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Last updated on Feb 18, 2025 | Also applies to Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat 2017, Adobe Acrobat 2020

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Introduction to Acrobat
1. Access Acrobat from desktop, mobile, web
2. Introducing the new Acrobat experience
3. What's new in Acrobat
4. Keyboard shortcuts
5. System Requirements
6. Download Adobe Acrobat
7. Download Acrobat | Enterprise term or VIP license
8. Download Acrobat 64-bit for Windows
9. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader | Windows
10. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader | Mac OS
11. Install updates for Acrobat and Reader
12. Update your Acrobat to the latest version
13. Download Acrobat 2020
14. Release Notes | Acrobat, Reader
Workspace
1. Workspace basics
2. Opening and viewing PDFs
3. Working with online storage accounts
4. Acrobat and macOS
5. Acrobat notifications
6. Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
7. Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
8. Adobe Acrobat for Outlook
9. Set Acrobat as default PDF viewer
10. Explore Acrobat tools
Creating PDFs
1. Overview of PDF creation
2. Create PDFs with Acrobat
3. Create PDFs with PDFMaker
4. Using the Adobe PDF printer
5. Converting web pages to PDF
6. Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
7. Adobe PDF conversion settings
8. PDF fonts
Editing PDFs
1. Edit text in PDFs
2. Edit images or objects in a PDF
3. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
4. Edit scanned PDFs
5. Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
6. Optimizing PDFs
7. PDF properties and metadata
8. Links and attachments in PDFs
9. PDF layers
10. Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
11. PDFs converted to web pages
12. Setting up PDFs for a presentation
13. PDF articles
14. Geospatial PDFs
15. Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
16. Change the default font for adding text
17. Delete pages from a PDF
18. Edit a signed PDF | FAQ
Scan and OCR
1. Scan documents to PDF
2. Enhance document photos
3. Troubleshoot scanner issues when scanning using Acrobat
Forms
1. PDF forms basics
2. Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
3. Create and distribute PDF forms
4. Fill in PDF forms
5. PDF form field properties
6. Fill and sign PDF forms
7. Setting action buttons in PDF forms
8. Publishing interactive PDF web forms
9. PDF form field basics
10. PDF barcode form fields
11. Collect and manage PDF form data
12. About forms tracker
13. PDF forms help
14. Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
Combining files
1. Combine or merge files into single PDF
2. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
3. Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
4. Crop PDF pages
5. Add watermarks to PDFs
6. Add backgrounds to PDFs
7. Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
8. Publish and share PDF Portfolios
9. Overview of PDF Portfolios
10. Create and customize PDF Portfolios
Sharing, reviews, and commenting
1. Share and track PDFs online
2. Mark up text with edits
3. Preparing for a PDF review
4. Starting a PDF review
5. Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
6. Participating in a PDF review
7. Add comments to PDFs
8. Adding a stamp to a PDF
9. Approval workflows
10. Managing comments | view, reply, print
11. Importing and exporting comments
12. Tracking and managing PDF reviews
Saving and exporting PDFs
1. Saving PDFs
2. Convert PDF to Word
3. Convert PDF to PPTX
4. Convert PDF to XLSX or XML
5. Convert PDF to JPEG
6. Convert PDF to TIFF
7. Convert PDF to PNG
8. Convert or export PDFs to other file formats
9. File format options for PDF export
10. Reusing PDF content
Security
1. Enhanced security setting for PDFs
2. Securing PDFs with passwords
3. Manage Digital IDs
4. Securing PDFs with certificates
5. Opening secured PDFs
6. Removing sensitive content from PDFs
7. Setting up security policies for PDFs
8. Choosing a security method for PDFs
9. Security warnings when a PDF opens
10. Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
11. Protected View feature for PDFs
12. Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
13. JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
14. Attachments as security risks
15. Allow or block links in PDFs
16. Edit secured PDFs
Electronic signatures
1. Sign PDF documents
2. Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
3. Send documents for e-signatures
4. Create a web form
5. Request e-signatures in bulk
6. Collect online payments
7. Brand your account
8. About certificate signatures
9. Certificate-based signatures
10. Validating digital signatures
11. Adobe Approved Trust List
12. Manage trusted identities
Printing
1. Basic PDF printing tasks
2. Print Booklets and PDF Portfolios
3. Advanced PDF print settings
4. Print to PDF
5. Printing color PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
6. Printing PDFs in custom sizes
7. Scale or resize PDF pages
Accessibility, tags, and reflow
1. Create and verify PDF accessibility
2. Accessibility features in PDFs
3. Reading Order tool for PDFs
4. Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
5. Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
6. Creating accessible PDFs
7. Cloud-based auto-tagging
Searching and indexing
1. Creating PDF indexes
2. Searching PDFs
Multimedia and 3D models
1. Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
2. Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
3. Displaying 3D models in PDFs
4. Interacting with 3D models
5. Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
6. Setting 3D views in PDFs
7. Enable 3D content in PDF
8. Adding multimedia to PDFs
9. Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
10. Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
11. Add comments to videos
Print production tools (Acrobat Pro)
1. Print production tools overview
2. Printer marks and hairlines
3. Previewing output
4. Transparency flattening
5. Color conversion and ink management
6. Trapping color
Preflight (Acrobat Pro)
1. PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
2. Preflight profiles
3. Advanced preflight inspections
4. Preflight reports
5. Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
6. Output intents in PDFs
7. Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
8. Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
9. Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
10. Additional checks in the Preflight tool
11. Preflight libraries
12. Preflight variables
Color management
1. Keeping colors consistent
2. Color settings
3. Color-managing documents
4. Working with color profiles
5. Understanding color management
Troubleshoot
1. Troubleshoot PDF printing in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader
2. Adobe Acrobat license has either expired or not been activated
3. Edit PDF forms created in LiveCycle Designer
4. Insufficient data for an image error on Adobe Acrobat
5. Resolve errors related to the AcroCEF/RdrCEF processes of Acrobat or Acrobat Reader

