Indesign 16.3 are now live

[Geоrge]

InDesign and InCopy 16.3.0.24 have gone live today and are available publicly.

The update will be rolled out in a phased manner and many of you might not see the updates as of today as it has been made live for Australia, France, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland and United Kingdom based Adobe IDs.

What's new in this release:

InDesign and all its features now work 1.5x times faster on Apple silicon hardware with M1 processors.

List of issues fixed in this release:

Stability and performance

• InDesign freezes when auto-size or frame fitting is applied to anchored frames.
• [macOS only] Asset Link Panel and Creative Cloud Libraries panel freezes in InDesign 2021.
• InDesign crashes when you click the number of type 1 fonts in the info bar after closing the affected document.
• Recomposition of text freezes InDesign for some instances.

User experience improvements

• When GPU is enabled in InDesign, the document display is affected on opening in an external screen.

Scripting

• AdobeXMPScript library fails to load.

Production

• Some glyphs do not appear in the exported PDF from an InDesign document with placed pdf file containing Type0 font glyphs.

Core feature and workflow

• Cannot create new document using Cmd-N dialog for some cases.
• Variable fonts appears incorrect when Roman rotation in vertical text is applied.
• URL information is missing in the Hyperlinks panel in InCopy.
• Incorrect order of footnotes appears in scripting when numbering is set to restart every page or section.
• In InDesign, the highlight color of overlapping highlight comments is incorrect.
• Variable Font added to CC Libraries in Illustrator loses its attributes on placing in InDesign.
• Mark attachments do not appear at correct positions for Variable Font.
• Every alternate character of the composite font appears incorrectly in InDesign.

[androsey]

Thanks. Can you provide more information on when the rest of the world will have access? Specifically, the United States.

[DisE]

Really strange because I have the 16.3 update on MacBook (Intel) but it is not showing on Mac Mini (M1). Same Adobe Id on both.

[Javier Gómez Laínez]

Where is the list of the next Countries that will see the new version?

[Geоrge]

We can only wait. There is no any concrete dates.

[Riley@beckerglove]

I have a few crucial scripts and plugins that won't work with 16.2.1, so I can't use them at all until I get 16.3. The sooner they can roll it out, the better. I'm dying over here!

[AKS666]

Still waiting for this update to be available...

[Javier Gómez Laínez]

Me too! I need to work seamlesly with an iMac and an M1 MacBook, and the latter is not fully compatible with the current Intel version...

[AKS666]

And still waiting for that update...

[Geоrge]

On my side it available only from today.