Flash Player Beta Channel Update
The weekly Flash Player Beta update, 11.6.602.146, is now available for direct download and automatic installation via Background Update.
The latest version of Flash Player Beta is available here: http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayerbeta
For full details on our new features please see our Release Notes.
New Features:
- Full Screen Permission Dialog UI Improvement
Changed the location of the permission dialog to the middle of the screen. Also improved the user experience when going into full screen mode by adding the "Cancel" button.
- Graphics Data Query
Developers can read the structure of the display object and vector data at runtime. Game developers can use this feature to create complex Sprite Sheets, or exporters for any file format (e.g. SVG) at runtime.
Notable Fixes and Enhancements:
3430032 - On Windows XP, Flash Access content is throwing an erroneous Output Protection Error (3338)
3428748 - Fixes an issue where random 3321/3330 errors are thrown when playing Flash Access protected content using Chrome on Windows XP
3434197 - Fixes an issue where users upgrading from Flash Player 11.3.375.10 to 11.6.602.124 experienced Error Code 3322 (DeviceBindingFailed) on Windows 8 running SurfaceRT with EPM enabled.
3398415 - Fixes an issue where Error code 3338 was thrown during playback of Flash Access protected content with Analog Required, Digital Required, Analog Noplay, or Digital Noplay flags on Chrome for Windows with the Flash Player PPAPI Plug-In
3428081 - Corrects a problem where the web page of a played video would occasionally be closed when resizing the page in Safari.
3444724 - Setting a via ActionScript that contains a nested mask works again.
3473230 - Corrects an issue where the loader for some Starling Demos would not load on Windows with IE10
3434205 - Corrects an performance problem on Windows 8 desktops where users would experience a delay when dragging a browser window running Flash content across multiple displays.
3368015 - Camera now works as expected on ChromeOS 20 with the PPAPI Flash Player plug-in.
3369826 - Video captured with the front camera now renders correctly on the Google Nexus 7
3373425 - Videos are now rendered correctly on http://www.briggs-riley.com/ when viewed on Windows 8 with IE 10 in both Classic and Metro modes
3429524 - YouTube Flash Objects embedded in Office 15 Word Documents now render correctly when Windows Update KB2777166 is installed
3407575 - Memory usage is now reported correctly by content played in Chrome on Mac using the PPAPI Flash Player Plug-In
3365525 - Fixes an installation problem introduced in Flash Player 11.4 that caused Flash Player to not work for Windows users running with User-level permissions when Flash Player was installed from an Administrative Account
3376775 - Corrects an issue introduced in Flash Player 11.0.1.50 where Bitmap Data memory was not being properly culled during long-running playback of Flash content.
Multiple stability and security fixes
Known Issues:
3428187 - Flash Access content in ActiveX DebugRelease builds does not play back
We have moved to a rapid beta release cycle using "Background Update". We encourage you to subscribe so you can get the latest and the greatest Flash Player without a single mouse click. We also recommend you subscribe to our Twitter channel @FlashPlayerBeta to stay on top of the current release schedule updates.
You can find instructions for getting started with this release here: Flash Player 11.6 Labs Page
We encourage you to let us know what you think over on our 11.6 Labs forums