Common questions about updates

Why should I update?

Security and improved functionality. Updates safeguard your system against malicious attacks through PDF files.

If you've gotten multiple update messages, make sure the last update is fully installed. Some browsers download to a separate update window. In these browsers, double-click the Reader or Acrobat file to complete the installation.

Which Acrobat/Acrobat Reader track should I install - Continuous or Classic?

For information on how to choose the right track for your needs, see Acrobat product tracks.

Are updates free?

Yes. Only new, major versions of Acrobat must be purchased.

How long is the installation time?

Updates take only a few minutes to install.

How do I change the update frequency or disable updates?

In Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, go to Edit > Preferences > Categories > Updater and set a Check For Updates option. For more information, see Automatic updates.

How do admins and enterprise IT get more information?

Visit Enterprise Toolkit for Acrobat Products for more information.

Acrobat and Acrobat Reader Continuous Track release notes

Date	Release Notes	Release Type*	Focus
Feb 18, 2025	DC Feb 2025 (24.005.20414)	Continuous	Latest Release: This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jan 30, 2025	DC Jan 2025 (24.005.20xxx)^¡̐	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jan 23, 2025	DC Jan 2025 (24.005.2039x)^¡̐	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Dec 10, 2024	DC Dec 2024 (24.005.20320)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Dec 03, 2024	DC Dec 2024 (24.005.20307)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Nov 14, 2024	DC Oct 2024 (24.004.20272)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Nov 06, 2024	DC Oct 2024 (24.004.20243)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Oct 28, 2024	DC Oct 2024 (24.004.202xx)^¡̐	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Oct 03, 2024	DC Oct 2024 (24.003.20180)	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, bug fixes and support for WPP on windows.
Sep 16, 2024	DC Sep 2024 (24.003.20121)	Optional Update	[Mac Only] This update provides the support for MacOS Sequoia.
Sep 10, 2024	DC Sep 2024 (24.003.20112)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Aug 26, 2024	DC Aug 2024 (24.003.20054)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 13, 2024	DC Aug 2024 (24.002.21005)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Aug 05, 2024	DC Jul 2024 (24.002.20991)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jul 24, 2024	DC Jul 2024 (24.002.2096x)^¡̐	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jul 15, 2024	DC Jul 2024 (24.002.20933)	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
June 28, 2024	DC June 2024 (24.002.2089x)^¡̐	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
June 15, 2024	DC June 2024 (24.002.20857)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
June 14, 2024	DC June 2024 (24.002.20854)	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
May 14, 2024	DC May 2024 (24.002.20759)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
May 05, 2024	DC Apr 2024 (24.002.20736)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Apr 12, 2024	DC Apr 2024 (24.002.20687)	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Apr 02, 2024	DC Mar 2024 (24.001.20643)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Mar 28, 2024	DC Mar 2024 (24.001.206xx)^¡̐	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Mar 20, 2024	DC Mar 2024 (24.001.20615)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Mar 13, 2024	DC Mar 2024 (24.001.20604)	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Feb 23, 2024	DC Feb 2024 (23.008.20555)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Feb 13,2024	DC Feb 2024 (23.008.20533)	Continuous	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Jan 16, 2024	DC Jan 2024 (23.008.20470)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jan 04, 2024	DC Jan 2024 (23.008.20458)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Dec 12, 2023	DC Dec 2023 (23.008.2042x)^¡̐	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Nov 14, 2023	DC Nov 2023 (23.006.20380)	Continuous	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Oct 17, 2023	DC Oct 2023 (23.006.20360)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Sep 12, 2023	DC Sep 2023 (23.006.20320)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Aug 22, 2023	DC Aug 2023 (23.003.20284)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 08, 2023	DC Aug 2023 (23.003.20269)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jul 11, 2023	DC Jul 2023 (23.003.20244)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jun 21, 2023	DC Jun 2023 (23.003.20215)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jun 06, 2023	DC Jun 2023 (23.003.20201)	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
