important update that includes security, performance, stability, and key customer fixes and enhancements released since the general availability of AEM 6.0 in May 2014. Service Pack 3 contains all changes introduced with Service Pack 2. It can be installed on AEM 6.0 GA, AEM 6.0 SP1 and AEM 6.0 SP2. The overview section on this page lists the changes added with SP3. The included changes from SP2 are listed in the Service Pack 2 release notes . The following are some key highlights of the service pack:
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Latest Self-Help Content Updates
| Self-help updates |
Description |
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| CRX2Oak is a tool designed to migrate data between different repositories. |
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| Adobe Campaign is a set of solutions that lets you personalize and deliver campaigns across all of your online and offline channels. |
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| Author targeted content using Targeting mode of the AEM touch-optimized UI. |
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| Frequently asked questions for Touch UI authoring. |
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| Tips and tools that help troubleshooting Touch UI related issues. |
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| Using custom xtypes in Adobe Experience Manager 6 Touch UI. |
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| Improve your knowledge on tasks and considerations needed to successfully deploy Adobe Experience Manager with MongoDB. |
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| When to create indexes as well as when they are not needed, tricks to avoid using queries when they are not necessary, and tips for optimizing your indexes and queries to perform as optimally as possible. |
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| Use Multi Site Manager (MSM) to use the same site content in multiple locations. |
For product documentation, see:
- Release notes: Adobe Experience Manager 6.1 Release Notes
- Help home: Adobe Experience Manager Help Home
- Scene7 Publishing System: Scene7 Publishing System Release Notes
- AEM Assets on Demand: Release Notes
| Item | Description | Date Published |
|---|---|---|
| Adobe is participating in the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) Project. AMP is an open source project that lets you build web pages for static content that renders quickly. This feature is ideal for publishers who want to create mobile-optimized content once, and have it load instantly everywhere. |
February 24, 2016 |
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| Added a product comparison table for Analytics products. |
February 18, 2016 |
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| In Marketing Cloud Assets, you can store, share, and synchronize your digital assets from one central location. Marketing Cloud Assets leverages some of the features available in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM). |
February 11, 2016 |
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| Added documentation for new features in Analysis Workspace. |
January 21, 2016 |
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| (Updated) Users and Groups |
Analytics Administrators: If you are an administrator in the Marketing Cloud, see Users and Groups for updated information about mapping Analytics groups to broader Adobe groups, and adding or bulk-adding users via the Enterprise Dashboard . |
September 17, 2015 |
| Updated Analysis Workspace product documentation with feature descriptions, tasks for creating projects, videos, and use cases. |
September 17, 2015 |
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| Added product documentation and best practices for Timestamps Optional. This feature lets you integrate both timestamped and non-timestamped data in a report suite. All new report suites will be Timestamps Optional by default. |
September 17, 2015 |
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| Data Workbench 6.5 Update | See Data Workbench 6.5 release notes for instructions to upgrade and a list of new features and bug fixes, including a new Associations table and chord diagram and updates to visualizations, user interface, algorithms, and export features. | September 17, 2015 |
| Updated the Classification Rule Builder so that you add report suites and variables to a rule set when editing an existing rule set (after creating the rule set). Previously, you specified the variable and report suite while creating the rule set. This change prevents reported issues occurring with classification variables. |
August 20, 2015 |
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| Profile Link works with cross-device data sources to identify and collect traits for authenticated site visitors. It includes the Profile Merge Rules feature, which lets you segment and target users accurately across multiple devices. |
August 20, 2015 |
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| New Calculated Metric Builder and Calculated Metric Manager | Calculated Metrics now allow for segmented metrics, more advanced math and the ability to organize and share metrics. |
June 18, 2015 |
| Freeform Analysis (public beta) |
A feature in Analysis Workspace, freeform analysis lets you built data tables and drag-and-drop metrics, dimensions, segments, and multiple visualizations to a project panel. |
June 18, 2015 |
| Data Workbench 6.4 | Data Workbench 6.4 release includes several new features described here . |
June 18, 2015 |
| Added Adobe Managed Certificate Program to the revamped First-Party Cookies product documentation. The managed certificate program lets you implement a new first-party SSL certificate for first-party cookies at no additional cost. |
May 22, 2015 |
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| Revamped the Adobe Mobile product documentation. |
May 22, 2015 |
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| A high-level round-up what you need to do to modernize your solution implementations for core services. |
March 19, 2015 |
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| If you capture enterprise customer data in a customer relationship management (CRM) database, you can upload that data into the Marketing Cloud. |
March 19, 2015 |
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| Analytics Spring Release | See the New Features section in Analytics for a round-up of new documentation for the Spring 2015 Analytics release. |
March 19, 2015 |
| Analytics Classification Rules - overwrite existing values |
In Admin Tools > Classification Rule Builder > <rule set name> , two new options enable you to select an overwrite mode:
Previously, if a key was already classified in any column or cell, the rule would not run on that key, and the row in the table was skipped. |
February 19, 2015 |