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 fully installed. Some browsers download to a separate update window. In these browsers, double-click the Reader or Acrobat file to complete the installation.
Go to Preferences > Categories > Updater and set a Check For Updates option. For more information, see this technote.
| Date | Release Notes |
Release Type* |
Focus |
| Dec. 9, 2014 | 11.0.10 | Q | Latest release. This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Sept 16, 2014 | 11.0.09 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Aug 12, 2014 | 11.0.08 | OOC | Windows-only. This patch fixes specific security issues. |
| May 13, 2014 | 11.0.07 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Jan 14, 2014 | 11.0.06 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Oct 8, 2013 | 11.0.05 | OOC | Windows-only. This patch fixes specific security issues. |
| Sept 10, 2013 | 11.0.04 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| May 14, 2013 | 11.0.03 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Feb 20, 2013 | 11.0.02 | OOC | This patch fixes specific security issues. |
| Jan 8, 2013 | 11.0.01 | Q | This is a regular planned update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Oct 15, 2012 | 11.0.0 | Major | An all new base release for all products. |
| Date | Release Notes |
Release Type* |
Focus |
| Dec. 9, 2014 | 10.1.13 | Q | Latest release. This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Sept 16, 2014 | 10.1.12 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Aug 12, 2014 | 10.1.11 | OOC | Windows only. This patch fixes specific security issues. |
| May 13, 2014 | 10.1.10 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Jan 14, 2014 | 10.1.9 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Sept 10, 2013 | 10.1.8 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| May 14, 2013 | 10.1.7 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Feb 20, 2013 | 10.1.6 | OOC | This patch fixes specific security issues. |
| Jan 8, 2013 | 10.1.5 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Aug 14, 2012 |
10.1.4 |
Q |
This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Apr 10, 2012 | 10.1.3 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Jan 10, 2012 | 10.1.2 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Sept 13, 2011 | 10.1.1 | Q | This a regular quarterly update with security enhancements, improvements to stability, and bug fixes. |
| Jun 14, 2011 | 10.1 | Q | This is a major update that provides security fixes, feature updates, and major enhancements such as Protected View for Acrobat. |
| Apr 21, 2011 | 10.0.3 | OOC | This patch fixes a vulnerability and provides an updated Flash player. |
| Mar 21, 2011 | 10.0.2 | OOC | This patch fixes a vulnerability and provides an updated Flash player. |
| Feb 8 2011 | 10.0.1 | Q | Numerous security fixes as well as improvements to Protected Mode, QTP support, Flash, and support for SCCM via newly released SCUP catalogs. |
| Nov 2010 | 10.0 | Major | A phased release with new features: Nov 15 - Acrobat EFGJ, Nov 18 - Reader EFGJ: Nov 18, Dec 12 - Acrobat and Reader for all other languages. |
| Date | Release Notes |
Release Type* |
Focus |
| May 14, 2013 | 9.5.5 | Q | Latest and FINAL release. This patch fixes specific security issues. |
| Feb 20, 2013 | 9.5.4 | OOC | This patch fixes specific security issues. |
| Jan 8, 2013 | 9.5.3 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations and bug fixes. |
| Aug 14, 2012 |
9.5.2 | Q |
This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations and bug fixes. |
| Apr 10, 2012 | 9.5.1 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Jan 10, 2012 | 9.5 | Q | This is a regular quarterly update that provides security mitigations, feature enhancements, and bug fixes. |
| Dec 16, 2011 | 9.4.7 | OOC | A Windows-only release that provides mitigations against specific vulnerabilities. |
| Sept 13, 2011 | 9.4.6, 8.3.1 | Q | This a regular quarterly update with security enhancements, improvements to stability, and bug fixes. |
