Adobe Flash Player Changelog

What's new in Adobe Flash Player 31.0.0.89 Beta

Aug 8, 2018

Security fixes.

New in Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.122 Beta (Jun 13, 2018)

New in Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.85 Beta (May 9, 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 25, 2018)

New in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.126 (Dec 13, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.111 Beta (Nov 18, 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 26.0.0.138 Beta (Jul 14, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.137 (Jul 12, 2017)

New in Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.133 Beta (Jun 22, 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 25.0.0.152 Beta (Apr 6, 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 23.0.0.207 (Nov 8, 2016)

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 23.0.0.181 Beta (Sep 23, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 23.0.0.111 Beta (Jul 27, 2016)

New and Updated Features:
The StageText clear button is now optional on iOS
While creating StageText object on iOS, a clear button option is available by default to the AS developers.
Beginning with AIR 23, a new feature has been introduced, which makes the StageText clear button optional. This provides more flexibility to the
AS developers when using StageText. In the earlier versions, StageText object was created with an integrated clear button.
To implement this feature, following changes are required in the ActionScript code:
stageText.clearButtonMode
For getting access to the optional clear button support, AS developers can now use a clearButtonMode property to set different modes. There
are four modes associated with this property:
To show clearButton while editing: StageTextClearButtonMode.WHILE_EDITING
To never show clearButton: StageTextClearButtonMode.NEVER
To always show clearButton: StageTextClearButtonMode.ALWAYS
To show clearButton unless editing: StageTextClearButtonMode.UNLESS_EDITING
By default, property is set as StageTextClearButtonMode.WHILE_EDITING.
clearButtonMode
Requirements:
The application must be packaged with latest AIR SDK (version 23).
SWF version must be 34 or later.
Sample snippet
You can use this example code snippet for your reference.
public function ClearButtonMode()
label = new StageText();
label.clearButtonMode = StageTextClearButtonMode.NEVER;
label.textAlign = "right";
label.stage = stage;
label.viewPort = new Rectangle(20, 20, 90, 90);
Limitations for using stageText.clearButtonMode property:
This property is not available in StageText with multi-line
This property is a No-Op for Android
HSTS Support in Flash Player:
Beginning with Flash Player 23, we have introduced support for HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security). HSTS is a IETF standard, which enforces
user agents (browsers) to use HTTPS for communication instead of HTTP. HTTPS response may have a Strict-Transport-Security(STS) header
field that requests the user agent to make further requests in HTTPS. Flash Player will now acknowledge the STS header in HTTPS response.
This will be particularly helpful when a SWF calls another SWF (child swf) that is present in HSTS enabled server. Flash Player will acknowledge
the STS header in the response and further request to the same domain will always be HTTPS. This feature will be helpful in mitigating protocol
hijacking attacks and cookie hijacking.
Disabling local-with-filesystem access in Flash Player by default
Beginning with Flash Player 23, local-with-network permissions will now be applied to all local SWF content, regardless of the preference chosen at compile time.
Background:
When playing Flash (SWF) content from local filesystem, developers have historically been able to configure content to exclusively read from the
filesystem, or communicate to the network. When this functionality was introduced over a decade ago, it enabled an interesting array of
use-cases ranging from simple games to interactive kiosks. In context of modern web security, we believe that it is time to retire local filesystem
functionality in the browser plugin. At the same time, Adobe AIR has been established as a robust, mature solution for delivering
ActionScript-based content as a standalone application.
Vast majority of Flash Player users and content will be unaffected by this change. This change only impacts Flash content played from the local
filesystem, using the browser. Flash content hosted on the internet and local webservers, as well as the Standalone Flash Player remains
unaffected.
If you are a user who requires this functionality, these files can be added to the list of Trusted Locations in Flash Player.
Workarounds for Legacy Content:
We highly recommend that you only circumvent these controls to enable content from sources that they trust.
For Individuals:
For Internet Explorer, Edge, Firefox, Opera and Safari
On the affected system, go to: Control Panel > Flash Player > Advanced > Developer Tools > Trusted Location Settings
Click the (+) icon and add relevant SWF(s) to the list
For Google Chrome (and similar PPAPI browsers)
Navigate to the page:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager04.html
Choose Edit Locations > Add Locations from the list.
For System Administrators:
The legacy behavior can be restored by applying the EnableInsecureLocalWithFileSystem=1 flag to mms.cfg.
Video and Camera support for Stage3D by VideoTexture for Flash Player (Release)
In Flash Player 20 or earlier, use of video in Stage3D required use of the Video object, which is not hardware accelerated. It involved copying the
video frame to a BitmapData object and then loading data onto the GPU, which made it CPU-intensive.
To address this limitation, Video texture object was introduced. It allows you to use hardware decoded video in Stage 3D content. Further,
extending this capability in Flash Player 23 release, texture objects have been introduced to support the use of NetStream and Cameras in a
manner similar to the use of StageVideo. These textures can be used as source textures in stage3D rendering pipeline. You can use them as
rectangular, RGB, or no mipmap textures in rendering of a scene.
They are treated as ARGB texture by the shaders which implies that the AGAL
The shaders treat these textures as ARGB textures. This allows you to use the shaders do not have to bother about YUV to RGB conversion now.
standard shaders with static images without any need for modification. When you render using these textures, the image that is used by the
rendering pipeline is the the latest frame at that time. Though, there is no tearing in the video frame, if you use the same texture many times, some of these instances may be picked from different timestamps.
With the use of a VideoTexture object, all this work gets optimized internally - YUV to RGB conversion and texture loading can be completely moved to the GPU. See the
VideoTexture devnet article for implementation details.
Video Texture is an existing feature in AIR. It was introduced in AIR 17.0 version.

New in Adobe Flash Player 22.0.0.209 (Jul 15, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 22.0.0.137 Beta (Apr 28, 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. Please see the
VideoTexture devnet article for implementation details.
Video Texture Feature exists for AIR and was enabled in AIR 17.0
Mac: Prevent Cross-Channel Installation:
Beginning with Flash Player version 22, installing a beta version over a release version - and vice versa - will require first uninstalling the installed version before installing the cross channel version. For example, if you have a current release version installed, you’ll first need to uninstall it using the beta uninstaller before installing the beta version. The beta version must also be uninstalled, using the beta uninstaller, prior to installing the current release version.
Note that this brings feature parity with Flash Player on Windows, which has had this feature since version 14.
Override default language via mms.cfg:
This feature allows users to change flash player’s default language by setting a property, named in mms.cfg. Flash player’s default language will be set to the language given in DefaultLanguage key in mms.cfg regardless of system’s language.

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.213 (Apr 7, 2016)

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.136 Beta (Feb 4, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.294 Beta (Jan 20, 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 6, 2016)

New in Adobe Flash Player 20.0.0.248 Beta (Dec 10, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.228 Beta (Oct 19, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.226 (Oct 16, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.207 (Oct 15, 2015)

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.185 (Sep 22, 2015)

Fixed Issues:
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:
insertAt(index:int, element:*):void; removeAt(index:int):*;
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.

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.157 Beta (Aug 19, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 19.0.0.124 Beta (Jul 30, 2015)

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.205 Beta (Jul 8, 2015)

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.160 (Jun 10, 2015)

Improved Flash Player Install Process:
We have had consistent feedback from our customers that they prefer not to shut down their browsers to simply install Flash Player. This feature removes this requirement whenever possible. With Flash Player 18, in the vast majority of cases, the installer will no longer display a dialog to shut down the currently running browsers or applications that are using Flash Player!
Once the installation is completed, you will be notified that the browser may need to be restarted to use the newly installed version. This requirement really depends on your browser’s ability to see the new version. Either way, Flash will continue to work and you can easily force the new version to appear by simply restarting your browser when it’s convenient for you.
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 if it can be muted. 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. This new API is not applicable to ActionScript developers and is only available to browser and application developers that host the Flash plugin.
Stage3D – Standard Extended Profile for Desktop:
In version 17, Standard Extended Profile was introduced on iOS and Android devices that support GL ES3. In version 18, Standard ExtendedProfile support is added for Flash Player and AIR Desktop. It is represented by a new constant ‘STANDARD_EXTENDED’ in the Context3DProfile class. This constant can be used in the requestContext3D and requestContext3DMatchingProfiles methods of Stage3D. The standardExtended profile can only be accessed if the SWF version is 28 or newer.
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 Internet Explorer on Window 8.x. In Flash Player 18, it now supports PPAPI (Opera and Chrome) and Internet Explorer on Windows 7 and below.
VideoTexture Support for Android:
The hugely popular VideoTexture feature has come to Android! Introduced in version 17 for iOS and desktop, the team has been hard at work and has now brought the full power and functionality of this feature to Android devices.
VideoTexture is an ActionScript feature that allows hardware-accelerated video to be used as a source texture in a Stage3D environment. Previously, using video with Stage3D requires the use of the Video object, which is not accelerated, and manipulation of the bitmap representations of the video frames. VideoTexture allows direct access to a texture object that is sourced from a Netstream or Camera object. Please see the VideoTexture blog post for implementation details.
ETC2 Support for ATF:
With OpenGL ES 3.0 a new texture compression technique, ETC2 (Ericsson Texture Compression 2), was introduced as a standard feature.
ATF (Adobe Texture Format) is a container format provided by Adobe for different compression formats supported by different platforms. It previously supported three gpu texture compression formats; DXT1/5(desktop), ETC1 (Ericsson Texture Compression 1) (Android) and PVRTC (iOS). In AIR SDK 18, ETC2 support has been added (Ericsson Texture Compression 2) in ATF. Now app developers can use ATF with ETC2 on both Android and iOS devices that are OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant.

