Software Update: Adobe Flash Player 11.6.602.168 & AIR 3.6.0.597

Adobe has released version 11.6 of Flash Player and 3.6 of the Adobe Integrated Runtime. With Adobe Flash Player it is possible to play Flash content, mainly swf files, on the computer. Popular video sites such as YouTube and Google Video, among others, offer their visitors the opportunity to play videos with the stand-alone Flash Player. Adobe AIR provides a cross-platform environment for developing and playing so-called Rich Internet Applications. The release notes for this release can be found below.

New Features

• Graphics Data Query
• Improved permissions UI for full screen keyboard access
• Multiple SWF support (iOS)
• Setting device specific Retina Display resolution (iOS)
• Updated File API following App store guidelines (iOS)
• HiDpi support for FlashPro

Fixed Issues

• On Android OS, AIR apps streaming MP4 audio hang when pausing and resuming multiple times.
• In applications which utilize the Concurrency feature, a crash can occur when sending a large amount of shared properties between workers.
• On Mac OS, AIR application fail to load PDF files when Acrobat is updated to 11.0.1
• On Windows XP, microphone is not recognized for an input to a stream.
• On Windows XP, in some circumstances, FlashMediaServer streams deliver choppy streams.
• In Microsoft Internet Explorer, when protected mode is on, non-administrator profiles fail to load Flash content.
• On Windows 7, under certain conditions, webcam feeds do not render properly
• On MacOS, some large image fail to load.
• In Internet explorer, when hardware acceleration is disabled, the “allow fullscreen” dialog fails to exit completely.
• On Mac OS, In an AIR application has multiple windows open, and CMD+Q is entered, AIR crashes
• On iOS, attempting to play local MP4 videos with the StageVideo object sometimes fails.
• On Microsoft Windows, looped FLV videos fail to show the last frame.
• On Apple Macbooks or Apple iMacs with external displays connected, protected content fails to play
• On Microsoft Windows, gotoAndStop calls sometimes function incorrectly.