Updated: October 15, 2008
These release notes document known issues related to the beta versions of Adobe® Flash® Player 10, code named "Astro". Release versions of Flash Player 10 for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux platforms are now available from the Flash Player Download Center. The beta build for Solaris platforms is 10.0.0.584.
Please uninstall any versions of Flash Player before updating your installation.
- Overview
- System Requirements
- Features and Enhancements
- Installation and Uninstallation
- Known Issues
- Fixed Issues
Overview
The Flash Player 10 beta is available in all supported languages; however, the beta installers are only in English and we can only accept feedback in English at this time. Flash Player beta downloads are available in the following forms:
- Solaris x86
- Solaris Sparc
Installation instructions are detailed below.
Release versions of Flash Player 10 for Windows, Macintosh, and Linux are available. Installers can be found at the Flash Player Download Center on Adobe.com.
System Requirements
System requirements for Flash Player are available on Adobe.com.
Features and Enhancements
Flash Player 10 includes new features, enhancements and bug fixes, as described on Adobe.com.
Installation
Solaris
The following instructions assume that you have unpacked the archive .tar.bz2 into the top level of your user directory. Your user directory is referred to as $HOME. Adobe Flash Player can be installed in two ways:
A. Install Adobe Flash Player system-wide, making it available to all users of the computer
-or-
B. Install Adobe Flash Player in a user account, making it available only to that user.
A. Installing Adobe Flash Player System-Wide:
- You will need root access to the computer to install Adobe Flash Player system-wide.
- Copy Adobe Flash Player (libflashplayer.so) into the Firefox/Mozilla plug-in directory.
- Restart Firefox/Mozilla.
- Verify the installation by typing about:plugins in the location bar or by choosing Help > About Plugins. You should see Adobe Flash Player listed as "Shockwave Flash 10.0 "
- To test Adobe Flash Player go to: http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayerversion
B. Installing Adobe Flash Player in a User Account:
- If you have not already used Firefox/Mozilla from the user account, launch Firefox/Mozilla and close it. This will create a preferences directory (/.mozilla) in your home directory.
- Create a directory named "plugins" in the Firefox/Mozilla preferences directory. If the mkdir command reports the error "cannot make directory: File exists", this means that the directory was already present and did not need to be created.
- Copy libflashplayer.so and flashplayer.xpt into the plug-in directory.
- Restart Firefox/Mozilla
- Verify the installation by typing about:plugins in the location bar or by choosing Help > About Plugins. You should see Adobe Flash Player listed as "Shockwave Flash 10.0 "
- To test Adobe Flash Player go to: http://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayerversion
Known Issues
- Solaris:
- Flash Player displays some text in device fonts incorrectly. (237165)
- Menus on the www.miniusa.com open with artifacts. (237832)
- array.sortOn crashes Flash Player 10. (237400)
- Windowless mode while in Fullscreen not implemented. (235730)
- Wmode doesn't work correctly with Firefox3 on Solaris.
- For Linux, Flash Player 10 only supports browsers that are supported by each specific distribution of Linux. There are issues unrelated to Flash Player that can occur if a user installs a browser that is not supported on that Linux distribution. (For example, at the time this was written, Firefox 3 was not officially supported by Ubuntu 7.)
- 3D Effects:
- Components don’t work properly with 3D Effects.
- 2.5D or 3D objects do not print correctly to PDF nor to hardware printer. (232562)
- Color Management: The ability to read source profiles is not included in this feature, by design. Comments or questions can be posted to the Flash Player 10 Forum.
- GPU Compositing and GPU Blitting:
- Issues may occur with unsupported drivers.
- Hardware acceleration does not currently optimize the Alpha, Erase, Invert & Subtract blendmodes and vectors for GPU compositing.
- o For Linux and Solaris, the hardware acceleration feature will not work if you are using a compositing window manager (compiz). In this case, Flash Player 10 Beta will always fall back to software. If you would like to test Flash Player 10 Beta on Linux or Solaris, please disable your compositing window manager. (237833)
- Dynamic Streaming: An intended future release of Adobe Flash Media Server is required to use this feature. If you are interested in being part of the private prerelease program, please send an email to fmsprerelease@adobe.com with your contact details.
- RTMFP:
- An intended future release of Adobe Flash Media Server is required to use this feature. If you are interested in being part of the private prerelease program, please send an email to fmsprerelease@adobe.com with your contact details.
- Speex:
- An intended future release of Adobe Flash Media Server is required to use this feature. If you are interested in being part of the private prerelease program, please send an email to fmsprerelease@adobe.com with your contact details.
- Live audio does not work on Mac when audio capture is 96 kHz. (221951)
- Acrobat Connect Pro meeting will not install the Acrobat Connect Add-in if running in FP10. Workaround: install FP 9.0.124, then install Connect Add-in, then upgrade to FP10.
Fixed Issues
- Many Linux camera issues have been fixed. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
- Linux full-screen optimizations have been made. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
- startDrag() does not work when movie clip is 3D. (216415)
- LiveCycle WorkSpace cannot log in using Flash Player 10 Beta. (223394) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
- Vector printing on Macs works now!
- New Text Engine: Vector Printing isn't currently enabled.
- Custom Filters and Effects:
- Mac PPC: Color distortions may appear when applying a Shader. ShaderJob returns unexpected values for some Pixel Bender functions.
- Linux: Shader Jobs may return NaN instead of an expected Number value.
- Drawing API: Strokes are not visible on paths drawn with drawTriangles or GraphicsTrianglePaths. The lineShaderStyle is not implemented in Flash Player 10 Beta.
- Context Menu: The new AS3 Clipboard is currently only working for Mac and Windows. It is not yet working for the Unix players.
- Uploading images using Photoshop Express does not work with Flash Player 10 Beta. (1786882) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
- Dynamic Streaming:
- A crash when switching between videos of different resolutions has been fixed.
- A new Play Status event when switching between streams now actually happens: NetStream.Play.TransitionComplete.
- RTMFP:
- Changing NetStream.BufferTime on the subscriber side of P2P connection, causes video to stop and possible crash
- No NetStream onStatus messages received when using NetStream.pause(), NetStream.resume() or NetStream.togglePause() for P2P connection
- Intermittent crashes/hangs when subscribing/unsubscribing multiple times to P2P NetStream.
- peerStreams array includes null streams in some cases.
- Speex:
- Disconnect and re-connect network on Mac publisher causes sending garbled audio with USB audio devices. (227185)
- Speex audio may deteriorate when computer is overloaded. (222082)
- Peer-to-peer Nellymoser may incur in quality degradation when packets are lost. (222469)
- Soundtransform for Speex does not work in loopback mode
- Linux-specific issues:
- Flash Player 10 hangs when subscribing to a live audio stream. (222283)
- Linux subscriber receives deteriorated audio for about 20 seconds when switching from Nellymoser to Speex codec. (222306)
- Linux Subscriber P2P only: When Nellymoser audio is attached, the video plays slowly on the subscriber side. (222851)
- Video playback issues on PPC Macs have been resolved.
- Setting data on the system clipboard using System.setClipboard() now requires user interaction. This security enhancement helps mitigate potential clipboard attacks, and developers may need to update existing content. For more information, read the Flash Player 10 Security Changes article on Adobe.com.
