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Adobe Flash Player 11.2 Beta for Desktops

New features for browser-based, expressive content

  • Recent Updates
  • January 31, 2012 — Adobe Flash Player 11.2 beta 5 is now available for download. Note that this is the last beta before final release.
  • Download Flash Player 11.2 beta 5

The Adobe® Flash® Platform runtimes, Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR®, together enable businesses to efficiently deliver rich customer experiences across multiple digital touch points. With Flash Player and AIR, content can easily and consistently move between the browser, standalone applications and native operating systems to reach users on the devices of their choice. Since the Adobe runtimes share a common codebase, developers can reuse code to deploy game console quality 2D and 3D games, rich media applications with premium high definition video and scalable date driven applications though both AIR and Flash Player.

Adobe® Flash® Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems.

Flash Player 11.2 Beta Features

This beta release provides access to the Flash Player 11.2 runtime for Windows, Mac OS and Linux desktop environments. The key features and benefits of Flash Player 11.2 beta are:

  • Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed — Previously, the hardware accelerated content was gated to 1/1/2009, however, we have relaxed the driver gating to 1/1/2008.
  • Throttling event — This release introduces a new ThrottleEvent. A ThrottleEvent is now dispatched by the stage when the Flash Player throttles, pauses or resumes content.
  • Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events — Create immersive, panoramic games with infinite scrolling to enable new classes of content, including first-person games.
  • Multi-threaded video decoding (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) — The video decoding pipeline is now fully multi-threaded. This feature should improve the overall performance on all platforms. Note that this feature is a significant architecture change required for other future improvements.
  • Flash Player background updates (Windows) — New versions of the runtimes can now be delivered more effectively to the end user with this enhanced updating mechanism (Background update is only available in the release versions of Flash Player).

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Getting Started

Follow these steps to get started with the Flash Player 11.2 beta:

  1. Download the Flash Player 11.2 beta
  2. Review the release notes to learn how to implement the new features
  3. Check out the ActionScript 3 API documentation for Flash Player 11
  4. Send us your feedback and bug reports (English only)

  5. Ask questions and share your feedback in the Flash Player 11.2 forum

    Please note that your submission of comments, ideas, feature requests and techniques on this and other Adobe maintained forums, as well as Adobe's right to use such materials, is governed by the Terms of Use.

Community

Below you will find references and links to help you participate in the Flash Player community.

Online Forum

Ask questions, discuss, and share feedback with other users and the engineering team in the online forums.

Please note that your submission of comments, ideas, feature requests and techniques on this and other Adobe maintained forums, as well as Adobe's right to use such materials, is governed by the Terms of Use.

Adobe Feeds

Keep your eye on developing conversations and news in the blogging community on Adobe Feeds.

Review the Flash smart category on Adobe Feeds

Adobe Developer Connection

Learn more about Flash Player in the Adobe Developer Connection.

Resources

If you want to learn more about releases on Labs as well as other Adobe technologies, visiting a user group or connecting with an Adobe Community Professional is a great place to start.

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FAQ

When will the final version of Flash Player 11.2 be available?
The final version of Flash Player 11.2 will be released in first half of 2012.
What happened to Flash Player 11.1? Why are we jumping to Flash Player 11.2 directly?
Flash Player 11.1 is a minor release with no major features to provide feedback on. As a result we are not providing providing a Flash Player 11.1 beta.
When will Flash Player support Stage 3D for mobile?
It is available now on the desktop using AIR and Flash Player, and on TV devices using AIR. Mobile device support for Stage 3D will be communicated at a later date. If you want to participate to the prerelease for Stage3D on mobile, please register for the Flash runtimes prerelease program.
What are the changes relating to Alchemy in Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2?
Starting with Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2, content targeting Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 (i.e., content using SWF version 13 and above) will not support the experimental Alchemy prototype. An upcoming new production version of Alchemy next year will allow developers to publish Alchemy-enabled content targeting Flash Player 11 or AIR 3 and beyond. Learn more.
What happens to my Flash Player 10.x and AIR 2.x content that uses Alchemy? Will these continue to work?
Yes; content created with the Alchemy prototype for Flash Player 10.x and AIR 2.x (SWF version 12 and earlier) will continue to work in Flash Player 11.2 and AIR 3.2 and future versions of Flash Player and AIR (as always, we continue to advise developers not to use the prototype for production content).
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System Requirements

Current system requirements for Flash Player 11 are available on Adobe.com.

For the Flash Player 11.2 beta we are making the following adjustments to our minimum requirements to ensure that users have optimal experiences with the new features:

Windows

  • 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel® Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks
  • Microsoft® Windows® XP (32-bit), Windows Server® 2003 (32-bit), Windows Server 2008 (32-bit), Windows Vista® (32-bit), Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Internet Explorer 7.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 4.0 and above, Google Chrome, Safari 5.0 and above, Opera 11
  • 128MB of RAM (1GB of RAM recommended for netbooks); 128MB of graphics memory

Mac OS

  • Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
  • Mac OS X v10.6 or v10.7
  • Safari 5.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 4.0 and above, Google Chrome, Opera 11
  • 256MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory

Linux

  • 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks
  • Red Hat® Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6 or later (32-bit and 64-bit), openSUSE® 11.3 or later (32-bit and 64-bit), Ubuntu 10.04 or later (32-bit and 64-bit)
  • Mozilla Firefox 4.0 or Google Chrome
  • 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory
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Release Notes

The Flash Player 11.2 beta is designed for evaluation purposes only. We do not recommended that this release be used on production systems or for any mission-critical work.

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