InDesign 2021 (version 16.0.1)
Stability
InDesign crashes on bringing Text wrap panel in focus on few machines, either while launching or switching workspace or clicking on the panel icon.
[macOS only] InDesign hangs while attempting to quit by pressing Cmd-Q.
Crash on launching InDesign while fetching the license token on slow machines.
InDesign crashes on launch due to corrupt font.
Improvement to new features
Workspace resets on creating a new document from Templates in Cmd-N dialog.
Click on search suggestions not working in InDesign.
Slider in the Media panel is enabled and can be dragged even though there is no media file.
Place a video or audio file button in the Media panel is enabled when you launch InDesign and no document is open.
Total time duration of a media file appears disabled in the Media panel.
Core feature and workflow
File save location for old converted and OpenAsCopy documents should be the original file folder.
If a word has a punctuation such as comma or bracket before/after it, and the spell-check flags that word, notice that the punctuation is also flagged along. Attempting to add that word to the dictionary causes an error.
Shortcuts for New Document dialog and Open document do not work in some cases due to focus issues when InDesign is launched.
Document is not created on pressing Enter with focus on the Create button in the Cmd-N dialog.
Adobe Help search bar in the Control panel forwards scrambled text to the internet browser.
Characters in a text composition go missing when a Zero-width joiner (U+200D) and a Discretionary Line break (U+200B) is inserted.
Scripting
AppleScript with scpt extension won't open in the Script editor for editing. Instead, the program opens the script in Vscode.
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