Adobe Flash Player Changelog

What's new in Adobe Flash Player 31.0.0.135 Beta

Oct 22, 2018

Fixed Issues:
E quits on opening apps in multiple tab (FP-4198903

New in Adobe Flash Player 29.0.0.155 Beta (Apr 18, 2018)

New in Adobe Flash Player 29.0.0.125 Beta (Mar 14, 2018)

New in Adobe Flash Player 29.0.0.102 Beta (Feb 15, 2018)

New in Adobe Flash Player 29.0.0.96 Beta (Feb 7, 2018)

New in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.152 Beta (Jan 24, 2018)

New in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.144 Beta (Jan 15, 2018)

New in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.129 Beta (Dec 6, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.187 (Nov 14, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.105 Beta (Nov 9, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.180 Beta (Oct 20, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.174 Beta (Oct 17, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.154 Beta (Sep 25, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.117 Beta (Aug 23, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.96 Beta (Aug 3, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.143 Beta (Jul 19, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.133 Beta (Jun 22, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.129 Beta (Jun 14, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.123 Beta (Jun 8, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.110 Beta (May 17, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.102 Beta (May 10, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 25.0.0.171 (May 9, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.89 Beta (Apr 27, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 25.0.0.152 Beta (Apr 6, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 25.0.0.130 Beta (Mar 8, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 25.0.0.104 Beta (Feb 3, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.170 Beta (Nov 23, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.145 Beta (Nov 4, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 23.0.0.195 Beta (Oct 17, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 23.0.0.151 Beta (Aug 24, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 22.0.0.158 Beta (May 17, 2016)

New and Updated Features:
Video and Camera support for Stage3D by VideoTexture for Flash Player (Beta Only):
Before Flash Player 21, the use of video in Stage3D required the use of the Video object (which is not hardware accelerated), copying of video
frame to a BitmapData object, and loading of the data onto the GPU which is CPU intensive .
So, Video texture object was introduced, which allows hardware decoded video to be used in Stage 3D content. For Flash Player 22, video
texture objects were added to support NetStream and Cameras in a manner consistent/similar to StageVideo. Such textures can be used as
source textures in stage3D rendering pipeline. The textures can be used as rectangular, RGB, no mipmap textures in the rendering of a scene.
They are treated as ARGB texture by the shaders (that is, the AGAL shaders do not have to bother about YUV->RGB conversion) so standard
shaders used with static images can be used without change. The image that is used by the rendering pipeline is the most up-to-date frame at the
time the rendering using this texture occurs. There is no tearing in a video frame, but if the same texture is used several times, some of the
instances may be from different timestamps.
Using a VideoTexture object, all this work is optimized internally and YUV to RGB conversion and texture loading can be completely moved to
the GPU. Video Texture Feature exists for AIR and was enabled in AIR 17.0
EnableLocalAppData:
Flash applications use Appdata/Roaming directory (C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player) to store information like LSO
Local Shared Object)s or logs etc. Many times it happens that users, especially Enterprise admins, have placed AppDaata\Roaming directory on
a network drive. With this feature, we are providing a flag for mms.cfg, “EnableLocalAppData” which if set, will place the Macromedia Folder
where flash app data is stored) in AppData/Local directory (C:\Users\xxxxx\AppData\Local\Macromedia\Flash Player). With
EnableLocalAppData, the user will be able to place their system’s AppData folder on a network location without worrying about flash applications’
data or logs. Users can set EnableLocalAppData by providing EnableLocalAppData=1, EnableLocalAppData=yes, or EnableLocalAppData=true
value in mms.cfg.

New in Adobe Flash Player 22.0.0.137 Beta (Apr 27, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.232 Beta (Apr 21, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.217 Beta (Apr 13, 2016)

New and Updated Features:
Flash Player Anonymous Usage Data:
Adobe is constantly working to improve the quality of our products. With this new feature, we’ll be able to collect anonymous usage data from our
beta channel, allowing our engineering team to focus on features and platforms that are critical to our customers. Please note that this feature will
only work with beta versions of Flash Player. We will not collect data from officially released versions of Flash. The Flash Player installer will now
present customers a check box option for “Usage Data”, allowing users the choice to opt in or out of this feature. Once Flash Player has been
installed, customers can open the Flash Player control panel to change their selection at any time. While Flash Player is available on many platforms, we will only collect data from the ActiveX and NPAPI versions.
Once enabled, a new system service (“FeedbackService”) will be installed and will receive data from running Flash Player instances. This
Service will log data into a text file and periodically send non identifiable and anonymous information to Adobe’s servers. We will not collect any
personal identifying information. This data is saved to a plain text file so that customers can review the contents at any time. If Flash Player is uninstalled, this service as well as the log files, will be deleted.
GPU Memory Information In Context3D:
When a Context3D object is created, developers allocate memory for various Stage3D structures which includes index buffers, vertex buffers, textures, and programs. Prior to Flash and AIR 21, the only way to verify the memory allocated by the current Context3D is through values displayed by Scout. With the release of Flash Player and AIR 21, a new property of context3D class called " " has been totalGPUMemory introduced which provides the sum of gpu memory used by the index buffers, vertex buffers, textures, and programs created through Context3D.
The total value can be obtained by property "Context3D.totalGPUMemory;".
Developers can very easily monitor gpu memory used by Stage3D structures without having to start up Scout.
The value of this property is in bytes and its default value is 0.
The information is only provided in direct mode on mobile and in direct and gpu mode on desktop ( On desktop computers, using renderMode gpu/renderMode will fallback to renderModedirect/renderMode). This property can be used when the SWF version is 32 or more.
Support for Browser Zoom Factor in Firefox:
We’ve extended the support for Browser Zoom Feature that proposes scaling of Flash content in the web browser in response to web page zoom
factor change. The feature is already available for the ActiveX and PPAPI plugin. It will be available from FP version 21 and is currently available on Firefox Nightly 45.0a1, the official Firefox version supporting the feature has
yet to be announced.
SIMPLE LSO UI:
Flash player provides an per domain/swf option to store locally shared objects on user's system. Users could specify the size up to which a
domain or SWF could save their LSOs on their machine. We have now simplified the LSO UI Options.
This Simple LSO feature will change the permission scheme and related dialogs to only allow/deny and universally imposes a rational upper limit
to the LSO size. End users will no longer be able to specify the size of LSOs (but will be able to approve if LSOs can be created or not)

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.213 (Apr 8, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.195 Beta (Mar 18, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.191 Beta (Mar 16, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.174 Beta (Mar 10, 2016)

Flash Player Anonymous Usage Data – BETA CHANNEL ONLY
Adobe is constantly working to improve the quality of our products. With this new feature, we’ll be able to collect anonymous usage data from our beta channel, allowing our engineering team to focus on features and platforms that are critical to our customers. Please note that this feature will only work with beta versions of Flash Player. We will not collect data from officially released versions of Flash. The Flash Player installer will now present customers a check box option for “Usage Data”, allowing users the choice to opt in or out of this feature. Once Flash Player has been installed, customers can open the Flash Player control panel to change their selection at any time.
While Flash Player is available on many platforms, we will only collect data from ActiveX on Windows XP, Vista and 7 and NPAPI on both Windows and OSX platforms.
Once enabled, a new system service (“FeedbackService”) will be installed and will receive data from running Flash Player instances. This service will log data into a text file and periodically send non identifiable and anonymous information to Adobe’s servers. We will not collect any personal identifying information.
GPU Memory Information In Context3D:
When a Context3D object is created, developers allocate memory for various Stage3D structures which includes index buffers, vertex buffers, textures, and programs. Prior to Flash and AIR 21, the only way to verify the memory allocated by the current Context3D is through values displayed by Scout. With the release of Flash Player and AIR 21, a new property of context3D class called "totalGPUMemory" has been introduced which provides the sum of gpu memory used by the index buffers, vertex buffers, textures, and programs created through Context3D
The total value can be obtained by property "Context3D.totalGPUMemory;"
The value of this property is in bytes and its default value is 0. The information is only provided in direct mode on mobile and in direct and gpu mode on desktop. This property can be used when the SWF version is 32 or more
Support for Browser Zoom Factor in Firefox:
We’ve extended the support for Browser Zoom Feature that proposes scaling of Flash content in the web browser in response to web page zoom factor change. The feature is already available for the ActiveX and PPAPI plugin
Simplified LSO UI:
Flash player provides an per domain/swf option to store locally shared objects on user's system. In the past, users could specify the size up to which a domain or SWF could save their LSOs on their machine. We have now simplified the LSO UI Options. This Simple LSO feature will change the permission scheme and related dialogs to only allow/deny and universally imposes a rational upper limit to the LSO size. End users will no longer be able to specify the size of LSOs (but will be able to approve if LSOs can be created or not).

