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The dynamic and improved Contextual Task Bar brings the most relevant actions directly to your workspace based on the object or tool you've selected, enabling you to achieve your creative goals more quickly. This feature helps you explore various creative possibilities from a blank canvas and discover exciting workflows tailored to your selected object, whether it’s a path, shape, text, image, or a combination of these. The Contextual Task Bar is also available for basic shape tools (Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star), Artboard, and Type tools.

Learn more about the Contextual Task Bar.

Retype now lets you identify and edit the fonts of Japanese, French, and German text used in images and outlined text.

You can now effortlessly expand traced images straight from the Image Trace panel.
Learn more about Image Trace.

When you create custom document presets for your design needs, you can save them and access them easily later. Find out more about creating and saving custom document presets.

Illustrator v28.7.1 also includes several improvements and bug fixes, including:

• The last letter of a word duplicates itself as you move the cursor while typing Korean characters. (Community Post)
  
  
• Using the Variables panel to import data causes incorrect data placement, as blank cells are skipped.
  (UserVoice)
  
  
• The Illustrator menu bar stops responding while working on artwork. (UserVoice)
  
  
• OpenType ligature features (rlig and ccmp) don't work with variable font. (UserVoice)
  
  
• While rastering a clipped image or group of objects, white space appears around the clipping boundaries.
  (UserVoice)