After upgrading Adobe InDesign from version 21.6 (2026) to 22.0 (2027) on Windows 11, the WinSoft Hungarian hyphenation and spelling provider is no longer available.

Documents created in InDesign 21.6 using WinSoft (Hungarian) display the following warning when opened in InDesign 22.0:

"Hyphenation and spelling changes may affect line breaks when editing the document. The following hyphenation services are not installed on this system: WinSoft (Hungarian)."

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open InDesign 21.6 and select Hungarian under Preferences > Dictionary.
2. Confirm that WinSoft is available as a hyphenation and spelling provider.
3. Open a document using WinSoft (Hungarian) in InDesign 22.0.
4. Observe the warning about the missing WinSoft hyphenation service.
5. Navigate to Preferences > Dictionary and select Hungarian.
6. WinSoft appears as "(WinSoft)" in the existing document, indicating that the provider is unavailable.
7. Create a new document in InDesign 22.0 and check the dictionary settings. WinSoft is no longer listed as an available provider.

Additional findings:

Both InDesign versions are installed side by side on the same Windows 11 computer.

The Hungarian dictionary files are still present in both installations, under:

Resources\Dictionaries\LILO\Linguistics\Providers\Plugins2\WRLiloPlugin1.3

Specifically:

• HUNGARIAN.HYP – 34 KB in both versions
• HUNGARIAN.SPL – 875 KB in both versions

However, several DLL files in this directory differ between the two versions.

Additionally, two manifest files present in the 21.6 installation (plugin.X.manifest and comdll.X.manifest) are absent from the 22.0 installation.

This suggests a possible plugin loading, registration, or compatibility issue rather than missing Hungarian dictionary data.

Expected result:

InDesign 22.0 should continue to support the WinSoft Hungarian hyphenation and spelling provider, or provide a compatibility mechanism that preserves the existing hyphenation and text composition of documents created in previous versions.

Actual result:

The WinSoft provider is unavailable in InDesign 22.0, even though the Hungarian dictionary files are present.

Hunspell is available as an alternative, but changing hyphenation providers may alter line breaks, paragraph composition, text flow, and pagination in existing publications.

Impact:

This is a potentially serious backward-compatibility issue for professional publishing workflows involving long, carefully typeset Hungarian-language books and other publications.

Switching to Hunspell may require extensive manual verification and correction of previously finalized layouts.

Environment:

• Operating system: Windows 11 Pro
• Previous version: Adobe InDesign 21.6 (2026)
• Current version: Adobe InDesign 22.0 (2027)
• Language affected: Hungarian
• Hyphenation/spelling provider: WinSoft

Questions for Adobe:

1. Was WinSoft support intentionally removed from InDesign 22.0?
2. If not, is this a known regression or plugin compatibility issue?
3. Will WinSoft support be restored in an upcoming update?
4. Is there an officially supported workaround to preserve existing Hungarian hyphenation and text composition without switching to Hunspell?