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.157 Beta (Feb 17, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.136 Beta (Feb 9, 2016)

New Features for Flash Player 21:
Flash Player Anonymous Usage Data – BETA CHANNEL ONLY:
Adobe is constantly working to improve the quality of our products. With this new feature, we’ll be able to collect anonymous usage data from our beta channel, allowing our engineering team to focus on features and platforms that are critical to our customers. Please note that this feature will only work with beta versions of Flash Player. We will not collect data from officially released versions of Flash. The Flash Player installer will now present customers a check box option for “Usage Data”, allowing users the choice to opt in or out of this feature. Once Flash Player has been installed, customers can open the Flash Player control panel to change their selection at any time.
While Flash Player is available on many platforms, we will only collect data from ActiveX on Windows XP, Vista and 7 and NPAPI on both Windows and OSX platforms.
Once enabled, a new system service (“FeedbackService”) will be installed and will receive data from running Flash Player instances. This service will log data into a text file and periodically send non identifiable and anonymous information to Adobe’s servers. We will not collect any personal identifying information.
We recommend visiting our FAQ if you have any questions regarding this feature.
GPU Memory Information In Context3D:
When a Context3D object is created, developers allocate memory for various Stage3D structures which includes index buffers, vertex buffers, textures, and programs. Prior to Flash and AIR 21, the only way to verify the memory allocated by the current Context3D is through values displayed by Scout. With the release of Flash Player and AIR 21, a new property of context3D class called "totalGPUMemory" has been introduced which provides the sum of gpu memory used by the index buffers, vertex buffers, textures, and programs created through Context3D. The total value can be obtained by property "Context3D.totalGPUMemory;".
The value of this property is in bytes and its default value is 0. The information is only provided in direct mode on mobile and in direct and gpu mode on desktop.
Support for Browser Zoom Factor in Firefox:
We’ve extended the support for Browser Zoom Feature that proposes scaling of Flash content in the web browser in response to web page zoom factor change. The feature is already available for the ActiveX and PPAPI plugin (link).
It will be available from FP version 21 and is currently available on Firefox Nightly 45.0a1, the official Firefox version supporting the feature has yet to be announced.
Simplified LSO UI:
Flash player provides an per domain/swf option to store locally shared objects on user's system. In the past, users could specify the size up to which a domain or SWF could save their LSOs on their machine. We have now simplified the LSO UI Options. This Simple LSO feature will change the permission scheme and related dialogs to only allow/deny and universally imposes a rational upper limit to the LSO size. End users will no longer be able to specify the size of LSOs (but will be able to approve if LSOs can be created or not).
Fixed Issues:
Browser freezes on playing a gaming SWF [4109643]
Flash content freezes in a game developed in ActionScript2 [4109228]
OOM observed in an educational program [4111701]
gotoAndStop works incorrectly [4109904]
Multiple Stability and Security Fixes

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.130 Beta (Jan 30, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.294 Beta (Jan 19, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.285 Beta (Jan 12, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.279 Beta (Jan 8, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.274 Beta (Jan 8, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.214 Beta (Nov 18, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.245 (Nov 11, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.195 Beta (Nov 6, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.228 Beta (Oct 20, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.207 (Oct 14, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.209 Beta (Oct 7, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.201 Beta (Sep 25, 2015)

Welcome to the latest Flash Runtime version 19 beta! We've been hard at work adding new features to Flash Player and AIR and we're looking forward to receiving feedback from our development and Flash Player community.
This beta release includes new features as well as enhancements and bug fixes related to security, stability, performance, and device compatibility for Flash Player 19 and AIR 19.
New and Updated Features:
insertAt() and removeAt() feature
"Starting with Flash Player & AIR 19, we have introduced two new APIs for element insertion or removal in Vector and Arrays. They are implemented to perform better than existing splice methods when used for single element. Following is the definitions of the new APIs.
Methods added to class Array:
insertAt(index:int, element:*):void;
removeAt(index:int):*;
Methods added to class Vector. :
insertAt(index:int, element:T):void;
removeAt(index:int):T;
Please use swf-version 30 or greater and namespace 19.0 or greater to access the new APIs.
Concurrency on iOS:
Worker object represents a worker, which is a virtual instance of the Flash runtime. Each Worker instance controls and provides access to the lifecycle and shared data of a single worker. More details about workers can be found at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/a ctionscript/3/flash/system/Worker.html.
We're introducing the Concurrency feature for iOS in AIR 19, please use swf-version 30 or greater and namespace 19.0 or greater to access the APIs. Everything remains coherent to AIR Android except for differences in loading of swf and passing byte array to worker.
As dynamically loading a ‘remote‘ SWF that contains ActionScript code doesn't work. Remote swf have to be passed to worker as stripped swf.
Embedding SWFs(having ABC code) using [Embed] tag will not work on iOS.
Each additional worker is created from a separate swf. To create a new instance of the Worker class, pass a ByteArray with the bytes of the background worker's swf as an argument to the WorkerDomain class's createWorker()method. There are two common ways to access the bytes of a swf for this purpose on iOS:
Sample snippet Load an external SWF file using a Loader primordial worker
Stage3D Error Messages:
We have introduced new Stage3D error codes with new error messages, to provide detailed information of the errors.
This feature is enabled in swf-version 30 for both Flash Player and AIR. Swf compiled with version less than 30 will throw old error code message.
Swf compiled with version 30 and above will throw new error code message.
We have updated AS3 documentation for various Stage3D APIs to provide more information about the reasons for the errors thrown while calling stage3D APIs.
Below table describes new error codes with new error message for the following
Action Script APIs:
Action Script API New error message
Context3DObject::configureBackBuffer Error #3780: Requested width of backbuffer is not in allowed range %1 to %2.
Error #3781: Requested height of backbuffer is not in allowed range %1 to %2.
Context3DObject::createRectangleTexture Error #3782: This call requires a Context3D that is created with profile baseline or above.
Context3DObject::setRenderToTexture Error #3779: This call requires a Context3D that is created with the standard profile or above.
Control of Scaling Behavior Upon Zoom Value
Improved Resolution of Stage3D content on Browser Zoom implemented in Flash Player version 15, and extended in Flash Player version 18. Browser Zoom Factor(BZF) for PPAPI Plugin and non-Win 8.x Active-x allows automatic scaling of Flash content in response to web page zoom for StageScaleMode.NoScale mode, can now be enabled or disabled optionally by the developer (http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2 )014/09/improved-resolution-of-stage3d-content-on-browser-zoom.html
BZF is turned on by default and can now be turn by setting a new attribute to two possible values on/off browserzoom scale/noscale in HTML EMBEDSWF and OBJECT tag.
Following table describes the use of new attributes introduced to enable/disable
BZFF feature:
BZF State
Attribute description Attribute name and value in HTML
Zoom change behavior
OFF Add a new attribute in a list of params for both the HTML browserzoom OBJECT tags i.e with attribute ‘classid’ and ‘type’
Flash content doesn’t gets scaled on changing the browser zoom factor
Add a new attribute in a list of params for HTML browserzoom EMBEDSWF tag
params.browserzoom="noscale"
ON Add a new attribute in a list of params for both the browserzoom OBJECT tags i.e with attribute ‘classid’ and ‘type’
Flash content is scaled on changing the browser zoom factor
Add a new attribute in a list of params for HTML browserzoom EMBEDSWF tag
params.browserzoom="scale"
Fixed Issues:
Unable to set MovieClip position with Number instance on Firefox
Display issues in content on ple.platoweb.com Images are not displayed as expected using BitmapData.encode() with PNGEncoderOptions