May 09, 2023	DC May 2023 (23.001.2017x)^¡̐	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Apr 11, 2023	DC Apr 2023 (23.001.20143)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Mar 22, 2023	DC Mar 2023 (23.001.20093)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Mar 07, 2023	DC Mar 2023 (23.001.2006x)^¡̐	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Feb 16, 2023	DC Feb 2023 (22.003.20322)	Optional Update	[Win Only] This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jan 24, 2023	DC Jan 2023 (22.003.20314)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jan 10, 2023	DC Jan 2023 (22.003.20310)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Nov 17, 2022	DC Nov 2022 (22.003.2028x)^¡̐	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Oct 22, 2022	DC Oct 2022 (22.003.20263)	Optional Update	[Win Only] This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Oct 11, 2022	DC Oct 2022 (22.003.20258)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Sep 09, 2022	DC Sep 2022 (22.002.20212)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 09, 2022	DC Aug 2022 (22.002.20191)	Continuous	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Jul 12, 2022	DC Jul 2022 (22.001.20169)	Continuous	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Jun 14, 2022	DC Jun 2022 (22.001.20142)	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Apr 12, 2022	DC Apr 2022 (22.001.2011x)^¡̐	Continuous	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Mar 07, 2022	DC Mar 2022 (22.001.20085)	Continuous	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jan 11, 2022	DC Jan 2022 (21.011.20039)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Oct 12, 2021	DC Oct 2021 (21.007.20099)	Continuous	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Sep 29, 2021	DC Sep 2021 (21.007.2009x)^¡̐	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Sep 14, 2021	DC Sep 2021 (21.007.20091)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jul 28, 2021	DC Jul 2021 (21.005.20060)	Optional Update	[Win Only] This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jul 13, 2021	DC Jul 2021 (21.005.20058)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jun 08, 2021	DC Jun 2021 (21.005.20048)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
May 11, 2021	DC May 2021 (21.001.20155)	Continuous	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Apr 16, 2021	DC Apr 2021 (21.001.201xx)^¡̐	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Mar 10, 2021	DC Feb 2021 (21.001.20145)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Feb 25, 2021	DC Feb 2021 (21.001.20142)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Feb 22, 2021	DC Feb 2021 (21.001.20140)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Feb 15, 2021	DC Feb 2021 (21.001.20138)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Feb 09, 2021	DC Feb 2021 (21.001.20135)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Dec 09, 2020	DC Dec 2020 (20.013.20074)	Out Of Cycle Update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Nov 23, 2020	DC Nov 2020 (20.013.20066)	Optional Update	[Win Only] This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Nov 03, 2020	DC Nov 2020 (20.013.20064)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Sep 24, 2020	DC Sep 2020 (20.012.20048)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 19, 2020	DC Aug 2020 (20.012.20043)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 11, 2020	DC Aug 2020 (20.012.20041)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
July 06, 2020	DC May 2020 (20.009.20074)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jun 02, 2020	DC May 2020 (20.009.20067)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
May 21, 2020	DC May 2020 (20.009.20065)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
May 12, 2020	DC May 2020 (20.009.20063)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Mar 17, 2020	DC Mar 2020 (20.006.20042)	Continuous	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Feb 11, 2020	DC Feb 2020 (20.006.20034)	Continuous	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.

