Technical notifications

The Adobe Acrobat Sign Technical Notifications are ordered below, with the current update at the top, and rolling back in time as you scroll down the page. 

 

[Important] The next Adobe Acrobat Sign release is scheduled for February 11, 2025

This will be a minor patch release to resolve a number of customer-found defects and apply any optimization/security patches as needed.

The Sandbox environment will adopt these patches four weeks prior to the scheduled release. A listing of the resolved customer issues will be published at that time and updated 14 days prior to release.

Feature Release: Adobe Acrobat Sign – November 12th Release Completed

The release was completed to all shards with no downtime to any services.


[Important]
 January 2025 Change to the Adobe Acrobat Sign Network Infrastructure

First Reported: September 2024

Current 

To improve Adobe Acrobat Sign service security and robustness, we will roll out network changes beginning the week of January 13, 2025. These changes will route traffic into Acrobat Sign application servers through the Akamai content network. This routing will be invisible to most customers. Usage will not interfere with access to Acrobat Sign from any Adobe clients or integrations.

Action Required

In most cases, this change will not affect customer integrations, as the Acrobat Sign API and API domain names will not change. However, the underlying IP addresses for the Acrobat Sign API endpoints will shift.

Integrations written to explicitly allow-list the previously documented Acrobat Sign API ingress addresses will need to remove those legacy allow-listings by January 13, 2025. 

  • Ingress vs. Egress Access to Acrobat Sign

    Acrobat Sign provides ingress endpoints for API requests to Acrobat Sign and egress endpoints for webhook callbacks to customer applications and email delivery. 
    Only the ingress traffic is affected by this change. There are no changes to egress traffic.

  • Why is Acrobat Sign making these Changes?

    The use of the Akamai content network improves Acrobat Sign's protection against harmful traffic and helps us better address security, robustness, and compliance requirements.

  • I have a custom integration into Acrobat Sign. Will my application be affected?

    In most cases, no, but it depends on how your application is written.

    Typically, applications depend only on the Acrobat Sign service domain names (e.g., "api.na1.adobesign.com"), and these names will continue to work. Less commonly, an application will take the additional step of allow-listing the specific IP address that this name resolves to.

    Such allow-listing is more commonly seen when developing a webhook endpoint to verify that the webhook request is coming from a valid Acrobat Sign server. Webhook IP addresses are not affected by this change.

    Less commonly, an application initiating a request to an Acrobat Sign endpoint will validate the IP address against an allow-list. Such validation logic must be removed, or the application will fail.

    As a standard best practice, the application should perform server certificate validation of the Acrobat Sign endpoint when initiating the TLS connection. This provides strong assurance that the request is going to a valid Acrobat Sign endpoint. Most HTTP/S frameworks and libraries perform server certificate validation by default.

  • Are there new IP address lists that can be substituted?

    Acrobat Sign will no longer publish or support a list of server ingress IP addresses as such usage isn't compatible with the Akamai network.  The server egress IP addresses, used by webhooks and email relays, will continue as documented on the System Requirements for Acrobat Sign page.

  • My organization has implemented network filtering using Acrobat Sign's published domain list for traffic from our corporate network. Are we affected?

    No.
    The network changes described here do not impact Acrobat Sign's domain list, as documented on the System Requirements for Acrobat Sign page. Domain-level filtering is unaffected.

  • My organization employs IP address validation for email delivery from Acrobat Sign servers. Are we affected?

    No.
    The IP ranges for outbound mail relays, as listed on the System Requirements for Acrobat Sign page, are not changing.

  • My organization has configured our Acrobat Sign account to restrict access to our own IP addresses. Are we affected?

    No.
    Acrobat Sign can be configured to validate incoming traffic against customer-chosen IP addresses, as described on the Restrict access to your account using IP address ranges page. Such usage will not be affected by this change.

  • My organization has implemented network filtering using Acrobat Sign's published list of ingress IP addresses. Are we affected?

    Yes.
    Acrobat Sign will no longer publish or support a list of server ingress IP addresses as such usage isn't compatible with the Akamai network. The respective network filters, for example on firewalls, must be removed by January 13, 2025.

    If these legacy IP network restrictions are not removed before this change goes into effect, connectivity to Acrobat Sign will stop working.

    Бележка:

    Note that this refers to IP-level filtering for the environment hosting your application. Domain-level filtering is not affected.