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.185 (Sep 21, 2015)

Flash Player:
Black Screen is observed when second SWF is loaded[4021075]
UI elements, text, and videos get displayed at incorrect sizes when using IE[4000438]
Problem loading new SWFs onto stage using AS2.0 loadMovieNum [4027300]
Crossbridge project crashing Flash Player [4041472]
Performance lag is observed in application that implements Shine MP3 encoder library on MAC [4020998]
Multiple security and functional fixes
New Features:
iOS Concurrency:
Our popular desktop and Android feature, AIR Workers, is now making its debut on iOS! We have added support on iOS devices so that you will be able to execute code in the background without interrupting your application’s main code. Your UI will remain responsive, enhancing the user experience.
Your implementation will remain the same between iOS and Android, except for differences in swf loading and passing byte arrays to the worker.
Because dynamically loading a ‘remote‘ SWF that contains ActionScript code will not work in iOS, remote swf's must be passed to workers as stripped swf's.
Embedding SWFs (which have ABC code) using the [Embed] tag will not work on iOS.
Each additional worker is created from a separate swf. To create a new instance of the Worker class, pass a ByteArray with the bytes of the background worker's swf as an argument to the WorkerDomain class's createWorker()method.
Improved Stage3D Error Messages:
We've added new Stage3D error codes to provide developers with additional debugging and error information.
This feature is available for both Flash Player and AIR. Swf's compiled with a version less than 30 will throw the old error code messages. Swf's compiled with version 30 and above will throw the new error code messages.
We have also updated the AS3 documentation for various Stage3D APIs to provide more information about the reasons for the errors thrown.
New insertAt() and removeAt() Vector and Array APIs:
With Flash Player and AIR 19, we have introduced two new APIs for element insertion or removal in Vector and Arrays.
Methods added
Please use swf-version 30 or greater and namespace 19.0 or greater to access the new APIs.
Added ability to disable browser zoom factor scaling via HTML:
In Flash Player 15, we added code to improve the resolution of Stage3D content when the browser's zoom factor (BZF) was changed.
This was extended to the PPAPI and Windows XP/Vista/7 Active X control in Flash Player 18. In Flash Player 19, we're providing the developer the ability to enabled or disabled this functionality.
BZF is turned on by default but can now be turn on/off by setting a new attribute browserzoom to two possible values scale/noscale in HTML EMBEDSWF and OBJECT tag.
The following table describes the use of this new attribute.

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.142 Beta (Aug 13, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.115 Beta (Jul 24, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.210 Beta (Jul 16, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.186 Beta (Jun 18, 2015)

NEW AND UPDATED FEATURES:
Improve Flash Player Install Process:
We have had consistent feedback from our customers that they prefer not to shut down their browser(s) to simply install Flash Player. This feature attempts to remove this requirement whenever possible. On the Macintosh, the installer will no longer display a dialog to shutdown the currently running browsers or applications that are using Flash Player. In most cases, the same is true on Windows. However, on Windows, if a user is performing a "re-install" of the of Flash Player, the installer will require that the application using Flash Player be closed so same version that files can be unlocked and overwritten. Once the installation is completed, the user is notified that the browser to be restarted to use the newly installed Flash Player. This may need
restart requirement is dependent on the browser. For example, Mozilla Firefox does not require a restart. Simply refreshing the webpage or opening a new tab in Firefox will detect and use the new Flash Player version. Other browser may end up using the previously installed version of Flash Player until a restart is performed. We will continue to work with the browser vendors to remove this restriction and reduce restarts as much as possible.
Audio APIs added to Flash Player NPAPI:
We have added the ability for NPAPI compatible browsers and applications to query the player and detect if audio is currently being played and the ability to mute. This new feature will allow applications to alert the user if audio is being played and give them the ability to mute, even if the Flash content does not
Browser Zoom Factor for PPAPI Plugin and non-Win 8x ActiveX:
We've introduced a feature that proposes scaling of Flash content in the web browser in response to web page zoom factor change. This feature was already present for window 8.x ActiveX(IE). It will now support PPAPI Plugin(Opera/Chrome) and non-Window 8.x ActiveX(IE). The following are the APIs that were added to support the Browser Zoom Factor feature:
Stage.browserZoomFactor
Event.BROWSER_ZOOM_CHANGE
Context3D.backBufferWidth
Context3D.backBufferHeight
Context3D.maxBackBufferWidth
Context3D.maxBackBufferHeight
wantsBestResolutionOnBrowserZoom parameter of
Context3D.configureBackBuffer
FIXED ISSUES:
Adobe Access content no longer erroneously throws error 3307:1000213 instead of error 3357 (4005711)
Chrome: Adobe Access protected content no longer throws Error 3007 when playing content on a clean machine (4005569)
Chrome Windows: Resolves a video flickering problem on the Voo video player (3993579)
Win10 - IE - Fixes artifacts when rendering some Stage3D shaders (3999178)
Win10 - Edge - Resolves an issue related to mouse-clicks not being registered (4001915)
Win10 - Edge - The Flash broker is now correctly unloaded when Edge is terminated (3942055)
Win10 - Edge - The file chooser and print dialogs are now correctly displayed (3959673)
Win10 - Edge - Right-Click context menu is now working as expected (3987402)
Win10 - Edge - Webcam streams now work as expected in Adobe Connect (3987408)
Win10 - Edge - The "Allow full-screen with keyboard controls?" dialog is now correctly displayed (3960335)
Win10 - Edge - The mouse cursor is now correctly displayed in TextFields when the user clicks (3971736)
Win10 - Edge - Disabled options are now displayed as greyed-out in the Context Menu (4006006)
Win10 - Edge - The inline privacy UI now correctly accepts clicks (3960247)
security and stability fixes

New in Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.107 Beta (Apr 29, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.95 Beta (Apr 23, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 17.0.0.149 Beta (Mar 25, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.223 (Nov 12, 2014)

