Adobe Flash Player

Last updated

2016-1019 that could be used to deliver malware via the Magnitude exploit kit. The vulnerability could be exploited for remote code execution. [177] [178]

Vendor lock-in

Flash Player 11.2 does not play certain kinds of content unless it has been digitally signed by Adobe, following a license obtained by the publisher directly from Adobe. [179]

This move by Adobe, together with the abandonment of Flex to Apache was criticized as a way to lock out independent tool developers, in favor of Adobe's commercial tools. [180] [181] [182]

This has been resolved as of January 2013, after Adobe no longer requires a license or royalty from the developer. All premium features are now classified as general availability, and can be freely used by Flash applications. [183]

Apple controversy

In April 2010, Steve Jobs, at the time CEO of Apple Inc. published an open letter explaining why Apple would not support Flash on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. [174] In the letter he blamed problems with the "openness", stability, security, performance, and touchscreen integration of the Flash Player as reasons for refusing to support it. He also claimed that when one of Apple's Macintosh computers crashes, "more often than not" the cause can be attributed to Flash, and described Flash as "buggy". [184] Adobe's CEO Shantanu Narayen responded by saying, "If Flash [is] the number one reason that Macs crash, which I'm not aware of, it has as much to do with the Apple operating system." [185]

Steve Jobs also claimed that a large percentage of the video on the Internet is supported on iOS, since many popular video sharing websites such as YouTube have published video content in an HTML5 compatible format, enabling videos to playback in mobile web browsers even without Flash Player. [186]

Mainland China-specific variant

Starting with version 30, Adobe stopped distributing Flash Player directly to users from mainland China. Instead, they selected 2144.cn as a partner and released a special variant of Flash Player on a specific website, [187] which contains a non-closable process, known as the "Flash Helper Service", that collects private information and pops up advertisement window contents, [188] by receiving and running encrypted programs from a remote server. [189] The partnership started in about 2017, but in version 30, Adobe disabled the usage of vanilla (global) variant of Flash Player in mainland China, [190] forcing users to use that specific variant, which may pose a risk to its users due to Internet censorship by Chinese Communist Party (CCP). [191] This only affected Chinese Chromium based browser users, Firefox users, and Internet Explorer users using Windows 7 and below, as Microsoft still directly distributed Flash Player for Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge through Windows Update in Windows 8 and upward at the time. Starting in 2021, however, this variant is the only publicly supported version of Flash Player.