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 17.0.0.171 Beta (Apr 15, 2015)

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 17.0.0.135 Beta (Mar 12, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 17.0.0.123 Beta (Feb 26, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 17.0.0.108 Beta (Feb 19, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 17.0.0.93 Beta (Feb 5, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.296 (Jan 26, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.280 Beta (Jan 14, 2015)

New in Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.240 Beta (Dec 6, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.228 Beta (Nov 19, 2014)

New Features for Flash Player 16:
Stage3D - Standard Constrained Profile - In version 14 of the Runtime we added the new Standard profile to desktop systems. In Version 15 we expanded that to mobile devices in AIR. In Flash Player 16 we've added a new Standard Constrained profile. Like Baseline Constrained, Standard Constrained targets older and lower powered GPUs on both desktop and mobile devices. While Standard profile reached ~21% of iOS devices, Standard Constrained can now reach more than 85%. Developers can access this by using the new STANDARD_CONSTRAINED constant in Context3DProfile. The chart below breaks down the differences between the different profiles that are available.
PPAPI Installers for Windows and Mac - We're pleased to announce that we now have PPAPI installers for the standard version of Flash Player for Windows and Mac. Previously, this version of the Player was available only as an integrated component of Google Chrome. With the introduction of these installers, Flash Player is now available for all Chromium based browsers using the PPAPI interface. Please note that these installers are not required nor used by Google Chrome. Chrome will continue to include Flash Player without requiring any additional installation.
FSCommand change for Internet Explorer - Extended Beta - This feature changes Flash Player’s handling of the FSCommand for Internet Explorer (IE) version 11 running in Edge mode. Currently, the method of invoking Flash Player FSCommand differs between that for IE and that for non-IE browsers. For IE, Flash Player fires a registered event handler for FSCommand; For non-IE browsers, a corresponding JavaScript callback function is invoked. This change will directly invoke the JavaScript callback function for FSCommand With IE 11, as is done for non-IE browsers, rather than use the event handling method.
Testing Focus: If your website utilizes FSCommand and you encounter problems with Internet Explorer, please let us know ASAP on our beta forums.
Fixed Issues:
Multiple Stability and Security Fixes

New in Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.215 Beta (Oct 23, 2014)

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.183 Beta (Sep 25, 2014)

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 15.0.0.159 Beta (Sep 11, 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 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.
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/
On Mac:
Safari: All wMode should expose StageVideo
Firefox: All wModes should expose StageVideo
Chrome: All wMode should expose StageVideo, with the same limitations as the windows version.
Driver version: Certain older drivers may not support hardware StageVideo
User settings: If a user turns off hardware acceleration, then hardware StageVideo will not be available
Full Screen: Hardware StageVIdeo is always available in Full Screen mode.
When the hardware StageVideo fails because of browser support, wMode, driver version or user settings, starting with Flash Player 15, SW StageVideo will be used automatically without needing any configuration or code in the app.
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 14.0.0.155 Beta (Jul 17, 2014)

New in Adobe Flash Player 14.0.0.146 Beta (Jul 9, 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 Goo gle Chrome (dev and Canary) can now try out the PPAPI-based content debugger.
AnisotropicFiltering:
This new texture sampling filter can enhance the image quality of textures on surfaces that are at oblique viewing angles.
New Stage3D "Standard" Profile:
Developers can now request this high level profile when creating Context3D.
Intel x86 Android Support:
As announced in our Flash Runtime blog, we're adding support for Intel x86 Android to AIR.
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.
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.
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 Functionality of this feature:
Gesture events Touch events Accelerometer events Vibration
Applying skin onto AIR gamepad screen
To learn more about the AIR Gamepad APIs, please refer to the documentation found here. To try out the Wand.swc which can be downloaded from here. To try out live samples of AIR Gamepad open the following links:
ModelViewer HungryHero
FIXED ISSUES:
Multiple stability and security issues 3778961: StageVideo with camera doesn't work properly in AIR and Flash Player 14 3223393: Windows-7: Firefox Window loses focus every time Flash plugin processes are (re-)launched

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

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)

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 13.0.0.201 (Apr 17, 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 13.0.0.191 Beta (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 12.0.0.38 (Jan 15, 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 12.0.0.47 Beta (Jan 15, 2014)

NEW FEATURES:
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.
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
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.
64-Bit PPAPI Flash Player for Chrome:
We'd like to encourage those interested in 64-bit Flash Player for Chrome to please download the latest build available in the Chrome Canary Channel.
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.
Supplementary Characters Enhancement Support for TextField – EXTENDED BETA:
This is a desktop enhancement for supporting surrogate pairs in the TextField control. Now, characters out of the Basic Multilingual Plane(BMP) with Unicode code points between U+10000 and U+10FFFF will work correctly in the TextField control. It greatly enlarges the code point range we support and includes characters like emotion symbols (emoticons) and complex CCJK characters. This feature is being introduced in the Flash Player 12 beta but will go live in a subsequent release. Due to the sensitive nature of text display, we would like an extended test period to ensure no bugs are introduced.
Stage3D Creation of Context3D with Profile Array:
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.

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 11.9.900.110 Beta (Sep 25, 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:
3601024 - [Safari OS X 10.9] - File Downloads now work
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
3597568 - [MacOS 10.9] - Mavericks Developer Preview 3 corrects an issue where Flash Player configuration files were not readable by Flash Player
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 21, 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 9, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.88 Beta (Jun 19, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.8.800.81 Beta (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 11.7.700.203 (May 22, 2013)

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

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

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.197 Beta (May 1, 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 10, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.169 (Apr 10, 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 11.7.700.141 Beta (Mar 16, 2013)

New Features:
Sandboxing Enhancements: This feature adds enhancements to the existing sandbox feature by better addressing application launches in protected mode
Notable Fixes and Enhancements:
3517560 - Chrome Pepper for Windows - Addresses stability issue for HTTP Live Streaming Content
3519465 - Chrome Pepper for Mac - Closed Captions Now Display Correctly on HTTP Live Streaming Content
3517456 - HTTP Live Streaming - Seeking when playing a separate audio-only stream on an alternate rendition playlist now works correctly
3517627 - Chrome Pepper - Closed Caption on HTTP Live Streams now work correctly
3514875 - HTTP Live Streaming - HOLD Events for Ad Insertion not work correctly
3507762 - Chrome Pepper for Windows - Hardware Decoding is now supported for Flash Access content
3518662 - Chrome Pepper - Fixes Stability Issues related to Closed Captioning in HTTP Live Streams
3517496 - Internet Explorer - Corrects Video Noise problem on video content at www.nbc.com
3509083 - Chrome Pepper on Mac - HTTP Live Streams now display correctly
3518281 - WinXP - Corrects installation error "FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe entry point not found in ADVAPI32.dll"
3466309 - Chrome Pepper on Windows - Audio is delayed when subscribed to an Enhanced Audio Stream while also Publishing
3504800 - Microphone stops dispatching SampleDataEvents after repeated use
3500511 - Addresses a performance problem with HTTP Live Streaming on Windows 7 that was causing audio/video sync and high CPU usage problems
3506958 - Chrome Pepper for Mac - Corrects an issue where text input fields appeared garbled with the incorrect text or font in some content
3514483 - HTTP Live Streaming - The font and background colors on closed captioned content now display correctly
3512371 - Windows XP - Corrects an issue where Error 3338 was erroneously displayed when playing Output Protected Flash Access content in Repeat mode
3512723 - Chrome Pepper for Mac - Adobe Connect Add-In now correctly launches
3505264 - Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, HotSpot Shield Toolbar 6.10.3.27 - Video does not play in normal screen mode when launched from the Play Video gadget available in the toolbar

