Adobe Acrobat Pro XI 11.0.03 / X 10.1.5 - Changelog

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 11.0.03:

May 15th, 2013

Improvements:
· Items preceded by numbers are bug fixes.

Security:
· Numerous enhancements to security features such as Protected View, Protected Mode, and others are part of this release.

Japanese support:
· Automatic signature detection is supported.
· Added support for the Japanese Postal Code barcode.

EchoSign integration:
· Acrobat and Reader now intelligently detect if a document may need to be signed. On successful detection, a document message bar appears with a button “Open Sign Pane” which on clicking opens the right-hand Sign Pane.
· Signature appearances can now be imported through the user’s webcam. Reader saves the signature for future use in signing workflows.
· Save a Copy: Allows the user to save the file locally or in cloud. The file will be renamed based on whether user signs the document or not.
· Send via Email: Allows users to upload the document to the EchoSign server where they can fill-in details and send the signed document.
· Send via Fax: Same as the Send via Email option.
· Get Others to Sign: Enables users to send documents that need signing to others through the EchoSign service.
· The dialog which asks the user if they want to save the signed document is removed, thereby streamlining the signing process.

Digital signatures:
· The product now supports allowing administrators to control trust for JavaScript execution for specific certificates through the use of cTrustCertifiedDocumentsByOIDs in HKCU and/or HKLM. If the values in this registry preference match an OID in a certificate’s Extended Key Usage field, then that certificate is trusted.

Tools Pane:
· Tools pane performance is improved.
· The Tools Pane is open by default and the user’s selected state is saved across sessions.

Services integration:
· When using Export PDF, Create PDF and Send Now services, the user can now choose Open from online account > Acrobat.com.
· 3487462 In the Create PDF panel, the “Convert” button is now a “Select Files” button. After a file is selected the button changes to “Convert”.
· 3474631 When you open a document from Acrobat.com that you were reading earlier on another device, the document opens to the page where you left off.
· 3501525 The ExportPDF panel is now available in the Japanese version of Reader.

Macintosh-specific fixes:
· 3431069 Acrobat crashes on Export Image to Online Account (SharePoint).
· 3435661 On Mountain Lion, PDF file preview color is incorrect in A10 and A11 when monitor display profile is other than sRGB.

Miscellaneous:
· 3388860 PDFMaker plug-in not opening PPT file after conversion from FileSite server.
· 2964432 Unable to use tabs to put focus on HTML field following embedded PDF.
· 3434635 Acrobat browser plug-in does not calculate decimal numbers in an AcroForm correctly when system locale is set to French.
· 3360244 Page being incorrectly identified as scanned in the PDF invokes OCR unnecessarily.
· 3363487 Print button off screen on low resolution devices in Reader/Acrobat XI.
· 3514776 The IE AcroIEHelper browser helper object is removed. Needed functionality is moved to a plugin.
· 3337344 Cannot save PDF from Firefox when multiple windows are used.
· 3299733 In Reader, doing an overwrite with content type enabled results in a “bad parameters” error.
· 3430173 Error while entering the value for Managed Metadata field.
· Added support for the Turkish Currency symbol.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro XI 11.0.2:

February 21st, 2013

· Resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2013-0640).
· Resolves a buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2013-0641).

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 11.0.1:

January 9th, 2013

IMPROVEMENTS:
Updates (and Security):
· A fully automatic update mode is introduced for Acrobat on Windows. After installation and on first launch, users are prompted to opt in to Fully Automatic Updates for Acrobat. Opting in means that updates will be automatically and silently installed when they are available. For related Registry/Plist information, see bDeclined in the Preference Reference.

Security:
· Security is further enhanced as a result of improvements and bug fixes.
· The Vista-style Open and Save dialogs work on sandboxed Windows Reader.

PDFMaker:
· Support for Office 2013 is introduced for Acrobat PDFMakers.

Scanning:
· OCR support is enhanced.

