Adobe FrameMaker | Fixed issues

This article contains a list of issues resolved in the latest release of Adobe FrameMaker and subsequent patch releases.

Check FrameMaker community for solutions, workarounds, or any late-breaking information.

Check FrameMaker User Guide for detailed explanation of features and "how-to" information.  

FrameMaker March 2026 release (Version: 18.0.0.206)

March 2026 release of FrameMaker brings two key enhancements designed to boost efficiency and deliver a seamless authoring experience: an all-new book-level template for managing variables and conditional tags, and an enhanced search experience with the new Find All option in the Find/Change dialog.

For more information, see What's new in March 2026 release of FrameMaker.

Fixed Issues

Authoring

• Greater than sign (>) is not escaped when converting a FrameMaker file to XML. 
  (Ref – 15169)
• Wingdings font characters appear incorrectly during authoring in FrameMaker.
  (Ref-15168)
• Copying content from a document with Track Changes enabled into a document where the feature is disabled, leaves <TRACK> tags in tables when saved as XML. 
  (Ref – 15036)
• The topicreflabel element inside a ditavalref is incorrectly flagged as invalid during DITA validation.
  (Ref – 15048)
• FrameMaker crashes when exporting a particular FrameMaker document to XLIFF 1.2 format.
  (Ref-15161)
• FrameMaker crashes while opening certain structured documents if the ShowTitleForStructuredDoc flag is enabled.
  (Ref-15178)

Publishing

• In the HTML5 output, broken links are displayed in the TOC when bookmaps contain the Yen symbol 
  (Ref – 15031)
• In the HTML5 output, navigation titles are changed to lowercase when they include a letter-number combination followed by a colon.
  (Ref – 15177)
• In the HTML5 output, broken links are generated in the TOC when source document names contain spaces.
  (Ref – 15135)
• In the HTML5 output, broken links are generated in the TOC when style names contain non-ASCII characters. 
  (Ref - 16382)
• In the PDF output, conditional content filtering based on default attribute values in DITAVAL files does not work as expected. 
  (Ref – 15116)
• Publishing to Microsoft Help fails for a specific fileset.
  (Ref - 16315)

Translation

• An incorrect translation is displayed for the LAST MODIFIED DATE label on the Welcome Screen in German, French, and Japanese. 
  (Ref – 16378)

AEM Integration

• When connected to an AEM repository, FrameMaker fails to retrieve dependent topics and resources for DITA map files.
  (Ref – 15983)

Security vulnerabilities

• Fixed uninitialized pointer remote code execution vulnerability on parsing XLSX files.
  (Ref - 33050)
• Fixed memory corruption and integer underflow vulnerabilities on parsing DOC files.
  (Ref-33051, 33208, 33184)
• Fixed out-of-bounds read vulnerability on parsing XLS files.
  (Ref- 33182, 33183) 
• Fixed untrusted search path vulnerability leading to remote code execution.
  (Ref-32879, 32593)
• Fixed XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability on parsing malicious XML files.
  (Ref-32721)
• Fixed type confusion vulnerability on parsing malicious DOC files.
  (Ref-33342)
• Fixed heap overflow vulnerability on parsing IGS files.
  (Ref-33173)
• Fixed Use After Free vulnerability on parsing TIF files.
  (Ref-33052)