The Core Components are designed to be flexible and compatible with all supported AEM versions. Because of this a release of the components can contain multiple versions of the same component.
The following tables illustrate the compatibility of the releases of the Core Components along with which component versions are contained in which releases.
The following table, the contents of which are available on GitHub with full release details, gives an overview of the releases of the Core Components and their compatibility with AEM releases and Java versions.
Release
Description
AEM 6.4
AEM 6.5
AEM as a Cloud Service
Java
Release Date
This release adds support for named smartcrops in Dynamic Media, includes performance and accessibility improvements and various bug fixes.
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6.5.21.0+
Continual
8, 11
2 May 2024
This patch release includes improvements for datalayer initialization.
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6.5.21.0+
Continual
8, 11
22 April 2024
This patch release fixes a Sling Model initialization.
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6.5.21.0+
Continual
8, 11
1 April 2024
This patch release improves stability of integration tests.
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6.5.21.0+
Continual
8, 11
22 February 2024
This release adds support for Google Tag Manager Data Layer and includes various bug fixes.
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6.5.21.0+
Continual
8, 11
14 February 2024
This patch added Dynamic Media smart crop for remote assets to the Image and Teaser Components and fixed a number of bugs.
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6.5.17.0+
Continual
8, 11
4 August 2023
This release added support for Next Generation Dynamic Media remote assets.
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6.5.17.0+
Continual
8, 11
6 June 2023
This patch release brings back features which were accidentally removed in previous release.
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6.5.14.0+
Continual
8, 11
9 May 2023
This patch release fixes a regression in the Container Component.
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6.5.14.0+
Continual
8, 11
21 April 2023
This is a patch release to fix an issues in the Content Fragment List Component.
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6.5.14.0+
Continual
8, 11
5 April 2023
This is a maintenance release to address two issues introduced in 2.22.0
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6.5.14.0+
Continual
8, 11
31 March 2023
This release introduces a new version of the List Component along with improvements to the Teaser and update of the PDF Viewer and Carousel
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6.5.14.0+
Continual
8, 11
9 February 2023
This is a patch release fixing an issue with the v1 and v2 Teaser Components.
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6.5.13.0+
Continual
8, 11
12 September 2022
This release includes a number of enhancements including publication of the LinkHandler API, improvements to the Image Component and Data Layer, as well as improvements to multi-panel components.
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6.5.13.0+
Continual
8, 11
12 September 2022
This release fixes an issue with delivery of SVG images via AdaptiveImageServlet.
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6.5.13.0+
Continual
8, 11
4 August 2022
This patch release fixes an issue with the new Table of Contents Component.
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6.5.13.0+
Continual
8, 11
7 July 2022
This patch release fixes an issue with the new Table of Contents Component.
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6.5.13.0+
Continual
8, 11
29 June 2022
This is a patch release that fixes an issue in the new AEMaaCS web-optimized asset delivery service.
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6.5.13.0+
Continual
8, 11
20 June 2022
This release adds a new Table of Contents Component, adds support for AEMaaCS web-optimized asset delivery service, and includes bug fixes.
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6.5.13.0+
Continual
8, 11
9 June 2022
This release adds a new version to the Search Component and features to the Button Component as well as many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.
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6.5.10.0+
Continual
8, 11
7 April 2022
This major release of the core components sees the introduction of a new link handler across new versions of multiple components along with many accessibility improvements and bug fixes.
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6.5.10.0+ *
Continual
8, 11
16 February 2022
This is a patch release that fixes a regression introduced with the previous release.
6.4.8.4+
6.5.6.0+
Continual
8, 11
1 October 2021
This patch enhances the List and Navigation components to display the external URL for redirect targets, enables page images inheritance for the upcoming v2 of the Teaser component, and contains additional bug fixes.
6.4.8.4+
6.5.6.0+
Continual
8, 11
31 August 2021
This patch release This is a patch release to fix a backward incompatible change which was introduced previously.
6.4.8.4+
6.5.6.0+
Continual
8, 11
2 August 2021
This patch release adds support for site maps for Pages and includes various accessibility improvements.
6.4.8.4+
6.5.6.0+
Continual
8, 11
29 July 2021
This patch release includes a fix for the Data Layer not working with AEMaaCS.
