March 10, 2008
Preparing for the upcoming April 2008 Flash Player 9 Security Update
We are planning to release a security update to Flash Player 9 in April 2008 that further mitigates previously disclosed vulnerabilities. Because these security enhancements may impact existing SWF content for some customers, we are giving advanced notice of these changes so that you have time to prepare before the player is released.
The information Adobe is providing right now is for developers, IT departments and Web administrators to better prepare for the next update to Flash Player. End users do not need to take actions at this time but should update to the latest player in April upon its release.
The Adobe Developer Connection article describes who and what types of content may be impacted, the changes, and what you should do immediately to implement any necessary changes to ensure a seamless transition when the updated Player launches.
For those of you whom the following situations apply, please read the Adobe Developer Connection article in detail:
* Use of sockets or XMLSockets, regardless of the domain the SWF is connecting to
* Use of addRequestHeader or URLRequest.requestHeaders in any network API call when sending or loading data cross-domain OR Provides access to content on remote domains as a web service provider
* Use of SWFs that are exported for Flash Player 7 (SWF7) or below that communicate with the hosting HTML by any means
* Use of '"javascript:'" through network APIs to communicate outside a SWF
Preparing for the April 2008 Flash Player 9 Security Update
For more information about Flash Player security, visit
Flash Player Security and Privacy page
Flash Player Security section of the Adobe Developer Connection
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Going on vacation
I'll be on vacation starting today through August, so my blog will be quiet through Spring/Summer. I'm going to turn off comments for now, since they're moderated and I won't be able to get to them.
To keep up to date, check:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna
Justin's blog (Sr. Product Manager, Flash Player
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January 29, 2008
Flash Player 9.0.115.0 for Solaris now availalbe
Flash Player 9.0.115.0 is now available on Adobe.com for the Solaris x86 and SPARC platforms. This update also addresses the issues in Security Bulletin APSB07-20 for Solaris. The one big known issue listed in the release notes is that the full screen hardware scaling feature is not supported on SPARC platforms at this time.
Thanks to everyone who tested and provided feedback on the Adobe Labs beta!
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January 17, 2008
Flash Player 9 @ 95.7% in December study
It's been up for a few weeks now, but the quarterly study results for December are now available. Note that this wave includes emerging markets, which are every other quarter.
The first row is how we present the data on the website. It tells you the percentage of people that can view a SWF of that version. The second row, is the % of the population with that player version installed (the delta between v and v+1).
| December 2007 - Mature Markets | v6 | v7 | v8 | v9 |
| % able to view content by SWF version | 98.8% | 98.8% | 98.3% | 95.7% |
| Install base by version | 0.0% | 0.5% | 2.6% | 95.7% |
| December 2007 - Emerging Markets | v6 | v7 | v8 | v9 |
| % able to view content by SWF version | 97.4% | 97.3% | 95.5% | 93.3% |
| Install base by version | 0.1% | 1.8% | 2.2% | 93.3% |
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December 05, 2007
9.0.115.0 Debug versions are also available
Sorry I missed this in the original post! Debug players are available on the Support downloads page.
Yes, Linux debug and standalone players are also available.
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December 03, 2007
Flash Player 9 Update 3 (9.0.115.0) now available
Flash Player 9 Update 3, with H.264 support, is now available from the download center.
This was a ginormous release for us, and for you. This release brings:
* New audio/video options with H.264/HE-AAC codec support
* Improved Performance through multi-core support for rendering, hardware scaling in full-screen, multi-threaded video decoding, a new algorithm for image scaling, and the Flash Player cache for local caching of common platform components to reduce SWF sizes and app loading times
* Support for full-screen mode for Linux
* MSAA Accessibility support for the plugin
* Mac OS X Leopard support
* And bug fixes
WHEW!
Resources
* Take a look at our updated product page! We've got the new logo, an updated look and feel, and an updated datasheet. The feature demo has also been updated to include an H.264 video clip and full screen demo.
* Press Release
* Release Notes
* Check the Dev Center for new articles and updates
* Check the support center for new Technotes
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November 01, 2007
Mac update for Moviestar on Adobe Labs to fix FileReference issue
We updated the Mac release candidate on Adobe Labs last night so that Leopard users who are running into the FileReference problem have a reasonable workaround for this issue. This is still a release candidate and not the final release, but we didn't want this functionality to be broken for Leopard users between now and release.
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October 29, 2007
Adobe products and Leopard support
Adobe has posted an FAQ about Leopard support for CS products.
Yes, Flash Player 9 is Leopard-compatible and we will continue to work with Apple on any outstanding issues. We're working on a player specific technote to call out known issues, such as the one with FileReference upload/download which will be fixed in the upcoming Moviestar release.
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October 01, 2007
Video of Astro in Day 1 MAX 2007 keynote
If you missed the keynote, or weren't able to make it to Chicago for MAX this year, Aral Balkan has a video clip of us presenting a few of the Astro features on his blog.
Aral's blog on the Astro keynote
I am very pleased with how the demos came through, and we have a lot of people to thank for pulling them together so that we could show them to you:
* Creating assets and generally busting his a** to get the demos together: Justin Everett-Church, Sr. Product Manager for Flash Player!!!
* Text demo of bidi/complex scripts: Jerry Hall, Eric Muller, Sairus Patel in Core Tech. Core Tech is working closely with our team on the layout engine. We are talking about some super text gurus!
* Adobe Edge: Robin Briggs, who is leading the text component library engineering effort
* 3D: Chris Nuuja, Flash Player engineering, for getting us a build with the new 3D APIs (while we're working on Moviestar)
* Kevin Goldsmith, Bob Archer, and Elba Sobrino (and probably more from the Adobe Image Foundation team) for their awesome work on the Hydra language, the toolkit, sample filters and getting it up on Adobe Labs today
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September 30, 2007
Flash Player Administration Guide for IT admins
Someone asked in comments if we had a document like this (http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2007/09/28/deploying-silverlight-in-the-enterprise.aspx) for Flash Player.
Why, yes we do!
The Flash Player Administration Guide went live August 27th. It covers the environment, installation, admin settings, user settings, and security considerations. Please send feedback!
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