What's new in Adobe Creative Cloud & Document Cloud - February 2026

Check out this list of the latest Adobe software updates and new features across all Creative Cloud and Document Cloud apps. Each month, the Creative Ambassadors team shares key highlights to keep you up to date on what’s new and improved!

Adobe Express (December 2025)

• Set roles and permissions in Adobe Express for Enterprise

• Adobe Express in ChatGPT

• Copy and paste text style

• New animations: Turbulence, Wobble In and Wobble Out

• Import up to 30 PDFs at once

• Bynder add-on

• Frontify add-on

• Hootsuite add-on

• NCS add-on

After Effects (January 2026)

• Substance 3D Materials (SBSAR)

• Create parametric meshes

• Enable lights to cast shadows

• Support for Variable Font Axes

• Improved Illustrator layer conversion

• Import SVG files as vectors

• Unmult effect for Keying transparency

• Lossless Compressed Playback

• Crop composition to selected layer(s) bounds

• New built-in audio effects - Distortion, Compressor, and Gate

• Refreshed After Effects Preferences

• New expression and scripting enhancements

• Windows ARM native support

• Improved UI language support

Animate (October 2023)

• Native Apple Silicon Support

• Sleek user interface

• Reset warped asset

Audition (January 2026)

• Windows ARM native support

Firefly (January 2026)

• Smooth scene transitions with Firefly video editor (beta)

• Generate videos with partner models in Firefly video editor (beta)

Frame. io (December 2025)

• New Home & Project navigation updates

• Updated asset navigation

• Share link enhancements

• Access Requests (now built for Enterprise scale)

• Interactive ZIP support

Illustrator (December 2025)

• Generate with partner models in Text to Vector Graphic

InDesign (January 2026)

• AI‑generated alt text

• ARIA label support in the Object Styles panel

Lightroom (December 2025)

• Sharing albums from free Lightroom Mobile accounts

• Support for new cameras and lenses in Lightroom

Photoshop (January 2026)

• Adjust contrast with the Clarity and dehaze adjustment layer

• Adjust texture with the Grain adjustment layer

• Create more with new Firefly models in Generative Fill and Generative Expand

• Easily remove objects or people with the updated Remove tool

• Get consistent results with Reference Image

Premiere Pro (January 2026)

• AI-powered Object Masking

• Redesigned shape masks

• Send media from Firefly Boards to Premiere desktop

• Video transition handles

• GPU-accelerated thumbnails

• Native Support for Windows on ARM

• Support for Nikon R3D NE

Substance (Multiple dates)

• Documentation Release Notes for each app

• 3D Designer (February 2026)​

• 3D Sampler (January 2026) ​

• 3D Painter (January 2026)​

• 3D Stager (January 2026)​

• 3D Modeler (April 2025)​

Acrobat (January 2026)​

• Generate a podcast for a PDF

• Listen to podcasts generated from your PDF Space

• Generate presentations directly from the prompt bar

• Create PDF Spaces directly from Microsoft Word on Windows

• Smart Assistance available for free and Reader users

Acrobat Services (September 2025) ​

• .NET SDK 4.3.1 patch release

• See: https://developer.adobe.com/document-services/docs/overview/releasenotes/​

Acrobat Sign (November 2025)​

Production deployment: November 4, 2025
GovCloud deployment: November 6, 2025

• API and webhook updates for this release can be found in the Acrobat Sign API documentation.