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 11.6.602.167 (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)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.146 (Jan 8, 2013)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.136 (Dec 12, 2012)

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)

Fixed Issues:
Background Audio in Android doesnt work(3319954)
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 Features:
Packaging multiple libraries in an ANE (iOS)
Debug stack trace in release builds of Flash Player
Invoke Event enhancement
Static linking of DRM (Desktop only)

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

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

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

ActionScript Workers:
With the introduction of Workers to ActionScript and the Flash Runtime, Flash Developers can now offload certain tasks like high-latency operations and long-running computations to "Background Workers". These Background Workers run concurrently in order to leverage more machine resources and avoid things like UI freezes. Note: To fully leverage ActionScript Workers and be able to debug workers, the next version of Flash Builder is required. This next version of Flash Builder will be made available through public beta in the August timeframe.
Stage3D "constrained" profile for increased GPU reach:
The Flash Player will gate the use of hardware acceleration based on the date of your video card's driver. In previous releases, we gated support to drivers older than January 1, 2008. In this release, we will be changing the gating to apply to drivers older than January 1, 2006. Content using wmode=direct (or renderMode=direct for AIR) should be hardware accelerated on graphics card driver date newer than 1/1/2006 when possible. This applies to Stage3D and [StageVideo|StageVideo] APIs. In addition to that, we added a new profile for Stage3D called "constrained" profile, allowing your content to run hardware accelerated on the previously blacklisted Intel GMA chipsets. See below for more details about this new profile and how to leverage it.
Sandbox Bridge support:
Sandbox bridging allows specific ActionScript objects or functions to be exposed between SWF-to-SWF cross-domain communication. This feature is already available in AIR and is being ported to Flash Player in this release.
LZMA support for ByteArray:
In addition to zlib compression of ByteArray, we are introducing an additional compression type based on LZMA to compress data inside a ByteArray through ByteArray.compress() and ByteArray.uncompress().
Compressed texture with alpha support for Stage3D:
Transparent images are now supported for compressed textures (ATF file format). Note: Stay tuned for the ATF tools which will be made available in the next weeks on Adobe Labs.
Licensing support: Flash Player Premium Features for Gaming:
Supports licensing for the combined use of domain memory (used by some third party tools and the Project "Alchemy" C/C++ compiler) with Stage3D hardware acceleration in Flash Player.

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)

Introduces full Stage3D hardware accelerated graphics for iOS and Android. It allows you to distribute AIR captive runtime versions of apps, enabling you to publish apps immediately to marketplaces such as the iOS App Store, Android Market, and Amazon Appstore.
Release features:
Stage3D hardware accelerated GPU rendering (iOS and Android) -- AIR 3.2 introduces the Stage3D API to iOS and Android. These low-level APIs enable fluid, high-performance 2D and 3D graphics with full GPU acceleration across devices.
Multithreaded Video Decoding (Windows, Mac OS, Linux) - 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 (Windows) - 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.
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.
Security fixes:
Includes security enhancements described in Security Bulletin APSB12-03 (http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-03.html).

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 11.2.202.96 Beta 2 (Nov 23, 2011)

New features:
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 11.1.102.55 (Nov 10, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.2 Beta (Oct 27, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.152 (Oct 4, 2011)

Stage 3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering (Player & AIR desktop + AIR for TV) — Stage 3D is a new architecture for hardware accelerated graphics rendering developed that provides a set of low-level APIs that enable advanced 2D and 3D rendering capabilities across screens and devices (desktop, mobile, and TV). Using Stage 3D, app and framework developers can now access high performance GPU hardware acceleration, enabling the creation of new classes of rich, interactive experiences. Note: Stage 3D for mobile versions of Flash Player & AIR will be enabled in a future release.
Flash Access Content Protection Support for Mobile — Flash Access content protection support is now available on mobile devices including Android powered smartphones and tablets. In addition, content protection is now supported on tablet devices powered by the BlackBerry® Tablet OS. Note: Flash Access for iOS is not supported at this time.
Flash Access Content Protection Enhancements — New Flash Access content protection features include key rotation support, V3 license chaining, domain support and enhanced output protection and device filtering.
Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) — Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS) provides protection for streaming video across screens while eliminating the deployment complexity of a license server.
NetStream.dispose() — Similar to NetStream.close() except that it also clears up the last frame held up by NetStream to be displayed on the Video object. Use this instead of NetStream.close() if the NetStream is to be re-used for other streams later. It enforces garbage collection of the video frame and related decompressor objects. The video object will display a blank frame after the use of this method.
H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras (desktop) — Stream high-quality video from your computer's camera with higher compression efficiency and industry stanard support, enabling both immersive real-time communications such as video chat/conferencing and live video broadcasts.
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.
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.
Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) Support — Allows ActionScript developers to take advantage of high performance native parsing and generation of JSON-formatted data.
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 to 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..
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. Using these new APIs, developers can build applications such as file transfer utilities that monitor socket progress and provide responsive feedback.
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 10.3.183.10 (Sep 22, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.r1.129 RC 1 (Sep 7, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.d1.98 Beta 2 (Aug 10, 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. Note: Stage3D for mobile will be enabled in a future release.
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 newevent 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.
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.
Security Enhancements
This version of Flash Player includes security enhancements described in Security Bulletins APSB11-12 andAPSB11-21.
This version of AIR includes security improvements described in Security Bulletins APSB11- 12 and APSB11-21.

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

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.22 (Jun 6, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 11.0.1.3 Pre (May 18, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.3.181.14 (May 18, 2011)

Media measurement (new in desktop only):
Measure video more easily. Media Measurement for Adobe 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. With Adobe Flash Player 10.3 and Adobe SiteCatalyst, powered by Omniture, developers can implement video analytics for websites with as little as two lines of code. Analytics solution providers can use a set of new open APIs to easily implement consistent video analytics regardless of implementation or delivery protocol.
Acoustic echo cancellation (new in desktop only):
Create real-time online collaboration experiences with high-quality audio, such as telephony, in-game voice chat, and group conferencing applications for desktop PCs. 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.
Support for mobile platforms:
Enable content to reach users across a range of mobile devices, including netbooks, tablets, and smartphones virtually anywhere. Targeted mobile operating systems for Flash Player include Android, BlackBerry TabletOS, and HP webOS.* A porting kit and Linux based reference implementation is available to Open Screen Project partners to port Flash Player to other platforms.
Simplified local storage management (new in desktop only):
Get more control over user privacy with a simpler way to clear local storage from the browser settings interface — similar to how users clear their browser cookies today. It integrates control of local storage with the browser's privacy settings in Mozilla Firefox 4, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and later, Google Chrome 11 (available in Dev Channel), and a future release of Apple Safari.
Local settings manager (new in desktop only):
Manage Flash Player privacy, security, and storage settings more easily with streamlined controls. Users can access the Flash Player Settings Manager directly from the Control Panel or System Preferences on Windows, Mac, and Linux computers.
Auto-update notification for Mac OS (new in desktop only):
Stay current more easily with new features and capabilities thanks to support for automatic notification of software updates on Mac OS.

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.3 RC 1 (Apr 21, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152 RC (Jan 12, 2011)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.151 Beta 1 (Dec 1, 2010)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.161.23 Pre2 (Sep 28, 2010)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.85.3 (Sep 21, 2010)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.161.22S6.0 Pre1 (Sep 16, 2010)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.53.64 (Jun 11, 2010)

