Adobe Experience Platform January 2026 Release

January' 26 release notes

Check out what’s new in the latest Adobe Experience Platform release update: Release Notes

New capabilities

• Agent Orchestrator

  • Adobe Experience Platform Agents usage-bound trial: Select customers now have a complimentary trial access to Adobe Experience Platform Agents. You can use the trial to explore and interact with Agents through the AI Assistant interface powered by Adobe Experience Platform Agent Orchestrator. The trial offers hands-on experience with AI Agents that operate within the context of customers’ existing Experience Cloud products and environments, allowing teams to evaluate value before committing to a full purchase.

• Destinations

  • Kevel destination connector now available: The Kevel streaming destination for Adobe Experience Platform enables customers to activate Adobe audiences directly into Kevel’s UserDB and Segment Management APIs to support real-time targeting at ad decision time. Kevel provides the AI-enabled technology and expert guidance that help innovative commerce leaders launch, scale, and succeed in retail media. Kevel’s Retail Media Cloud powers targeted, attributable, customizable ad formats for on-site and off-site advertising.
  • Index Exchange destination connector now available: Use this destination connector to export audience segments from Adobe Experience Platform directly to Index Exchange’s programmatic advertising platform. Index is a global advertising supply-side platform that helps media owners maximize the value of their content across every screen. With over 20 years of industry leadership, Index connects the world’s largest brands with premium experience makers to deliver high-quality consumer experiences.

• Real-Time Customer Profile

  • Monitor profile ingestion job status: You can now monitor the job-level progress percentage for batch Profile ingestion dataflow runs. This feature provides real-time visibility into the current progress of batch ingestion jobs, including critical checkpoints that indicate whether the ingestion is ready for customer segmentation and Adobe Journey Optimizer lookups. For large ingestions that may take several hours to process, this progress transparency helps you understand whether the job is progressing normally or encountering issues, reducing uncertainty during data processing.

• Segmentation Service

  • Audience validation: Experience Platform now provides built-in validations to ensure your audiences are accurate, stable, and scalable. These checks are automatically run in real-time while you’re creating your audience definitions. 

• Sources

  • Oracle Eloqua V2 source: A new Oracle Eloqua source connector is now available, replacing the deprecated connector. This updated connector provides enhanced functionality and improved reliability for ingesting data from Oracle Eloqua into Experience Platform. Customers using the existing connector should migrate to the new implementation, as existing connections will no longer function. The new connector supports all setup and configuration steps needed to connect to Oracle Eloqua and ingest marketing automation data.
  • Salesforce Marketing Cloud V2 source: A new Salesforce Marketing Cloud source connector is now available, replacing the deprecated connector. This updated connector provides improved performance and additional capabilities for ingesting data from Salesforce Marketing Cloud into Experience Platform. Customers using the existing connector should transition to the new implementation. The new connector includes comprehensive setup instructions for connecting to Salesforce Marketing Cloud and ingesting marketing automation data.

Please find the detailed information around the new capabilities and updates here: Latest Release

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