


Our data showed that the user population adopted the last update roughly three times faster than previous updates. When we compared the new updater against the older technology, we found that our users were much more likely to update using the new Adobe Reader Updater. We have been very pleased with the results. In addition, as always, the Adobe Reader Updater will continue to automatically check for new updates, or users can force an update to happen by selecting > Help > Check for Updates from the Adobe Reader menu.įor our previous quarterly release on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, we activated the new Adobe Reader and Acrobat Updater for our user base. This change will make its debut as scheduled on J(by offering Adobe Reader 9.3.3 for installation) and will become a standard operating procedure going forward. We have been working on a new method of always offering the latest version, whether they be full installers or patches, of our most popular language/platform pairs on the Adobe Download Center.After installation, the Adobe Reader Updater will automatically check and offer the latest patches to keep end-users up-to-date (as of today, the latest patch is Adobe Reader 9.3.3). The Adobe Reader Download Center at always offers the most recent full installer of Adobe Reader, which is currently Adobe Reader 9.3.

In the past, we delivered Adobe Reader updates as full installers or patches (for instance, 9.x = full installer, 9.x.y = patch).

As mentioned in the Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team (ASSET) blog post titled Background on APSA10-01 Patch Schedule, today’s security update for Adobe Reader and Acrobat represents an accelerated release of the quarterly security update originally scheduled for July 13, 2010.