Developer Productivity:
Global error handler:
The new global error handler enables developers to write a single handler to process all runtime errors that were not part of a try/catch statement. Improve application reliability and user experience by catching and handling unexpected runtime errors and present custom error messages. When using the global error handler in a SWF running in the debug player, error pop-ups will not be shown.
Globalization support:
New ActionScript globalization APIs allow Flash Player to use the values chosen in the operating system preferences to process text and lists and present information based on location context, without any knowledge of locale requirements. Choose a specific format independent of the currently selected locale on the operating system. Locale specific information and processing can include: date, time, currency and number formatting; currency and number parsing; string comparison for sorting or searching for text; and upper/lower case conversions.
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 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 and multi-touch capable machines running Microsoft Windows 7. Interact with multiple objects simultaneously or work with native gestures, such as pinch, scroll, rotate, scale and two-finger tap. Multi-touch support in Flash Player 10.1 is not available for Android.
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. Developers can specify the rate of accelerometer updates to conserve battery life.
Optimized SWF management for mobile:
Flash Player 10.1 optimizes SWF loading and playback for mobile CPU and memory limitations to provide a better user experience. Instances are loaded or deferred based on SWF priority, visibility and available memory and CPU resources to enable more immediate browsing experiences without waiting for every SWF on a page to load. Developers can indicate SWF priority through a new HTML parameter, hasPriority. Deferred instances are loaded after the HTML page load is complete, and offscreen and invisible instances are started when they become visible. Flash Player will also automatically pause SWF playback it is not in view or the foreground application, for example when a call is received or alarm goes off, to reduce CPU utilization, battery usage and memory usage.
Sleep mode:
The Flash Player timer slows down when the mobile device goes into screen-saver or similar mode to reduce CPU and battery consumption on mobile devices. The timer returns to the default setting when a wake-up event is triggered. There is no interruption in audio/video playback. Incoming phone calls pause Flash Player.
Graphics hardware acceleration:
A GPU-based vector renderer replaces the software renderer on smartphones and other mobile devices, resulting in faster rendering performance for more expressive user experiences while consuming less power. Supports hardware acceleration of all rendering, including vector graphics, bitmaps, 3D effects, filters, color transforms, alpha, device and embedded text, Saffron type, and cacheAsBitmap. Implementation of graphics hardware acceleration will be dependent on the graphics silicon vendor of the device. This feature is not available for Android devices.
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 supported 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. H.264 video hardware acceleration is not supported on the Nexus One at this time.
Out-of-memory management:
Flash Player 10.1 prevents out-of-memory browser crashes by shutting down instances where a SWF attempts to allocate more memory than is available on the device. When a SWF tries to allocate more memory than is available on a device, Flash Player 10.1 adds logic to shut down Flash Player to prevent the browser from crashing. Users will receive notification to restart the SWF, or will see a notice to refresh the page if all instances must be shutdown.
Expanded Options for High Quality Media Delivery:
Flash Player 10.1 includes a number of media quality of service improvements and is ready to take advantage of upcoming media delivery technologies to provide new ways to deliver rich media experiences and create new business models. With new HTTP streaming and content protection features, premium audio and video content can be securely delivered within the browser. Streaming performance is enhanced with improved support for live events, buffer control and peer assisted networking. Network context-aware services will enable smooth, uninterrupted media playback and improved resource utilization on mobile devices.
Peer-assisted networking:
(requires Stratus)
The RTMFP protocol now supports groups, which enables an application to segment its users to send messages and data only between members of the group. Application level multicast provides one (or a few) -to-many streaming of continuous live video and audio live video chat using RTMFP groups.
HTTP streaming:
HTTP streaming enables delivery of video-on-demand and live streaming using standard HTTP servers, or from HTTP servers at CDNs, leveraging standard HTTP infrastructure and SWF-level playback components. The addition of HTTP streaming will enable expanded protocol options to deliver live and recorded media to Flash Player, including full content protection for HTTP streamed video with Flash Access 2.0.
Stream reconnect:
(Requires FMS 3.5.3 server)
Stream reconnect allows an RTMP stream to continue to play through the buffer even if the connection is disrupted, thereby making media experiences more tolerant of short term network failures and enabling non-disruptive video playback. When a connection is re-established the stream resumes playback. Developers can add re-connection logic in ActionScript to re-establish server connection and resume streaming without any disruption in the video.
Smart seek:
(Requires FMS 3.5.3 server):
Smart seek allows you to seek within the buffer and introduces a new "back" buffer so you can easily rewind or fast forward video without going back to the server, reducing the start time after a seek. Smart seek can speed and improve the seeking performance of streamed videos and enable the creation of slow motion, double time, or “instant replay” experiences for streaming video.
Buffered stream catch-up:
Buffered stream catch-up allows developers to set a target latency threshold that triggers slightly accelerated video playback to ensure that live video streaming stays in sync with real time over extended playback periods.
Fast Switch (formerly Dynamic Streaming enhancements):
(Requires FMS 4 server)
The Dynamic Streaming capability introduced in Flash Player 10 and FMS 3.5 is enhanced to improve switching times between bitrates, reducing the time to receive the best viewing experience for available bandwidth and processing speed. Users no longer need to wait for the buffer to play through, resulting in a faster bitrate transition time and an uninterrupted video playback experience, regardless of bandwidth fluctuations.

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1 "Gala" RC (Apr 29, 2010)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1 RC (Apr 6, 2010)