Release history

Adobe Flash Player version history
  • FutureSplash Player 1.1 [192]
    • New scripting features
    • Option to disable the menu and memory management optimizations
  • Macromedia Flash Player 2 (June 17, 1997)
    • Mostly vectors and motion, some bitmaps, limited audio
    • Support of stereo sound, enhanced bitmap integration, buttons, the Library, and the ability to tween color changes
  • Macromedia Flash Player 3 (May 31, 1998)
    • Added alpha transparency, licensed MP3 compression
    • Brought improvements to animation, playback, digital art, and publishing, as well as the introduction of simple script commands for interactivity
  • Macromedia Flash Player 4 (June 15, 1999)
    • Saw the introduction of streaming MP3s and the Motion Tween. Initially, the Flash Player plug-in was not bundled with popular web browsers and users had to visit Macromedia website to download it. As of 2000, however, the Flash Player was already being distributed with all AOL, Netscape and Internet Explorer browsers. Two years later it shipped with all releases of Windows XP. The install-base of the Flash Player reached 92 percent of all Internet users.
  • Macromedia Flash Player 5 (August 24, 2000)
    • A major advance in ability, with the evolution of Flash's scripting abilities as released as ActionScript
    • Saw the ability to customize the authoring environment's interface
    • Macromedia Generator was the first initiative from Macromedia to separate design from content in Flash files. Generator 2.0 was released in April 2001, and featured real-time server-side generation of Flash content in its Enterprise Edition. Generator was discontinued in 2002, in favor of new technologies such as Flash Remoting, which allows for seamless transmission of data between the server and the client, and ColdFusion Server.
    • In October 2000, usability guru Jakob Nielsen wrote a polemic article regarding usability of Flash content entitled "Flash: 99% Bad". (Macromedia later hired Nielsen to help them improve Flash usability.)
The old Macromedia Flash Player logo Flash logo.PNG
The old Macromedia Flash Player logo
  • Macromedia Flash Player 6 (version 6.0.21.0, codenamed Exorcist ) (March 15, 2002)
    • Support for the consuming Flash Remoting (AMF) and Web Service (SOAP)
    • Supports ondemand/live audio and video streaming (RTMP)
    • Support for screenreaders via Microsoft Active Accessibility
    • Added Sorenson Spark video codec for Flash Video [193]
    • Support for video, application components, shared libraries, and accessibility
    • Macromedia Flash Communication Server MX, also released in 2002, allowed video to be streamed to Flash Player 6 (otherwise the video could be embedded into the Flash movie).
  • Macromedia Flash Player 7 (version 7.0.14.0, codenamed Mojo) (September 10, 2003)
    • Supports progressive audio and video streaming (HTTP)
    • Supports ActionScript 2.0, an object-oriented programming language for developers
    • Ability to create charts, graphs and additional text effects with the new support for extensions (sold separately), high fidelity import of PDF and Adobe Illustrator 10 files, mobile and device development and a forms-based development environment. ActionScript 2.0 was also introduced, giving developers a formal object-oriented approach to ActionScript. V2 Components replaced Flash MX's components, being rewritten from the ground up to take advantage of ActionScript 2.0 and object-oriented principles.
    • In 2004, the "Flash Platform" was introduced. This expanded Flash to more than the Flash authoring tool. Flex 1.0 and Breeze 1.0 were released, both of which used the Flash Player as a delivery method but relied on tools other than the Flash authoring program to create Flash applications and presentations. Flash Lite 1.1 was also released, enabling mobile phones to play Flash content.
    • Last version for Windows 95/NT4 and Mac Classic [80]
  • Macromedia Flash Player 8 (version 8.0.22.0, codenamed Maelstrom ) (September 13, 2005)
    • Support for runtime loading of GIF and PNG images
    • New video codec (On2 VP6)
    • Improved runtime performance and runtime bitmap caching
    • Live filters and blendmodes
    • File upload and download abilities
    • New text-rendering engine, the Saffron Type System
    • ExternalAPI subsystem introduced to replace fscommand
    • On December 3, 2005, Adobe Systems acquired Macromedia and its product portfolio (including Flash). [194]
  • Macromedia Flash Player 8 (version 8.0.24.0) (April 23, 2006)
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 (version 9.0.15.0, codenamed Zaphod and formerly named Flash Player 8.5) (June 22, 2006)
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 1 (version 9.0.28.0, codenamed Marvin ) (November 9, 2006) [195]
    • Support for fullscreen mode [196]
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 (version 9.0.45.0) (March 27, 2007)
    • Support for Creative Suite 3.
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 2 (version Mac/Windows 9.0.47.0 and Linux 9.0.48.0, codenamed Hotblack ) (June 11, 2007)
    • Security update
  • Adobe Flash Player 9 Update 3 (version 9.0.115.0, codenamed Moviestar or Frogstar) (December 2007) [197]
    • H.264 [198]
    • AAC (HE-AAC, AAC Main Profile, and AAC-LC)
    • New Flash Video file format F4V based on the ISO base media file format (MPEG-4 Part 12)
    • Support for container formats based on the ISO base media file format [199]
    • Last version for Windows 98/ME and other platforms [80]
  • Adobe Flash Player 10 (version 10.0.12.36, codenamed Astro) (October 15, 2008)
    • New features
      • 3D object transformations
      • Custom filters via Pixel Bender
      • Advanced text support
      • Speex audio codec
      • Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP)
      • Dynamic sound generation
      • Vector data type
    • Enhanced features
      • Larger bitmap support