^¡̐ In this release, there are different versions of the application: Windows and macOS.

Acrobat Classic Track release notes

Date	Release	Release Type*	Focus
Dec 10, 2024	24.001.30225	Quarterly update	Latest Release: This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Oct 8, 2024	24.001.30213	Optional Update	[Win Only] This update provides seamless support for Windows Protected Print mode when enabled.
Sep 16, 2024	24.001.30193	Optional Update	[Mac Only] This update provides the support for MacOS Sequoia.
Sep 10, 2024	24.001.30187	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Aug 13, 2024	24.001.30159	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Jun 5, 2024	Acrobat Classic Base	Major	This is the base, major release for Acrobat Classic.

Acrobat 2020 and Acrobat Reader 2020 (Classic Track) release notes

Date	Release	Release Type*	Focus
Dec 10, 2024	20.005.30748	Quarterly update	Latest Release: This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Oct 8, 2024	20.005.30730	Optional Update	[Win Only] This update provides seamless support for Windows Protected Print mode when enabled.
Sep 16, 2024	20.005.30710	Optional Update	[Mac Only] This update provides the support for MacOS Sequoia.
Sep 10, 2024	20.005.30680	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Aug 13, 2024	20.005.30655	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
May 14, 2024	20.005.3063x	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Feb 13, 2024	20.005.30574	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Nov 14, 2023	20.005.30539	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Sep 12, 2023	20.005.30524	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Aug 08, 2023	20.005.3051x	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Apr 11, 2023	20.005.30467	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Jan 31, 2023	20.005.30441	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Jan 10, 2023	20.005.30436	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Nov 17, 2022	20.005.30418	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Oct 11, 2022	20.005.30407	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Aug 09, 2022	20.005.30381	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Jul 12, 2022	20.005.30362	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Apr 12, 2022	20.005.3033x	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Mar 09, 2022	20.005.3031x	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jan 11, 2022	20.004.30020	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Oct 12, 2021	20.004.30017	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Sep 14, 2021	20.004.30015	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jul 13, 2021	20.004.30006	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jun 08, 2021	20.004.30005	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
May 11, 2021	20.001.30025	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Feb 09, 2021	20.001.30020	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Dec 09, 2020	20.001.30018	Out Of Cycle update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Nov 3, 2020	20.001.30010	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Aug 11, 2020	20.001.30005	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jun 1, 2020	Acrobat 2020 Base	Major	This is the base, major release for Classic Acrobat and Acrobat Reader.

Release notes for older versions

Date	Release Notes	Release Type*	Focus
Dec 19, 2019	DC Dec 2019 (19.021.20061)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Dec 10, 2019	DC Dec 2019 (19.021.20058)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Nov 13, 2019	DC Oct 2019 (19.021.20056)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Oct 24, 2019	DC Oct 2019 (19.021.20049)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Oct 17, 2019	DC Oct 2019 (19.021.20048)	OOC	This release contains stability and services load optimization fixes.
Oct 15, 2019	DC Oct 2019 (19.021.20047)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. Adobe recommends that you directly pick the next update, which fixes critical network issues - 19.021.20048
Aug 22, 2019	DC Aug 2019 (19.012.20040)	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 13, 2019	DC Aug 2019 (19.012.20036)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes
Jun 13, 2019	DC Jun 2019 (19.012.20035)	Optional Update	[Win Only] This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
May 14, 2019	DC May 2019 (19.012.20034)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes
Apr 16, 2019	DC Apr 2019 (19.010.20100)	Optional Update	[Win Acrobat Only] This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Apr 09, 2019	DC Apr 2019 (19.010.20099)	Continuous	This patch fixes specific security issues.
Feb 21, 2019	DC Feb 2019 (19.010.20098)	OOC	This patch fixes specific security issues.
Feb 12, 2019	DC Feb 2019 (19.010.20091)	Continuous	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jan 03, 2019	DC Jan 2019 (19.010.20069)	OOC	This patch fixes specific security issues.
Apr 6, 2015	DC base	Major	This is the base, major release for all Document Cloud products.