NEW FEATURES FOR FLASH PLAYER 15:
Relaxing Stage3D Render Target Clear:
In previous versions of Stage3D, after switching the render texture through Context3D::setRenderToTexture, you were required to clear it before drawing. In this release, we're removing this limitation and optimizing the use of render textures. This change will allow you to further optimize and reuse depth and stencil buffers between different render textures.
Improved support for browser zoom levels - Windows 8:
Flash Player now has improved support for browser zoom factors other than 100% on Internet Explorer on Windows 8.x. Devices, like the Microsoft Surface tablets, default to a zoom level of 150%. In the past, this could cause problems with Flash Player and some 3D content. With our new implementation, we can now scale the content and 3D buffers to keep everything aligned. In addition, Flash Player introduces an option to render to an increased Stage3D back buffer, rather than scaling, on browser zoom to keep the resolution of the rendered content high. This option allows to the stage3D buffer to change in size in synch with the change in the browser zoom factor. Developers are notified of this change with a new ZOOM_FACTOR_CHANGE event.
Flash Player Fullscreen Orientation Change - Windows:
Flash Player will now detect and appropriately scale your content to fit best in a fullscreen display when your device orientation is changed. This change is specific to Windows and is implemented across all browsers. We're focusing on providing the best tablet experience possible. A resize event will fire when in fullscreen mode and the device orientation changes. Developers, if your content does not resize, you will need to handle the resize event appropriately. Additional details will be made available in a separate blog post.
Hardware video decoding on Chrome (PPAPI) for Windows:
We're pleased to announce that hardware video decoding is now enabled by default for Chrome users on Windows. This feature will drastically reduce the CPU usage and improve performance on supported videos players. We're working closely with Google to bring this feature to OS X and will provide additional details when available.
Automatic software fall back with StageVideo:
Flash Player 15 now supports a Software version of StageVideo that provides an automatic failover to the software version when hardware StageVideo is not available. To leverage this automatic failover, the swf apps need to be compiled for Flash Player 15 and above.
When the swfs are compiled for Flash Player 15 and above, and when hardware StageVideo is unavailable, the app will get a StageVideoAvailability event as earlier, but instead of being "Unavailable" it will ALWAYS be "available", and the reason will always be "noError". The app will no longer need to implement a Video object failover as the failover is automatic inside flash player. The apps can still choose to use Video object instead of StageVIdeo if needed.
Hardware StageVideo availability is dependent on a number of factors, including:
Browser hardware rendering support: If available, all wMode based apps will support hardware StageVideo. If not available, wMode=direct based apps will be the only ones that will support hardware StageVideo, unless there are other exceptions, like the ones mentioned below.
On Windows:
IE11: IE has an accelerated pipeline and the FlashPlayer is HW accelerated in all wmode, so StageVideo should always be available. Note that the decision to use the HW accelerate rendering pipeline reside in IE.
Firefox: There is currently no HW accelerated pipeline available in Firefox on windows and only wMode direct will have StageVideo available all other wMode should generate a unavailable event.
Chrome: Pepper has HW acceleration in all wMode, but some restrictions apply. For example Chrome will refuse to use HW acceleration on Windows XP and it has its own driver blacklisting mechanism. It is also possible for the user to disable the HW acceleration in the settings panel. Chrome exposes a somewhat useful page to allow one to see the status of its gpu acceleration: chrome://gpu/
FIXED ISSUES:
[Win8.x][3840823] Scrubbing the video playhead on CNN.com using touch input now works as expected
[Win8.x] Resolves a stability issue related to touch input
[3836374] Resolves a longevity issue related to DirectTV live streams with WebVTT captions

New in Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.199 Beta (Oct 11, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.170 Beta (Sep 19, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.152 (Sep 9, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.130 Beta (Aug 21, 2014)

NEW FEATURES:
Relaxing Stage3D Render Target Clear:
In previous versions of Stage3D, after switching the render texture through Context3D::setRenderToTexture, you were required to clear it before drawing. In this release, we're removing this limitation and optimizing the use of render textures. This change will allow you to further optimize and reuse depth and stencil buffers between different render textures
Improved support for browser zoom levels - Windows 8:
Flash Player now has improved support for browser zoom factors other than 100% on Internet Explorer on Windows 8.x. Devices, like the Microsoft Surface tablets, default to a zoom level of 150%. In the past, this could cause problems with Flash Player and some 3D content. With our new implementation, we can now scale the content and 3D buffers to keep everything aligned. In addition, Flash Player introduces an option to render to an increased Stage3D back buffer, rather than scaling, on browser zoom to keep the resolution of the rendered content high. This option allows to the stage3D buffer to change in size in synch with the change in the browser zoom factor. Developers are notified of this change with a new ZOOM_FACTOR_CHANGE event
Flash Player Fullscreen Orientation Change - Windows:
Flash Player will now detect and appropriately scale your content to fit best in a fullscreen display when your device orientation is changed. This change is specific to Windows and is implemented across all browsers. We're focusing on providing the best tablet experience possible. A resize event will fire when in fullscreen mode and the device orientation changes. Developers, if your content does not resize, you will need to handle the resize event appropriately. Additional details will be made available in a separate blog post
Hardware video decoding on Chrome (PPAPI) for Windows:
We're pleased to announce that hardware video decoding is now enabled by default for Chrome users on Windows. This feature will drastically reduce the CPU usage and improve performance on supported videos players. We're working closely with Google to bring this feature to OS X and will provide additional details when available
Automatic software fall back with StageVideo:
Flash Player 15 now supports a Software version of StageVideo that provides an automatic failover to the software version when hardware StageVideo is not available. To leverage this automatic failover, the swf apps need to be compiled for Flash Player 15 and above.
When the swfs are compiled for Flash Player 15 and above, and when hardware StageVideo is unavailable, the app will get a StageVideoAvailability event as earlier, but instead of being "Unavailable" it will ALWAYS be "available", and the reason will always be "noError". The app will no longer need to implement a Video object failover as the failover is automatic inside flash player. The apps can still choose to use Video object instead of StageVIdeo if needed.
Hardware StageVideo availability is dependent on a number of factors, including:
Browser hardware rendering support: If available, all wMode based apps will support hardware StageVideo. If not available, wMode=direct based apps will be the only ones that will support hardware StageVideo, unless there are other exceptions, like the ones mentioned below.
IE11: IE has an accelerated pipeline and the FlashPlayer is HW accelerated in all wmode, so StageVideo should always be available. Note that the decision to use the HW accelerate rendering pipeline reside in IE.
Firefox: There is currently no HW accelerated pipeline available in Firefox on windows and only wMode direct will have StageVideo available all other wMode should generate a unavailable event.
Chrome: Pepper has HW acceleration in all wMode, but some restrictions apply. For example Chrome will refuse to use HW acceleration on Windows XP and it has its own driver blacklisting mechanism. It is also possible for the user to disable the HW acceleration in the settings panel. Chrome exposes a somewhat useful page to allow one to see the status of its gpu acceleration: chrome://gpu/
TESTING FOCUS:
Hardware Video Decoding is now on by default for Chrome users. If you experience playback or stability problems when watching Flash-based video, please report them to the Beta forums. Including the output of the DirectX Diagnostic Tool (dxdiag) would be especially helpful.
FIXED ISSUES:
Corrects an issue introduced in Flash Player 15.0.0.100 beta. Videos now play as expected when "Enabled Hardware Acceleration" is unchecked on Mac (3796536)
Multiple Stability and Security Fixes
OpenSSL - Multiple Vulnerabilities - Upgrade to 1.0.1i (3804448 )
[External]RenderToTexture with RectangleTexture causes Runtime Error and presents black screen (3802486 )
[External][Stage3D]Indexing vertex constants will result in artifacts in rendered output(3801664 )
[External][IE protected only] FileReference.download leaves "Save as type" blank in IE11(3799099 )
[External][Windows Only][Non-Injection]: Firefox Window loses focus every time Flash plugin processes are re-launched (3746856 )
[External Bug][non injection]Sound.loadPCMFromByteArray produces a sound object with a length of 0(3709804 )
[External] User encountered FF crash on vista with protect mode on after a long time playing youtube and closing entire FF (3708003 )

New in Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.108 Beta (Aug 7, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.160 Beta (Jul 24, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.146 Beta (Jul 9, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.136 Beta (Jun 20, 2014)