LiveCycle:
· LCRM protected PDFs hosted on a document hosting server as well as LCRM server managed via an Apache proxy no longer requires a user to authenticate twice.

Miscellaneous:
· Logging and error reporting improvements
· The Acrobat color picker is replaced by the OS color picker which provide RGB Sliders, CMYK Sliders, and HSB Sliders in the Color Sliders section.
· The build date and branch details are added to the menu Help > About.

BUG FIXES:
Security:
· 3205729 - Adding the “Sign with certificate” option to quick tools invokes the digital signatures functionality instead of adding to quick tools.
· 3313746 - Strings of trusted certificates displayed as garbage in Digital ID and Certificate Settings dialog.
· 3319047 - Improved stability of Manage Attribute Cerficiate feature.
· 3312284 - iShowDocumentWarnings default is 0, but it should be 1.
· 3319939 - JavaScript signing ignores the appearance parameter.
· Username/password dialog does not appear when Reader in protected mode is running inside a browser and UAC is turned OFF.

Accessibility:
· 3308206 - Skipped actions are not keyboard accessible.
· 3292773 - JAWS says “Blank, read only” when focus is on “divider” button in “Create New Tool Set” dialog.
· 3308203 - Action steps status information not accessible to screen reader.
· 3224349 - Selected/focused tool/panel is not scrolling into the view.

UI customization:
· 3292700: The visual experience is enhanced in several ways.
· 3303816: Scrolling of RHP is not possible in authoring mode if the list of command is long.
· Added Content Edit commands to the list of items that can be added to UI Customization.

Actions:
· 3227733 - Added icons for “Go To” panel in Actions authoring UI.
· 3308203 - Action steps status information not accessible to screen reader.
· 3308206 - Skipped actions are not keyboard accessible.
· 3313964 - Add final postflighting of commands that are run as part of an action.
· 3163372 - The currently running command is not visible if the list of commands in playback mode is long; auto-scroll is not enabled.
· 3324561 - JPN: Win only: IE only: Cannot open report after executed an action if the default browser is IE.
· 3295195 - HS: Win Only: Finish an action containing Save command on a single page pdf file, the “Save” icon on the toolbar is enabled but not functioned.
· 3300248 - SDL: L10N: After imported the “action 1.0 seq file” and run, the action menus appear disabled but the user can still use them.
· 3292700 - UI tweaks to improve visual experience.
· 3303816 - Scrolling of RHP is not possible in authoring mode if the list of command is long.
· Acrobat will crash once we click Create New Action and Edit Actions button from Tools/Action Wizard.

Printing:
· PS printing: A Web Application prints garbled text when more than three documents are selected to print

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 11.0.0:

October 16th, 2012

NEW:

Edit text in a PDF:
· Fix a typo, change a font, or add a paragraph to your PDF as easily as you do in other applications using a new point-and-click interface.

Edit images in a PDF:
· Resize, replace, and adjust images in your PDF with no need to track down the original file or graphic.

Convert PDF files to PowerPoint:
· Get a head start on new projects by saving a PDF file as a fully editable PowerPoint presentation.

Create new PDF and web forms:
· Customize professional templates or design from scratch with the Adobe FormsCentral desktop app included in Acrobat XI Pro.

Collect form responses with FormsCentral:
· Easily collect responses by moving your PDF or web forms online with the Adobe FormsCentral online service.

Merge multiple files into one PDF:
· Make sure they don't miss a thing. Combine documents, spreadsheets, emails, and more in an organized PDF.

Get others to sign documents:
· Get the green light faster. Send PDFs to others for signature approval, and track them online using the Adobe EchoSign service.

Store and access files on Acrobat.com:
· Use Acrobat.com to store your files in the cloud for free, accessing them from Acrobat or Reader on your desktop or mobile device.

Apply PDF passwords and permissions:
· Get expert protection without being an expert. Add copy and edit protection to any PDF — even right from Microsoft Office applications in Windows.