Installation:
In some circumstances, Flash Player will not install on Windows Vista. (2563102)
Installers require administrator rights and should never launch on restricted user accounts (with UAC off) on Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Graphics:
DisplayObjects with overlapping strokes sometimes disappears when redrawn
[FP-3621] Removing and re-adding a Flash movie from the DOM using removeChild and appendChild causes display issues in Internet Explorer
[FP-2290] PerspectiveProjections have problems with click events
3D Facebook game renders incorrectly in Beta 1 and Beta 2 (http://apps.facebook.com/dealornodeallive/)
'Show Redraw Regions' draws on the entire swf even though only a part of it is changing. (1935032)
Images render blank when scaled to specific sizes see example. (2201051)
Networking:
[FP-4053] Flash player crashes after network cable is unplugged. (2570447)
The Settings dialog doesn’t correctly allow Local Storage requests. (2485167)
[FP-1050, FP-1358] Escalation - Active Directory is causing Local Shared Objects to fail when the information is saved on a network location. (2411638)
Safari Only: File Reference upload test always results in a cancelled event. (2467129)
Time stamp doesn't get properly set in the request using URLRequestHeader. (2200991)
FileReference.download does not return an error even it doesn't have enough space to save the file to download. (2316411)
[FP-1585] loaderInfo Event.COMPLETE not dispatched if wmode is "transparent" or "opaque". (2345794)
[FP-2746] Multi-domain inter-VM LocalConnection failure (2446591)
Audio/Video:
[FP-3923] Flash Player crashing with video sites such as YouTube and Vimeo on Transmeta CPU-based device (2558230)
[FP-3912][Mac] Crash on visitprovence.com after music stops (2557133)
[FP-3822] Flash Player crashes when returning from the SampleDataEvent.SAMPLE_DATA listener including the buffer writing and the call of SoundChannel.stop().(2551439)
Some videos do not playback through hardware correctly on CBS.com. (2575332)
Seeking on some Hulu videos produces artifacts on systems with ATI GPUs. (2543121)
[FP-4141] Playing or stopping progressive audio playback in one browser tab can stop a FMS stream in another (2582132)
Some videos on abc.com do not load. (2551592)
Some YouTube videos display incorrect alignment of portions of a video frame (tearing) on the Mac when in full screen. (2556963)
[FP-3199] On Mac OS 10.6, when viewing video on a secondary monitor, going to fullscreen causes it to jump to the primary monitor. (2501177)
Flex 3 Video component doesn’t properly receive events from the Player. (2563564)
[FP-3762] Broadcom CrystalHD Video Decoder bcm70010/bcm70012 is not engaged for H.264 hardware decoding. (2577562)
[FP-4123] Video playback either freezes or screen becomes green on abc.com, audio seems to be still playing. (2582949)
[FP-1844] Certain webcams cause Flash to crash. (2552925)
[FP-3567] Firefox Crash/Hang when running music on Playlist.com
[FP-3921] Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 crashes Internet Explorer 8 in 32bit mode on Playlist.com
In Firefox, clicking quickly on the stop music / play music button before it has completed loading the music, causes a crash (Bugzilla 542164)
[FP-3675] Windows energy saving does not work after viewing video in full-screen mode
Support for the Broadcom BCM70015 (“FLEA”) hardware decoder support is not yet enabled.
NetStream.Buffer.Full event is not fired correctly. Site in question - http://www.cracked.com/video_18108_the-battle-h-town.html. (2501240)
On Broadcom graphics accelerators, NetStream.Step.Notify event doesn’t fire when seeking backwards on video playback.
Video loads slowly or crashes on Internet Explorer when using Nvidia graphics card.
Systems with NVidia graphics processors crash on certain videos on dailymotion.com
Toggling between SD and HD on youtube.com causes a crash on Broadcom Graphics Accelerators.
Audio Stream stays open when playback is paused not allowing computers to be place to sleep
Clicking on/off HQ or HD button on some of the Youtube and CastTV.com trailer videos causes intermittent crash.
On certain graphics cards, green artifacts appear when seeking in video.
[FP-1399] Videos on nbc.com do not play on Linux OSes.
With hardware decoding, cbs.com pause/play video buttons and seeking function intermittently.
On Systems with XP and ATI Graphics cards, hulu.com video can hang after a seek
On systems with a Broadcom Graphics Accelerator, seeking on youtube.com videos can result in a crash.
On the Mac PPC, Safari crashes when streaming a video from some web pages
Audio sync issues when streaming FLV over RTMPE on systems with a Broadcom Graphics Accelerator.
Some videos have their first few frames dropped on systems with a Broadcom Graphics Accelerator.
Some videos crash intermittently on a Broadcom Graphcis Accelerator.
[FP-3081] Some videos on http://www.cbc.ca/video/ never begin playing on Linux OSes
Americanidol.com videos play only on mouse move in Firefox browser in Vista 64-bit OS
Video freezes sometimes when using multi-bit rate streaming in conjunction with hardware video decoding. (2484960)
Scaling of videos (fullscreen) causes blockiness or pixilation. (2486489)
Youtube video stalls after seek backwards. (2470348)
Calling close after calling seek without calling play first won't actually close stream. (2201102)
Attaching and detaching Audio while publishing with record option leads to loss of data. (2216926)
Problem in playing only audio or only video after audio video h264 streaming in same subscriber. (2217003)
When AAC is published from FME, setting buffer from default or 0 to something else e.g. 1 causes playback stop with buffer length growing. (2296673)
Play video then stop, remove from the display list, the CPU usage is about 2.5 - 3.8% higher then before playing the video. (2314914) Live mp3 playback loses audio after 20 min or so. (2341618)
[FP-220] Video stops playing if one right clicks in the browser, even if its in a different tab. (2384290)
Screen dimming while playing video in fullscreen mode. (1935054)
Audio playback worsens on Mac while switching browser tabs with certain videos. (2275111)
[FP-178] -Video.clear fails. Clears only 1 pixel when Video.smoothing = true. (2200576)
[FP-1936] win32 microphone deadlocks on unplug active USB microphone. (2200836)
Text/Text Input:
Textfields uneditable when using Mac OS 10.5 with Chrome browser. (2586905)
On Japanese systems, some fonts are incorrectly mapped to device fonts. (2582146)
Inline graphics are improperly positioned in a TextLine if the parent movie clip is rotated or skewed. (2557265)
[FP-3742, FP-3186] Characters appearing twice when typing in a text input field
Escaping and then unescaping 4 Japanese characters doesn't unescape the last character. (2504228)
In multiline input text field, 'End' key does not work correctly. It moves caret to left of last character.
[FP-3562] In certain situations (https://www.oceaniacruises.com/ships/dining.aspx) only one text line displayed in fields with multiple lines.
[FP-777] Truncation occurs on fonts using advanced anti-aliasing in TextField instances with the autoSize property set to true. (1932320)
High memory usage when using a longer string in TextLine. (1779180)
Text with tracking applied does not align to tab stops correctly. (1883771)
Tracking should not visible after the last character of tcy block. (1894774)
ElementFormat.trackingLeft and ElementFormat.trackingRight are incorrectly applied to GraphicElement. (1906889)
Justify all lines with "Track Right" and "Track Left" leave an empty space after and before each line respectively. (1907579)
Kinsoku Can't-Begin-Line character and Can't End-Line character. settings is ignored if a character in front or after is tcy. (1916601)
FTE TextLine.textWidth exceeds the specified width causing horizontal scrolling problem for Gumbo TextArea. (1929381)
[FP-836, FP-838] Player needs Unicode character input: Hindi, and Maltese characters with accents do not show up properly. (2200969)
[FP-40, FP-501] Cannot enter Chinese characters MS IME or even the @ symbol on a German keyboard in input field on Firefox when wmode is set. (2216616)
Arial Black is not being measured correctly when used with FTE and TCAL/TLE, etc (2216941)
[SDK-18311] Setting scrollRect or mask on a DisplayObject breaks sub-pixel font rendering. (2273704)
Soft hyphenations don't appear in one-word text lines. (2363098)
SWF built to use CharacterRange and new InteractiveObject methods for IME and MSAA support won't run on Flash Player 10.0.22. (2399753)
[FP-1877] Can't input Japanese characters in text field if wmode "opaque" or "transparent" is set true except IE. (2405319)
[FP-40] International text entry broken in Linux reports in Flash Player 9.0.48 or higher. (2201048)
On Mac, a textInput event is fired after the users presses Command+Z. On other platforms, this event is suppressed. (1905332)
TextLine using Bauhaus 93 font causes runtime exception. (2266418)
Double byte characters can't be input in Firefox Mac. (2366116)
TextField variable performance issue. (1455343)
Key-in 80 2-byte Chinese characters with MS Pinyin IME 2003 , display as "?" on Windows XP and Vista in terms. (1639284)
Event flash.events.IMEEvent.IME_COMPOSITION does not fire in 'test movie’ in Flash Professional when composing Chinese, even using MS Pinyin IME 3.0. (1646878)
Arabic vocalization diacritics Tashkil are not rendered correctly. (1930910)
TextInput is newly broken in IE8 when running flash content in any windowless mode. (1933447)
Pressing ALT deletes selected text from a TextInput when wmod=transparent. (2200014)
Ideographic Space AKA Full Size Double Byte Space is changed into "@" with IE7, Flash 10 and WinXP. (2257161)
Cursor and selection behavior is incorrect around control spaces. (2273650)
General:
General stability and performance improvements
Improvements to performance involving object creation.
Many issues involving video playback have been fixed in this release, and users may need to get updated video drivers ATI, NVidia, Broadcom, or Intel.
Flash Player crashes on PPC when visiting netcombo.globo.com (2413326)
On Max OS 10.6, the Flash Player may crash with some content when refreshing Safari 4. (2593045)
Mac crashes on file upload. (2551342)
Crash on Kongregate.com when game starts. (2513781)
Crash during JavaScript animation with Flash content on Windows Mozilla browser. (2444251) [Bugzilla 487938]
Crash from http://kingofads.doritos.co.uk/video/1699695476.
registerClassAlias encountering null CodeContexts. (2536419)
[FP-3631] Mouse hide does not function when wmode = transparent on Chrome Browser. (2530721)
On Mac OS 10.6, when going to fullscreen from Safari, the mouse cursor doesn’t disappear as expected. (2559389)
Full screen rendering fails on some PowerPC configurations. (2575377)
[FP-3985] Removing and re-adding a Flash movie from the DOM using removeChild and appendChild causes display issues in Internet Explorer. (2562426)
[FP-4006] For the Plugin player on Windows and Mac, portions of www.burton.com do not render. (2569188)
[FP-3897] Full screen mode on secondary monitor incorrectly references to primary monitor for mouse interactions on the Mac OS. (2569371)
RegisterClassAlias does not work in child applications in a separate ApplicationDomain. (2200730)
On Mac OS, there is considerable latency in closing tabs with instance-heavy pages. (2579652)
[FP-3732] JavascriptFlashGateway.swf does not forward messages from JavaScript to Flash if it is not (2538746).
[FP-383] ExternalInterface.objectID is not set
Performance has decreased for the ByteArray and Vector objects. (2498076)
Settings UI does not respond to clicks. Firefox Only / PPC. (2501976)
[FP-3226] Flash objects have to be clicked once before interaction is possible using the mouse
Clipboard keyboard shortcuts don't function in Safari 3 and Safari 4. (2472648)
[FP-3354] Certain games at the Atari site can cause a crash
[FP-3411] Performance of ByteArray and Vector classes dramatically lower than Flash Player 10. Runtime error 1221 is thrown on every third loaded image
Performance of describeType() has degraded.
File Reference filtering does not work properly on Mac OS.
[Bugzilla 539328] describeType(Interface) output changed in FP v10.1
[Bugzilla 487938] On Windows, invoking a modal dialog during a JavaScript animation with SWF content causes Firefox to crash
[FP-792] Class registered with registerClassAlias is accessible through different application domain.
[FP-3238] FileReference.download defaultFileName is broken in OS X.
Rollover events don’t work properly in Mac OS X and Firefox in certain circumstances
AMF serialization doesn't work correctly with multiple ApplicationDomains
jibjab.com videos control toolbar does not respond properly to the mouse moves in IE browser
On Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, In the Google Chrome or Opera browsers, right-clicking to brings up the context menu at the bottom left of the desktop.
[Bugzilla 534857] Flash Player Beta 10.1 disables Crash-reporter (Breakpad) in Firefox on Windows
ActionScript object creation in 10.1 is more than 50% slower than it was in 10.0
[FP-3526] On the Mac OS with Firefox, Flash Player playback pauses when bookmarks opened
[FP-3530] Safari crashes or quit suddenly on the Mac when switching to next scenario during play of http://www.scarygirl.com/world.php
[FP-3568] Some games fail to load (http://www.greatdaygames.com/games/alus-revenge.aspx) in Internet Explorer.
[FP-2118] FileReference.upload does not support files 0-bytes in size. (2422598)
Cannot do paste with keyboard shortcut (CMD+v) in Flash Player applications on Safari/Mac. (2472939)
Clipboard keyboard shortcuts don't function in Safari3 and 4. (2472648)
Flash Player now offers scroll-wheel support in browsers that support Cocoa events, such as Apple's Safari 4 browser.
flash.trace.Trace doesn't return packages for methods in the classes which are internal. (2200893)
rollOut not received when a hovered descendant is removed from the display list. (2344043)
[FP-2563] Saving a SharedObject larger than 10MB always returns "SharedObject.Flush.Failed" from Local Storage increase dialog. (2449156)
General webcam/microphone functionality not working. (2201070)
[FP-922] mouseX, mouseY value changes on external click in Mac plug-in. (2200963)
[FP-2009] CPU Utilization in an idle app is more than expected on Mac. (2294236)
Objects with negative origins fall out of the tab order. (2200980)
[FP-1034, FP-809] Flash Player can not save over files initially saved with a browser IE 7 on a clean Vista Home machine or Ultimate Vista with UAC enabled. (2217092)
Stage-placed SimpleButton references not defined in time for frame scripts (2275212)
[FP-1633] Full screen message is not localized in Czech.(2289525)
[FP-2630] Capabilities.os doesn't return specific Windows 7 string, but just a generic "Windows" string instead. (2328444)
[FP-2428] Buttons are null when navigating from frame to frame if a button contains a MovieClip. (2389049)
Pressing a key causes a Sprite to be pinned in memory. (2302574)
Page Down and Page Up keys do not trigger key events when testing with Safari. (2309814)
[FP-702] PrintJob page size incorrectly returns values that include non printable margins. (2201057)
[FP-1025] Player 10 detection failure after reboot, Vista. (1938166)
Browser
[FP-3765] Full screen mode doesn't work in Chrome
Firefox crashes when visiting Blackberry site while spoofing as IE (Bugzilla 476580)
In Chrome, Flash Player crash @ memcpy (29556)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.51.95 Beta 3 (Feb 24, 2010)

