Last updated on
20 Jul 2026
Find out about the latest updates, new features, and bug fixes in recent Adobe InDesign releases.
July 2026 (version 21.5)
Feature updates
- Table accessibility improvements in PDF and EPUB exports
- Specify header rows, header columns, and captions in your table setup to include accessible table structure information in exported documents.
- Keyboard shortcut search
- Search by command name or keyboard shortcut to quickly locate a specific menu item directly in the Keyboard Shortcuts dialog box.
- Data Merge enhancements
- Added support for multiline records and UTF-8 encoded data files.
- HTML Preview plugin no longer required
- Starting with InDesign 21.5, HTML previews generate without the HTML Preview plugin, and InDesign no longer displays an error if the plugin isn't installed.
- Manage your files faster from the home screen
- Add local files as cloud documents, or download cloud documents to your device, directly from the home screen.
- Speed up accessibility work with bulk Alt Text operations
- Generate or remove AI-generated Alt Text for multiple images at once, without affecting text you've written or edited manually.
Fixed issues
- The primaryTextFrame property could not be set on a MasterSpread via InDesign scripting.
- Effects like Drop Shadow get displaced when objects are transformed.
- Data Merge did not support UTF-8 encoding.
- Incorrect handling of Ampersands (&) in font family names and OpenType Stylistic Sets names.
- Caption option isn't visible in the Table Options context menu.
- [Windows only] Users in Chinese Simplified unable to use InDesign due to subscription error.
- Content not visible in PDF appears upon opening the PDF.
- Opening some PDFs duplicates images onto the pasteboard, degrading performance, and inflating asset folder size.
- [Windows only] InDesign intermittently crashes during document recovery.
- [Windows only] InDesign intermittently crashes on during quit.
- InDesign hangs with customer CEP Plugin.
Fixed issues
- Alt text message is truncated from right side.
- [Windows only] InDesign fails to locate the Times New Roman and Calibri fonts.
- [macOS only] Math Expression size gets larger and truncated on EPUB Interactive Preview Panel.
- [macOS only] InDesign requests permission to access data from other applications at launch.
- [Windows only] Indesign freezes and unexpectedly closes while opening IDML file containing double-hyphenated texts.
- [Windows only] When placing or updating linked files, InDesign hangs and shows a spinning cursor.
- Media files, groups, and interactive items are dropped off when None CSS Option is selected.
- The Blue border (focus) for the Flex icon is cut off on the right side in the Properties panel.
- Clicking on a footnote or endnote reference on EPUB preview, the page isn't redirecting to the footnote or endnote location.
- Fixed an issue where Share for Review 'Update Content' fails with 'Artifact error' for large InDesign documents.
- Keyboard shortcuts don’t work on transformed frames.
- Weird behaviour when the Add to flex frame action is done on a transformed interactive button or object states.
- Expose FlexObject to anchoredObjectSettings.
- Positioning of Flex Children isn't maintained correctly within Flex Container on Transforming Flex Layouts.
- URLs containing %27 were navigating to a 404 page in the published document.
- Issue with text appearance of placed WMF images.
- IDML export/import adds objects on master pages and dependent pages.
- Generate Alt Text feature is disabled and showing error, You do not have access to the Generate Alt Text feature.
- Fit Text feature is disabled for Type on a Path text objects in InDesign.
- Manually added alt text should not get removed when relinked from a missing link.
- [macOS only] InDesign intermittently crashes on Quit.
- Auto Alt Text causing crashes, freezing, and workflow disruptions in InDesign 21.2.
- CC Libraries panel freezes and becomes unresponsive in InDesign.
- InDesign crashes while saving to cloud-synced locations after a corrupt Windows update, resulting in document corruption.
- [Windows only] Users in Chinese Simplified are unable to use InDesign due to a subscription error.
Feature updates
- You can show or hide the Alt Text badge icon (View > Extras > Hide Alt Text Badge or Show Alt Text Badge). Hiding the badge does not remove alt text and does not affect accessible exports.
Fixed issues
- [macOS only] InDesign file becomes uneditable after using Share for InCopy on the web and then saving it back locally on macOS.
- [macOS only] Paper swatch applied to text has incorrect overprint settings.
- [macOS only] InDesign hangs at launch if the PDF preset folder lacks read permissions.
- [macOS only] Locate Object button is now available in the Layers panel.
- Provide an option to show/hide Alt Text adornment icon.
- Alt text added in the Accessibility section of Hyperlinks panel disappears when the file is saved as IDML.
