http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2264594/adobe-releases-flash-patch
Adobe has released the final build of Flash
10.1http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/features/and AIR2 for
Windows, Mac and Linux, along with a bundle of patches for
existing code. Flash 10.1 for Android will be released later this month.
Flash 10.1 has been designed to operate of a wide variety of platforms and
has been optimised to work with different powered processors and memory
capacities. Improvements include reducing memory footprint, especially for
bitmap-intensive applications, a tweaked ActionScript virtual machine and
reducing the power consumption for content running in the background on a
non-visible browser tab.
Desktop users will benefit from hardware-based H.264 video decoding and the
software has a video viewing system dubbed Smart seek which adds DVR
functions such as rewind and fast forward to flash video. The incorporation
of the Real Time Media Flow Protocol (RTMFP) should also boost video
performance.
Multitouch controls have also been added to the new version, with developers
getting the
APIshttp://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/multitouch_gestures.htmlfor
pinch, scroll, rotate, scale, and two-finger tap. The software is also
capable of a private browsing mode where personal data is wiped.
“Mac performance was also an explicit focus for us,” Paul Betlem, senior
director of Flash Player Engineering wrote in a blog
entryhttp://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/06/flash_player_101_now_available.html
.
“One improvement we made is the use of a double-buffered OpenGL context for
improved full screen playback efficiency. We also investigated a number of
compile-time optimizations using Xcode to improve our overall execution
speed of Flash Player on Macs.”
As promisedhttp://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2264430/adobe-patching-critical-flash,
the company also released patches for serious security flaws in Flash. The
10.1.53.64
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.htmlupdate
patches 32 issues with Flash that would allow remote code execution,
system crashes of the loss of virtualised images.
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