April 19th, 2012Security updates:
· This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability related to URL security domain checking that could lead to code execution (ActiveX, Windows 7 or Vista only)
· This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability in the NetStream class that could lead to code execution.
April 6th, 2012· Texture streaming
· Driver gating hardware acceleration relaxed to 2006 „h MouseEvent.RELEASE_OUTSIDE „h ApplicationDomain.getQualifiedDefinitionNames()
· Full screen keyboard input for Flash Player
· Low latency audio support for streaming audio through
· NetSream
· Low latency audio support for Sound API
· Protected mode for Firefox (Windows Only)
· Bitmap.drawWithQuality
· BitmapData.encode
March 29th, 2012· Stage3D hardware accelerated GPU rendering (mobile) — AIR 3.2 introduces the Stage3D API to iOS and Android. These low-level APIs enable cinematic, high-performance 2D and 3D graphics with full GPU acceleration across devices.
· Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed (desktop) — In earlier Mac and Windows releases, hardware acceleration for Stage3D was limited to drivers released after 1/1/2009. This release expands support, relaxing driver gating to 1/1/2008.
· Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events (desktop) — Create immersive, panoramic games with infinite scrolling to enable new classes of content, including first-person games.
· Throttling event — This release introduces a new ThrottleEvent. A ThrottleEvent is now dispatched by the stage when the Flash Player throttles, pauses or resumes content.
· Multithreaded video decoding (desktop) — The video decoding pipeline is now fully multithreaded. This feature should improve the overall performance on all platforms. Note that this feature is a significant architecture change required for other future improvements.
February 27th, 2012· Multithreaded Video Decoding - This release introduces a new fully multithreaded video decoding
· pipeline which resolves a number of legacy playback issues. This modern architecture will also enable future performance enhancements
· across all platforms.
· Flash Player background updates - New versions of the runtimes can now be delivered more effectively to the end user
· with this enhanced updating mechanism (Background update is only available in the release versions of Flash Player).
· Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events - Infinite scrolling and new mouse events to enable
· first-person shooter experiences.
· Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed to 1/1/2008
· Throttling event - This release introduces a new ThrottleEvent.
February 1st, 2012· Multithreaded Video Decoding - This release introduces a new fully multithreaded video decoding pipeline which resolves a number of legacy playback issues. This modern architecture will also enable future performance enhancements across all platforms.
· Flash Player background updates - New versions of the runtimes can now be delivered more effectively to the end user with this enhanced updating mechanism (Background update is only available in the release versions of Flash Player).
· Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events - Infinite scrolling and new mouse events to enable first-person shooter experiences.
· Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed to 1/1/2008
· Throttling event - This release introduces a new ThrottleEvent.
November 23rd, 2011· Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events (new in beta 2) — Create immersive, panoramic games with infinite scrolling to enable new classes of content, including first-person games.
· Multi-threaded video decoding — The video decoding pipeline is now fully multi-threaded. This feature should improve the overall performance on all platforms. Note that this feature is a significant architecture change required for other future improvements.
November 11th, 2011· StageText support for Android.
· iOS5 support.
· Selective linking of native libraries when packaging Native Extensions (ANE).
October 27th, 2011· Multithreaded Video Decoding - The video decoding pipeline is now fully multi-threaded. This feature should improve the overall performance on all platforms. Note that this feature is a significant architecture change required for other future improvements.
· Flash Player background updates - New versions of the runtimes can now be delivered more effectively to the end user with this enhanced updating mechanism (Background update is only available in the release versions of Flash Player).
Note about Multithreaded Video Decoding:
· Multi-threaded pipeline was written grounds up to support lower end devices and full hardware stacks where all the decoding and rendering is offloaded to hardware. The benefits of the modernization of the pipeline would be visible from mobile devices, tvs, netbooks to high end desktops.
· In Flash Player 11.2, the new video pipeline is available for desktop platforms (including netbooks ) and brings enhancements with respect to -
· Eliminating jitter seen occasionally in some encoding and typically in live streams and real time interactive scenarios.
· Gains in frame rate by reducing dropped frames as much as 50% on certain platforms with high bit rate content.
· Seek frame accuracy.
· High resolution/bit rate content decoding would still keep the player UI responsive and any background ActionScript processing going,
· which earlier could have experienced brief halts because all the decoding and player UI/ActionScript resided on the main thread.
· For HTTP streaming, ActionScript is the control point of fetching the stream data and delivering to the video stack. On seek, earlier the
· streaming would halt, while the frames up to the point of seek would be getting decoded. With multithreaded video decoding, not only
· would the seek be more responsive, but it would also start playback faster after seek.