Installation:
Installers require administrator rights and should never launch on restricted user accounts (with UAC off) on Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Graphics:
DisplayObjects with overlapping strokes sometimes disappears when redrawn
[FP-3621] Removing and re-adding a Flash movie from the DOM using removeChild and appendChild causes display issues in Internet Explorer
[FP-2290] PerspectiveProjections have problems with click events
3D Facebook game renders incorrectly in Beta 1 and Beta 2 (http://apps.facebook.com/dealornodeallive/)
'Show Redraw Regions' draws on the entire swf even though only a part of it is changing. (1935032)
Images render blank when scaled to specific sizes see example. (2201051)
Networking:
The Settings dialog doesn’t correctly allow Local Storage requests. (2485167)
[FP-1050, FP-1358] Escalation - Active Directory is causing Local Shared Objects to fail when the information is saved on a network location. (2411638)
Safari Only: File Reference upload test always results in a cancelled event. (2467129)
Time stamp doesn't get properly set in the request using URLRequestHeader. (2200991)
FileReference.download does not return an error even it doesn't have enough space to save the file to download. (2316411)
[FP-1585] loaderInfo Event.COMPLETE not dispatched if wmode is "transparent" or "opaque". (2345794)
[FP-2746] Multi-domain inter-VM LocalConnection failure (2446591)
Audio/Video:
[FP-3567] Firefox Crash/Hang when running music on Playlist.com
[FP-3921] Flash Player 10.1 beta 2 crashes Internet Explorer 8 in 32bit mode on Playlist.com
In Firefox, clicking quickly on the stop music / play music button before it has completed loading the music, causes a crash (Bugzilla 542164)
[FP-3675] Windows energy saving does not work after viewing video in full-screen mode
Support for the Broadcom BCM70015 (“FLEA”) hardware decoder support is not yet enabled.
NetStream.Buffer.Full event is not fired correctly. Site in question - http://www.cracked.com/video_18108_the-battle-h-town.html. (2501240)
On Broadcom graphics accelerators, NetStream.Step.Notify event doesn’t fire when seeking backwards on video playback.
Video loads slowly or crashes on Internet Explorer when using Nvidia graphics card. Systems with NVidia graphics processors crash on certain videos on dailymotion.com
Toggling between SD and HD on youtube.com causes a crash on Broadcom Graphics Accelerators.
Audio Stream stays open when playback is paused not allowing computers to be place to sleep
Clicking on/off HQ or HD button on some of the Youtube and CastTV.com trailer videos causes intermittent crash.
On certain graphics cards, green artifacts appear when seeking in video.
[FP-1399] Videos on nbc.com do not play on Linux OSes.
With hardware decoding, cbs.com pause/play video buttons and seeking function intermittently.
On Systems with XP and ATI Graphics cards, hulu.com video can hang after a seek
On systems with a Broadcom Graphics Accelerator, seeking on youtube.com videos can result in a crash.
On the Mac PPC, Safari crashes when streaming a video from some web pages
Audio sync issues when streaming FLV over RTMPE on systems with a Broadcom Graphics Accelerator.
Some videos have their first few frames dropped on systems with a Broadcom Graphics Accelerator.
Some videos crash intermittently on a Broadcom Graphcis Accelerator.
[FP-3081] Some videos on http://www.cbc.ca/video/ never begin playing on Linux OSes
Americanidol.com videos play only on mouse move in Firefox browser in Vista 64-bit OS
Video freezes sometimes when using multi-bit rate streaming in conjunction with hardware video decoding. (2484960)
Scaling of videos (fullscreen) causes blockiness or pixilation. (2486489)
Youtube video stalls after seek backwards. (2470348)
Calling close after calling seek without calling play first won't actually close stream. (2201102)
Attaching and detaching Audio while publishing with record option leads to loss of data. (2216926)
Problem in playing only audio or only video after audio video h264 streaming in same subscriber. (2217003)
When AAC is published from FME, setting buffer from default or 0 to something else e.g. 1 causes playback stop with buffer length growing. (2296673)
Play video then stop, remove from the display list, the CPU usage is about 2.5 - 3.8% higher then before playing the video. (2314914)
Live mp3 playback loses audio after 20 min or so. (2341618)
[FP-220] Video stops playing if one right clicks in the browser, even if its in a different tab. (2384290)
Screen dimming while playing video in fullscreen mode. (1935054)
Audio playback worsens on Mac while switching browser tabs with certain videos. (2275111)
[FP-178] -Video.clear fails. Clears only 1 pixel when Video.smoothing = true. (2200576)
[FP-1936] win32 microphone deadlocks on unplug active USB microphone. (2200836)
Text/Text Input:
[FP-3742, FP-3186] Characters appearing twice when typing in a text input field
Escaping and then unescaping 4 Japanese characters doesn't unescape the last character. (2504228)
In multiline input text field, 'End' key does not work correctly. It moves caret to left of last character.
[FP-3562] In certain situations (https://www.oceaniacruises.com/ships/dining.aspx) only one text line displayed in fields with multiple lines.
[FP-777] Truncation occurs on fonts using advanced anti-aliasing in TextField instances with the autoSize property set to true. (1932320)
High memory usage when using a longer string in TextLine. (1779180)
Text with tracking applied does not align to tab stops correctly. (1883771)
Tracking should not visible after the last character of tcy block. (1894774)
ElementFormat.trackingLeft and ElementFormat.trackingRight are incorrectly applied to GraphicElement. (1906889)
Justify all lines with "Track Right" and "Track Left" leave an empty space after and before each line respectively. (1907579)
Kinsoku Can't-Begin-Line character and Can't End-Line character. settings is ignored if a character in front or after is tcy. (1916601)
FTE TextLine.textWidth exceeds the specified width causing horizontal scrolling problem for Gumbo TextArea. (1929381)
[FP-836, FP-838] Player needs Unicode character input: Hindi, and Maltese characters with accents do not show up properly. (2200969)
[FP-40, FP-501] Cannot enter Chinese characters MS IME or even the @ symbol on a German keyboard in input field on Firefox when wmode is set. (2216616)
Arial Black is not being measured correctly when used with FTE and TCAL/TLE, etc (2216941)
[SDK-18311] Setting scrollRect or mask on a DisplayObject breaks sub-pixel font rendering. (2273704)
Soft hyphenations don't appear in one-word text lines. (2363098)
SWF built to use CharacterRange and new InteractiveObject methods for IME and MSAA support won't run on Flash Player 10.0.22. (2399753)
[FP-1877] Can't input Japanese characters in text field if wmode "opaque" or "transparent" is set true except IE. (2405319)
[FP-40] International text entry broken in Linux reports in Flash Player 9.0.48 or higher. (2201048)
On Mac, a textInput event is fired after the users presses Command+Z. On other platforms, this event is suppressed. (1905332)
TextLine using Bauhaus 93 font causes runtime exception. (2266418)
Double byte characters can't be input in Firefox Mac. (2366116)
TextField variable performance issue. (1455343)
Key-in 80 2-byte Chinese characters with MS Pinyin IME 2003 , display as "?" on Windows XP and Vista in terms. (1639284)
Event flash.events.IMEEvent.IME_COMPOSITION does not fire in 'test movie’ in Flash Professional when composing Chinese, even using MS Pinyin IME 3.0. (1646878)
Arabic vocalization diacritics Tashkil are not rendered correctly. (1930910)
TextInput is newly broken in IE8 when running flash content in any windowless mode. (1933447)
Pressing ALT deletes selected text from a TextInput when wmod=transparent. (2200014)
Ideographic Space AKA Full Size Double Byte Space is changed into "@" with IE7, Flash 10 and WinXP. (2257161)
Cursor and selection behavior is incorrect around control spaces. (2273650)
General:
General stability and performance improvements
[FP-383] ExternalInterface.objectID is not set
Performance has decreased for the ByteArray and Vector objects. (2498076)
Settings UI does not respond to clicks. Firefox Only / PPC. (2501976)
[FP-3226] Flash objects have to be clicked once before interaction is possible using the mouse
Clipboard keyboard shortcuts don't function in Safari 3 and Safari 4. (2472648)
[FP-3354] Certain games at the Atari site can cause a crash
[FP-3411] Performance of ByteArray and Vector classes dramatically lower than Flash Player 10. Runtime error 1221 is thrown on every third loaded image
Performance of describeType() has degraded.
File Reference filtering does not work properly on Mac OS.
[Bugzilla 539328] describeType(Interface) output changed in FP v10.1
[Bugzilla 487938] On Windows, invoking a modal dialog during a JavaScript animation with SWF content causes Firefox to crash
[FP-792] Class registered with registerClassAlias is accessible through different application domain.
[FP-3238] FileReference.download defaultFileName is broken in OS X.
Rollover events don’t work properly in Mac OS X and Firefox in certain circumstances
AMF serialization doesn't work correctly with multiple ApplicationDomains
jibjab.com videos control toolbar does not respond properly to the mouse moves in IE browser
On Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6, In the Google Chrome or Opera browsers, right-clicking to brings up the context menu at the bottom left of the desktop.
[Bugzilla 534857] Flash Player Beta 10.1 disables Crash-reporter (Breakpad) in Firefox on Windows
ActionScript object creation in 10.1 is more than 50% slower than it was in 10.0
[FP-3526] On the Mac OS with Firefox, Flash Player playback pauses when bookmarks opened
[FP-3530] Safari crashes or quit suddenly on the Mac when switching to next scenario during play of http://www.scarygirl.com/world.php
[FP-3568] Some games fail to load (http://www.greatdaygames.com/games/alus-revenge.aspx) in Internet Explorer.
[FP-2118] FileReference.upload does not support files 0-bytes in size. (2422598)
Cannot do paste with keyboard shortcut (CMD+v) in Flash Player applications on Safari/Mac. (2472939)
Clipboard keyboard shortcuts don't function in Safari3 and 4. (2472648)
Flash Player now offers scroll-wheel support in browsers that support Cocoa events, such as Apple's Safari 4 browser.
flash.trace.Trace doesn't return packages for methods in the classes which are internal. (2200893)
rollOut not received when a hovered descendant is removed from the display list. (2344043)
[FP-2563] Saving a SharedObject larger than 10MB always returns "SharedObject.Flush.Failed" from Local Storage increase dialog. (2449156)
General webcam/microphone functionality not working. (2201070)
[FP-922] mouseX, mouseY value changes on external click in Mac plug-in. (2200963)
[FP-2009] CPU Utilization in an idle app is more than expected on Mac. (2294236)
Objects with negative origins fall out of the tab order. (2200980)
[FP-1034, FP-809] Flash Player can not save over files initially saved with a browser IE 7 on a clean Vista Home machine or Ultimate Vista with UAC enabled. (2217092)
Stage-placed SimpleButton references not defined in time for frame scripts (2275212)
[FP-1633] Full screen message is not localized in Czech.(2289525)
[FP-2630] Capabilities.os doesn't return specific Windows 7 string, but just a generic "Windows" string instead. (2328444)
[FP-2428] Buttons are null when navigating from frame to frame if a button contains a MovieClip. (2389049)
Pressing a key causes a Sprite to be pinned in memory. (2302574)
Page Down and Page Up keys do not trigger key events when testing with Safari. (2309814)
[FP-702] PrintJob page size incorrectly returns values that include non printable margins. (2201057)
[FP-1025] Player 10 detection failure after reboot, Vista. (1938166)
Browser:
[FP-3765] Full screen mode doesn't work in Chrome
Firefox crashes when visiting Blackberry site while spoofing as IE (Bugzilla 476580)
In Chrome, Flash Player crash @ memcpy (29556)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.51.66 Beta 2 (Dec 18, 2009)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.42.34 (Dec 9, 2009)