Date	Release Notes	Release Type*	Focus
Aug 09, 2022	17.012.30262^€	Quarterly update	Latest Release: This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Jul 12, 2022	17.012.30249	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Apr 12, 2022	17.012.3022x	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Mar 09, 2022	17.012.30205	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jan 11, 2022	17.011.30207	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Oct 12, 2021	17.011.30204	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Sep 14, 2021	17.011.30202	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jul 13, 2021	17.011.30199	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jun 08, 2021	17.011.30197	Quarterly update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
May 11, 2021	17.011.30196	Quarterly update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Mar 10, 2021	17.011.30194	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Feb 09, 2021	17.011.30190	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Dec 09, 2020	17.011.30188	Out Of Cycle Update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Nov 03, 2020	17.011.30180	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Aug 11, 2020	17.011.30175	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
May 12, 2020	17.011.30171	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Mar 17, 2020	17.011.30166	Quarterly Update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Feb 11, 2020	17.011.30158	Quarterly Update	This update provides security mitigations and bug fixes.
Dec 10, 2019	17.011.30156	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Nov 13, 2019	17.011.30155	Optional Update	[Mac Acrobat Only] This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Oct 30, 2019	17.011.30152	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Oct 15, 2019	17.011.30150	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Aug 22, 2019	17.011.30148	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 13, 2019	17.011.30144	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jun 13, 2019	17.011.30143	Optional Update	[Win Only] This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
May 14, 2019	17.011.30142	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Apr 16, 2019	17.011.30140	Optional Update	[Win Acrobat Only] This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Apr 09, 2019	17.011.30138	Quarterly Update	This patch fixes specific security issues.
Feb 21, 2019	17.011.30127	OOC	[Win Only] This patch fixes specific security issues.
Feb 12, 2019	17.011.30120	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Jan 03, 2019	17.011.30113	OOC	This patch fixes specific security issues.
Dec 11, 2018	17.011.30110	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Nov 13, 2018	17.011.30106	Quarterly Update	This patch fixes specific security issues.
Oct 02, 2018	17.011.30105	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
Sep 19, 2018	17.011.30102	OOC	This patch fixes specific security issues.
Aug 14, 2018	17.011.30099	Quarterly Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
July 10, 2018	17.011.30096	Quarterly Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
May 14, 2018	17.011.30080	Quarterly Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Feb 23, 2018	17.011.30079	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Feb 13, 2018	17.011.30078	Quarterly Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Dec 1, 2017	17.011.30070	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Nov 14, 2017	17.011.30068	Quarterly Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 29, 2017	17.011.30066	OOC	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 11, 2017	17.011.30065	Optional Update	This patch fixes specific functionality issues.
Aug 8, 2017	17.011.30059	Quarterly Update	This update provides new features, security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
June 6, 2017	Acrobat 2017 base	Major	This is the base, major release for Classic Acrobat and Acrobat Reader.

^€This release is the last planned update for Acrobat 2017 and Acrobat Reader 2017.

*Release types

Major release: A major, functional release with many new and improved features developed on an 18 month release cycle.

Continuous release (C): A functional release with some new and improved features along with new security updates, bug fixes for existing features, and previously released out-of-cycle patch updates.

Quarterly update (Q): A scheduled update that includes functional improvements, new security updates, and previously released out-of-cycle patch updates. For Reader, these updates are sometimes available as full installers.

Out-of-cycle patch (OOC): An update targeted at security fixes. These noncumulative patch files may contain few functional updates with the intention to limit impact.

Optional Update: An update targeted at a narrow set of functional fixes with limited impact. Adobe recommends that you apply these patches if you are seeing an impact by one of more of the functional fixes being delivered.

Note: Continuous releases, quarterly updates, out-of-cycle patches and optional updates can provide security enhancements. Adobe recommends that all updates and patches be applied when available.

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