On June 11, 2026, AEM Cloud Service environments still running deprecated Java APIs stop receiving Adobe release updates. They'll keep serving traffic. They'll keep handling authoring. They just go silently un-patched — no security fixes, no bug fixes, no platform updates — because Adobe will hold those updates back from environments that haven't successfully completed a pipeline run on the new API surface. That's the part that matters and that's the part most teams will miss. Not because Adobe didn't tell anyone, but because the way Adobe rolled this out has at least four surfaces where a team can quietly walk past the warnings. The Escalation, In Adobe's Own Words Pulled from Adobe's Deprecated and Removed Features page: Date What Adobe does Jan 26, 2026 "Actions Center notification emails are sent as a reminder to remove usage of these APIs, if a pipeline has been recently executed ." Feb 26, 2026 Cloud Manager pipelines using deprecated APIs pause during the Code Quality step.…