· 50+ fixes as part of the modernization of the video pipeline architecture.
Note about Flash Player background updates:
· The Windows Release versions of Flash Player 11.2.202.18 contain the new Flash Player background update feature that we'd like you to test.
· Begin by running the installer for version 11.2.202.18 on your machine. After installing, the final panel of the installer gives you options for how Flash Player will provide you with future updates. Settings Manager. To access the Flash Player Settings Manager, either right-click Flash content and select "Global Settings…", or find Flash Player in your Windows Control Panel.
· Your system will check every hour for updates to Flash Player. We have posted Flash Player 11.2.202.19 as an update. It is essentially the same build as 11.2.202.18, but with an incremented version number. If you leave your system on for at least 4 hours, you should see these updates applied to your system -- both your ActiveX component and your plug-in will have been updated. To test this, you can open a new webpage with Flash content and right-click over the Flash content -- the bottom-most item in the context menu will have the version number in it. You should be updated to version 11.2.202.19. Note that browser instances with Flash content that were loaded before the update was applied will not have the update.
· During the background update, if Flash Player is updated while Firefox is in use, Firefox will continue to use the previous version. To fix this,
· either delete the previous version NPSWF.dll in \Windows[SysDir]\Macromed\Flash* (see note below) or restart the computer for Firefox to load the newly installed Plugin. If the Operating System is 64-bit, it may be necessary to remove the NPSWF .dll from both \Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash AND \Windows[SysWow64]\Macromed\Flash directories.
· Note that for security reasons, the Flash Player background updater will update all Flash Player versions (10.1 and above) installed on your configuration (plugins, ActiveX).
· During the background update, on Windows 7 x64, if Flash Player is updated while Internet Explorer is running, an Internet Explorer Security Warning dialog will display if the browser is refreshed to load the newly installed version. To avoid this, restart the browser to load the newly installed ActiveX Control.
September 7th, 2011· 16bit/32bit Setting — Provides an app descriptor setting for developers to control the color depth on Android (16bit and 32bit) for renderMode=cpu/auto . AIR 2.7 and older namespaces will default to 16bit color, whereas AIR 3.0 and newer namespaces will default to 32bit.
· Stage3D.transparent property removed — This feature will be reintroduced in a future release of Flash Player and Adobe AIR.
· The new Matrix3D.copyRowFrom, copyRowTo, copyColumnTo, copyRowFrom were switched up — They now behave correctly, make sure to update your content accordingly.
July 14th, 2011Stage3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering:
· Stage3D ("Molehill") is a new architecture for hardware accelerated graphics rendering developed by Adobe. Stage3D provides a set of low-level APIs that enable advanced 2D/3D rendering capabilities across screens and devices (desktop, mobile, and TV). It gives 2D and 3D app and framework developers access to high performance GPU hardware acceleration, enabling the creation of new classes of rich, interactive experiences.
H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras (desktop):
· Stream high quality video from your computer's camera with higher compression efficiency and industry-wide support, enabling both immersive real-time communications (e.g., video chat and video conferencing) and live video broadcasts.
Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Support:
· Allows ActionScript developers to take advantage of high performance native parsing and generation of JSON-formatted data. Developers can integrate existing data seamlessly into their projects.
G.711 Audio Compression for Telephony:
· Support interoperability with legacy phone systems via the Flash Media Gateway (FMG) and other third-party clients (through the open RTMP protocol) without the need for transcoding.
Garbage Collection Advice:
· Provides smoother, more responsive user experiences by allowing developers to provide hints to optimize garbage collection scheduling.
Cubic Bezier Curves:
· The cubicCurveTo drawing API allows developers can easily create complex cubic Beziers without requiring custom ActionScript code.
Secure Random Number Generator:
· Developers can now take advantage of cryptographically secure random number generation to build more secure algorithms and protocols.
Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) and Flash Access Enhancements:
· Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) provides protection for streaming video across screens while eliminating the deployment complexity of a license server. New Flash Access content protection features include key rotation support, V3 license chaining, domain support, and enhanced output protection and device filtering.
Socket Progress Events:
· Improve management of data transfer using the Socket class by providing a new property to determine the number of bytes remaining in the write buffer and a new event for when data is being sent to the network layer. The new APIs allow applications can easily track progress and provide responsive feedback.
JPEG-XR support:
· Flash Player and AIR now include support for the JPEG-XR advanced image compression standard (International Standard ISO/IEC 29199-2). The computationally lightweight JPEG-XR format provides more efficient compression than JPEG, enables both lossy and lossless compression support, and adds support for alpha channel transparency.