New and Updated Features:
Preview: PPAPI Debugger for Mac OS X and Windows:
An early preview of the PPAPI content debugger is available for Mac OS X and Windows. Flash Developers using Opera (dev) and Google Chrome (dev and Canary) can now try out the PPAPI-based content debugger.
For Opera (Mac OS X and Windows):
Download the latest Opera Developer from http://www.opera.com/developer
Enable the PPAPI flag in settings: opera://flags/#find-pepper-flash-plugin
For Chrome (Windows):
Download the latest Chrome dev or Canary. Enable the PPAPI flag in
plugins
chrome://plugins
Expand the 'Details'
Ensure the PPAPI plugin in the \\Macromed\\Flash location is enabled and the PPAPI plugin in the Google Chrome location is disabled
Anisotropic Filtering:
This new texture sampling filter can enhance the image quality of textures on surfaces that are at oblique viewing angles. There are two ways to enable this feature
In AGAL, set one of the values – "anisotropic2x", "anisotropic4x", "anisotropic8x", or "anisotropic16x" to the filter option in the sampling instructions.
Call Context3D::setSamplerStateAt with the 3rd parameter "filter" being one of the values defined in Context3DTextureFilter -"ANISOTROPIC2X", "ANISOTROPIC4X", "ANISOTROPIC8X", or "ANISOTROPIC16X
New Stage3D "Standard" Profile:
Developers can now request this high level profile when creating Context3D. Three new features are available in this profile
Multiple render target allows to you to draw geometry to multiple outputs (up to 4) during one drawing
Floating point texture allows you to create Texture, RectangleTexture and CubeTuxture with the RGBA16F folder.
AGAL v2 contains these improvements
Increased register size
Partial derivative instructions
Fragment depth output
Conditional forward jump
Fixed Issues:
Multiple stability and security issues
PPAPI Debugger - Resolves a hang on RTMFP Direct Routing (3764918)
PPAPI Debugger - Resolves multiple issues with SWFObject2 (3755337, 3755338, 3755341-45)
PPAPI Debugger - Debugger is now uninstalled correctly when removed through Add/Remove Programs (3759012) navigateToURL and sendToURL
- CORS Simple Headers are now allowed (3768250)

New in Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.126 Beta (Jun 5, 2014)

Intel x86 Android Support:
As announced in our Flash Runtime blog, we're adding support for Intel x86 Android to AIR.
An ADT command line option (-arch) has been added to allow packaging apps with Android x86 support. Please note that only captive runtime packaging is allowed for x86 architecture that means all APK targets (apk, apk-debug and apk-captive-runtime) will forcibly packaged with captive runtime.
Packaging for x86 architecture in Flash Builder:
Open the debug/run configurations of the project in Flash Builder and click on "Customize launch.." button. Add new parameter "-arch" with value "x86" and place it before "-storetype". Click "OK" to apply changes.
Except RTMPE and DRM, all other features and capabilities are completely functional and supported. Native extensions written for x86 platforms could also be packaged and used by an app for x86 devices. To support that, a new ANE platform 'Android-x86' is now available.
New packaging command for ANE:
adt -package -target ane Sample.ane extension.xml -swc Sample.swc -platform Android-ARM -C Android-ARM/ . -platform Android-x86 -C Android-x86/ .
Improved Packaging Engine - iOS:
Based on the feedback recieved from the developer community, tons of improvements and bug fixes have been made in the new packaging engine for iOS. We still encourage developers to report issues to http://bugbase.adobe.com, to ensure that we are able to deliver a solid packager with the final release.
To enable this feature, please use "-useLegacyAOT no" in the ADT command, before the signing options. As of now, this feature is not available with FlashPro but it can be used with Flash builder by adding a parameter -useLegacyAOT under "Customize launch" option.
AIR Gamepad:
AIR Gamepad feature enables the app developers to provide a second screen on Android mobile devices for the Flash based browser games. AIR Gamepad API enables Flash based browser apps to connect to a paired Android device running the AIR Runtime app and therefore allowing the Android devices to be used as game controllers or second-screen interfaces.
Key Functionalities of this feature:
Gesture events
Touch events
Accelerometer events
Vibration
Applying skin onto AIR gamepad screen
Fixed Issues:
TextField.getFontList() and Font.enumerateFonts() now return 0 in Private Browsing Mode (3720929)
Font.enumerateFonts now returns an alphabetically sorted list (3720932)
Resolves an issue introduced in Flash Player 11.10 and AIR SDK > 13 where attached connected game controllers were not detected at launch (3752605)
Hardware Decoding support is now enabled for Intel Baytrail hardware (3752291)
[Chrome] Resolves an issue where some render textures could not be displayed with Chrome and D3DX11 (3743626)
[Chrome] Angry Birds on Facebook now works as expected (3761933)
[Chrome] Flash Player will not load a SWF if Content-Type-Options: nosniff is specified and the Content-Type header does not match (3712045, Chromium 172918)
[HTTP Live Streaming] The value of AudioTrack.isDefault is now returned correctly (3761057)
[HTTP Live Streaming] The value of AudioTrack.name is now returned correctly after AUDIO_UPDATE events (3767714)
[Win] Resolves a video playback issue that was introduced in 11.9.900.166 that caused a small number of H.264 streams to not play (3735300)
[Win] IME - Corrects an issue where words were duplicated in the candidate window on third-party bottom line IMEs (3721064)
[Win8.1 ARM] Farmville2 - The maximum number of Stage3D instances allowed on Win8.x ARM devices has been increased from one to four (3732718, MSFT 607382)
[Win8.1 x64] The Windows Narrator tool now recognizes Flash Player objects embedded in web pages (3618169, MSFT 458063)
[Win8.1] Reduces power consumption during video playback in portrait orientation (3699152)
[Win8.1] Improves performance of video blitting on DirectX 11 systems in portrait mode (3748772)
[Win8.1] Video from built-in cameras now rotates as expected when the device changes from landscape to portrait mode (3722322, MSFT 611601)
[Win8.1] Sprite.graphics.beginFill(Number) now correctly sets the provided color after a page refresh (3729475, MSFT 508518)
[Win8.1] HTTP Live Streaming - Resolves an issue where encrypted video playback would hang intermittently (3710245)
[Win8.x] The [Tab] key now works as expected in Full-Screen mode (3719314)
[Win8.x] Resolves a stability issue for standalone applications that use Flash Player in an embedded Internet Explorer instance (3763486)
[Win8.x] StandAlone Player - Exiting FullScreen mode now works as expected (3730508)
[Win8.x] Flash Player will now gracefully recover from a graphics driver reset (3752447, MSFT 346563)
[Win8.x] Resolves a stability issue with HTTP Live Streaming (3758254)
PPAPI Debugger Preview - Multiple Stability Fixes (3720385, 3720431, 3720925)

New in Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.101 Beta (May 14, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.95 Beta (May 7, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.90 Beta (May 1, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.199 Beta (Apr 16, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.182 (Apr 9, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.168 Beta (Mar 19, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.162 Beta (Mar 12, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.154 Beta (Mar 7, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.133 Beta (Feb 26, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.130 Beta (Feb 21, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.44 (Feb 5, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.80 Beta (Jan 29, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.47 Beta (Jan 15, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.43 (Jan 14, 2014)

