Bottom line: if you're a CF admin or dev (who cares about the timing and implications of such CF updates), you may want to hold off on scheduling days off (or important meetings, big projects, etc.) on this second Tuesday of each month. :-)

For those interested, I share below the details of the pattern as I have found it, looking over 21 updates over 34 months (since Jan 2024).

As for tomorrow, Nov 10 2026, well...my research below also shows that we've curiously not had an update in Nov in either 2024 or 2025, so maybe there's none coming tomorrow, either. Some will appreciate that.

Perhaps something happens in Adobe (or with the CF team) that tends to preclude that month. But hey, with the increased frequency of security (compounded by AI, surely), things could well change. And apologies that I didn't get this heads-up out sooner, if it does happen!

Technically it's not a "new" rhythm (as I'll show), but I'd not heard anyone else identify it, so perhaps we can regard it at least as "newly discovered". Also FWIW, I'm not aware that Adobe informs anyone in advance of whether and specifically when a CF update is forthcoming. They certainly don't inform me. :-( That's all the more reason that I hope this info might help some.

The dates and day of the week of recent updates

As my readers know, I do try to blog about every update the day it comes out, which is one reason I can say I "have the receipts"...er, dates. :-) But actually, Adobe also has a page for each release that lists its updates, including its date, such as all the updates for CF2025, all the udpates for CF2023, all the updates for CF2021, and so on.

Here are those recent CF updates, with their dates and the day of the week those were released.

Note that I also indicate if there were months that were skipped (less frequently, this past year). I also indicate if the update was a "security" update, meaning that an APSB (security bulletin) was released along with that update. (Sometimes such a "security" update would also includes MORE than just that, of course.)

Finally, note that two of the updates were unusual, in that they were made available either ONLY to CF2025 or ONLY to CF2025, once each:

• Oct 13, 2026 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)
• Sep 23, 2026 (4th Wednesday) -- update to CF2023 only
• Sep 8, 2026 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)
• Aug 11, 2026 (2nd Tuesday)
• Jul 14, 2026 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)
• Jun 30, 2026 (4th Tuesday, sec update)
• Jun 9, 2026 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)
• May 20, 2026 (3rd Wednesday) -- update to CF2025 only
• Apr 14, 2026 (2nd Tuesday, sec update) -- none in Feb or Mar
• Jan 13, 2026 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)
  
  
• Dec 9, 2025 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)-- none in Oct or Nov
• Sep 9, 2025 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)-- none in Aug
• Jul 8, 2025 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)-- none in Jun
• May 13, 2025 (2nd Tuesday, sec update) -- none in Jan, Feb, or Mar
• Apr 8, 2025 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)
  
  
• Dec 23, 2024 (4th Monday, sec update) -- none in Nov
• Oct 15, 2024 (2nd Tuesday)
• Sep 10, 2024 (2nd Tuesday, sec update)
• Aug 20, 2024 (3rd Tuesday) -- none in Jul
• Jun 11, 2024 (2nd Tuesday, sec update) -- none in Apr or May
• Mar 12, 2024 (2nd Tuesday, sec update) -- none in Jan or Feb

Other statistics we can glean from that info

Considering all that info, here are some stats we can take away:

• about 80% were security updates (all but 4 of those 21 updates)
• about 87% of the sec updates were on a 2nd Tues (all but 2 of the 16 sec updates)
• about 75% of all updates were on a 2nd Tues (all but 5 of those 21 updates)
• 80% of the months had at least some CF update that month (all but 14 of the 34 months tracked)
• And yes, you're not just "feeling it": there were literally twice as many updates (so far) in 2026 as in 2025

So again, there's a strong tendency for the 2nd Tues of each month to have a CF update, and specifically a security update.

While it's true there some months we have had NO CF updates, that's not happened at least the past 6 months, when we've had at least one update for both CF2025 and 2023. (Again, the one in May was CF2025 only. Also, FWIW CF2021 got its last update in Nov 2025.)

Conclusion

I thought that was a fun exercise. And it may well be useful for many to hear: watch out for those "2nd Tuesdays". Let me know what you think.

Again, my money is that there will be no CF update tomorrow--judging from the past, for whatever reason. I'll come back and edit this post once we know. (That said, I am not committing to keeping this updates EVERY month, but I may update it every once in a while.)

PS No AI tokens were harmed in the writing of this post. :-) Seriously, I mean that no AI was used at all. Gotta make a stand for human writing. Sure, I know it CAN help. I'm not anti-AI. Heck, it could surely help with my verbosity! But just as the world still needs artists and crafters, and more human-generated youtube content, there remains a place for real human writers. Or at least let's enjoy it whie it lasts.

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