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· Multi-threaded video decoding
· Background Updater (Windows)
· Mouse relative offset position + lock
· Driver gating hardware accelaration relaxed to 2008
· New throttling event
· 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 28th, 2012· Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed - Previously, the hardware accelerated content was gated to 1/1/2009, however, we have relaxed the driver gating to 1/1/2008.
· 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.
· Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events - Create immersive, panoramic games with infinite scrolling to enable new classes of content, including first-person games.
· Multithreaded video decoding - 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.
· 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).
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 16th, 2012· This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (Windows ActiveX control only)
· This update resolves a type confusion memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution
· This update resolves an MP4 parsing memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution
· This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution
· This update resolves a security bypass vulnerability that could lead to code execution
· This update resolves a security bypass vulnerability that could lead to code execution
· This update resolves a universal cross-site scripting vulnerability that could be used to take actions on a user's behalf on any website or webmail provider, if the user visits a malicious website
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, 2011Mouse 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.
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 22nd, 2011· Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.183.7 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.3.186.6 and earlier versions for Android. These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
· There are reports that one of these vulnerabilities (CVE-2011-2444) is being exploited in the wild in active targeted attacks designed to trick the user into clicking on a malicious link delivered in an email message. This universal cross-site scripting issue could be used to take actions on a user's behalf on any website or webmail provider if the user visits a malicious website.
· This update resolves an AVM stack overflow issue that may allow for remote code execution. (CVE-2011-2426).
· This update resolves an AVM stack overflow issue that may lead to denial of service and code execution. (CVE-2011-2427).
· This update resolves a logic error issue which causes a browser crash and may lead to code execution. (CVE-2011- 2428).
· This update resolves a Flash Player security control bypass which could allow information disclosure. (CVE-2011-2429).
· This update resolves a streaming media logic error vulnerability which could lead to code execution. (CVE-2011-2430).
September 7th, 2011Stage3D 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.
August 10th, 2011· Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.36 and earlier versions for Adobe Flash Player 10.3.185.25 and earlier versions for Android. These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
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.
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.
June 15th, 2011· A critical vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.23 and earlier versions. This memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2011-2110) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via malicious Web pages.
June 6th, 2011· An important vulnerability has been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.16 and earlier versions. This universal cross-site scripting vulnerability (CVE-2011-2107) could be used to take actions on a user's behalf on any website or webmail provider, if the user visits a malicious website. There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in active targeted attacks designed to trick the user into clicking on a malicious link delivered in an email message.
June 1st, 2011· This release addresses an issue with hardware acceleration on some systems with Intel HD Graphics adapters when viewing SWF content in Internet Explorer 9. With Flash Player 10.3.181.14 installed, SWF content appears in the upper-left corner of the screen.
April 16th, 2011· A critical vulnerability exists in Flash Player 10.2.153.1 and earlier versions (Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.25 and earlier for Chrome users), Adobe Flash Player 10.2.156.12 and earlier versions for Android, and the Authplay.dll component that ships with Adobe Reader and Acrobat X (10.0.2) and earlier 10.x and 9.x versions for Windows.
· This vulnerability (CVE-2011-0611) could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. There are reports that this vulnerability is being exploited in the wild in targeted attacks via a malicious Web page or a Flash (.swf) file embedded in a Microsoft Word (.doc) or Microsoft Excel (.xls) file delivered as an email attachment, targeting the Windows platform. At this time, Adobe is not aware of any attacks via PDF targeting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. Adobe Reader X Protected Mode mitigations would prevent an exploit of this kind from executing.
March 8th, 2011Media Measurement:
· Measuring video just got easier. With Flash Player 10.3 and Adobe SiteCatalyst, developers can implement video analytics with as little as two lines of code. Analytics solutions can use a new set of open APIs to easily implement consistent video analytics irrespective of implementation or delivery protocol. Media Measurement for Flash 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:
· Flash Player 10.3 enables developers to create real-time online collaboration experiences with high-quality audio, such as telephony, in-game voice chat, and group conferencing applications. 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.
