Here are some of the Adobe Flash Player versions to help decide for which version I want to publish using Adobe Flash Professional. It's not easy to find the publishing dates for older Flash Player versions, so there may be errors. For some reason the newest Flash Player release notes include AIR notes. Update 2021: the links on this page no longer work. See also: Multimedia Authoring Applications, Programs, Software.
• Anisotropic Filtering (new texture sampling filter).
June 2014
• Stage3D Anti-Aliasing for Texture Rendering.
April 2014
• New numbering scheme for versions: with each new major release the version number will increase by one.
January 2014
Version 11.9
• Safe Mode in Safari 6.1.
• Flash Player Mac .pkg installation: new .pkg installer format for Adobe's distribution partners.
Version 11.8
(Security updates.)
Version 11.7
(Security updates.)
Version 11.6
(Security updates.)
Version 11.5
(Security updates.)
Version 11.4
(iOS6 SDK is no longer in Beta.)
Version 11.3
(Security updates.)
Version 11.2
• Silent auto update on Windows.
Version 11.1
(Security updates.)
Version 11
• Stage 3D Accelerated Graphics Rendering: GPU hardware acceleration.
• H.264/AVC Software Encoding for Cameras: stream video from your computer's camera with higher compression efficiency.
• JPEG-XR support: advanced image compression standard.
• SWF compression: developers can use LZMA compression for their SWF files.
• Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) support: native parsing and generation of JSON-formatted data.
• Native 64-bit support: on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
October 2011
Version 10.3
• Acoustic Echo Cancellation: for telephony, in-game voice chat, and group conferencing applications.
• Native Control Panel: access Flash settings from Windows Control Panel or OS X System Preferences.
Version 10.2
• Stage Video hardware acceleration: for HD playback.
• Full screen mode with multiple monitors.
Version 10.1
• Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) support.
• Hardware-based H.264 video decoding.
• Private browsing mode support.
• Out-of-memory management: shut down Flash Player to prevent the browser from crashing.
• Content protection against unauthorized recording.
Version 10
• 3D effects: created in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional.
• Speex audio codec: open source voice codec. Speex and Nellymoser may be used with Flash Media Server to transmit microphone audio for interactive applications.
• Dynamic Streaming: adjust to changing network conditions.
• Anti-aliasing engine: Saffron 3.1. Increased performance and quality of anti-aliased text.
• Ubuntu support.
October 2008
Version 9.0.115.0
• H.264 video and High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio codec support.
• Multi-core support: new multi-core support that takes advantage of up to 4 CPUs.
• Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) support.
Version 9.0.31.0
• Linux support added.
• Supported browsers in Linux: Firefox, Mozilla, and SeaMonkey (using GTK2).
• Only ALSA is supported for microphone input and speaker output, and only Video4Linux v1 is supported for camera input in Linux.
Version 9.0.28.0
• Windows Vista support.
• Full-screen mode in the web players.
Version 9
• ActionScript 3.0.
June 2006
• New Bitmap Effects/Filters: Blur, DropShadow, Glow, Bevel, Gradient Glow, Gradient Bevel, etc.
• GIF, PNG, and JPEG: support for dynamic loading of GIF, PNG, and progressive JPEG files.
• 32 sound channels: increased from the 8 sound channel limit.
August 2005
Last modified: September 10th, 2021
Author: Tomi Häsä (tomi.hasa@gmail.com)
URL: http://sites.google.com/site/tomihasa/flash-player-versions