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1 Sutter Beta Release Notes 21 and 21 Release Notes Welcome to Adobe Flash Player 21 and Adobe 21! For 22 Release Notes Click Here Last Updated: April 20, 2016 Welcome to the latest Flash Runtime version 21 beta! We've been hard at work adding new features to and and we're looking forward to receiving feedback from our development and community. This beta release includes new features as well as enhancements and bug fixes related to security, stability, performance, and device compatibility for 21 and 21. This document may be updated periodically as more information becomes available. As always, we appreciate all feedback. We encourage you to post in our beta forums or create bug reports or feature requests on our public bug database. Beta Forum Beta Forum Bug Database NOTE: The ActiveX in this release is not compatible with Windows 8.1 or 10 for Windows 8.1/10 is available as part of the generally available Windows 8.1/10 update New and Updated Features Anonymous Usage Data BETA CHANNEL ONLY Adobe is constantly working to improve the quality of our products. With this new feature, we ll be able to collect anonymous usage data from our beta channel, allowing our engineering team to focus on features and platforms that are critical to our customers. Please note that this feature will only work with beta versions of. We will not collect data from officially released versions of Flash. The installer will now present customers a check box option for Usage Data, allowing users the choice to opt in or out of this feature. Once has been installed, customers can open the control panel to change their selection at any time. While is available on many platforms, we will only collect data from the ActiveX and NPAPI versions and OS combinations below. Su pported Platforms: Operating Systems Win 7, Vista, Win XP Win 8.x, Win 10 OSX 10 Type NPAPI, ActiveX NPAPI NPAPI

2 Once enabled, a new system service ( FeedbackService ) will be installed and will receive data from running instances. This Service will log data into a text file and periodically send non identifiable and anonymous information to Adobe s servers. We will not collect any personal identifying information. The table below outlines the type of data that will be collected. Data Collection Points Description Sample Value OS Operating System Windows 7 OSType Operating System Type, ie 32 bit or 64 bit. x86_64 UserAgent Browser s User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:43.0) Gecko/ Firefox/43.0 FlashVersion Version of the installed on the browser 21,0,0,74 RenderMode Render mode of the SWF auto SWFVersions SWF Version of the SWF SWF5 1 ASVersions Actionscript Version of the SWF AS2 3 APIList List of the APIs used in the SWF. 9 1,17 1,18 1,22 1,25 1 This data is saved to a plain text file so that customers can review the contents at any time. If is uninstalled, this service as well as the log files, will be deleted. To learn more about this feature, please see our FAQ. Softkeyboard for TextField for Android & ios (Build ) Starting 21, TextField now enables developers to set soft keyboard types, just like StageText. Please use swf-version 32 or greater and namespace 21.0 or greater to access this feature A new property softkeyboard is introduced for TextField which can be set based on the input expected from the user. For example, if numeric input is expected, a device can use SoftKeyboardType.NUMBER to display only numbers on the soft keyboard. Valid values are defined as constants in the SoftKeyboardType class: Sample: DEFAULT PUNCTUATION NUMBER URL CONTACT var keyboard:textfield=new TextField(); keyboard.softkeyboard= SoftKeyboardType.NUMBER; // Setting SoftKeyboard of keyboard as NUMBER Media Auto Play for ios & Android Starting 21, we are introducing Media Auto Play support for ios & Android applications. Using this feature, ActionScript developers can enable media auto play inside StageWebView. To enable this, autoplay should also be enabled in the HTML5 video tag. (More info on HTML5 video tag : Please use swf-version 32 or greater and namespace 21.0 or greater to access this feature.

