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Adobe Digital Editions Changelog

What's new in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.12

Jan 22, 2024
  • Text copy permissions do not work as expected in epub3 files in Windows and macOS.
  • Copying of images by dragging and dropping in epub3 files.
  • Bug fixes for security vulnerabilities.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.11 (Jan 22, 2024)

  • Bug fix for Security vulnerability

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.9 (Oct 10, 2018)

  • This update resolves:
  • The issue "Connection Error Detected: Digital Editions could not connect to the fulfillment server."
  • Has ePub3 rendering improvements
  • Bug fixes for Security vulnerabilities

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.8.182914 (Apr 10, 2018)

  • This update resolves an out-of-bounds read vulnerability rated Important, and a stack overflow vulnerability rated Important that is caused by unsafe processing of specially crafted epub files.
  • Refer Security bulletin at https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/Digital-Editions/apsb18-13.html

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.7.181275 (Feb 1, 2018)

  • This update addresses an XML external entity processing vulnerability rated critical that
  • could lead to information disclosure, out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities that could lead to the disclosure of memory addresses and a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to the disclosure of memory addresses. Refer to Security bulletin at https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/Digital-Editions/apsb17-39.html.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.6.177148 (Aug 8, 2017)

  • This update resolves a critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution, seven memory corruption vulnerabilities rated important that could lead to disclosure of memory addresses and an XML external entity processing vulnerability rated critical that could lead to information disclosure. Refer Security bulletin at https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/Digital-Editions/apsb17-27.html

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.5.173692 (Jun 13, 2017)

  • Multiple security bug fixes for Adobe Digital Editions memory corruption vulnerability. Refer Security bulletin at https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/Digital-Editions/apsb17-20.html

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.3.162045 (Dec 13, 2016)

  • Multiple security bug fixes for Adobe Digital Editions memory corruption vulnerability. Refer Security bulletin at, https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/Digital-Editions/apsb16-45.html.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.1.139278 (Mar 10, 2016)

  • Security bug fix for Adobe Digital Editions memory corruption vulnerability (PSIRT-4243). Refer Security bulletin at https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/Digital-Editions/apsb16-06.html
  • New UI refinements
  • Localization support in additional 6 languages (JA,IT,KO,ES,FR & DE) for iOS and Android version of ADE
  • iPhone support

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.126234 (Sep 24, 2015)

  • Seamless fulfillment of books across devices: With this new feature, when a consumer fulfills a book on one device, the book will be automatically downloaded to all the other devices that belong to this consumer (activated using the same user ID).

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.0.3.117585 (Jun 12, 2015)

  • Support is now available for navigational items like Landmarks, Pages list, Images list and Tables list.
  • MathML support is now available for ADE on Windows.
  • Audio and video content in the eBooks can be progressively downloaded on all platforms.
  • Erasing the authorization of this computer adds one more to your number of allowed authorizations.
  • An intuitive popup box for controlling media overlays.
  • The Scrubber bar can be used to navigate to pages across eBooks.
  • Full support for EPUB’s Fragment Identifier.
  • Full support for all input types in eBooks.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.0.2.102973 (Nov 18, 2014)

  • Support for double-page view allows you to view 2 pages at a time for EPUB3-based books.
  • Support for adding notes to selected text content in EPUB3-based books.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.0.1 (Nov 18, 2014)

  • Full-text search allows you to search for keywords across chapters.
  • An intuitive panel displays the search results in a list view (EPUB 3.0 only).
  • Enhanced security for transmitting rights management and licensing validation information. With this latest version of Digital Editions 4.0.1, the data is sent to Adobe in a secure transmission (using HTTPS). More privacy-related information for Adobe Digital Editions 4.0.1 is provided here.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.1.78765 (Nov 7, 2013)

  • Adobe has released a security update for Adobe Digital Editions for Windows and Macintosh. This update addresses a vulnerability in the software that could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe recommends users update their product installation using the instructions provided in the solution section above.
  • This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2013-1377).

