Adobe yesterday said it would issue security updates next week for its PDF viewer, Reader, and for its PDF creator, Acrobat, to fix critical flaws in the software on Windows and Apple’s OS X.

But it won’t be updating Flash Player, its ultra-popular media playing program. If that holds through the end of the month — if Adobe does not have to issue an “out-of-cycle,” or emergency, patch — it would be a first for 2014.

The San Jose-based company has taken to mimicking Microsoft in both delivering security updates on the second Tuesday of each month — what most call “Patch Tuesday,” but which Microsoft prefers to dub “Update Tuesday” — and issuing advance notifications of those updates on the prior Thursday.

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