3 Sample Code var webview:stagewebview = new StageWebView(); webview.stage = stage; webview.viewport = new Rectangle( 0, 0, 400, 300 ); webview.mediaplaybackrequiresuseraction = false;// To enable autoplay in given web view webview.addeventlistener(event.complete, <handlecomplete>); webview.addeventlistener(errorevent.error, <handleerror>); webview.loadurl(" ) Android StageWebView debugging Starting in 21, StageWebView Debugging will allow developers to debug web content (HTML / CSS / JavaScript) used in Android applications. An ActionScript developer needs to add the webcontentsdebuggingenabled option to true in the application descriptor to allow StageWebView debugging in their application. From there, simply connect your Android device to your machine via USB cable and navigate to chrome://inspect to debug embedded web content in your application. This feature is available on Android 4.4 and higher devices. Also the Chrome version should be 45 or higher. Please use namespace 21.0 or greater to access this feature. Application Descriptor Tag <android> <!-- Indicates if webcontents(html/css/javascript) can be inspected in browser. It is Optional, Default value is 'false' --> <webcontentsdebuggingenabled>true</webcontentsdebuggingenabled> </android> GPU Memory Information In Context3D When a Context3D object is created, developers allocate memory for various Stage3D structures which includes index buffers, vertex buffers, textures, and programs. Prior to Flash and 21, the only way to verify the memory allocated by the current Context3D is through values displayed by Scout. With the release of and 21, a new property of context3d class called " totalgpumemory" has been introduced which provides the sum of gpu memory used by the index buffers, vertex buffers, textures, and programs created through Context3D. The total value can be obtained by property "Context3D.totalGPUMemory;". Developers can very easily monitor gpu memory used by Stage3D structures without having to start up Scout. The value of this property is in bytes and its default value is 0. The information is only provided in direct mode on mobile and in direct and gpu mode on desktop ( On desktop computers, using <rendermode>gpu</rendermode> will fallback to <rendermode>direct</rendermode>). This property can be used when the SWF version is 32 or more. Support for Browser Zoom Factor in Firefox We ve extended the support for Browser Zoom Feature that proposes scaling of Flash content in the web browser in response to web page zoom factor change. The feature is already available for the ActiveX and PPAPI plugin ( -of-stage3d-content-on-browser-zoom.html). It will be available from FP version 21 and is currently available on Firefox Nightly 45.0a1, the official Firefox version supporting the feature has yet to be announced.

4 PPAPI vector printing on MAC As of version 19, Vector Printing has only been available for NPAPI while PPAPI supported only bitmap printing. Hence there was an observable difference in printing quality between NPAPI and PPAPI (with NPAPI being better). Now in version 21, we have introduced vector printing for PPAPI on MAC, thus giving a better printing experience from PPAPI supported browsers and applications. The bitmap printing will continue to be supported and used when requested by the content. SIMPLE LSO UI Flash player provides an per domain/swf option to store locally shared objects on user's system. Users could specify the size up to which a domain or SWF could save their LSOs on their machine. We have now simplified the LSO UI Options. This Simple LSO feature will change the permission scheme and related dialogs to only allow/deny and universally imposes a rational upper limit to the LSO size. End users will no longer be able to specify the size of LSOs (but will be able to approve if LSOs can be created or not). The changes made are shown below: 1.) Local Storage" tab in Settings UI Previous New >>>>> In above UI, we have changed 2 parts, one is the message that informs users what to do. The question is changed from "asking up to how much local storage size you allow" to "asking a permission to store shared objects into local storage". If users select "Allow", the storage limit is set as "unlimited". If users select "Deny", the local storage limit is set as "never" so that users will not be able to store shared objects for the domain. 2.) Inline "Local Storage" dialog change Previous New

5 >>>>> In this UI, we have changed the message that informs users what to do. The question has changed from "asking permission of increasing local storage size" to "asking a permission to store shared objects into local storage". If users select "Allow", the local storage limit is set as "unlimited". If users select "Deny", the local storage limit is set as "" so that users will not be able to store shared objects for the domain. Runtime Versions : Runtime: n/a SDK & Compiler: n/a Fixed Issues April 20, 2016 April 13, 2016 Application becomes unresponsive with ArgumentError: Error #1508: The value specified for argument RectangleObject is invalid ( ) March 23, 2016 March 18, 2016

6 Performance degradation for the applications which are writing LSOs ( ) March 16, 2016 March 11, 2016 Gapminder World shows OOM message( ) quits unexpectedly while accessing the slides in learning content ( ) gotoandstop behavior is inconsistent( ) EventMarker component causing Flash player to quit unexpectedly ( ) copypixels() prevents negatively-dimensioned source rectangles ( , ) Application quits with ArgumentError: Error #1508: The value specified for argument RectangleObject is invalid ( ) March 3, 2016 Feb 17, 2016 Desktop: Feb 10, 2016 [ios] Fails to link ImageIO.framework when targeting ios ( ) [Android] GPU mode apps crash on devices with Tegra K1 GPU. ( ) Android 6 : Stage3D application fails to return from background ( ) ATF textures (with JPEG Compression) are not rendered properly on MALI GPU. [ ] Apps created from Version 20 SDK not accepted in MAC App store [ ] Contex3D fails to load in Software mode [ ] [ios] Packaging error appears in Flex app having TextField for non-interpretor (e.g. Ipa-app-store) mode on Macintosh ( ) "Error #1053: Illegal override of softkeyboardtype in spark.components.supportclasses.styleablestagetext [ios & Android] Icon files get duplicated when packaging ios, Android versions ( )