New Features:
Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7 Support
Microsoft has released IE 11 on Windows 7 and we plan to officially support this in Flash Player 12.
Mac .pkg Installation Support
Deploying Flash Player and keeping it up to date is a critical task for system administrators worldwide. In Flash Player 11.9 we added .pkg support for ease of deployment. In Flash Player 12, we've incorporated feedback from system administrators to improve the workflow and UI.
Graphics: Buffer Usage flag for Stage3D
We've added a new enum Class called Context3DBufferUsage which defines two constants, STATIC_DRAW (default) and DYNAMIC_DRAW. These constants specify how buffers will be used in Stage3D. We've also added a new parameter, called "bufferUsage", to the constructors of VertexBuffer and IndexBuffer. This "bufferUsage" parameter uses one of the constants form Context3DBufferUsage, which will allow you to select the appropriate buffer type according to your needs.
Stage3D Creation of Context3D with Profile Arra
We've added a new interface to Stage3D.requestContext3DMatchingProfiles(profiles:Vector. ) which will create a Context3D with highest level suitable profile that is in profile array, based on the current hardware. A developer can check the newly added property 'profile' to obtain the current profile that was chosen by the Flash Runtime.
Notable Fixes and Enhancements:
[3629735] [Chrome x64] XPS Printing produces blank documents
[3633845] [Win8.x] YouTube videos don't always resume when tapping inside the video in desktop IE
[3637507] [Win8.1 Pepper] Camera is listed twice in the setting ui panel with Chrome
[3638403][Mac] Extra characters render when pressing the shortcuts CMD+C, CMD+X, CMD+A, and CMD+V in Stage Web View.
[3638538] [Win7][IE 11 - Instaback] Video continues to play for a few seconds after navigating away from page
[3646580] [Win8.1] edit control does not handle IVS characters or surrogate pairs such as emoticons correctly
[3641030][Mac] flash.media.scanHardware() does not work on NPAPI Flash Player
[3649243] [Win8.x] ARM devices: YouTube controls disappear when when exiting fullscreen by invoking app bar
[3649329] PlayTo stops in the middle when network connection is not stable
[3652092][Win8.x] unable to upload multiple images in file-browse dialog
[3656409] some menu controls are not refreshing when clicking controls and inputting text
[3655274] Fullscreen (with sourceRect) doesn't work correctly in Pepper version
[3659511][Win8.1][IE11] drawToBitmapData fails to draw correctly when using constrain mode
[3659511] on some graphics cards, Stage3d works in software mode, instead of GPU
[3664207] Audio continues to be heard when video is fast forwarded after a rewind operation
[3657240] wrong value is momentarily returned after trickPlay is ended using a pause
[3660676] KingsRoad Stage3D performance impacted on low-end laptops running Chrome with PPAPI player
[3673798] white/black background displays in CC mode

New in Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.39 Beta (Dec 23, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.9.900.170 (Dec 11, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.24 Beta (Dec 5, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.17 Beta (Nov 27, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.9 Beta (Nov 20, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 12.0.0.3 Beta (Nov 15, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.9.900.152 (Nov 12, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.9.900.149 Beta (Oct 30, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.9.900.117 (Oct 9, 2013)

NEW FEATURES:
Safe Mode in Safari 6.1 and higher:
Safari 6.1 includes an updated version of Safari with Safe Mode, which implements new security restrictions on the operation of browser plug-ins. To the extent possible, we've adapted Flash Player to transparently handle these changes. A small number of behaviors will change in the context of Safe Mode and are explained in the Known Issues section below.
Mac .pkg Installation Support:
Deploying Flash Player and keeping it up to date in enterprise environments is a critical task for system administrators worldwide. We’re introducing a new .pkg installer format for our distribution partners to reduce their workload. Administrators can now deploy Flash Player for Mac using industry-standard management tools.
NOTABLE FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS:
[3633176] [Win7] - Corrects a problem introduced in 11.7.700.224 where Simple Chinese characters were displayed as a box or question mark on the AutoUpdate dialog
[MSFT 3612555][Win 8] - High DPI Displays - Corrects an issue where some content was not scaling with zoom changes
[MSFT 366785] [Win 8.1/IE11] - Corrects an issue where an initial button press was ignored
[3634589] - Corrects an issue introduced in 11.8.800.94 where layout of the AutoUpdate notification dialog was incorrect in localized languages
[3634362] - Corrects a problem introduced in 11.9.900.4 that only affected the beta, where HTTP Live Streams would not buffer after an Ad insertion
[3632291] [HLS - Trickplay] - Corrects an issue where memory usage doubled with Trickplay mode enabled
[3626978] [Windows] - Corrects an issue introduced in 11.7.700.164 where video was not rendering on some systems when using StageVideo with WMODE set to Window
[Mozilla 902630] g1.globo.com hangs Flash Player
[3584089] [HTTP Live Streaming] - HLS Streams created with Apple Media Segmenter now work as expected
[3630266] - Resolves an issue introduced in Flash Player 11.8.800.168 where the ExternalInterface.call() method called with multi-byte text as a parameter, corrupts the multi-byte characters on the JavaScript side
[3622168] - Resolved an issue introduced in Flash Player Beta 11.9.900.77 where exiting FullScreen mode during video playback on www.ted.com would cause a crash on Windows
[3630373] [Win8] [Internet Explorer] - Resolved an issue where when zoomed in the browser >=150% , video controls on Youtube where rendered too large after exiting from FullScreen mode
[3580628] [MSFT 84699][Win8] - The EPM notification bar now appears for embedded PDFs with Adobe Reader installed
[MSFT 138222][Win8] - Metro/IE10 - Resolves an issue on High-DPI displays where controls are rendered too small on Youtube in FullScreen mode
[3581370] [Win8 ARM] - Resolves an issue where 4096x4096 textures could not be rendered when the backbuffer is large
[Chrome] - Copy To Screen performance in PPAPI has been significantly improved
[Chrome] - Resolves an issue where video noise was encountered when moving between fullscreen and embedded mode during video playback www.vudu.com
[HTTP Live Streaming] - Resolves an issue where AES encrypted video was skipping back and forth during playback.
[3613440] [HTTP Live Streaming] [WebVTT] - An issue where captions would be delayed after returning from an ad have been resolved
[3615084] [HTTP Live Streaming] [WebVTT] - Corrects an issue where the caption would wrap around the video display when the specific font was too large
[3585544] [HTTP Live Streaming] [WebVTT] - Corrects an issue where large, non-default fonts would sometimes overlap
[3616952] [Mac] [StageText] - Corrects an issue where when zooming multiple times on a Mac equipped with Retina display, text would not scale correctly when maximizing the window.
[3612492] [StageVideo] - Corrects an issue where a few visible black frames could be seen during the transition between two MP4 video streams.
[3596293] [Flash Pro] - Corrects an issue where Live Preview would hang when zooming very far (>200%) into content with filters applied

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.9.900.100 Beta (Sep 25, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.175 (Sep 20, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.9.900.96 Beta (Sep 18, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.9.900.93 Beta (Sep 11, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.168 (Sep 11, 2013)

Bug fixes:
3611679 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [WebVTT] - Caption colors now render correctly
3507613 - [Win7 IE10] - A Microsoft update to Internet Explorer corrects the following issue: Mouse movement interferes with Flash Player display updates
3575123 - [Mac][FullScreen, MouseLock] - Corrects an issue where when the mouse movement values for a given frame were identical to the values of the preceding frame, the values returned would be zero
3609793 - [Chrome] - Improved Audio Latency path is enabled by default
3507613 - [Internet Explorer 10] [Win7] - An update to IE10 resulted in an improvement where instantiating an ActiveX Flash Player instance in IE 10 using a Windowless Mode (opaque or transparent) now works
3604526 - [IME CCJK] - The IME candidate window position no longer moves to the left when the composition string extends beyond a single line in a textfield
3583135 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [WebVTT] - Changing the options on a caption no longer erroneously resets that caption's position
3602519 - [Chrome] [PPAPI] - Video on NYTimes.com now plays correctly
3609793 - [Chrome] [PPAPI] - Audio latency improvements are enabled by default
3570724 - [Flash Access] - Ability to specify a shorter timeout for license response
3580139 - [Chrome] [PPAPI] [Mac] - screen.yahoo.com - video playback stopped after exiting full-screen mode
3580607 - [Chrome] [PPAPI] - Resolves video jitter after exiting fullscreen mode on an embedded YouTube video
3572762 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - A stream with WebVTT captions now plays all of the captions available in a stream
3572767 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Captions are no longer erroneously broken across multiple lines
3577355 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Captions are now displayed when seeking backwards in a video stream
3577367 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Caption customizations are now displayed on the correct frame
3583137 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Captions are now displayed with the correct font weight
3586532 - [HTTP Live Streaming] [Web VTT] - Ampersand, Less Than and Greater Than cue escape characters are now correctly displayed
3583922 - [Internet Explorer] - ExternalInterface now works correctly in instances where SWF content was embedded using only the tag.
3599625 - [Internet Explorer] - Fullscreen Mode now works correctly on https://apps.facebook.com/warcommander
3582320 - [Win8] [ARM] - Flash video now appears as expected on http://www.orange.fr
3600931 - [Win8] - Playback Controls are now rendered correctly on http://www.cnn.com/video/
3590934 - [Win8] [Firefox] - When the Windows display settings are zoomed to 150%, the right-click context menu in Flash Player now works correctly
717340 - [Mozilla] [Mac] [Dual Monitor] - Fixes an issue where the Cursor disappeared when moving from Full-Screen video in the second display to Firefox/Safari in the primary display.
Multiple stability and security fixes

