New versions of Acrobat and Reader

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Adobe logoEarlier this week, timed to coincide with Microsoft Patch Tuesday, Adobe released new versions of its PDF authoring tool Acrobat, as well as its free PDF viewer, Reader.

The new versions address ten security vulnerabilities in earlier versions. The new version of Acrobat Reader (DC) is 2021.001.20155.

If you have Adobe Reader installed on any of your computers, you should check whether it’s up to date, and install the new version if it’s not. You can do that by running Reader, and navigating its menu to Help > About Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

You can install the latest version of Reader by navigating its menu to Help > Check for Updates.

About jrivett

Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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