| Jun 14, 2011 | 9.4.5, 8.3 (PDF) | Q | Provides security and bug fixes as well as enhancements to features like collaboration, browser integration and support, signature and forms workflows, etc. |
| Apr 21, 2011 | 9.4.4 (PDF) | OOC | This patch fixes a vulnerability and provides an updated Flash player. |
| Mar 21, 2011 | 9.4.3 (PDF) | OOC | This patch fixes a vulnerability, provides an updated Flash player, and fixes some bugs which improve printing and other features. |
| Feb 8 2011 | 9.4.2, 8.2.6 (PDF) | Q | Numerous security fixes as well as improvements to navigator and portfolio performances, Flash, and patching in enterprise environments. |
| Nov 16 2010 | 9.4.1 (PDF) | OOC | Security patch containing several fixes, including those fixes addressed here. |
| Oct 5 2010 | 9.4, 8.2.5 (PDF) | Q | Enhancements to PDF Creation, roaming profile workflows, and a Flash player update as well as numerous bug fixes. Several security fixes are included as described here and here. |
| Aug 19 2010 | 9.3.4, 8.2.4 (PDF) | OOC | Security patch. See the security bulletin. |
| June 29 2010 | 9.3.3, 8.2.3 (PDF) | Q | Enhancements for security (including a zero-day fix), performance, bug fixes, improved browser support, and Updater improvements. |
| April 13 2010 | 9.3.2 (HTML) | Q | Enhancements for security, JS trust, and more. The Acrobat/Reader Updater replaces the AUM retroactively to 9.2 and 8.1.7. |
| April 13 2010 | 8.2.2 (HTML) | Q | Enhancements for security, JS trust, and more. The Acrobat/Reader Updater replaces the AUM retroactively to 9.2 and 8.1.7. |
| Feb. 16 2010 | 9.3.1 (HTML) | OOC | Security patch |
| Feb. 16 2010 | 8.2.1 (HTML) | OOC | Security patch |
| Jan 12 2010 | 9.3 (HTML) | Q | Improvements to enhanced security, cross domain access, security warnings, and more. |
| Jan 12 2010 | 8.2 (HTML) | Q | Improvements to enhanced security, cross domain access, security warnings, and more. |
| Oct. 13 2009 | 9.2 (HTML) | Q | Fixes several security vulnerabilities and improves prepress, preflight, PDF viewing, redaction, collaboration, forms, 3D, and more. |
| Oct. 13 2009 | 8.1.7 (HTML) | Q | Addresses several security vulnerabilities. |
| July 31 2009 | 9.1.3 (HTML) | OOC | Fixes a security vulnerability. |
| June 16 2009 | 8.1.6 (HTML) | OOC | Unix only. Addresses several security vulnerabilities. |
| June 9 2009 | 9.1.2 (HTML) | OOC | Improved security, browser support, and performance. |
| June 9 2009 | 8.1.6 (HTML) | OOC | Addresses several security vulnerabilities. |
| May 12 2009 | 8.1.5 (HTML) | OOC | Fixed two security vulnerabilities. |
| May 12 2009 | 9.1.1 (HTML) | OOC | Fixed two security vulnerabilities. |
| Mar 18 2009 | 9.1 (HTML) | Q | Improvements in stability, forms/XFA, portfolios, hosted services, security, and digital signatures. |
| Mar. 1 2009 | 8.1.4 (HTML) | OOC | Addresses a buffer overflow security vulnerability. Reader on Linux and Solaris release date is March 24. |
| Nov. 4 2008 | 8.1.3 (HTML) | Q | Fixes security issues and provides improvements forms, 3D, rendering, and digital signatures |
| 9.0 | Major | ||
| June 23 2008 | 8.1.2 (HTML) | OOC | Windows and Mac OS only: Addresses a buffer overflow security vulnerability. Reader on Linux and Solaris release date was August 17. |
| Feb 7 2008 | 8.1.2 (HTML) | Q | Fixes security issues and provides improvements for forms, 3D, JS, rendering, and more. |
| 2008 | 8.1.1 (HTML) | Q | Fixes security issues and provides improvements for forms and other features. Removes Kinko's button. |
| 2008 | 8.1 | Q | |
| 8.0 | Major |
Major release: A major, functional release with many new and improved features developed on an 18 month release cycle.
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 contain few functional updates with the intention to limit impact.
Note: Both quarterly updates and out-of-cycle updates can provide security enhancements. Adobe recommends that all updates and patches be applied when available.
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