Enhanced high resolution bitmap support:
· BitmapData objects are no longer limited to a maximum resolution of 16 megapixels (16,777,215 pixels), and maximum bitmap width/height is no longer limited to 8,191 pixels, enabling the development of apps that utilize very large bitmaps.
High efficiency SWF compression support:
· Developers can now take advantage of LZMA compression for their SWF files. LZMA compression can reduce SWF size by up to 40%, enabling users to benefit from richer experiences with shorter download times and reduced bandwidth consumption.
DisplayObjectContainer.removeChildren and MovieClip.isPlaying:
· DisplayObjectContainer now implements a removeChildren API allowing developers to quickly remove all of a container's children using a single API call. A new MovieClip.isPlaying property returns the MovieClip's current playing state.
Stage Video Hardware Acceleration:
· Leverage hardware acceleration of the entire video pipeline to deliver efficient, best-in-class high-definition (HD) video playback experiences. Decrease processor usage and enable smoother video, reduced memory usage, and higher fidelity on mobile*, desktop, and TV devices (*supported on Android 3.1, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS).
June 15th, 2011Install AIR Runtime to SD:
· This feature allows end users to install or move AIR runtime onto SD cards of their Android devices so they can free up storage space on the phone.
Media Measurement:
· Measuring video just got easier. Using Adobe SiteCatalyst with Adobe AIR 2.7 or Flash Player 10.3, developers can implement video analytics for either standalone apps or websites with as little as two lines of code. Analytics solution providers can use a new set of open APIs to easily implement consistent video analytics irrespective of implementation or delivery protocol. Media Measurement for AIR and Flash Player allows companies to get real-time, aggregated reporting of how their video content is distributed, what the audience reach is, and how much video is played.
Acoustic Echo Cancellation:
· AIR 2.7 enables developers to create real-time online collaboration experiences with high-quality audio, such as telephony, in-game voice chat, and group conferencing applications outside the browser for desktop OSes. Developers can take advantage of acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, voice activity detection, and automatic compensation for various microphone input levels. End users will be able to experience higher quality audio facilitating smoother conversation flow, without using a headset. This feature is available for desktop platforms only
Enhanced HTMLLoader API:
· With AIR 2.7, developers will have more control over how clickable links behave in HTML content within a standalone desktop app. This feature will enable content publishers to achieve seamless weblink-style navigation directly within desktop apps such as magazine viewers and ebook readers.
Fixed issues:
· Resolved a fullscreen issue on some Android 3.0 devices
· AIR plays video with 4-5 seconds delay, as it is keeping a buffer
· On NVidia Tegra 2 devices, there are artifacts on playback for some videos
March 22nd, 2011Developer:
· Update AIR 2.6 namespace
· New features for mobile applications
· Capture bitmap of StageWebView
· Programmatic control of soft keyboard
· Disable automatic panning and resizing behavior on the display of a soft keyboard
· Alternate Android market URLs
Other new features:
· Owned NativeWindow for desktop
· Native Menu event refinement for desktop
· Image decoding policy
· LoaderContext parent and parameters
· NetConnection.httpIdleTimeout
· New -version option added to ADT
· Native mouse cursors
October 26th, 2010Large maximum window size (enhanced):
· Enjoy support for large screen displays that can display windows up to 4095x4095 pixels wide.
IME API and IME text input (enhanced):
· Benefit from better text input handling with IME software. The new API enhancements are designed to use with the new Flash Text Engine.
Sophisticated printer interaction (enhanced):
· Control how content is printed from an Adobe AIR application, including choice of printer, paper size, and number of copies. New APIs allow developers to retrieve additional printing information, such as printable area, whether the printer will print in color, and whether the job is active. It is also possible to print without displaying the print dialog box.
Performance improvements (enhanced):
· Run faster applications and use system resources more efficiently with a smaller runtime, reduced CPU usage for idle applications, and reduced memory usage (30% reduction in some applications) without requiring application recompilation.
Faster JavaScript engine (enhanced):
· Enjoy 50% faster running of JavaScript code without any code changes to the application using the new SquirrelFish Extreme JavaScript engine. The updated WebKit supports JavaScript profiling.
Content protection (DRM) - New:
· Enjoy support for a wide range of business models, including video on demand, rental, and electronic sell-through, for streaming media as well as downloaded content. (Output protection for Windows only; requires the Adobe Flash Access 2 software development kit.)
Security improvements (enhanced):
· Set the execution bit on a file. Take advantage of encrypted TLS sockets and access to the MAC address.