Automate document security tasks:
· Apply document security measures the same way every time. Use a guided Action to help secure your PDF before publishing it.


IMPROVED:

Convert PDF files to Word:
· Save your PDF as a Microsoft Word document and take your fonts, formatting, and layouts with you.

Convert PDF files to Excel:
· Turn your PDF or just part of it into an editable Excel spreadsheet you can use for data analysis right away.

Convert Word, Excel, or PowerPoint to PDF:
· Right from your Office application in Windows, you can create PDFs, start a shared review, restrict PDF edits, and more.

Convert HTML pages to PDF:
· Save web pages as PDF files to archive web content, review the pages offline, or print them more reliably.

Combine files in a PDF Portfolio:
· Share your work in a PDF Portfolio that presents materials professionally with an interactive impact.

Approve with electronic signatures:
· Keep projects moving. E-sign your approval right on the PDF. No need to print, fax, or mail the document.

Integrate with SharePoint:
· With Acrobat, it's simple and convenient for you to retrieve, open, and save PDFs stored on your company's SharePoint server.

Conform to ISO PDF standards:
· Create and validate PDF documents that comply with standards managed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

Standardize routine PDF tasks:
· Make it easy to create PDFs consistently. Guide people through the correct series of steps with Actions.

Meet PDF accessibility standards:
· Acrobat XI helps you create and verify PDFs that meet accessibility standards, so people with disabilities can interact with your PDFs.

Sign documents electronically:
· Track multistep approvals of PDF documents using standards-compliant e-signatures.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.4:

August 16th, 2012

· A regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.3 / 9.5.1:

April 11th, 2012

New Security Ratings:
· 
We have updated our security ratings. We feel that this is the best way to clearly communicate real-world risk associated with the vulnerabilities addressed in any given security update. We hope that this proves beneficial to your patching prioritization processes.

Adobe EchoSign Integration:
· 
With this release, we further our integration with Adobe EchoSign, by adding new electronic signature types, including typewritten and hand-drawn. With Adobe EchoSign, customers can gain real-time visibility into the signature process and status of contracts, giving greater assurance and control over the management of all signed documents.

Apple Safari and Adobe Reader/Acrobat:
· 
Today’s update resolves the incompatibility with Safari in 64-bit mode. If you still require a 32-bit solution, this update also provides a Mozilla Firefox browser plug-in for those configurations.

· Flash Technology and 9.5.1:

· Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.5.1 no longer bundle a Flash Player with the application that plays Flash in PDF files. Flash technology content in PDF is now rendered via a separate Flash Player. Should you encounter a PDF that requires the external player, you will be prompted to download and install.

Further Alignment of the Adobe Reader/Acrobat Update Cycle with Microsoft’s Model:
· Our update model will more closely resemble the familiar “Microsoft Patch Tuesday” model. This means, we will provide guidance on the release date for the next update as part of the prenotification advisory just prior to a given Patch Tuesday.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.2:

January 11th, 2012

Improvements:
Application Security:
· This release provides mitigations for vulnerabilities described in the security bulletin at http://www.adobe.com/go/apsb12_01. Products with Protected Mode or Protected view enabled are not subject to these vulnerabilities.
· Export from PDF
· When a user chooses to convert a PDF to Word or Excel, a dialog offers the user the option to subscribe to the conversion service.
· The Export from PDF service now automatically recognizes text even if the original document was a scanned image.
· Printing
· The print dialog has been improved. The new layout makes it easier to change the page orientation, print on both sides of the paper, print multiple pages on a single sheet, print over multiple sheets, and other tasks.