[Important]
 Disablement of the SOAP API from Adobe Acrobat Sign accounts is scheduled to start in February 2024

First Reported: June 2018 - Updated May 2024

Current

Action Required

All integrations and applications using the Adobe Acrobat Sign SOAP API must be migrated to the latest REST API V6 before the disablement date to ensure continued function.

Initially announced in June 2018, the effort to sunset the Acrobat Sign SOAP API will be completed in 2024.

Customer use of the SOAP API is scheduled to be disabled through a rolling process starting in February 2024. All customers and partners using the SOAP API must migrate to REST v6 API or risk a disruption in their service.

Please review the REST v6 and migration documentation:

Access to the SOAP API will be removed per the following schedule:

Account type

SOAP API Disablement Date

  • Free
  • Trial
  • Developer

February 1, 2024 (Completed)

  • Enterprise
  • Business

April 1, 2024 (Completed)

  • Integration Only Partners

The scheduled date has been moved up to July 1, 2024, replacing the previous date of December 1, 2024.

  • Embedded Partners

March 1, 2025


[Important]
 Disablement of the SOAP API for Adobe Acrobat Sign Embedded Partners has been scheduled for March 1, 2025

First Reported: June 2018 - Updated May 2024

Current

Action Required

All integrations and applications using the Adobe Acrobat Sign SOAP API must be migrated to the latest REST API V6 before the disablement date to ensure continued function.

Access to the SOAP API will be removed for all embed partners starting March 1, 2025.
To ensure continued function, all embed partners using the Adobe Acrobat Sign SOAP API must migrate to the latest REST API V6 before March 1, 2025.  

Please review the REST v6 and migration documentation for reference:

For any queries, please contact your designated Adobe Acrobat Sign PSM.
 


[New]
Customers with a Sandbox environment will be able to access the experiences the first week of December 2024

First Reported: November 2024

Current 

The new recipient experience contains signing improvements for both desktop and mobile web browsers. This new experience is being rolled out over the first months of 2025 but will be available in the Sandbox environment in the first week of December 2024.


[New]
Custom Workflow Designer places a 100-character limit on labels for all new and existing workflow templates

First Reported: November 2024

Current 

With the November 2024 release, the editable labels in the Custom Workflow Designer have been limited to 100 characters. This limit is evaluated when the workflow is created or updated.

Preexisting workflows that have labels over 100 characters can still be sent successfully, but if the workflow is updated, the label must be reduced to 100 characters or less before it can be saved. Offending labels are outlined in red for easy discovery.

New workflows will warn about the label limit before they are saved.

Action Required

It is recommended that admins with control over custom workflows open and review each workflow to ensure that they don't have errors on their template.


[New]
The webhookNotificationApplicableUsers parameter is to be removed from the Webhook payload in the March 2025 release.

First Reported: September 2024

Current 

The Webhook 2.0 infrastructure has been rolled out to all customers, and with that completed, signer notifications have been deprecated. As a result, the webhookNotificationApplicableUsers parameter of the webhook payload no longer provides any useful data and will be removed from all webhook payloads when the March 2025 release is deployed.

The sending userID and email can be found using the initiatingUserId and initiatingUserEmail parameters in the notification payload. 


Deprecation of the Adobe Acrobat Sign REST API v1-v4.
End of support and removal of legacy REST API versions on December 1, 2025.

First Reported: September 2024

Current 

Action Required

All customers using the API must update their APIs to utilize the version 6 endpoints as soon as possible to ensure uninterrupted availability. 

Versions 1 through 4 of the Acrobat Sign REST API have been deprecated and will be removed from service on December 1, 2025.

Updating APIs can involve considerable effort, so all customers are strongly encouraged to scope and budget their update as soon as possible so that support can be fully engaged to resolve any questions or problems that arise before the December 2025 cutoff date.

While REST API v1-4 are deprecated, they will continue to function, and your applications will continue to work until December 1, 2025, when the REST API v1-4 will be removed.

After December 1, 2025, applications built on the REST API v1-4 will cease functioning.

 


Adobe Acrobat Sign Cookie Partitioning to be enabled in the November 2024 release.
Available in the Sandbox now.

First Reported: September 2024

Current 

Acrobat Sign will enable cookie partitioning in the Production environment with the November 2024 release.

The Sandbox will enable cookie partitioning after the September 17, 2024, release to allow customers to test the changes.

