Flash Player Beta Channel Update
The latest Flash Player 11.8 builds are now available. You can download Flash Player here: http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayerbeta.
Testing Guidance:
This is a preview of the next Flash Player 11.8 maintenance release. We are primarily looking for feedback from aggregate crash reporting data on this build.
Notable Fixes and Enhancements:
- 3570724 - Flash Access - Ability to specify a shorter timeout for license response
- 3580139 - Chrome PPAPI on 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 <embed> tag.
- 3599625 - Internet Explorer - Fullscreen Mode now works correctly on the 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 Only - When the Windows display settings are zoomed to 150%, the right-click context menu in Flash Player now works correctly
- Multiple stability and security fixes
About the Beta Channel
Beta Versions of Flash Player are now available for automatic installation via our Background Update service. Please subscribe to automatically install or receive update availability notifications at runtime.
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You can find additional instructions for getting started with this release here: Flash Player 11.8 Labs Page
Finally, we encourage you to let us know what you think over on our 11.8 Labs forums