Security Settings:
· Wild cards and privileged locations:Wild card handling for trusted hosts now conforms to the Cross Domain Specification.
· The error dialog for invalid trusted host names that use wildcards is improved.
· A new preference (cTrustedSitesPrivate) allows IT to permit less restrictive wildcard usage when
· specifying trusted hosts.
· bDisableTrustedFolders|Sites now removes Options button from YMB when disabled and locked.
· bDisableJavaScript in HKLM allows locking the JS engine off. An admin’s privileged location list in HKLM can bypass this restriction.
· The Win OS Security Zone setting in the Privileged locations panel now includes Local Intranet zones in addition to the current Trusted Sites zone. The product should assign trust as Internet Explorer does.
· LC Workspace XFA in Flex forms will now honor Win OS trust zone override.

Multimedia security and trust: Multimedia trust is now integrated into the Trust Manager framework and the following changes have been made:
The following UI items are removed from Preferences > Multimedia Trust (Legacy):
· Clear your list of trusted documents
· Display permissions for ( ) Trusted documents ( ) Other documents
· Legacy Multimedia trust (trust for media types that use a player other than the product’s) is now stored
· in the registry at cTrustManager\cMultiMedia rather than TMDocs.sav.
· Protected Mode and Protected View

The following improvements and bug fixes have been made for the sandboxing feature on Windows:
· User credentials for Acrobat.com are cleared from the registry on sign out for users that have installed McAfee 8.8.
· Reader in protected mode is now compatible with Entrust software and Symantec PGP whole disk encryption.
· Blacklisted file extensions are respected when present in links.
· With Acrobat’s protected view enabled for All Files and Files from potentially unsafe locations, files in
· privileged locations now open outside of protected view.
· Acrobat performance is improved for form distribution workflows when a PDF is already open in PV.
· Acrobat: Acrobat now shows the 'Add reviewers' dialog when selected in Tracker for Email based reviews= and the ‘Change deadline’ feature works for the send as attachment case.
· Revocation checking that uses MSCAPI (native Microsoft or third-party Tumbleweed) now functions correctly.
· Reader performance is improved during save operations from a browser. Signatures
· Adobe’s EchoSign service continues to be further integrated into Acrobat and Reader.
· The presence and behavior of the Sign Pane can be configured by admins via registry-level preferences.
· The performance and stability of signing operations is also improved.


Bug fixes:
· On printing a PDF file to a PCL printer via Acrobat or Reader, the italic output in the printout is not correct.
· Mouseover events in interactive PDF form fields do not work properly (Applicable only to Acrobat/Reader
· 10.1.1).
· 3D PDFs may crash when viewed in VMWare.
· Policy protected file keeps incrementing *.DAT file in ...\Acrobat\10.0\Security and results in Reader X crashing when closing the file.
· When converting a webpage having a scrollable inline frame only the visible content is converted and content seen on scrolling down is dropped.
· Plug-in takes long time to load in the browser when rendering dynamic form on Windows XP.
· Form submission performance is slow with ZCI on Reader 10.1.
· Product view generated in Catia hides some elements when converted to prw/pdf.
· Repeatedly opening and closing PDFs in one browser session may cause a freeze or crash.
· Custom-encoded font glyphs truncated in Acrobat 10 on Windows.
· Form goes into unresponsive state when signing form.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.5.0:

January 11th, 2012

Improvements:
Application Security:
· This release provides mitigations for vulnerabilities described in the security bulletin at http://www.adobe.com/go/apsb12_01.
· Security Settings
· For more details about these and other security features, see the Application Security Guide.

Wild cards and privileged locations:
· Wild card handling for trusted hosts now conforms to the Cross Domain Specification.
· The error dialog for invalid trusted host names that use wildcards is improved.
· A new preference allows IT to permit less restrictive wildcard usage when specifying trusted hosts.
· bDisableTrustedFolders|Sites now removes Options button from YMB when disabled and locked
· bDisableJavaScript in HKLM allows locking the JS engine off. An admins privileged locations in HKLM can
· bypass this restriction.
· The Win OS Security Zone setting in the Privileged locations panel now includes Local Intranet zones in addition to the current Trusted Sites zone. The product should assign trust as Internet Explorer does.
· LC Workspace XFA in Flex forms will now honor Win OS trust zone override.