Many Linux camera issues have been fixed. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
Linux full-screen optimizations have been made. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
startDrag() does not work when movie clip is 3D. (216415)
LiveCycle WorkSpace cannot log in using Flash Player 10 Beta. (223394) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
Vector printing on Macs works now!
New Text Engine: Vector Printing isn't currently enabled.
Custom Filters and Effects:
Mac PPC: Color distortions may appear when applying a Shader. ShaderJob returns unexpected values for some Pixel Bender functions.
Linux: Shader Jobs may return NaN instead of an expected Number value.
Drawing API: Strokes are not visible on paths drawn with drawTriangles or GraphicsTrianglePaths. The lineShaderStyle is not implemented in Flash Player 10 Beta.
Context Menu: The new AS3 Clipboard is currently only working for Mac and Windows. It is not yet working for the Unix players.
Uploading images using Photoshop Express does not work with Flash Player 10 Beta. (1786882) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
Dynamic Streaming:
A crash when switching between videos of different resolutions has been fixed.
A new Play Status event when switching between streams now actually happens: NetStream.Play.TransitionComplete.
RTMFP:
Changing NetStream.BufferTime on the subscriber side of P2P connection, causes video to stop and possible crash
No NetStream onStatus messages received when using NetStream.pause(), NetStream.resume() or NetStream.togglePause() for P2P connection
Intermittent crashes/hangs when subscribing/unsubscribing multiple times to P2P NetStream.
peerStreams array includes null streams in some cases.
Speex:
Disconnect and re-connect network on Mac publisher causes sending garbled audio with USB audio devices. (227185)
Speex audio may deteriorate when computer is overloaded. (222082)
Peer-to-peer Nellymoser may incur in quality degradation when packets are lost. (222469)
Soundtransform for Speex does not work in loopback mode
Linux-specific issues:
Flash Player 10 hangs when subscribing to a live audio stream. (222283)
Linux subscriber receives deteriorated audio for about 20 seconds when switching from Nellymoser to Speex codec. (222306)
Linux Subscriber P2P only: When Nellymoser audio is attached, the video plays slowly on the subscriber side. (222851)
Video playback issues on PPC Macs have been resolved.
Setting data on the system clipboard using System.setClipboard() now requires user interaction. This security enhancement helps mitigate potential clipboard attacks, and developers may need to update existing content.