Developers and customers using cookies for any reason should be aware of this and test their applications in the Sandbox before November 2024 to ensure a smooth transition.


The Accept-Charset header will be removed from Webhook and Callback notifications in the November 2024 release

First Reported: August 2024

Current 

The legacy Accept-Charset header will be removed from all Webhook and Callback notifications with the November 2024 release.

All customers that rely on this header for any reason should refactor their code to account for it's absence.


The new Request Signature environment will be promoted to be the default experience in the September 2024 release.
Switch links between Classic and New environments will be removed in the  November 2024 release.

Бележка:

This update only applies to the Commercial version of the Acrobat Sign service. Government Cloud accounts are not impacted.

First Reported: March 2024 - Updated June 2024

Current 

The new and improved Request Signature environment will be the default experience for all accounts to create a new agreement starting with the September 17, 2024, release.

Links will remain available for users to switch between the new and classic environments, and administrators will continue to have the option to reset the default to the classic experience through their admin menu.

The classic environment will be entirely removed from the user experience by March 2025.

Бележка:

The new in-application Authoring experience is only available as part of the new Request Signature experience.
Customers who are using new Authoring with classic Request Signature will default to the new Request Signature experience after the September 17 release, and the setting for new authoring will be removed from the admin menu.

As part of the November 2024 release, all accounts will have their default sending environment set to the new Request Signature experience.

The option to enable the switch links for users to switch between the environments will also be disabled.

Бележка:

Administrators will continue to have the option to enable the switch links in the admin menu.


The classic Compose page will be retired and removed from the interface in the March 2025 release.

Бележка:

This update only applies to the Commercial version of the Acrobat Sign service. Government Cloud accounts are not impacted.

First Reported: June 2024

Current 

In the March 2025 release, the classic Compose interface will be removed entirely from the Acrobat Sign interface, completing the promotion of the new Request Signature experience.

All commercial accounts that have not configured the new Request Signature service as their default experience will have the Request Signature environment enabled as the only environment for configuring new agreements.

The option to configure the experience, including the switch links between environments, will be removed from the admin menus.


The classic Send in Bulk environment will be retired in March 2025.
Adobe Acrobat Sign's new
Send in Bulk environment became the default experience for all accounts on April 9, 2024.

First Reported: March 2024

Current 

The new and improved Send in Bulk environment became the default environment for all accounts as of the April 9, 2024, release.

Links will remain available for users to switch between the new and classic environments, and administrators will continue to have the option to reset the default to the classic experience through their admin menu.

The classic environment will be entirely removed from the user experience by March 2025.
 


Classic reporting to be removed from service in the first half of 2025

First Reported: September 2022 - Updated March 2024

Current 

Classic reporting will be completely removed from the Acrobat Sign interface in the first half of 2025. This includes the switch link that allows changing between environments. Once removed, customers will not be able to return to the classic environment to review classic reports, and scheduled reports will stop executing.

The modern reporting environment will remain as the only reporting solution.

All customers are strongly encouraged to recreate all of their existing reports in the new environment as soon as possible.


External source drives to be removed from support in the new Request Signature experience

First Reported: May 2024

Current 

The option to use an external drive for uploading files will be limited to OneDrive only in the new Request Signature experience.

It's recommended that customers who use other options for file upload use the vendor-specific application to provide a networked drive that can be accessed through the native file picker on the user's local system.


Additional Resources


Past Notifications


New IP addresses have been added to the Acrobat Sign European data center (EU2) allow list for Webhooks and Callbacks.
These IP ranges must be added before the end of September 2024 to avoid impacting service.

First Reported: August 2024

Removed From Current List: November 2024

Action Required

Customers who maintain network security practices that explicitly list inbound IP addresses must update the IP ranges for the Acrobat Sign service by the end of September 2024.
The complete list of IP ranges is published on the system requirements page.

To ensure the continued seamless function of your callbacks and webhook notifications, the IP ranges below must be added to the allow list for all customer accounts in the EU2 data center.

