ADOBE READER AND ACROBAT 8.1.7 RELEASE NOTES

The Adobe® Reader® and Acrobat® 8.1.7 update addresses several security vulnerabilities. Adobe always recommends that you install the latest updates.

Note: This Update can be applied to Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 8.1.6 on Windows and Macintosh. Full Reader 8.1.7 installers are available for Linux and Solaris

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• Adobe Reader 8.1.7
• Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7 Professional
• Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7 Standard
• Adobe Acrobat 3D 8.1.7

Adobe Reader 8.1.7 (Windows®)

• Intel® Pentium® III or equivalent processor
• Microsoft® Windows® 2000 with Service Pack 4; Windows Server® 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit editions) with Service Pack 1; Windows XP® Professional, Home, Tablet PC, or 64-bit editions with Service Pack 2 or 3; or Windows Vista® Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 or 2 (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
• 170MB of available hard-disk space
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 or 7.0, Firefox 1.5 or 2.0, Mozilla 1.7, AOL 9

Adobe Reader 8.1.7 (Macintosh)

• PowerPC® G3, G4, G5 or Intel processor
• Mac OS X v10.4.11 - 10.5.5
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended for complex forms or large documents)
• 170MB of available hard-disk space (additional space required for installation)
• Safari® (Shipping with supported OS)

Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7 Professional, Standard and 3D (Windows)

• Intel Pentium III processor or equivalent
• Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 4; Windows Server 2003 (32-bit or 64-bit editions) with Service Pack 1; Windows XP Professional, Home, Tablet PC, or 64-bit editions with Service Pack 2 or 3; or Windows Vista Home Basic, Home Premium, Ultimate, Business, or Enterprise with Service Pack 1 (32-bit or 64-bit editions)
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or 7
• Professional: 860MB of available hard-disk space; cache for optional installation files (recommended) requires an additional 460MB of available hard-disk space
• Standard: 490MB of available hard-disk space; cache for optional installation files (recommended) requires an additional 280MB of hard-disk space
• 3D: 1.6 GB of available hard-disk space (include cache for optional installation files)
• 1,024x768 screen resolution
• Internet or phone connection required for product activation

Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7 Professional(Macintosh)

• PowerPC G3, G4, G5, or Intel processors
• Mac OS X v10.4.11- 10.5.5
• 256MB of RAM (512MB recommended)
• 1,060MB of available hard-disk space
• 1,024x768 screen resolution
• DVD-ROM drive

Adobe Reader 8.1.7 (Linux)

• 32-bit Intel Pentium processor or equivalent
• LSB (Linux Standard Base) 3.1 compliant systems including Red Hat® Linux WS 5, SUSE® Linux Enterprise Desktop (SLED) 10, and Ubuntu™ 6.10
• GNOME or KDE Desktop Environment
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 125MB of available hard-disk space (additional 75MB required for having all supported font packs)
• GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6
• Firefox 1.5 or later, Mozilla 1.7.3 or later

Adobe Reader 8.1.7 (Solaris)

• UltraSPARC® or UltraSPARC IIIi processor
• Solaris™ 9 or 10
• GNOME or KDE Desktop Environment (GNOME only for Solaris 10)
• 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended)
• 175MB of available hard-disk space (additional 75MB required for having all supported font packs)
• GNU C library (glibc) version 2.3
• GTK+ (GIMP Toolkit) user interface library, version 2.6 (on Solaris 10, works with GTK 2.4.9 also)
• Firefox 1.5 or later, Mozilla 1.7.3 or later
• OpenGL library
• OpenSSL 0.9.7, OpenLDAP, and CUPS libraries
• libstdc++ library

Adobe Reader 8.1.7 (Windows), Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7 Professional (Windows), Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7 Standard (Windows)

• English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean

Adobe Reader 8.1.7 (Macintosh), Adobe Acrobat 8.1.7 Professional (Macintosh)

• English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean

Adobe Acrobat 3D 8.1.7 (Windows)

• English, French, German, Japanese

Adobe Reader 8.1.7 (Linux)

• English, French, German, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Korean

Adobe Reader 8.1.7 (Solaris)

• English, French, German, Japanese

See Adobe Security Bulletin APSB09-15 concerning these issues.

Update via the automatic product update system (Windows and Macintosh)

Incremental update for both Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1.7 products (Windows and Macintosh) via manual download from Adobe support.

Full installers for Adobe Reader 8.1.7 (Linux and Solaris) via manual download from Adobe Support

October 13th, 2009

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