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.9.900.85 Beta (Sep 4, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.156 Beta (Aug 28, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.149 Beta (Aug 28, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.146 Beta (Aug 14, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.129 Beta (Jul 31, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.120 Beta (Jul 24, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.115 Beta (Jul 18, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.94 (Jul 10, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.224 (Jun 12, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.75 Beta (Jun 5, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.64 Beta (May 29, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.50 Beta (May 15, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.202 (May 15, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.42 Beta (May 8, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.191 Beta (Apr 24, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.182 Beta (Apr 17, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.178 Beta (Apr 12, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.169 (Apr 9, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.170 Beta (Apr 3, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.165 Beta (Mar 29, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.150 Beta (Mar 28, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.146 Beta (Mar 20, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.180 (Mar 13, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.128 Beta (Mar 8, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.171 (Feb 27, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.168 (Feb 13, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.149 (Feb 8, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.161 Beta (Jan 30, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.155 Beta (Jan 24, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.146 Beta (Jan 16, 2013)

Notable Fixes and Enhancements:
3430032 - On Windows XP, Flash Access content is throwing an erroneous Output Protection Error (3338)
3428748 - Fixes an issue where random 3321/3330 errors are thrown when playing Flash Access protected content using Chrome on Windows XP
3434197 - Fixes an issue where users upgrading from Flash Player 11.3.375.10 to 11.6.602.124 experienced Error Code 3322 (DeviceBindingFailed) on Windows 8 running SurfaceRT with EPM enabled.
3398415 - Fixes an issue where Error code 3338 was thrown during playback of Flash Access protected content with Analog Required, Digital Required, Analog Noplay, or Digital Noplay flags on Chrome for Windows with the Flash Player PPAPI Plug-In
3428081 - Corrects a problem where the web page of a played video would occasionally be closed when resizing the page in Safari.
3444724 - Setting a via ActionScript that contains a nested mask works again.
3473230 - Corrects an issue where the loader for some Starling Demos would not load on Windows with IE10
3434205 - Corrects an performance problem on Windows 8 desktops where users would experience a delay when dragging a browser window running Flash content across multiple displays.
3368015 - Camera now works as expected on ChromeOS 20 with the PPAPI Flash Player plug-in.
3369826 - Video captured with the front camera now renders correctly on the Google Nexus 7
3373425 - Videos are now rendered correctly on briggs-riley.com when viewed on Windows 8 with IE 10 in both Classic and Metro modes
3429524 - YouTube Flash Objects embedded in Office 15 Word Documents now render correctly when Windows Update KB2777166 is installed
3407575 - Memory usage is now reported correctly by content played in Chrome on Mac using the PPAPI Flash Player Plug-In
3365525 - Fixes an installation problem introduced in Flash Player 11.4 that caused Flash Player to not work for Windows users running with User-level permissions when Flash Player was installed from an Administrative Account
3376775 - Corrects an issue introduced in Flash Player 11.0.1.50 where Bitmap Data memory was not being properly culled during long-running playback of Flash content.
Multiple stability and security fixes

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.146 (Jan 9, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.105 Beta (Dec 8, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.124 Beta (Nov 21, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.118 Beta (Nov 15, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.113 Beta (Nov 9, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.110 (Nov 7, 2012)

New Features:
Debug stack trace in release builds of Flash Player
Invoke Event enhancement
Static linking of DRM
Fixed Issues:
Unable to package an application using an ANE on iOS, which doesn't not implement the finalizer function. (3321073)
Packaging fails with null pointer exception, when packaging an IPA using only the default implementation in the ANE on iOS. (3323233)
Geolocation permission dialog doesn't show up on iOS 6 device and App doesn't get listed in Settings->Privacy->Locations services. (3296870)
Database data is wiped out for every launch on iOS Simulator. (3329307)
WIFi Debugging on iOS :Debugging on iOS does not work when network interface is chosen as "Default" for Player Target AIR3.4 (3320979)
DisplayObject fails to render when changing rotationY on iOS6 device in GPU renderMode. (3320080)
When an app having aspectRatio Landscape and autoOrients "false" is packaged with iOS 6 SDK and run on an iOS 6 device, the launch image shows 90 degree rotation. (3321294)
If auto orients =false and aspect ratio=landscape,App launches in landscape mode but stage launches in portrait mode, on packaging with iOS 6 SDK. (3317345)
When packaging an IPA using platformsdk option for iOS 6 SDK, an exception, “java.io.IOException:PLISTgeneration failed due to SAX error:org.xml.sax.saxParseException” (3309675)
Packaging an IPA with requestedDisplayResolution as "standard" in application descriptor and using launch images "[email protected]" and "[email protected]", both the images are showing up on iPhone 5 device. (3336456)
Application freezes when disposing the audioQueue for the microphone on iOS6. (3349815)
Crash when playing back Adobe connect recording with screensharing(3348585)
RTMPS on AIR for Android causes java.lang.OutOfMemory error and crash(3329055)
EncryptedLocalStore values lost upon upgrade to AIR 3.4(3317833)
Flash Player crashes when navigating to and from Flash content in Internet Explorer (3322564)
[iPad3]BitmapData captured of the stagewebview is 2x on ipad3(3321334)
Install Application causes a crash andoccasionally ipa.exe stops working(3298786)
On iOS6 using renderMode=gpu, DisplayObject fails to render when changing rotationY(3320080)
Flash Player shows white screen when using Webcam-feed(3337754)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.500.97 Beta 4 (Oct 18, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.500.80 Beta (Sep 27, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.4.402.265 (Aug 22, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.4.400.252 Beta 2 (Aug 8, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.270 (Aug 3, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.4.400.231 Beta 1 (Jul 17, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.265 (Jul 17, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.257 (Jun 9, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.231 Beta 2 (Apr 19, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.214 Beta 1 (Apr 6, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.228 (Mar 28, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.221 RC 1 (Feb 27, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.62 (Feb 16, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.197 Beta 5 (Feb 1, 2012)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.95/96 Beta 2 (Nov 23, 2011)

Mouse lock:
A new mouseLock property has been added to Stage.
To enable mouse locking set Stage.mouseLock to true. There are several rules which are applied here: This property can only be set in full screen mode. It dispatches a runtime exception if it is called in non-full screen mode. On mobile settings this property always throws an exception. The reason is simple: This feature can only work with a mouse type of devices and mobile devices do not have such a thing. The property can be read in non-full screen mode. This allows developers to easily dispatch to alternative input methods if mouse locking is disabled externally for some reason. When exiting full screen mode Stage.mouseLock is automatically set to false. Note that while in full screen mode mouse event listeners attached to other display objects but the stage will not be dispatched. In other words to receive mouse deltas and any other mouse event while mouseLock is active you need to attach your mouse event listeners to the stage.
Relative mouse coordinates:
New properties (movementX and movementY) on MouseEvent.
When Stage.mouseLock == true:
MouseEvent.localX and MouseEvent.localY will contain 0.
MouseEvent.movementX and MouseEvent.movementY will contain delta values.
MouseEvent.movementX and MouseEvent.movementY are never transformed based on stage transformation, i.e. they always remain in screen space.
MouseEvent.movementX and MouseEvent.movementY will be 0 when Stage.mouseLock == false.
Situations where mouse locking is disabled automatically and the mouse cursor is made visible again:
When the user hits ESC.
When the window loses focus, for instance when the user hit CTRL-TAB.
When any settings UI is visible (that includes all privacy dialogs).When a native dialog is shown, for instance a file upload dialog.
Right and middle click events:
Just like with Adobe AIR, right and middle click events can now be used to inside Flash Player.
When a listener is registered to the MouseEvent.RIGHT_CLICK event, the native context menu will not show up, allowing you to create your own context menu.