The added IP ranges are:

  • 4.207.3.96/28
  • 4.207.4.160/28
  • 4.208.75.176/28
  • 4.208.75.80/28
  • 4.208.79.192/28
  • 4.208.79.208/28
  • 4.245.45.176/28
  • 4.245.45.192/28
  • 4.245.45.208/28
  • 4.245.45.224/28
  • 4.245.45.240/28
  • 4.245.46.128/28
  • 4.245.85.80/28
  • 20.23.101.224/28
  • 20.31.209.192/28
  • 20.31.209.240/28
  • 20.31.210.16/28
  • 20.31.210.48/28
  • 20.105.66.176/28
  • 20.166.106.144/28
  • 20.166.107.112/28
  • 20.166.107.240/28
  • 20.166.107.32/28
  • 40.127.244.64/28
     


Adobe Acrobat Sign Templates: W-9 and I-9 (2024) templates added to the Acrobat Sign library

First Reported: August 2024

Removed From Current List: November 2024

The new IRS I-9 and W-9 forms, entitled I-9 (Employment Eligibility Verification) Exp 5/31/27 and W-9 (Request for Taxpayer Identification Number) Rev 3/24, respectively, are scheduled to be added to the Acrobat Sign library.

ACTION REQUIRED

The new library templates have new libraryDocumentIds. If you use either existing template’s libraryDocumentId in your applications, you'll need to update it.

The 2023 versions are scheduled to be removed from the system with the November 12, 2024 release.

Any application/API using the legacy (ver 2023) templates must be updated before November 8, 2024 to ensure no disruption to successful service.

To find the libraryDocumentId in an API-enabled account:

  1. Log in as an Account Admin
  2. Click on the Account tab > Adobe Sign API > API Information > click the link: REST API Methods Documentation
  3. In the GET /libraryDocuments section, click the OAUTH ACCESS-TOKEN button 
    • Enable the library_read:self scope
  4. Click the Try it out! button
  5. In the Response Body, locate the new I-9 ( Employment Eligibility Verification) Exp 5/31/27 or W-9 (Request for Taxpayer Identification Number) Rev 3/24 form template (not ver. 2023) to see the libraryDocumentId value.  
Obtain the docID


Improved Request Signature page for embedded applications 

First Reported: November 2023

Removed From Current List: November 2024

Acrobat Sign has developed a version of the new Request Signature page as a  Single Page Application (SPA) for customers that have built their own custom integrations and applications. Instead of using browser cookies for the user session, this new solution uses session access tokens to access the Acrobat Sign workflows and pages.

The SPA solution overcomes a problem where browser cookies stored in an iFrame are viewed as third-party cookies, and the trend for browsers is to disable third-party cookies by default.

Customers with embedded solutions and want to take advantage of the SPA-built Request Signature page should contact support to enable the feature.

 


Upgraded search for automatic email address completion

First Reported: September 2024

Removed From Current List: November 2024

The autocompletion feature that generates a list of email addresses when entering a recipient into any email field has traditionally only matched strings from the beginning of the address.

The API that drives that autocomplete functionality has been updated to support "tokenizing" the email, allowing for each token to match individually to the searched for string.

Example of a part of an email typed into a recipient field showing the address match in the middle of the string.

Бележка:

Tokenizing is the process where the email address is broken into smaller strings (tokens) based on common delimiters. Characters treated as delimiters (other than whitespace) are: ~ ` ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) - + = { } [ ] | \ . , : ; " ' < > ? /


Changes to the Adobe Acrobat Sign Enterprise Support Workflow for legacy customers who haven't migrated to the Admin Console

First Reported: July 2024

Removed From Current List: November 2024

This notification applies only to Acrobat Sign commercial enterprise administrators who have yet to migrate their users to an Adobe VIP, VIP Custom, or ETLA console.

  • If your Acrobat Sign contract expires before September 17, 2024, you may disregard this notification.
  • Customer accounts in the Government Cloud environment are not impacted.

Starting September 17, 2024, you'll see a new workflow to contact Adobe Acrobat Sign Support. Here is a high-level overview of the workflow:

  1. Log in to your Acrobat Sign account as an administrator.
  2. Select the "Contact Support" option under the question mark in the upper right of the window.
  3. You will be redirected to a new page with three channels to contact Support. Please select one of the three channels to get help with your issue:
    • Web form: For priority 2 and lower issues, you may submit a support request through the web form and expect a response in one business day.
    • Phone: For priority one critical issues, please call us so we can serve you immediately.
    • Chat: Get in touch with our experts in real-time. 

If you have an unresolved ticket with Support beyond September 17, 2024, your ticket history and conversation will be moved to a new system by the assigned support agent, who will confirm the move before and after. Future communications between you and Support regarding the unresolved issue will happen on the new system.

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