Fixed issues

• File is exported with the original name and not with the latest filename
•  Spot colors convert to CMYK automatically on choosing Effect > Blur > Gaussian Blur
• Select option does not function properly when applied from the context menu
•  Gradient Annotator is not visible for groups
  
• Height and width of a circle change when rotated
• Artboards don't snap to grid when moved
  
• [Windows only] Printer issues resulting in Illustrator crash: While creating a new or opening an existing document, if Illustrator detects a faulty default printer, it automatically changes the default printer to Adobe Postscript File to avoid the crash.
• Unable to switch between open Illustrator files

• When Snap to Grid is selected, keyboard arrows move objects by 2pts instead of 1pt
• New artboards don't keep the spacing set in the Rearrange Artboards setting
  
• Error 145 when updating Illustrator
  
• Blank window when creating a new document
• Switching views in the Asset Panel when renaming an asset crashes Illustrator
• In light UI theme, when text is selected in a dialog box, the blinking cursor disappears
• Enable shift selection in Layers panel
  
• Unable to save colors from color stops to the Swatches panel
• Align To setting remembers the last setting when relaunched

Stability fixes

• 'Align to key object' option gets auto-applied when selecting multiple objects
• Stability fixes

• Display issue with the preset icons on Home Screen 
  
• 'Use Preview Bounds' works incorrectly with 'Stroke Inside' for Compound Path
• Metric units precision broken
• [RightFont] Preview remains in artwork even after cancel or tick off preview on
• Incorrect opacity values on selecting objects inside a group

• Text disappears when typing continuously without space
• Illustrator crashes when computer is in sleep mode
  
• Illustrator throws an error message: Can't finish previewing 
• Selecting a color with Eyedropper and applying it on the text doesn't work

Stability fixes

This release provides you an improved product stability and performance, with the fix of 25+ customer-reported stability issues and enhanced document recovery processes.

Fixed issues at a glance:

• Discard white overprint is disabled when files are saved in the background
• Preview and open after 'Save As PDF' not working 
• Corner anchor points become smooth with Delete Anchor Point tool
• PDF Export and Save options for PDF X4: 2010 presets do not appear

Stability fixes

• Gradient annotator not visible when several objects are selected together
• Resolved experience issues in the File Save workflow
• Crash on using the File menu if Scripts folder is a symlink to iCloud folder
• While saving a file, cannot create a new folder using Command+Shift+N 
  
• Cannot align an internal point of the path to a point grid
• Remove <title> element with SVG export

• Unable to save the file in .ai format when a PDF job option file is present in the PDF preferences folder
• Overflow text icon appears when images are exported in background
• CoolType rendering of variable fonts is not correct
• Selecting a custom shape filled with a freeform gradient along with other shape changes the gradient colors
  

Stability fixes

• Fixed preference corruption issues
• Fixed issues with opening the saved .ai files
  
• Slower save operation in Illustrator 2020
• When you update the document while the background save is in process and then save it again, the "File modified outside Illustrator" warning is displayed
  
• Missing link pop-up messages
• Glyphs for eth (lowercase) and Eth (uppercase) of the Icelandic character eth are not recognized as the same character

• [Windows only] While saving as PDF, the 'Use Artboard' option is not selected
• Cannot add an anchor point with the Option key when using the Delete Anchor Point tool
• [macOS 10.15] Illustrator Home screen is unclear when third-party plugins are installed
  
• To reset your preferences, a new Reset Preferences option is provided in the General tab of the Preferences dialog. For more details, see Reset Preferences.
  

In this release, we fixed some stability issues to offer you a better product stability.

Here is the list of issues we addressed:

• [macOS 10.15 only] Customized shortcuts — Cmd+C, Cmd+V, Cmd+X, and Cmd+A — do not work when used in the File Open and Save dialogs 
  
• When saving an .ai file, Illustrator displays an inappropriate warning "File modified outside Illustrator”
• Numeric edit field is not in focus in the Rotate/Shear dialog
• Improved the messaging that appears when you try to close a file while the save is still in-progress

• Layer colors in the Layers panel change when you open the file created using Illustrator 2019 (or before) in Illustrator 2020 
• Cannot save the file in the .ai format when a PDF job option file is present in the Adobe PDF preferences folder 
• When exporting a file as PNG (Export As > PNG) with resolution other than 72px, the resolution in the exported PNG file is incorrect

• Same file with different data when opened in different versions (even after saving with different PDF compatibility across versions)
• Next object above or below doesn't work in Isolation mode
• Drawing with Blob Brush does not have uniform width when the document is zoomed in
• Cannot delete large anchor points with the Anchor Point Delete tool

Text

• The 'Horizontal Align Center' option does not align text with the center of object if text has tracking applied on it
• Illustrator throws an error message while printing if the Myanmar MN regular font is used
• Cannot move paragraph indent markers back to 0 in Tab panel
• Ctrl+Home and Ctrl+End do not work while typing text
• Composite Font dialog should be resizable
• Add a character panel flyout option to enable or disable the font preview

• Cannot quit Illustrator, all menus are disabled
• Unable to select a mesh object when performing the marquee selection over the edge
• Selection stuck on the clipped object if the Clipping Mask is deselected with Shift+drag
• Error while entering number values in Transform panel
• Alt+Scroll does not work in the 23.0.6 release
• Incorrect French translation on Links palette
• Disable feature onboarding
• Ability to define keyboard shortcuts for align left, align center, and align right
• Shortcut for 'Reset Bounding box' does not work
• Double-clicking artboard should allow to change the name of the artboard
• Audible error sound when using the Path > Split to Grid option
• Escape key does not work for perspective grid unless you are in perspective grid or selection tool
• Pressing the CTRL or CMD + mouse scroll will zoom in or out the contents of the Properties panel

