{"slug": "adobe-premieres-a-second-patch-tuesday-each-month-to-deliver-fixes-faster", "title": "Adobe premieres a second Patch Tuesday each month to deliver fixes faster", "summary": "Adobe announced it will issue security patches twice monthly, starting July 14, to address the increasing pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation driven by AI. The company will add a second Patch Tuesday on the fourth Tuesday of each month, following Oracle's shift to monthly patches. Adobe cited the need to keep pace with AI-accelerated threats as the reason for the change.", "body_md": "Adobe will now issue security patches for its products twice as often to deal with the increasing pace of software vulnerability discovery and exploitation.\n\nThis [follows Oracle’s decision to increase its quarterly patch](https://www.infoworld.com/article/4167338/oracle-will-patch-more-often-to-counter-ai-cybersecurity-threat-3.html) program to a monthly one.\n\nAdobe issues patches on the second Tuesday of each month, as do Microsoft and SAP. Starting in July, it will also issue them on the fourth Tuesday of each month, it said in a blog post.\n\nAs an early indicator of the need for the faster rhythm, it issued two security advisories dealing with a number of critical vulnerabilities on June 30 — the fifth Tuesday of that month: [APSB 26-28](https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/coldfusion/apsb26-68.html) and [APSB26-29](https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/campaign/apsb26-69.html). It is not alone in issuing out-of-sequence patches for urgent fixes: In April, [Microsoft also released one](https://www.csoonline.com/article/4162178/microsoft-issues-out-of-band-patch-for-critical-security-flaw-in-update-to-asp-net-core.html) to react to a particular threat.\n\nAdobe said in a [blog post](https://blog.adobe.com/security/protecting-customers-faster-how-adobe-is-responding-to-ai-accelerated-vulnerability-discovery) that it is responding to the increased level of threats: “Twice-monthly bulletins will enable us to keep pace with the era of frontier AI. More vulnerabilities found means more fixes to deploy and a once-a-month publication window is no longer fast enough to stay ahead of our adversaries. This new cadence is the direct result of investing in improved vulnerability discovery.”\n\nThe new schedule will be effective from July 14 and will apply to every advisory that includes a formally published CVE requiring customer action.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adobe-premieres-a-second-patch-tuesday-each-month-to-deliver-fixes-faster", "canonical_source": "https://www.csoonline.com/article/4192789/adobe-premieres-a-second-patch-tuesday-each-month-to-deliver-fixes-faster.html", "published_at": "2026-07-03 14:05:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-04 14:53:53.815503+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Adobe", "Microsoft", "SAP", "Oracle", "APSB 26-28", "APSB26-29"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adobe-premieres-a-second-patch-tuesday-each-month-to-deliver-fixes-faster", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adobe-premieres-a-second-patch-tuesday-each-month-to-deliver-fixes-faster.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adobe-premieres-a-second-patch-tuesday-each-month-to-deliver-fixes-faster.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/adobe-premieres-a-second-patch-tuesday-each-month-to-deliver-fixes-faster.jsonld"}}