New in Adobe Digital Editions 1.8.1 Pre 4 (Jun 1, 2012)

  • Vendor ID Authorization - Now you can authorize computers and devices using Vendor ID other than Adobe ID.
  • Printing - Added support for printing books with appropriate permissions.
  • Full Screen - When reading a book, you can switch to full screen mode.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 1.8.1 Pre 3 (Feb 21, 2012)

  • New features:
  • Device Support — Now you can authorize USB-connected eReader hardware and load eBooks from/to that device like what you do in Adobe Digital Editions 1.7. Note: Digital Editions supported devices are listed on the Digital Publishing blog.
  • Migration — If you ever installed Adobe Digital Editions 1.7 and added books to its library, you'll be asked if you want to migrate ADE 1.7 managed books to Digital Editions 1.8 preview 3 during installation. If you choose to do so, those books will be added to the library of Digital Editions 1.8. Otherwise, you'll have to manually add those books to the library of Digital Editions 1.8 later.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 1.8.1 Pre 2 (Nov 16, 2011)

  • Japanese text layout support — Added support for Japanese text layout of EPUB documents authored to the EPUB3 specification. It does not support all of EPUB3. However, it does support many critical features, such as vertical mode, TCY, Ruby, Kenten and Kinsoku.
  • NVDA support — NVDA is a free and open source screen reader for Windows. It is officially supported in this 1.8.1 preview release.
  • Annotations — Now you can add and review notes like what you do in Acrobat.
  • Enhanced JAWS support — With this feature, you can continuously read a book from its beginning to the end with JAWS.
  • Open ACSM files through application menu — Previously, you could only double click or drag and drop an ACSM file to open it. Now you can open it through the File > Add Items to Library menu.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 1.8.0 Pre (Jul 20, 2011)

  • Adds support for accessibility

New in Adobe Digital Editions 1.7.2 (May 5, 2010)

  • A bug has been fixed that forced users on Vista and Windows 7 to have to turn off the User Agent Control (UAC) in order to be able to fulfill books.
  • A bug was fixed that would cause some printing tasks on the Mac to crash.
  • Support has been added for Windows 7 (32 and 64 bit) and for Mac OSX 10.6 (32 and 64 bit).
  • A bug was fixed that could cause repetitive activations if a user switched between a work environment and home environment if such environments handled the case of login names differently.
  • Fixed a bug which could cause occasional crashes in Digital Editions if a ActiveSync enabled reading device was plugged in.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 1.7.1.1085 (Jul 2, 2009)

  • A bug has been fixed that caused users behind non-authenticated proxies to have to download and use the standalone installer.
  • Authenticated proxies, though, are still not supported.
  • Adobe is investigating solutions to providing this support. For more information, please see “Adobe Digital Editions installation fails in some proxy server networks”.
  • In addition to installation via the seamless-download installer previously supported, Digital Editions can also be installed using a standalone installer.
  • The standalone installer is documented in the Digital Editions 1.7 Standalone Installation Instructions.
  • To get the installer, documentation and other information about Digital Editions and related products, please visit the Digital Publishing section of Adobe Developer Connection site.
  • Digital Editions continues to support the Sony® Reader, both the PRS-505A and the new PRS-700. Users of the original PRS-505 need to upgrade their firmware.
  • They also MUST download the latest version of the Sony Ebook Library and run the installer. If they do not do this, Digital Editions will not be able recognize the PRS-505. Note that support.
  • Digital Editions 1.7 continues to support named-authorization with an Adobe ID. Adobe strongly urges all users to take advantage of this feature. Users who decline to authorize for the Sony Reader is available only on Windows. Their computers with their Adobe ID can always take advantage of this feature at any time by selecting “Authorize This Computer…” from the Reading or Library menus.
  • To find out why this is so important, please visit the Digital Editions FAQ page here and read the section on “Content Portability”.
  • This release includes a fix for a potential security vulnerability when rendering JBIG2 image files.
  • This release also includes a fix for print resolution on the Mac. Previous versions were reverting to 72 DPI irrespective of what the eBook allowed. The new version allows printing to the maximum resolution the permissions allow or 300 DPI, whichever is less.