CEP 11 Release

CEP 11 Major Updates

CEP 11 contains a major CEF update (Chromium Embedded Framework), from v74 to v88 and a major Node.js update from v9 to Node.js v15.9.0.

Major updates in this release

✅ CEP-2221: Native Mac ARM Support for all CEP components
✅ CEP-2349: CEF Update to v88
🐛 CEP-2291: CEPHtmlEngine Helper crash
🐛 CEP-2208: Crash in: node::NodePlatform::Shutdown reported from After Effects.
🐛 CEP-2337: Windows only: IME is disabled in certain cases when entering text in textfields.
🐛 CEP-2382: Crash in CEPHTMLEngine Helper (renderer).
🐛 CEP-2251: CEP Extension with Video causes Crash/hang when moved between monitors.
🐛 CEP-2215: [GitHub Issue:320] Capture Panel layout issues when panel moved between primary and secondary screen.

CEP 11 updated Components

Migration from CEP 10 to CEP 11

Applications Integrated with CEP 11

FAQ & Known Issues

CEP 10.0

CEP 10.0 Major Updates

CEP 10 contains a major CEF update (Chromium Embedded Framework), from v61 to v74 (Chromium 74.0.3729.157) and a major Node.js update, from Node.js v8.6.0 in CEP 9 to Node.js v12.3.1 in CEP 10.
CEP 10 also has support for SameSite cookies amongst other major features that are part of CEF v74.
It also includes several other stability and performance improvements.

Major updates in this release

✅ CEP-1898: CEP does not include Chromium version >67, which contains important security policy updates
🐛 CEP-1779: From Export Dialog, can't login to Facebook and Vimeo in Premiere Pro, Rush or Media Encoder
🐛 CEP-1840: Remote debugging of CEP extensions broken with latest Chrome update (80.0.3987.87)
🐛 CEP-1979: Crash when calling window.top.location.replace()
🐛 CEP-1891: Critical Crashes in PLugPlug.dll
🐛 CEP-1847 : getSystemPath() fails for users with a '$' in their user name
🐛 CEP-1845: The ability to click and drag a slider is broken
🐛 CEP-1838: [macOS only]text cursor not apearing while hovering over text fields
🐛 CEP-1832: Focus issues in Drop down and Button elements
🐛 CEP-1769: [Windows only]Mouse cursor in Premier Pro disappears when closing panel
🐛 CEP-1725: window.cep.fs.showOpenDialog() crashes and restarts any panel 
🐛 CEP-1639: Random CEP freezes forcing the user to restart the system
🐛 CEP-1644: CEPHtmlEngine crashes while saving as document with applying different fonts or move text frame in AI.

CEP 10.0 updated Components

Migration from CEP 9 to CEP 10

Applications Integrated with CEP 10

FAQ & Known Issues

CEP 9.4

CEP 9.4 Major Updates

✅ [Mac only] Updated SDK to mac OS 10.14 for all the runtime components.
✅ [Mac only] Added notarization changes to the runtime components required by Apple starting with macOS 10.14.5. More details here https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=04102019a.
🐛 [Mac only] Added fix for memory leak on mac: v8 engine upgraded to version 6.3.292.49
🐛 [Windows] Added fix for crash issues with an internal CEP component in Illustrator.

Known Issues:

Please refer to the list of known issues here.

Adobe CEP 9.0

CEP 9 Major Updates

Version	Product	OS	Details	Status
8.0.0	After Effects	Mac	When using a proxy server to bypass a firewall, Ai will prompt for proxy authentication on startup. However this authentication dialog causes Ai to become non responsive.	✅
8.0.0	All	Mac/Win	Debug console has a Reconnect button that doesn’t work	✅
8.0.0	All	Mac/Win	Panels do not honor the max size specified in the manifest.	✅
8.0.0	All	Mac/Win	Panels can be resized below property mentioned in the manifest.	✅
8.0.0	All	Mac/Win	Added support for custom url handlers	✅
8.0.0	All	Win	CEP Panel Window Dimensions reset with Window.load	✅
8.0.0.35	All	Win	Text fields stop accepting input when the default IME is changed from EN to CN/JP. checked	✅
8.0.0.55	All	Mac/Win	Panel cannot register for key events to handle key presses like ESC.	✅
8.0.0.55	All	Win	CEP affects the normal OS focus workflows and interferes with other opened applications in use	✅
8.0.0.55	All	Mac/Win	Square brackets in the manifest file for host name version (such as <HostName=""KBRG"" Version=""[8.0]"" />) makes the whole Window > Extensions menu is grayed out.	✅
8.0.0.55	Photoshop	Win	CEP not accepting the SSL certificate for Amazon CloudFront.	✅
8.0.0.55	Premiere Pro	Mac	Forward delete key doesn't work in a textedit control.	✅
8.0.0.55	All	Mac/Win	Manifest parsing errors.	✅
8.0.0.55	All	Mac/Win	Setting RequiredRuntime value to 8.0 will not load extension.	✅
8.0.0.891	Photoshop, DreamWeaver	Win	[DPI] Panel not scaled at 350% scaling"	✅
9.0.0	All	Mac	Extensions located in CaseSensitive APFS format volume are not loaded.	✅
9.0.0.30	All	Mac	Intermittently, keyboard input is not accepted.	✅
9.0.0.30	All	Win8	Can't use ScreenPercentage in the manifest.	✅
9.1	Illustrator	Win	Keyboards events are sent to host app when modal extension is open.	✅
9.1	After Effects	Mac	Range Slider is broken.	✅
9.1.0.60	All	Mac/Win	specified under should be taken as default when there is no specified in a separate for a specific host.	✅
9.2	After Effects	Win	Workaround for Chromium 61 to handle issue with gpu based JS library.	✅

PlugPlugExternalObject

PlugPlugExternalObject is a library that InDesign developers can integrate to get debug information from ExtendScript code to the HTML extension’s JavaScript DOM.

Note: This library is integrated in Illustrator, Photoshop and Premiere Pro (CC 2014) - developers will only need this library for InDesign.