7 None Feb 3, 2016 [ios] Crash when debugging on ios 7 ( ) Browser freezes on playing a gaming SWF [ ] Flash content freezes in a game developed in ActionScript2 [ ] OOM observed in an educational program [ ] gotoandstop works incorrectly [ ] Jan 28, 2016: Windows 10 Firefox: Mic access not working [ ] Jan.28, 2016 Desktop: [ios] On compiling empty app using Xcode 7.2 to ios Simulator in Adobe CC 2015, throws an error. ( ) [ios] Wrong rotation in IOS 7 ( ) [ios] Flash Pro doesn't remember the application version number when SDK is changed to ( ) application quits unexpectedly while creating a Netgroup inside an AS3 worker [ ] Known Issues April 20, 2016 April 13, 2016 March 23, 2016 March 18, 2016

8 March 16, 2016 March 11, 2016 Chrome: Performance degradation while reading/writing LSOs taking ( ) March 3, 2016 Feb 17, 2016 Feb 10, 2016 Feb 3, 2016 [ios][win] IPA packaged on Windows machine cannot be submitted to the Apple App store. Error "This build is invalid" occurs in itunes connect. Buttons are not clickable on flash player settings UI when right click the "Settings..." in Standalone Player [ ] [ios] Fails to link ImageIO.framework when targeting ios ( ) Contex3D fails to load in Software mode [ ] None None Jan 27, 2016 Jan 27, 2016 Desktop: Vector PPAPI Printing: Text gets shifted and merges with image [ ]

9 [WIN10] Some uppercase letters can't be entered in a form input Authoring [ios] ld: library not found for -lstdc++ error in Windows 10 while packaging an IPA using -platformsdk flag ( ) [ios] Packaging error appears in Flex app having TextField for non-interpretor (e.g. Ipa-app-store) mode on Macintosh ( ) "Error #1053: Illegal override of softkeyboardtype in spark.components.supportclasses.styleablestagetext" Authoring for 21 To use the new, you will need to target SWF version 30 by passing in an extra compiler argument to the ASC 2.0 compiler: -swf-version=30. Directions are below: Download the new playerglobal.swc for 21 Download and install Flash Builder 4.7 from Creative Cloud: - Backup the existing SDK if you need to restore it later then replace the bundled SDK with the 21 SDK. To do this, unzip the 21 SDK to this location:\ MacOS: /Applications/Adobe Flash Builder 4.7/eclipse/plugins/com.adobe.flash.compiler_ /SDK Windows: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Flash Builder 4.7 (64 Bit)\eclipse\plugins\com.adobe.flash.compiler_ \SDK\ In Flash Builder, create a new project: File -> New -> project.\ Open the project Properties panel (right-click and chose 'Properties'). Select\ ActionScriptCompiler from the list on the left. Add to the 'Additional compiler arguments' input: -swf-version=30. This ensures the outputted SWF targets SWF version 30. If you compile on the command-line and not in Flash Builder, you need to add the same compiler argument. Authoring for 21 Update to the 21 namespace You must update your application descriptor file to the 21 namespace in order to access the new 21 API's and behavior. If your application does not require the new 16 API's and behavior, you are not required to update the namespace. However, we recommend all users start using the 21 namespace even if you are not yet taking advantage of the new 16 capabilities. To update the namespace, change the xmlns attribute in your application descriptor to: <application xmlns=" "> System Requirements For current release of in production, system requirements visit - For current release of in production, system requirements, visit has the following minimum system requirements: Windows Mac OS Linux 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks 32- and 64-bit (unless noted): Microsoft Windows XP SP3 (32-bit), Windows Vista (32-bit), Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Latest versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Opera 512MB of RAM (1GB of RAM recommended for netbooks); 128MB of graphics memory Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor Mac OS X v10.6, or later Latest versions of Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and Opera 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbooks 32- and 64-bit: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.6 or later, opensuse 11.3 or later, or Ubuntu or later Latest versions of Firefox or Google Chrome 512MB of RAM; 128MB of graphics memory Note: 11.2 is the last supported version for Linux. Adobe will continue to provide security updates.

10 21 has the following minimum system requirements: Windows Mac OS Android ios 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor, or Intel Atom 1.6GHz or faster processor for netbook class devices Microsoft Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows 8.1 Classic or Windows MB of RAM (1GB recommended) SDK Development Supports Microsoft Windows 7 and above, 64-bit only Intel Core Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor Mac OS X v10.7, and above 512MB of RAM (1GB recommended) SDK Development supports Mac OS 10.9 and above, 64bit only ARMv7/x86 processor with vector FPU, minimum 550MHz, OpenGL ES 2.0, H.264 and AAC HW decoders Android 4.0 and above 256MB of RAM ios 7 and above