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Adobe Digital Editions Changelog

What's new in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.12.112

Aug 25, 2023
  • Issues fixed in this update:
  • 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 Build 187303 (Apr 15, 2020)

  • Bug fix for Security vulnerability

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.10 Build 186048 (Mar 13, 2019)

  • Bug fix for Security vulnerability

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.8.182857 (Oct 9, 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.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.7.179634 (Apr 10, 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.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.6.177148 (Aug 9, 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.

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

  • This update resolves critical memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution, three vulnerabilities rated important that could lead to escalation of privilege and two memory corruption vulnerabilities rated important that could lead to disclosure of memory addresses.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.4.165157 (Jun 13, 2017)

  • Multiple security bug fixes for Adobe Digital Editions memory corruption vulnerability:
  • This update resolves a vulnerability that could lead to a heap buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2017-2973).
  • This update resolve buffer overflow vulnerabilities that could lead to a memory leak (CVE-2017-2974, CVE-2017-2975, CVE-2017-2976, CVE-2017-2978, CVE-2017-2977, CVE-2017-2979, CVE-2017-2980, CVE-2017-2981).

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

  • This update resolves an important vulnerability that could result in a memory address leak, and an important XML parsing vulnerability that could lead to information disclosure.
  • Vulnerability Details:
  • This update resolves a vulnerability that could lead to a memory address leak (CVE-2016-7888)
  • This update resolves an issue associated with parsing crafted XML entities that could lead to information disclosure (CVE-2016-7889)

New in Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.2.151207 (Dec 13, 2016)

  • Vulnerability Details:
  • This update resolves multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-4256, CVE-2016-4257, CVE-2016-4258, CVE-2016-4259, CVE-2016-4260, CVE-2016-4261, CVE-2016-4262)
  • This update resolves a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2016-4263, CVE-2016-6980)

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

  • Security bug fix for Adobe Digital Editions memory corruption vulnerability (PSIRT-4243).
  • 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 4.5.126523 (Sep 25, 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 4.0.3.110333 (Feb 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 4.0.1.101645 (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).

New in Adobe Digital Editions 3.0.86137 (Jan 22, 2014)

  • Version 3.0 includes the latest reader mobile technology with a more secure DRM scheme, better support for vertical text, and CSS text properties.

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

  • 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.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 2.0.67532 (Sep 26, 2012)

  • includes accessibility support, including high contrast, and also support for assistive software – JAWS, NVDA, or Window-Eyes on Windows.
  • includes the latest reader mobile technology, which includes features like Vendor ID, Bookseller ID, and Japanese text.
  • supports sign in using the Vendor or Bookseller ID (such as Google or Barnes & Noble), which means you may read content purchased from each vendor.
  • does not support Flash-based multi-media objects like version 1.7 did.

New in Adobe Digital Editions 1.8.3 Preview 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 1.8.2 Preview 3 (Feb 21, 2012)

  • 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 1.7.2.1131 (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.
  • Support has been added for Windows 7 (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.