Multimedia security and trust: Multimedia trust is now integrated into the Trust Manager framework and the following changes have been made:
The following UI items are removed from Preferences > Multimedia Trust (Legacy):
· Clear your list of trusted documents
· Display permissions for ( ) Trusted documents ( ) Other documents.
· Legacy Multimedia trust (trust for media types that use a player other than the product’s) is now stored
· in the registry at cTrustManager\cMultiMedia rather than TMDocs.sav.
· Protected Mode

The following improvements and bug fixes have been made for the sandboxing feature on Windows:
· User credentials for Acrobat.com are cleared from the registry on sign out for users that have installed McAfee 8.8.
· Reader in protected mode is now compatible with Entrust software and Symantec PGP whole disk encryption.
· Blacklisted file extensions are respected when present in links.
· Revocation checking that uses MSCAPI (native Microsoft or third-party Tumbleweed) now functions
· correctly.
· Reader performance is improved during save operations from a browser.
· Signatures
· Adobe’s Echosign service continues to be further integrated into Acrobat and Reader.
· The presence and behavior of the Sign Pane can be configured by admins via registry-level preferences.
· The performance and stability of signing operations is also improved.


Bug fixes:
· Text overlaps in a table cell at a page break.
· Browser crashes when moving on to another page.
· Reader and Acrobat 9.4.5 do not honor the Enhanced Security Setting "Automatically trust sites from my Win OS security zones" in IE 7.
· Line height is not set for the first line in a multiline text field.
· MS Ink signature in Word doc is missing from PDF after conversion.
· Reader error on start when using Windows magnifier - "Failed to load an application resource internal error".
· Database connection record is specific for a form in later Reader versions.
· Trusting file/folder/host can bypass blacklisted file attachment list.
· Invalid option in Files of type list while Creating PDF from File.
· Acrobat loses italic output when printed to PCL printers.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.1 / 9.4.6:

September 13th, 2011

· This a regular quarterly update with security enhancements, improvements to stability, and bug fixes.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.0.3 / 9.4.4:

April 22nd, 2011

Addresses critical security vulnerabilities while providing more overall stability:
· Fixes a vulnerability and provides an updated Flash player.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.0.2:

March 21st, 2011

· This patch fixes a vulnerability and provides an updated Flash player.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.4.3:

March 21st, 2011

· This patch fixes a vulnerability, provides an updated Flash player, and fixes some bugs which improve printing and other features.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.4.1:

November 17th, 2010

· Security patch containing several fixes.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.4:

October 6th, 2010

· Addresses critical security vulnerabilities while providing more overall stability.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.2:

April 13th, 2010

· A quarterly update which includes functional improvements as requested by customers and security updates encountered during the previous quarterly period. 9.3.2 address a number of customer workflow issues, security vulnerabilities, and more stability.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.3.1:

February 16th, 2010

· Addresses critical security vulnerabilities while providing more overall stability.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.1.3:

July 31st, 2009

· Addresses critical security vulnerabilities while providing more overall stability.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.1.2:

June 10th, 2009

· Addresses critical security vulnerabilities and a number of customer workflow issues while providing more overall stability.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.1.1:

May 12th, 2009

· The Adobe Acrobat 9.1.1 Pro and Standard update addresses a critical security vulnerability while providing more overall stability. This vulnerability (CVE-2009-1492) would cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 9.1:

March 11th, 2009

· Addresses a number of customer workflow issues and a critical security vulnerability while providing more overall stability.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.1.3:

November 5th, 2008

· Closed some potential security vulnerabilities.
· Resolution of several PDF form-related issues.
· Additional stability improvements.

What's new in Adobe Acrobat Pro 8.1.2:

February 7th, 2008

· Improved Mac OS X v1.5 (Leopard) support
· Resolution of several PDF forms-related issues
· Additional stability improvements