Now that service pack 24 is released are these still necessary or are they rolled into SP24? Also, does Hotfix on SP24 SITES-36229 SITES-35228 get applied to both author and publish?

This is exactly what I found so thank you for confirming that.  Our site has news articles 6 stat levels down, that reside in 7 different parent folders.  Our site could really benefit from a statfileslevel=5 so only articles within 1 of the 7 folders gets purged on publish.  However, like you menti...

Thank you for the detailed explanation.

I just want to validate what I am seeing.  When cache is invalidated, all child pages under the lowest statfileslevel *and* parent pages are flushed.  So it's really just sibling folders and parent sibling folders that are untouched. I found this article very helpful to understand statfileslevel. ht...

Thank you @VishalKakde and @muskaanchandwani !

I can't find any installation instructions for Hotfix for GRANITE-61551.  Does it get deployed on both publish and author instances?  Also, no documentation for AEM 6.5 SITES Hotfix on SP23 SITES-33973.  I assume it needs to be deployed as well on a SP23 instance since the GRANITE-61551 hotfix does ...

I have similar questions about the analyzer.  It seems like it's just identifying obsolete bundles (listed here: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-65-lts/content/implementing/deploying/upgrading/obsolete-bundles) and removed jcr paths that exist in the system.  Not necess...

Can any user besides admin take an online backup?  What permissions would they need?  I am using curl but I guess this would apply to backups through the UI as well.

You are correct.  The POST was initially blocked but even when I allowed it, it was still returning 404 from the publisher.

Thanks for the detailed explanation.  That was helpful.  We do use Adobe Analytics so we are covered.