      • Graphics drawing API
      • Context menu
      • Hardware acceleration
      • Anti-aliasing engine (Saffron 3.1)
      • Read/write clipboard access
      • WMODE
  • Adobe Flash Player 10 (version 10.0.32.18) (July 27, 2009)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10 (version 10.0.42.34) (November 16, 2009)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10 (version 10.0.45.2) (February 21, 2010)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.1 (version 10.1.53.64, codenamed Argo ) (June 10, 2010) [200]
    • Reuse of bitmap data copies for better memory management
    • Improved garbage collector
    • Hardware-based H.264 video decoding
    • HTTP Dynamic Streaming
    • Peer-assisted networking and multicast
    • Support for browser privacy modes
    • Multi-touch APIs
    • For Macs/OSX 10.4 ppc or later
      • Using Cocoa UI for Macs
      • Use of double-buffered OpenGL context for fullscreen
      • Use of Core Animation
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.2 (version 10.2.152.26, codenamed Spicy) (February 8, 2011)
    • Stage Video, a full hardware-accelerated video pipeline
    • Internet Explorer 9 hardware-accelerated rendering support
    • Custom native mouse cursors
    • Multiple monitor fullscreen support
    • Enhanced subpixel rendering for text
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.2 (version 10.2.152.32) (February 28, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.2 (version 10.2.153.1) (March 21, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.2 (version 10.2.159.1) (April 15, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.181.14, codenamed Wasabi ) (May 12, 2011) [201]
    • Media measurement (video analytics for websites; desktop only)
    • Acoustic Echo Cancellation (acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, voice activity detection, automatic compensation for microphone input levels; desktop only)
    • Integration with browser privacy controls for managing local storage (ClearSiteData NPAPI)
    • Native control panel
    • Auto-update notification for Mac OS X
    • Last version for Mac OS X 10.5 [80] and Windows 2000 (unofficially bypassing the XP installer)
    • Adobe replaced Extended Support Release 10.3 by 11.7 on July 9, 2013. [202]
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.181.23) (June 5, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.181.26) (June 14, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.181.34) (June 29, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.183.5) (August 14, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.183.7) (August 24, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.183.10) (September 21, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.183.11) (November 11, 2011)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.183.25) (September 18, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 10.3 (version 10.3.183.29) (October 8, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11 (version 11.0.1.152, codenamed Serrano ) (October 4, 2011) [203]
    • Desktop only
      • Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering [204]
      • H.264/AVC software encoding for cameras
      • Native 64-bit
      • Asynchronous bitmap decoding
      • TLS secure sockets
    • Desktop and mobile
      • Stage Video hardware acceleration
      • Native extension libraries [205]
        • Desktop: Windows (.dll), OS X (.framework)
        • Mobile: Android (.jar, .so), iOS (.a)
      • JPEG XR decoding
      • G.711 audio compression for telephony
      • Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS)
      • Unlimited bitmap size
      • LZMA SWF compression
    • Mobile only
      • H.264/AAC playback
      • Front-facing camera
      • Background audio playback
      • Device speaker control
      • 16- and 32-bit color depth
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.1 (version 11.1.102.55, codenamed Anza ) (November 10, 2011) [206]
    • Last version of the web browser plug-in for mobile devices (made for Android 2.2 to 4.0.3)
    • iOS 5 native extensions for AIR
    • StageText: Native text input UI for Android
    • Security enhancements, last official version for Windows 2000 [80]
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.1 (version 11.1.102.62) (March 5, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.2 (version 11.2.202.228) (March 28, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.2 (version 11.2.202.233) (April 12, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.2 (version 11.2.202.235, codenamed Brannan) (May 3, 2012) [207]
    • The Windows version offers automatic updater options [156]
    • Dropped support of the browser plug-in for mobile devices (Android). Android app developers are encouraged to use Adobe Air and Android web developers should switch to HTML5.
    • Extended support for Flash player 11.2 on Solaris as it is the last version to be supported. [80]
    • Adobe replaced Extended Support Release 11.2 on Linux with 24.0 on December 13, 2016.
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.3 (version 11.3.300.257) (June 8, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.3 (version 11.3.300.262) (June 21, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.3 (version 11.3.300.265) (July 11, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.3 (version 11.3.300.268) (July 26, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.3 (version 11.3.300.270) (August 4, 2012)
    • Desktop and mobile
      • Fullscreen interactive mode (keyboard input during fullscreen)
      • Native bitmap encoding and compression (PNG, JPEG, JPEG-XR)
      • Draw bitmaps with quality (low, medium, high, best)
      • Texture streaming for Stage3D
      • Dropped support for Linux and Solaris
    • Mobile-only
      • Auto-orientation on specific devices
      • USB debugging for AIR on iOS