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.18/19 Beta (Oct 27, 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.

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.10 (Sep 22, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.129 RC 1 (Sep 7, 2011)

Stage3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering (desktop):
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.
Flash Access Content Protection Support for Mobile:
Flash Access content protection support is now available on mobile devices.
H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras (desktop):
Stream high quailty 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.
Native Text Input UI (mobile):
Mobile apps can now take advantage of the native text input controls on mobile platforms, including platform-specific user interaction behaviors such as magnification and text selection. Native text controls are available on Android, BlackBerry Tablet OS, and iOS operating systems.
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.
New Features in Flash Player 11:
Native 64-bit Support (Flash Player desktop) — Take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding (new for Flash Player) — Improve app responsiveness and deliver smoother animation by decoding images on initial load instead of on demand. Images are cached as needed.
TLS Secure Sockets Support (new for Flash Player) — Enables secure communications for client/server applications.

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.35 (Aug 10, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.60 Beta 1 (Jul 14, 2011)

Stage3D 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.
Native 64-bit Support (Flash Player desktop):
Take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
Asynchronous Bitmap Decoding (new for Flash Player):
Improve app responsiveness and deliver smoother animation by decoding images on initial load instead of on demand. Images are cached as needed.
TLS Secure Sockets Support (new for Flash Player):
Enables secure communications for client/server applications.

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.26 (Jun 15, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.23 (Jun 6, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.16 (Jun 1, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.159.1 (Apr 16, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.180.42 Beta (Mar 8, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.151.49 Beta 2 (Dec 1, 2010)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 (Nov 5, 2010)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.82.76 (Aug 11, 2010)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.53.7 RC (Apr 6, 2010)

This public prerelease is an opportunity for developers to test and provide early feedback to Adobe on new features, enhancements, and compatibility with previously authored content. Consumers can try the prerelease of Flash Player 10.1 to preview hardware acceleration of video on supported Windows PCs and x86-based netbooks. You can also help make Flash Player better by visiting all of your favorite sites, making sure they work the same or better than with the current player. We definitely want your feedback to help improve the final version, expected to ship in the first half of 2010.
Key New FeaturesUbiquitous Reach:
Easily installable and updateable, the full Flash Player will be available on smartphones and other Internet-connected mobile devices, doubling the number of operating systems your content can reach and enabling uncompromised Web browsing experiences.
Global error handling:
The new global error handler enables developers to write a single handler to process all runtime errors that weren’t part of a try/catch statement. Improve application reliability and user experience by catching and handling unexpected runtime errors and present custom error messages.
Designed for mobility:
To deliver on a high level of consistency and move onto mobile platforms with limited memory and processing resources, Flash Player 10.1 leverages hardware acceleration of graphics and video and many other performance improvements, such as rendering, scripting, memory utilization, start-up time, battery and CPU optimizations.
New mobile-ready features that take advantage of native device capabilities include support for multi-touch, gestures, mobile input models, and accelerometer bringing unprecedented creative control and expressiveness to the mobile browsing experience. Watch Flash Player 10.1 video demonstrations that show SWF content running on smartphones.
Expanded options for high quality media delivery:
Flash Player 10.1 is ready to take advantage of upcoming media delivery technologies that will provide rich media experiences and create new business models. With new HTTP streaming and content protection features with Adobe Flash Access, premium audio and video content can be securely delivered within the browser. Streaming performance is enhanced with improved support for live events, buffer controls and peer assisted networking. Network context-aware services, such as smart seek and stream reconnect, will enable smooth, uninterrupted media playback and improved resource utilization on mobile devices.

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.51.45 Pre-Release (Nov 17, 2009)

Flash Player 10.1 is the first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices.
Support for new platforms:
Flash Player 10.1 will be available for a broad range of mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks and other Internet-connected devices, allowing your content to reach your customers wherever they are. As with Flash Player 10, this release also supports Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 (“Snow Leopard”) desktop operating systems.
The consistent Flash Player browser-based runtime is the most productive way to deliver content to users across operating systems and devices. Runtime consistency reduces the cost of creating, testing and deploying content across different device, software, network and user contexts and helps improve business results.
Designed for mobility:
To make it possible to deploy SWF content on smartphones and other mobile devices that have limited processing power and memory availability compared to PCs, a tremendous amount of work has gone into to making Flash Player 10.1 “ready for mobility”. This work includes performance improvements, such as rendering, scripting, memory, start-up time, battery and CPU optimizations, in addition to hardware acceleration of graphics and video. Improvements in memory utilization and management, start-up time, CPU usage, and rendering/scripting performance benefit PCs as well as mobile devices.
Flash Player 10.1 also introduces new mobile-ready features that take advantage of native device capabilities – including support for multi-touch, gestures, mobile input models, and accelerometer input -- bringing unprecedented creative control and expressiveness to the mobile browsing experience.
Mobile text input:
Flash Player 10.1 provides support for use of native device virtual keyboards with TextField support if no physical keyboard is detected. A virtual keyboard is automatically raised and lowered in response to focus changes on text fields when editing text on mobile devices supporting a virtual keyboard to enable unobstructed and intuitive text editing. The focused text field is centered in the visible region of the page and appropriately zoomed/scrolled to ensure it is not obscured by the virtual keyboard. Upon screen rotation, incoming calls, or other system events, any already existing text input is retained. The virtual keyboard works with TextField but does not currently work with the Text Layout Framework or other Flash Text Engineflash.text.engine text.
Multi-touch and gestures:
Developers can take advantage of the latest hardware and operating system user interaction capabilities using new ActionScript 3 APIs for multi-touch and native gesture events. Create multi-touch aware content for a wide range of devices as well as multi-touch capable PCs running Microsoft Windows 7. Interact with multiple objects simultaneously or work with native gestures, such as pinch, scroll, rotate, scale and two-finger tap.
Accelerometer input:
A new Accelerometer class allows developers to read acceleration values in X, Y and Z axes from native device accelerometer sensors in ActionScript. Leverage accelerometer input on supported devices for user input control and to control screen orientation. Developers can specify the rate of accelerometer updates to conserve battery life.
H.264 video hardware decoding:
Flash Player 10.1 introduces hardware-based H.264 video decoding to deliver smooth, high quality video with minimal overhead across mobile devices and PCs. Using available hardware to decode video offloads tasks from the CPU, improving video playback performance, reducing system resource utilization, and preserving battery life.

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.32.18 (Jul 31, 2009)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.1.218 Beta Codename Astro (May 16, 2008)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta Codename Astro (May 15, 2008)

New in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.64.0 Beta / 9.0.47.0 Final (Oct 1, 2007)