Adobe FrameMaker | Fixed issues

This article lists the issues fixed in the latest release of Adobe FrameMaker, including fixes provided through subsequent patch updates.

For known issues, workarounds, and late‑breaking information, visit the FrameMaker community.

For detailed information about features, configuration, and usage, visit the FrameMaker User Guide

March 2026

Release date: March 31, 2026

Version: 18.0.0.206

What's changed: March 2026 release of FrameMaker includes the following bug fixes and two key enhancements designed to boost efficiency and deliver a seamless authoring experience: an all-new book-level template for managing variables and conditional tags, and an enhanced search experience with the new Find All option in the Find/Change dialog. 

For more details about the new and enhanced features, visit What's new in March 2026 release of FrameMaker.

Fixed Issues

Authoring

• Greater than sign (>) is not escaped when converting a FrameMaker file to XML. 
  (Ref – 15169)
• Wingdings font characters appear incorrectly during authoring in FrameMaker.
  (Ref-15168)
• Copying content from a document with Track Changes enabled into a document where the feature is disabled, leaves <TRACK> tags in tables when saved as XML. 
  (Ref – 15036)
• The topicreflabel element inside a ditavalref is incorrectly flagged as invalid during DITA validation.
  (Ref – 15048)
• FrameMaker crashes when exporting a particular FrameMaker document to XLIFF 1.2 format.
  (Ref-15161)
• FrameMaker crashes while opening certain structured documents if the ShowTitleForStructuredDoc flag is enabled.
  (Ref-15178)

Publishing

• In the HTML5 output, broken links are displayed in the TOC when bookmaps contain the Yen symbol 
  (Ref – 15031)
• In the HTML5 output, navigation titles are changed to lowercase when they include a letter-number combination followed by a colon.
  (Ref – 15177)
• In the HTML5 output, broken links are generated in the TOC when source document names contain spaces.
  (Ref – 15135)
• In the HTML5 output, broken links are generated in the TOC when style names contain non-ASCII characters. 
  (Ref - 16382)
• In the PDF output, conditional content filtering based on default attribute values in DITAVAL files does not work as expected. 
  (Ref – 15116)
• Publishing to Microsoft Help fails for a specific fileset.
  (Ref - 16315)

Translation

• An incorrect translation is displayed for the LAST MODIFIED DATE label on the Welcome Screen in German, French, and Japanese. 
  (Ref – 16378)

AEM Integration

• When connected to an AEM repository, FrameMaker fails to retrieve dependent topics and resources for DITA map files.
  (Ref – 15983)

Security vulnerabilities

• Fixed uninitialized pointer remote code execution vulnerability on parsing XLSX files.
  (Ref - 33050)
• Fixed memory corruption and integer underflow vulnerabilities on parsing DOC files.
  (Ref-33051, 33208, 33184)
• Fixed out-of-bounds read vulnerability on parsing XLS files.
  (Ref- 33182, 33183) 
• Fixed untrusted search path vulnerability leading to remote code execution.
  (Ref-32879, 32593)
• Fixed XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability on parsing malicious XML files.
  (Ref-32721)
• Fixed type confusion vulnerability on parsing malicious DOC files.
  (Ref-33342)
• Fixed heap overflow vulnerability on parsing IGS files.
  (Ref-33173)
• Fixed Use After Free vulnerability on parsing TIF files.
  (Ref-33052)