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.3 (version 11.3.300.271) (September 18, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.3 (version 11.3.300.273) (October 3, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.4 (version 11.4.402.259) (August 10, 2012)
    • Flash Player only
      • ActionScript workers
      • SandboxBridge support
      • Licensing support: Flash Player Premium features for gaming
    • Flash Player and AIR
      • Stage3D "constrained" profile for increased GPU reach
      • LZMA support for ByteArray
      • StageVideo attachCamera/Camera improvements
      • Compressed texture with alpha support for Stage3D
      • DXT encoding
    • AIR only
      • Deprecated Carbon APIs for AIR
      • Direct AIR deployment using ADT
      • Push notifications for iOS
      • Ambient AudioPlaybackMode
      • Exception support in Native Extensions for iOS
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.4 (version 11.4.402.265) (August 21, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.4 (version 11.4.402.278) (September 18, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.4 (version 11.4.402.287) (October 8, 2012)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.5 [208]
    • Shared ByteArray
    • Invoke Event enhancement (for openurl)
    • Packaging multiple libraries in an ANE (iOS)
    • Debug stack trace in release builds of Flash Player
    • Statically link DRM (desktop only)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.6 (codenamed Folsom ) [208]
    • Lossless video export from standalone and authplay.dll
    • Support for flash.display.graphics.readGraphicsData() that returns a Vector of IGraphicsData
    • Improve permissions UI related to full screen keyboard access
    • Prevent ActiveX abuse in Office documents
    • Support file access in cloud on Windows
    • Enhance multi-SWF support
    • Migration certification for ANEs
    • RectangleTexture
    • File API update so AIR apps conform to Apple data storage guidelines
    • Separate sampler state for Stage3D
    • Set device specific Retina Display resolution (iOS)
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.7 (version 11.7.700.169, codenamed Geary ) (April 9, 2013) [208]
    • SharedObject.preventBackup property
    • forceCPURenderModeForDevices
    • Remote hosting of SWF files in case of multiple SWFs
    • Support for uploading 16-bit texture formats
    • GameInput updates
    • Android – create captive runtime apps
    • Adobe replaced Extended Support Release 11.7 on Mac and Windows with 13.0 on May 13, 2014. [209]
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.8 (codenamed Harrison) [208]
    • Stage3D baselineExtended profile
    • Recursive stop on MovieClip
    • Flash Player & AIR Desktop Game Pad Support
    • Support for large textures (extendedBaseline, 4096)
    • Rectangle texture
    • DatagramSocket
    • ServerSocket
    • Substitute a redirected URL from a source URLRequest for part of the URL in a new URLRequest
  • Adobe Flash Player 11.9 (codenamed Irving) [208]
  • Adobe Flash Player 12 (codenamed Jones) [210] (November 14, 2013)
    • Improved Mac .pkg Installation Support for the work flow and UI
    • Support for Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 7
    • Support for Safe Mode in Safari 6.1 and higher
    • 64-bit PPAPI Flash Player for Google Chrome
    • Graphics: Buffer Usage flag for Stage3D
  • Adobe Flash Player 13 (codenamed King) [211] [212]
    • Supplementary Characters Enhancement Support for Text Field
    • Full Screen video message tweak
    • As of 13 May 2014 this is the Extended Support Release. [209]
  • Adobe Flash Player 14 (version 14.0.0.125, codenamed Lombard ) (June 10, 2014) [213]
    • Stage 3D Standard profile
  • Adobe Flash Player 14 (version 14.0.0.145) (July 8, 2014)
  • Adobe Flash Player 14 (version 14.0.0.179) (August 12, 2014)
  • Adobe Flash Player 15 (version 15.0.0.152, codenamed Market ) (September 9, 2014) [214]
    • Improved support for browser zoom levels
  • Adobe Flash Player 15 (version 15.0.0.167) (September 23, 2014)
  • Adobe Flash Player 15 (version 15.0.0.223) (November 11, 2014)
  • Adobe Flash Player 16 (version 16.0.0.235, codenamed Natoma) (December 9, 2014) [215]
    • Stage3D – Standard Constrained Profile
    • PPAPI Installers for Windows and Mac
  • Adobe Flash Player 16 (version 16.0.0.257) (January 13, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 16 (version 16.0.0.287) (January 22, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 16 (version 16.0.0.296) (January 27, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 16 (version 16.0.0.305) (February 5, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 17 (version 17.0.0.134, codenamed Octavia ) (March 12, 2015) [216]
    • Control Panel improvements
    • Installer improvements for Mac
  • Adobe Flash Player 17 (version 17.0.0.169) (April 14, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 17 (version 17.0.0.188) (May 12, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 18 (version 18.0.0.160, codenamed Presidio ) (June 9, 2015)
    • Contains fixes for Adobe Security Bulletin APSB 15–11 [217]
  • Adobe Flash Player 18 (version 18.0.0.194) (June 23, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 18 (version 18.0.0.203) (July 8, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 18 (version 18.0.0.209) (July 14, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 18 (version 18.0.0.232) (August 11, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 19 (version 19.0.0.185, codenamed Quint) (September 21, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 19 (version 19.0.0.207) (October 13, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 19 (version 19.0.0.226) (October 16, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 19 (version 19.0.0.245) (November 10, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 20 (version 20.0.0.228, codenamed Rankin) (December 8, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 20 (version 20.0.0.267) (December 28, 2015)