Brushes

• Calligraphic Brush, Blob Brush appearance anomalies at small brush sizes (1 pt and above)
  
• Blob Brush changes size after undo

Type

• Variable font glyphs not rendered properly from top and bottom
• Unwanted characters appearing when outlining text
• Font changes are not in synchronization between Character panel and Properties panel 
• Unable to select Type Pref Indic options and Fill object with placeholder text option in the Preferences dialog when the preferences are migrated from Ai version 22.1
• Issues when applying tracking through Properties panel
• RTL Type tool is not displayed by default for MENA locales

User Interface

• Free Transform Tool hidden under Puppet Warp in toolbar
• Rotation Handle Tolerance overrides scale and selection functionality while using Wacom
• Modal dialogs displayed with drop shadow
  
• Cannot pin, zoom, or scroll using touchpad gestures for Windows 10
• Adobe PDF presets or .joboptions are unsorted
• [Windows only] Unable to move objects using Selection tool
• Feature tours continue to appear even after OK or Got it buttons are clicked

Gradients & Colors

• Freeform gradient Line points gets deleted on changing opacity to 0 via Point Mode
• Apply Gradient Along or Across Stroke options are enabled but non-functional when a gradient is applied to an outside or inside stroke
• Color panel switches from secondary display to the primary display when opening color panel from color proxy
• Opacity and location overlaps on gradient bar
• Incorrect color stop values are displayed for Fill proxy

Scripting

• Custom scripts added to the Scripts menu are unsorted

Bug fixes

• Open File issues
• Crash reports submitted through Adobe Crash Reporter

• Japanese fonts displayed with English names in the Find More tab 

• Unable to draw linear and radial gradients at a constraint angle with the Shift key 
• Fix Adobe Illustrator 2019 Type Library Reference - VB scripts return error
• Need a way to lock the customizable toolbar
• Direct Selection tool does not work on text anchors
• Rotate dialogue box does not have default focus on the rotate input widget
• Action using the transform panel will not retain settings after restarting Illustrator

• Crash and rendering issues with few Japanese CID fonts
• Illustrator crashes when the action is being recorded on Transparency panel
• Illustrator pastes tiff in Adobe XD even when SVG is available in clipboard
• "Find Extension on Exchange" link in Illustrator does not auto sign on the webpage
• In-menu font preview preference is not honored 
• 20 crashes fixed from the submitted crash reports

• Illustrator 2019 crashes consistently with an error message stating "Can't finish previewing or enough memory (RAM)"
• (macOS only) PS or XD is shown as the default app while opening an .ai file
• 100% view is not 100% for pixels in Illustrator 2019
• White swatch turned yellow

 Artboard tooltip cannot be dismissed when the artboard options dialog is open

 Text handling is not working as expected in Character and Paragraph Styles panels

 Tiny size indicators are displayed on high-resolution displays

 SVG Export misses some of the artwork from artboards

 Issues with fonts

 Illustrator documents open to a red or a black screen

 Remove redundant points in Pathfinder options automatically gets deselected

 SVG fails to export text layer names

 Illustrator 2018 - CEP 8 HTML Extension Resize Issue

 Placed and rotated 1-bit TIFF are not correctly rendered in Illustrator 22.0.1

 SVG Export ignores layer id <g> tag for some artboards and layers, but not all of them

 Smart guides don't work properly

 Illustrator displays an error while saving the document as SVGZ

 Empty artboard name changes itself when the artboard is resized

 Artboard cannot be resized

 Rasterized and exported file changes colors

 Move artwork with artboard does not deactivate when moving artboards with arrow-keys

 Illustrator crashes when editing tabs in Paragraph Styles

 Type Properties panel does not work when resets to 12-pt size

 Artboard renaming issue

 Export As in Actions Panel does not show dialog even if Show dialog toggle is selected

 Rotation Handle Tolerance overrides scale and selection functionality while using Wacom

 Deleting successive artboards is not smooth experience

 Illustrator 2018: Objects on top of text frames are no longer selectable

 Blob brush lags or leaves temporary marks

 Images are not visible when you place EPS files in a new document

 When you export artwork as JPG and PNG using the File > Export command, Illustrator exports it in the previously used folder

 When you save a document using the File > Save A Copy command, Illustrator exports it in the previously used folder

 Outline Preview is not working in Illustrator running on systems using NVIDIA GPU cards

 The names of non-printable layers do not appear in italics

 Unable to create new artboards if there's no space between the existing artboards

 Deselecting the Artboard tool resets the Align To Artboard option to Align To Selection

 Illustrator does not display the selected artboard as active

 Unable to align artboards with the pixel grid

 Unable to export artwork as SVG when you double-click an Illustrator file to open it

 The keyboard shortcut for scaling artwork proportionately for width and height (Ctrl/Command + Enter) does not work in the Properties panel

 The Select > Same command does not work for graphs

 The Apply Similar filter for fonts does not work

 The font size reverts to 12 when you create a new text object

 Unable to dismiss the warning message displayed when you adjust kerning

 Legacy text is lost when you save a file in Illustrator version 22.0 without updating it

 Illustrator commits the font size even when you're typing a new size

 The Font menu disappears while scrolling

 Illustrator does not display the same unit across different panels

 Opening a file after updating to macOS 10.13 gives the error: This file has been modified outside Illustrator.

 Unable to export artwork as PNG other than 72 ppi using the October 2017 release of Illustrator

 Text layout issues while working with Japanese text with the None preset applied for Mojikumi and Kinsoku