November 17th, 2009Open documents with the user's default application:
· You can open document files in the application the user has set up as the default opening application. Launching executables or script files is not permitted unless the application is packaged in a native installer. See File.openWithDefaultApplication() and Opening files with the default system application.
Microphone data access:
· You can access the sound data from a microphone directly for recording or other processing. See Microphone.sampleData and Capturing microphone sound data.
Mass storage device detection:
· You can now detect when a mass storage device, such as a USB drive or a camera, has been connected to the user's computer. See StorageVolumeInfo.
Updated WebKit version:
· WebKit in AIR is based on the version shipped with Safari 4.0.3
· Support for JavaScript profiling
· SquirrelFish Extreme JavaScript engine resulting in 50% faster performance using SunSpider tests
· CSS3 Module support (2D transformations, transitions, animations, gradients, zoom and WebKit CSS selectors, etc.).
· Styling scrollbars via CSS
· Latest Canvas enhancements.
Global Error Handling:
· Global error handling lets you handle all uncaught errors (both synchronous errors and asynchronous error events) in one place in your code.
New networking support:
· Server sockets - You can listen for incoming socket connections. See ServerSocket and Server sockets.
· UDP sockets - You can send and receive messages using the Universal Datagram Protocol (UDP). See DatagramSocket and UDP sockets (AIR).
· TLS/SSL sockets - You now connect to a server that requires TLSv1 or SSLv3 for socket communications. See SecureSocket and Secure client sockets (AIR).
· DNS lookup - You can look up Domain Name System (DNS) resource records. See DNSResolver and Domain Name System (DNS) records.
· Network interface enumeration - You can enumerate the list of hardware and software network interfaces available on a client computer. See NetworkInfo and Network interfaces.
Packaging an AIR application in a native installer:
· You can package an AIR application in a native install program instead of an AIR file. Applications packaged and installed using a native installer have access to platform-specific features such as the Native Process API. See Packaging an AIR application in a native installer.
Native process API:
· You can launch and communicate with native processes. Applications that use this API must be installed using a native installer. See NativeProcess and Communicating with native processes in AIR and the following quick start articles: (For HTML developers) Interacting with a native process, (For Flex developers) Interacting with a native process, and (For Flash developers) Interacting with a native process.
Database transaction savepoints:
· You can commit or roll back multiple database changes as a single transaction. See SQLConnection.setSavePoint().
Screen reader support (Windows only):
· Users can use screen reader software with AIR applications.
Printing enhancements:
· PrintJobOptions.printMethod allows you to control whether vector or bitmap printing is performed. You can also let the runtime choose the best method (using an internal heuristic based on analyzing the content to be printed).
Idle time-out settings for URL requests:
· You can override the default idle time-out setting for URL requests.
Improved IPv6 support:
· IPv6 format addresses can now be used with all APIs that accept an IP string as input.
Increased maximum size of NativeWindow:
· The maximum size of a NativeWindow has been increased to 4095x4095 pixels (from 2880x2880 pixels).
File promises (Win/Mac only):
· You can now allow users to drag a file that has not been created yet out of an AIR application and provide the data for that function after the file promise has been dropped. For example, you could provide a list of files available on a remote server. When the user drops an item from that list onto their desktop, you can download the data and write it to the dropped file.
Multi-touch events:
· You can listen for multi-touch and gesture events on computers that have multi-touch hardware and operating system support.
IME API and IME text input enhancement:
· Input Method Editors (IMEs) can be used with any InteractiveObject, not just TextField objects. This allows you to support IME input when using the Flash Text Engine or the Adobe Text Layout Framework, for example.
July 31st, 2009· Resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could potentially lead to code execution (CVE-2009-1862).
· Resolves the privilege escalation vulnerability that could potentially lead to code execution (CVE-2009-1863).
· Resolves the heap overflow vulnerability that could potentially lead to code execution (CVE-2009-1864).
· Resolves the null pointer vulnerability that could potentially lead to code execution (CVE-2009-1865).
· Resolves the stack overflow vulnerability that could potentially lead to code execution (CVE-2009-1866).
· Resolves a clickjacking vulnerability that could allow an attacker to lure a web browser user into unknowingly clicking on a link or dialog (CVE-2009-1867).
· Resolves the URL parsing heap overflow vulnerability that could potentially lead to code execution (CVE-2009-1868).
· Resolves the integer overflow vulnerability that could potentially lead to code execution (CVE-2009-1869).
· Resolves a local sandbox vulnerability that could potentially lead to information disclosure when SWFs are saved to the hard drive (CVE-2009-1870)
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