  • Adobe Flash Player 20 (version 20.0.0.270) (January 1, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 20 (version 20.0.0.286) (January 19, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 20 (version 20.0.0.306) (February 9, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 21 (version 21.0.0.182, codenamed Sutter) (March 10, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 21 (version 21.0.0.197) (March 23, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 21 (version 21.0.0.213) (April 7, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 21 (version 21.0.0.216) (April 8, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 21 (version 21.0.0.226) (April 21, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 21 (version 21.0.0.242) (May 12, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 22 (version 22.0.0.185, codenamed Townsend) (June 16, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 22 (version 22.0.0.209) (July 12, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 22 (version 22.0.0.210) (July 14, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 23 (version 23.0.0.162, codenamed Underwood) (September 13, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 23 (version 23.0.0.185) (October 11, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 23 (version 23.0.0.205) (October 26, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 23 (version 23.0.0.207) (November 8, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 24 (version 24.0.0.186, codenamed Van Ness ) (December 13, 2016)
  • Adobe Flash Player 24 (version 24.0.0.194) (January 10, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 24 (version 24.0.0.221) (February 14, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 25 (version 25.0.0.127, codenamed Webster) (March 14, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 25 (version 25.0.0.148) (April 11, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 25 (version 25.0.0.163) (April 20, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 25 (version 25.0.0.171) (May 9, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 26 (version 26.0.0.126, codenamed York) (June 13, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 26 (version 26.0.0.131) (June 16, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 26 (version 26.0.0.137) (July 11, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 26 (version 26.0.0.151) (August 8, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 27 (version 27.0.0.130, codenamed Zoe) (September 12, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 27 (version 27.0.0.159) (October 10, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 27 (version 27.0.0.170) (October 16, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 27 (version 27.0.0.183) (October 25, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 27 (version 27.0.0.187) (November 14, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 28 (version 28.0.0.126, codenamed Atka) (December 12, 2017)
  • Adobe Flash Player 28 (version 28.0.0.137) (January 9, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 28 (version 28.0.0.161) (February 6, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 29 (version 29.0.0.113) (March 13, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 29 (version 29.0.0.140) (April 10, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 29 (version 29.0.0.171) (May 8, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 30 (version 30.0.0.113) (June 7, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 30 (version 30.0.0.134) (July 10, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 30 (version 30.0.0.154) (August 14, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 31 (version 31.0.0.108) (September 11, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 31 (version 31.0.0.122) (October 9, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 31 (version 31.0.0.148) (November 13, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.101) (December 5, 2018)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.114) (January 8, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.142) (February 12, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.156) (March 12, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.171) (April 9, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.192) (May 14, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.207) (June 11, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.223) (July 9, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.238) (August 13, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.255) (September 10, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.270) (October 9, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.293) (November 12, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.303) (December 10, 2019)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.314) (January 14, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.321) (January 21, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.330) (February 11, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.344) (March 10, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.363) (April 14, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.371) (May 12, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.387) (June 9, 2020)
    • Refuses to play Flash content after January 12, 2021, and instead displays a static warning message.
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.403) (July 14, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.414) (August 11, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.433) (September 8, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.445) (October 13, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.453) (November 10, 2020)
  • Adobe Flash Player 32 (version 32.0.0.465) (December 8, 2020)
    • Final global variant update.