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.1.51.45 Beta (Nov 17, 2009)

The first runtime release of the Open Screen Project that enables uncompromised Web browsing of expressive applications, content and video across devices.
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.
Screen orientation (mobile only):
SWF content can adjust to screen orientation changes, such as switching between portrait and landscape modes, consistent with built-in applications on devices. Event information gives developers the option to
change the layout or format of their content when reorientation occurs, whether this occurs because of accelerometer input or other user input (e.g., when a slider keyboard opens).
Optimized SWF management for mobile (mobile only):
Flash Player 10.1 optimizes SWF loading and playback for mobile CPU and memory limitations to provide a better user experience. Instances are loaded or deferred based on SWF priority, visibility and available memory and CPU resources to enable more immediate browsing experiences without waiting for every SWF on a page to load. Developers can indicate SWF priority through a new HTML parameter, hasPriority. Deferred instances are loaded after the HTML page load is complete, and offscreen and invisible instances are started when they become visible. Flash Player will also automatically pause SWF
playback it is not in view or the foreground application, for example when a call is received or alarm goes off, to reduce CPU utilization, battery usage and memory usage.
Sleep mode (mobile only):
The Flash Player timer slows down when the mobile device goes into screen-saver or similar mode to reduce CPU and battery consumption on mobile devices. The timer returns to the default setting when a wake-up event is triggered. There is no interruption in audio/video playback. Incoming phone calls pause Flash Player.
Graphics hardware acceleration (mobile only):
A GPU-based vector renderer replaces the software renderer on smartphones and other mobile devices, resulting in faster rendering performance for more expressive user experiences while consuming less
power. Supports hardware acceleration of all rendering, including vector graphics, bitmaps, 3D effects, filters, color transforms, alpha, device and embedded text, Saffron type, and cacheAsBitmap.
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.
Adaptive frame rate (mobile only):
Flash Player will monitor and lower the SWF frame rate to provide greater processing power for rendering, which can improve content usability and conserve CPU utilization on resource constrained mobile devices.
If the frame rate drops below the threshold, Flash Player will drop frames to achieve the defined default frame rate of the SWF.
Fixed Issues:
[FP-###] denotes bugs that are filed in the Adobe Flash Player Bug and Issue Management System
(https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer).
Graphics:
'Show Redraw Regions' draws on the entire swf even though only a part of it is changing. (1935032)
Images render blank when scaled to specific sizes see example. (2201051)
Network:
Time stamp doesn't get properly set in the request using URLRequestHeader. (2200991)
FileReference.download does not return an error even it doesn't have enough space to save the file to download. (2316411)
[FP-1585] loaderInfo Event.COMPLETE not dispatched if wmode is "transparent" or "opaque". (2345794)
[FP-2746] Multi-domain inter-VM LocalConnection failure (2446591)
Audio/Video:
Calling close after calling seek without calling play first won't actually close stream. (2201102)
Attaching and detaching Audio while publishing with record option leads to loss of data. (2216926)
Problem in playing only audio or only video after audio video h264 streaming in same subscriber. (2217003)
When AAC is published from FME, setting buffer from default or 0 to something else e.g. 1 causes playback stop with buffer length growing. (2296673)
Play video then stop, remove from the display list, the CPU usage is about 2.5 - 3.8% higher then before playing the video. (2314914)
Live mp3 playback loses audio after 20 min or so. (2341618)
[FP-220] Video stops playing if one right clicks in the browser, even if its in a different tab. (2384290)
Screen dimming while playing video in fullscreen mode. (1935054)
Audio playback worsens on Mac while switching browser tabs with certain videos. (2275111)
[FP-178] -Video.clear fails. Clears only 1 pixel when Video.smoothing = true. (2200576)
[FP-1936] win32 microphone deadlocks on unplug active USB microphone. (2200836)
Text/Text Input:
High memory usage when using a longer string in TextLine. (1779180)
Text with tracking applied does not align to tab stops correctly. (1883771)
Tracking should not visible after the last character of tcy block. (1894774)
ElementFormat.trackingLeft and ElementFormat.trackingRight are incorrectly applied to GraphicElement. (1906889)
Justify all lines with "Track Right" and "Track Left" leave an empty space after and before each line respectively. (1907579)
Kinsoku Can't-Begin-Line character and Can't End-Line character. settings is ignored if a character in front or after is tcy. (1916601)
FTE TextLine.textWidth exceeds the specified width causing horizontal scrolling problem for Gumbo TextArea. (1929381)
[FP-836, FP-838] Player needs Unicode character input: Hindi, and Maltese characters with accents do not show up properly. (2200969)
[FP-40, FP-501] Cannot enter Chinese characters MS IME or even the @ symbol on a German keyboard in input field on Firefox when wmode is set. (2216616)
Arial Black is not being measured correctly when used with FTE and TCAL/TLE, etc (2216941)
[SDK-18311] Setting scrollRect or mask on a DisplayObject breaks sub-pixel font rendering. (2273704)
Soft hyphenations don't appear in one-word text lines. (2363098)
SWF built to use CharacterRange and new InteractiveObject methods for IME and MSAA support won't run on Flash Player 10.0.22. (2399753)
[FP-1877] Can't input Japanese characters in text field if wmode "opaque" or "transparent" is set true except IE. (2405319)
[FP-40] International text entry broken in Linux reports in Flash Player 9.0.48 or higher. (2201048)
On Mac, a textInput event is fired after the users presses Command+Z. On other platforms, this event is suppressed. (1905332)
TextLine using Bauhaus 93 font causes runtime exception. (2266418)
Double byte characters can't be input in Firefox Mac. (2366116)
TextField variable performance issue. (1455343)
Key-in 80 2-byte Chinese characters with MS Pinyin IME 2003 , display as "?" on Windows XP and Vista in terms. (1639284)
Event flash.events.IMEEvent.IME_COMPOSITION does not fire in 'test movie’ in Flash Professional when composing Chinese, even using MS Pinyin IME 3.0. (1646878)
Arabic vocalization diacritics Tashkil are not rendered correctly. (1930910) TextInput is newly broken in IE8 when running flash content in any windowless mode. (1933447)
Pressing ALT deletes selected text from a TextInput when wmod=transparent. (2200014)
Ideographic Space AKA Full Size Double Byte Space is changed into "@" with IE7, Flash 10 and WinXP. (2257161)
Cursor and selection behavior is incorrect around control spaces. (2273650)
General :
Flash Player now offers scroll-wheel support in browsers that support Cocoa events, such as Apple's Safari 4 browser.
flash.trace.Trace doesn't return packages for methods in the classes which are internal. (2200893)
rollOut not received when a hovered descendant is removed from the display list. (2344043)
[FP-2563] Saving a SharedObject larger than 10MB always returns "SharedObject.Flush.Failed" from Local Storage increase dialog. (2449156)
General webcam/microphone functionality not working. (2201070)
[FP-922] mouseX, mouseY value changes on external click in Mac plug-in. (2200963)
[FP-2009] CPU Utilization in an idle app is more than expected on Mac. (2294236)
Objects with negative origins fall out of the tab order. (2200980)
[FP-1034, FP-809] Flash Player can not save over files initially saved with a browser IE 7 on a clean Vista Home machine or Ultimate Vista with UAC enabled. (2217092)
Stage-placed SimpleButton references not defined in time for frame scripts (2275212)
[FP-1633] Full screen message is not localized in Czech.(2289525)
[FP-2630] Capabilities.os doesn't return specific Windows 7 string, but just a generic "Windows" string instead. (2328444)
[FP-2428] Buttons are null when navigating from frame to frame if a button contains a MovieClip. (2389049)
Pressing a key causes a Sprite to be pinned in memory. (2302574)
Page Down and Page Up keys do not trigger key events when testing with Safari. (2309814)
[FP-702] PrintJob page size incorrectly returns values that include non printable margins. (2201057)
[FP-1025] Player 10 detection failure after reboot, Vista. (1938166)

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

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.12.10 (Sep 16, 2008)

Many Linux camera issues have been fixed. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
Linux full-screen optimizations have been made. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
startDrag() does not work when movie clip is 3D. (216415)
LiveCycle WorkSpace cannot log in using Flash Player 10 Beta. (223394) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
Vector printing on Macs works now!
New Text Engine: Vector Printing isn't currently enabled.
Mac PPC: Color distortions may appear when applying a Shader. ShaderJob returns unexpected values for some Pixel Bender functions.
Linux: Shader Jobs may return NaN instead of an expected Number value.
Drawing API: Strokes are not visible on paths drawn with drawTriangles or GraphicsTrianglePaths. The lineShaderStyle is not implemented in Flash Player 10 Beta.
Context Menu: The new AS3 Clipboard is currently only working for Mac and Windows. It is not yet working for the Unix players.
Uploading images using Photoshop Express does not work with Flash Player 10 Beta. (1786882) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
A crash when switching between videos of different resolutions has been fixed.
A new Play Status event when switching between streams now actually happens: NetStream.Play.TransitionComplete.
Changing NetStream.BufferTime on the subscriber side of P2P connection, causes video to stop and possible crash
No NetStream onStatus messages received when using NetStream.pause(), NetStream.resume() or NetStream.togglePause() for P2P connection
Intermittent crashes/hangs when subscribing/unsubscribing multiple times to P2P NetStream.
peerStreams array includes null streams in some cases.
Disconnect and re-connect network on Mac publisher causes sending garbled audio with USB audio devices.
Speex audio may deteriorate when computer is overloaded.
Peer-to-peer Nellymoser may incur in quality degradation when packets are lost.
Soundtransform for Speex does not work in loopback mode.
Video playback issues on PPC Macs have been resolved.

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.2.26 (Aug 12, 2008)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta 3 (Jul 9, 2008)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10 Beta 2 (Jul 3, 2008)

New in Adobe Flash Player 10.0.1 Beta 218 (May 16, 2008)