What鈥檚 new in the 2025.08.0 release (August 2025)
This article covers the new and enhanced features introduced with the 2025.08.0 release of 51黑料不打烊 Experience Manager Guides as a Cloud Service.
For the list of issues fixed in this release, view Fixed issues in the 2025.08.0 release.
Learn about upgrade instructions for the 2025.08.0 release.
Enhanced review workflow
With this release, the review workflow has been significantly enhanced to better support seamless communication between authors and reviewers. Key updates include:
- Task management workflows with actionable notifications
- Ability to tag users to seek immediate attention
- Access to project and task details from review panel for ease of use
With these enhancements users can now expect:
- Efficient and timely review cycles
- Reduced manual effort during feedback exchanges
For more details, view Introduction to review
Configurable AI Assistant actions in the Editor settings
The latest update introduces enhanced configuration for Authoring quick actions in AI Assistant, empowering Administrators to customize the authoring environment according to specific workflows and preferences.
Once the AI Assistant toggle is enabled, Administrators can selectively choose which quick actions are visible under the Authoring tab, helping streamline author interactions. These visibility settings are specific to each folder profile.
Learn more about AI assistant in Editor settings in Experience Manager Guides.
Improved experience for creating and using DITAVAL files
This update introduces several enhancements that simplify creating, managing, and applying DITAVAL files, enabling better control over conditional content and styling across outputs.
The key highlights are as follows:
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Enhanced flagging support in authoring DITAVAL files: Experience Manager Guides brings new capabilities for customizing the content publishing through enhanced flagging support in DITAVAL files. You can now apply start and end flags around specific content, including images, and enrich flagged sections with formatting options like bold, italics, and more. To handle condition overlaps, the Style conflict can be configured, which includes setting a default background and text color, ensuring clarity and consistency in the output. These flags are fully supported in Native PDF generation, and the resulting output accurately and comprehensively reflects all applied styling elements.
For more details, view Use the DITAVAL Editor.
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Multiple DITAVAL files support for Native PDF: For Native PDF, now multiple DITAVAL files can be added, each displayed as a tagged entry for easy identification and removal, providing greater flexibility and control over conditional content in PDF outputs
Additionally, this update enhances output preset creation by enabling editable DITAVAL fields across formats, allowing users to manually specify DITAVAL paths.
For more details, view Understand the output presets in Experience Manager Guides.
Improved output generation log filtering
This release brings in UI improvements to output generation log filtering capability. You can now filter the output generation logs better for all the four distinct levels; Info, Warn, Error (including both errors and exceptions), and Fatal; with improved and intuitive color-coded indicators that simplify analysis and sharpen visibility across the log stream. This improvement empowers you to navigate logs more efficiently and locate the critical issues with precision.
For more details, view Basic troubleshooting.
Temporary files for published output now include Author and Publish URLs in a new config file
The latest publishing enhancements to Experience Manager Guides now adds a new system_config.xml file to the temporary files generated while publishing HTML, PDF, and JSON outputs using DITA-OT, as well as Native PDF output. This file is automatically included in the publishing job and also accessible through temporary files when you enable the Retain temporary files option for the presets and generate the output.
The system_config.xml file contains AEM instance details, including the Author URL, Local URL, and Publish URL, which provide clearer context and improve the traceability of the downloaded URLs.
For more details, view Understand the output presets.
New output path variable support for output generation
This update introduces dynamic output path configuration for output presets like Native PDF, DITA-OT PDF, JSON, HTML5, and Custom. Instead of using a fixed path, users can now define the output location using the ${base_output_path} variable during installation, offering greater flexibility. The previous default path /content/dam/fmdita-outputs is no longer mandatory.
All the output paths associated with the global folder profile presets will be automatically migrated to utilize the new base output path variable. For custom folder profiles, however, migration is not automatic; you are advised to contact the Customer Success team for assistance.
For more details, view Understand the output presets.
UI improvements in Editor toolbar and User preferences
With this release the settings within the User preferences on the Home page for General and Appearance tabs have been re-structured. It includes renaming the label Opening preferences for Maps and moving the Non-breaking spaces toggle to the Editor toolbar.
Additionally, in the Editor toolbar some quick-access toggles for enabling or disabling Track Changes, Tags, and Non-Breaking Spaces are now grouped under Show option within the Menu dropdown for better usability.
For more details, view Toolbar in the Editor.