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Flash Video is a container file format used to deliver digital video content over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player version 6 and newer. Flash Video content may also be embedded within SWF files. There are two different Flash Video file formats: FLV and F4V. The audio and video data within FLV files are encoded in the same way as SWF files. The F4V file format is based on the ISO base media file format, starting with Flash Player 9 update 3. Both formats are supported in Adobe Flash Player and developed by Adobe Systems. FLV was originally developed by Macromedia. In the early 2000s, Flash Video was the de facto standard for web-based streaming video. Users include Hulu, VEVO, Yahoo! Video, metacafe, Reuters.com, and many other news providers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gnash (software)</span> Media player for playing SWF files

Gnash is a media player for playing SWF files. Gnash is available both as a standalone player for desktop computers and embedded devices, as well as a plugin for the browsers still supporting NPAPI. It is part of the GNU Project and is a free and open-source alternative to Adobe Flash Player. It was developed from the gameswf project.

Adobe Media Server (AMS) is a proprietary data and media server from Adobe Systems. This server works with the Flash Player and HTML5 runtime to create media driven, multiuser RIAs. The server uses ActionScript 1, an ECMAScript based scripting language, for server-side logic. Prior to version 2, it was known as Flash Communication Server. Prior to version 5, it was known as Flash Media Server. In February 2019, Adobe Systems Incorporated granted Veriskope Inc rights to further develop, resell, and extend distribution of the software product.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adobe AIR</span> Cross-platform runtime system for building rich web applications

Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime system currently developed by Harman International, in collaboration with Adobe Inc., for building desktop applications and mobile applications, programmed using Adobe Animate, ActionScript, and optionally Apache Flex. It was originally released in 2008. The runtime supports installable applications on Windows, macOS, and mobile operating systems, including Android, iOS, and BlackBerry Tablet OS.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adobe Director</span>

Adobe Director was a multimedia application authoring platform created by Macromedia and managed by Adobe Systems until its discontinuation.

Jonathan Gay is an American computer programmer and software entrepreneur based in Northern California. Gay co-founded FutureWave Software in 1993. For a decade, he was the main programmer and visionary of Flash, an animation editor for web pages. He founded Software as Art, which was later renamed Greenbox, which made energy management solutions for the home.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adobe Flash Builder</span> Integrated development environment

Adobe Flash Builder is an integrated development environment (IDE) built on the Eclipse platform that speeds development of rich Internet applications (RIAs) and cross-platform desktop applications, particularly for the Adobe AIR platform. Adobe Flash Builder 4 is available in two editions: Standard and Premium.

The HTML5 specification introduced the video element for the purpose of playing videos, partially replacing the object element. HTML5 video is intended by its creators to become the new standard way to show video on the web, instead of the previous de facto standard of using the proprietary Adobe Flash plugin, though early adoption was hampered by lack of agreement as to which video coding formats and audio coding formats should be supported in web browsers. As of 2020, HTML5 video is the only widely supported video playback technology in modern browsers, with the Flash plugin being phased out.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adobe Animate</span> Animation software made by Adobe

Adobe Animate is a multimedia authoring and computer animation program developed by Adobe Inc.

Modern HTML5 has feature-parity with the now-obsolete Adobe Flash. Both include features for playing audio and video within web pages. Flash was specifically built to integrate vector graphics and light games in a web page, features that HTML5 also supports.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adobe Shockwave Player</span>

Adobe Shockwave Player is a discontinued freeware software plug-in for viewing multimedia and video games created on the Adobe Shockwave platform in web pages. Content was developed with Adobe Director and published on the Internet. Such content could be viewed in a web browser on any computer with the Shockwave Player plug-in installed. It was first developed by Macromedia and released in 1995; it was later acquired by Adobe Systems in 2005.

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Adobe Flash Player
Original author(s) FutureWave
Macromedia
Developer(s) Adobe Inc.
Zhongcheng
Harman
Initial releaseJanuary 1, 1996;27 years ago (1996-01-01)
Stable release(s) [±]
Windows, macOS (China-specific variant)34.0.0.282 [1] / March 14, 2023;11 days ago (2023-03-14) [2]
Windows, macOS, Linux (Harman enterprise variant)50.x [3] / N/A
Linux (China-specific variant)34.0.0.137 [4] [5] / April 13, 2021;23 months ago (2021-04-13) [2]
Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS (Global variant, excluding China)32.0.0.465 [6] / December 8, 2020;2 years ago (2020-12-08) [7]
Internet Explorer 11 and Edge Legacy (Embedded - Windows 8 and later)32.0.0.445 [6] / October 13, 2020;2 years ago (2020-10-13) [7]
Android 4.0.x11.1.115.81 / September 10, 2013;9 years ago (2013-09-10) [7]
Android 2.x and 3.x11.1.111.73 / September 10, 2013;9 years ago (2013-09-10) [7]
Solaris11.2.202.223 / March 28, 2012;10 years ago (2012-03-28) [7]
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