- Incorrect Alt Text generation for some images.
- The UXP WebView Support component should not be packaged or installed with InDesign Server.
- InDesign Server crashes when using the Adobe World-Ready Single-line Composer while interacting with multi-column text frames.
- InDesign intermittently crashes when opening or closing documents from a network location under low-memory conditions.
- InDesign intermittently crashes while opening the document.
- InDesign intermittently crashes while adding pages to the document.
- InDesign intermittently crashes while performing copy/paste of text containing hyperlinks.
- InDesign intermittently crashes during image placement.
- Documentation missing from InDesign Server installation directory.
- [Flex Layout] Elements added to the Article panel appear in incorrect sequence.
- [Flex Layout] Buttons and Object States cannot be applied directly to Flex child elements.
- IDML files with long indexes take excessive time to open.
- Page size changes in Alternate Layout after reopening the IDML file.
- Master page names are changed after IDML conversion.
Fixed issues
- [Windows only] Text becomes invisible during editing.
- [Windows only] InDesign is frequently clearing the Undo stack.
- Object Styles now support Size and Position values greater than 1440 pt.
- Plug-ins created with InDesign 21.0 SDK crashes InDesign 21.1 during hyperlink creation.
- The plug‑in’s document observer update function is no longer called when users switch between open InDesign documents.
- InDesign crashes on opening an IDML file with custom bullet character.
- Support for Size and Position values greater than 1440 pt in Object Styles has been extended to IDML round-tripping and Snippets/CC Libraries.
- Negative X/Y Position values in Object Styles are now preserved across Snippets/CC Libraries and IDML round-tripping.
- Conditional text setting is changing during IDML Export/Import.
- Showing text threads within IDML as in the original InDesign document.
- Custom page numbering is lost when saving as IDML if Automatic Page Numbering is selected and a number is entered in the Start At field.
- When converting an INDD file to IDML, Inner Glow, Size values over 12p6 incorrectly change to 0p7 in the exported file.
- [Windows only] Unexpected color changes occur on certain cell borders after exporting the document to IDML.
- When saving an InDesign file to IDML, the page size changes if margins are set to zero and the width/height is less than 6p0.
- [Windows only] PDFExportProvider object is being destroyed and recreated in the middle of an export, leading to an error.
- Crash on opening IDML when default object style has the same name as its style group.
Fixed issues
- Negative X, Y values can be set for Object Style Position option.
- [macOS only] Panels move from Extended Display to Main Display after waking Mac from sleep.
- Align to Bleed misaligns objects in facing-page documents when inner bleed is set to 0 or differs from outer bleed.
- Upload dialog does not appear when publishing documents created in earlier versions.
- GREP style sub-menu is missing the word aus.
- For converted documents, InDesign adds extra space at the top during PNG or JPEG export.
- Page View icon in browser looks grayed out on opening Share for Review link.
- Share for Review page is not shown centered when the link is opened in browser.
- When a Primary Text Frame uses an Object Style with the Position option enabled, its X and Y coordinates shift unexpectedly as text flows into the frame.
- It is now possible to remove Flex Layout from multiple selected Flex Layout Frames by choosing Object > Flex Layout > Remove Flex Layout.
- InDesign crashes intermittently while working with the Layers panel.
- InDesign crashes intermittently while working with the Pages Panel.
- [Windows] [JP] Document units didn’t match units set in the Preferences dialog box.
- Pin & Draw comments made in the browser for Review may not appear in the InDesign document.
- Closing a PDF after opening it in InDesign without saving it deletes the file's Assets folder from:
Windows - C:\Users\<username>\Documents\InDesign PDF Assets
macOS - /Users/<username>/Documents/InDesign PDF Assets - Paragraph style names are truncated in tagged PDF.
- FRL offline is consuming high CPU resources when InDesign app is in idle state.
Fixed issues
- Grouped objects don't return to their original layers when ungrouped, if Ungroup Remembers Layers option is enabled.
- Tab indents are removed when you drag the indent marker.
- [macOS only] With Application Frame off, the behavior of Green button in Document Window is changed back to Zoom to Fit (instead of Full Screen).
- Ungrouping objects deselects the currently selected objects.
- InDesign crashes when a specific variable font is used in the document.
- [macOS only] InDesign crashes when it can't access the Preferences or Caches folders due to permission issues.
- [Windows only] InDesign cannot open PDF files if user account name contains non-English characters.
- PDF file size optimization when exporting specific page/spread ranges with Preserve InDesign Editing Capabilities option.
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