6.4.8.4+
6.5.6.0+
Continual
8, 11
8 July 2021
This release includes tech previews of many new component versions supporting link handler features as well as a tech preview of a featured image feature for the Page Component. Several bug fixes are also included.
6.4.8.4+
6.5.6.0+
Continual
8, 11
16 June 2021
This is a patch release to fix an issue with the new Link Handler.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
19 May 2021
This was a patch release mainly fixing an issue with the new Link Handler and added an enhancement to support multi-page applications for PWA.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
15 May 2021
This release focused on accessibility improvements as well as introducing a new Link Handler to existing components.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
22 April 2021
This was a patch release mainly fixing issues with Data Layer backward compatibility and IT tests failing in certain situations.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
16 March 2021
This release includes support for progressive web apps (PWA) in the Page Component and supports version 2.0.0 of the Adobe Data Layer.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
23 February 2021
This release includes new options for the Embed Component and introduces the Brand Slug at the page level as well as addressing many issues.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
9 February 2021
This was a patch release addressing an issue with the RTE when used on AEMaaCS
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
16 December 2020
This release includes new Dynamic Media features for the Image Component.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
4 December 2020
This was a patch release for 2.12.0 including minor fixes.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
11 November 2020
This was a patch release for 2.12.0 that fixes a major bug in the Image Component.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
5 November 2020
This release introduced a new POST form handler; the ability to include custom CSS, Javascript, and metadata tags via context aware configuration; and a DataLayerBuilder utility to simplify data layer integration in custom components.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
29 October 2020
This release introduced the PDF Viewer component.
6.4.8.1+
6.5.5.0+
Continual
8, 11
17 June 2020
This release enabled integration with the Adobe Client Data Layer and introduced the Progress Bar component.
6.4.8.0+
6.5.4.0+
Continual
8, 11
29 May 2020
This release focused on fixes with small enhancements.
6.4.4.0+
6.5.0.0+
Continual
8, 11
5 December 2019
This release introduced the new Embed component.
6.4.4.0+
6.5.0.0+
Continual
8, 11
25 September 2019
This release introduced the new Experience Fragment component.
6.4.4.0+
6.5.0.0+
Continual
8, 11
6 September 2019
This release introduced the new Accordion, Button, Container, and Download components.
6.4.2.0+
6.5.0.0+
Continual
8, 11
25 June 2019
This release introduced the Content Fragment List Component.
6.4.2.0+
6.5.0.0+
Continual
8, 11
7 May 2019
This release focused on refinements to the Component Library, but also contains some feature enhancements for the Separator Component.
6.4.2.0+
6.5.0.0+
Continual
8
14 March 2019
This release focused on the Component Library as well as introducing the new Separator Component, but also contains some feature enhancements for the Image Component.
6.4.2.0+
-
-
8
11 February 2019
This release mainly focused on bug fixes, but also contains some feature enhancements for the Carousel Component.
6.4.2.0+
-
-
8
27 November 2018
This release introduced the Tabs Component and the Carousel Component as well as improvements to the Image Component, Page Component, and Title Component and enhanced tracking.
6.4.2.0+
-
-
8
16 October 2018
This release introduced the Teaser Component along with improvements to the Image Component and numerous bug fixes.
6.4.2.0+
-
-
8
13 July 2018
This release added under-the-hood improvements, bug fixes, and small improvements including support of image flip in the Image Component.
6.4.0.0+
-
-
8
11 April 2018
This release mostly focussed on under-the-hood improvements, bug fixes, plus some minor improvements to the Image Component, Page Component, and Content Fragment Component.
6.4.0.0+
-
-
8
7 March 2018
This release introduced the Navigation Component, Language Navigation Component, and the Quick Search Component and implemented the Style System for all components.
6.4.0.0+
-
-
8
16 January 2018
This release implements JSON export on all components and introduces the Content Fragment Component.
6.4.0.0+
-
-
8
10 October 2017
This release adds fixes for the Page Component, Image Component, and various global fixes and improvements.
6.4.0.0+
-
-
8
26 April 2017
This release adds fixes for animated GIF images in Image Component.
6.4.0.0+
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-
7
22 March 2017