Integration with browser privacy controls for managing local storage:
· Users now have a simpler way to clear local storage from the browser settings interface – similar to how users clear their browser cookies today. Flash Player 10.3 integrates control of local storage with the browser’s privacy settings in Mozilla Firefox 4, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and higher, and future releases of Apple Safari and Google Chrome.
Native Control Panel:
· Flash Player 10.3 provides users with streamlined controls for managing their Flash Player privacy, security and storage settings. Users can access the Flash Player Settings Manager directly from the Control Panels or System Preferences on their computers.
December 1st, 2010Stage Video hardware acceleration:
· A new method for video playback in Flash Player will allow developers to leverage complete hardware acceleration of the video rendering pipeline, enabling best-in-class playback performance. Stage Video can dramatically decrease processor usage and enables higher frame rates, reduced memory usage, and greater pixel fidelity and quality.
Internet Explorer 9 hardware accelerated rendering support:
· Flash Player takes advantage of hardware accelerated graphics in Internet Explorer 9, utilizing hardware rendering surfaces to improve graphics performance and enable seamless composition.
Native custom mouse cursors:
· Developers can define custom native mouse cursors, enabling user experience enhancements and improving performance.
Support for full screen mode with multiple monitors:
· Full screen content will remain in full-screen on secondary monitors, allowing users to watch full-screen content while working on another display.
November 5th, 2010· Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.85.3 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris, and Adobe Flash Player 10.1.95.1 for Android. These vulnerabilities, including CVE-2010-3654 referenced in Security Advisory APSA10-05, could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
August 11th, 2010· Critical vulnerabilities have been identified in Adobe Flash Player version 10.1.53.64 and earlier. These vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash and could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.
· This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-0209).
· This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-2188).
· This update resolves multiple memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-2213).
· This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-2214).
· This update resolves a vulnerability that could lead to a click-jacking attack. (CVE-2010-2215).
· This update resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2010-2216).
April 6th, 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.
November 17th, 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.
July 31st, 2009· Resolves a memory corruption vulnerability that could potentially lead to code execution (CVE-2009-1862).
· Resolves the vulnerable version of the Microsoft Active Template Library (ATL) described in Microsoft Security Advisory (973882). This vulnerability could allow an attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability to take control of the affected system (CVE-2009-0901, CVE-2009-2395, CVE-2009-2493).
· 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)
May 16th, 2008· 3D Effects
· Custom Filters and Effects
· Advanced Text Layout
· Enhanced Drawing API
· Visual Performance Improvements
May 15th, 2008· * * Creative Expression
· Custom Filters and Effects
· 3D Effects
· New Text Engine
· Text Layout Components
· Drawing API Enhancements
· Color Management
· * * Visual Performance Improvements
· GPU Compositing
· GPU Blitting
· Anti-Aliasing Engine (Saffron 3.1)
· Vector Data Type
· * * Rich Media
· Dynamic Streaming
· RTMFP (Real Time Media Flow Protocol)
· Speex Audio Codec
· * * Other Community Requested Enhancements
· File Reference
· Dynamic Sound Generation
· Large Bitmap Support
· Context Menu
· GB18030 Compliance
· Ubuntu OS Support
October 1st, 2007· When creating a "playlist" consisting of an MP3 stream preceded by an FLV stream of the same sample rate, the MP3 audio does not play back correctly. (207964)
· H.264 support and full-screen hardware scaling on the Linux platform are at alpha quality
· The performance of the H.264 feature is beta quality and has not yet been optimized, so the minimum system requirements for 480p, 720p and 1080p playback are not available for beta. The minimum system requirements for viewing H264-based content will be si
· H.264 files using the loop filter flag render with artifacts on multi-core systems
· In full-screen mode on Linux, playing odd-width movies (with screen widths not divisible by 16) may cause a crash
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