Recent changes

• Stage 3D accelerated graphics rendering:
  
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• Explore a new architecture for high-performance 2D/3D GPU hardware accelerated graphics rendering by Adobe, which provides low-level Stage3D APIs for advanced rendering in apps and gives framework developers classes of interactive experiences.
  
• Initial support for personal computers.
  
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• Native 64-bit support:
  
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• Flash Player can now take advantage of native support for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit web browsers on Linux, Mac OS, and Windows.
  
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• H.264/AVC software encoding for cameras:
  
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• Stream beautiful video from your computer's camera with higher compression efficiency and industry-wide support, enabling both high-quality real-time communications (such as video chat and video conferencing) and live video broadcasts.
  
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• Content protection support for mobile:
  
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• Flash Access content protection support is now available on Android devices. Broadcasters can now reach and monetize an even broader range of customers on their favorite mobile device.
  
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• Protected HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS):
  
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• Protect streaming video across devices without the complexity of a license server.
  
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• Adobe Flash Access:
  
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• Take advantage of key rotation support, V3 license chaining, domain support, enhanced output protection, and device filtering features.
  
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• Secure random number generator:
  
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• Developers can now take advantage of cryptographically secure random number generation to build more secure algorithms and protocols.
  
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• TLS Secure Sockets support:
  
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• Take advantage of new support for secure communications in client/server applications.
  
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• G.711 audio compression for telephony:
  
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• Support interoperability with legacy phone systems via the Flash Media Gateway (FMG) and other third-party clients (through the open RTMP protocol) without the need for transcoding.
  
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• Cubic Bezier curves:
  
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• Easily create complex cubic Beziers without requiring custom ActionScript® APIs with the cubicCurveTo drawing API.
  
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• Enhanced high-resolution bitmap support:
  
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• Enable the development of apps that use very large bitmaps. BitmapData objects are no longer limited to a maximum resolution of 16 megapixels (16,777,215 pixels), and maximum bitmap width/height is no longer limited to 8,191 pixels.
  
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• Asynchronous bitmap decoding:
  
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• Improve app responsiveness and deliver smoother animation by decoding images on initial load, instead of on demand. Images are cached as needed.
  
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• Native JSON (JavaScript Object Notation):
  
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• ActionScript developers can now take advantage of high-performance native parsing and generation of JSON-formatted data. Developers can integrate existing data seamlessly into their projects.
  
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• Garbage collection advice:
  
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• A GC advice API provides additional control over the scheduling of garbage collection, so that the garbage collection process does not disrupt the user experience.
  
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• Socket progress events:
  
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• Improve management of data transfer with a new property to determine the number of bytes remaining in the write buffer and a new event for when data is being sent to the network layer. New APIs allow apps to easily track progress and provide feedback.
  
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• JPEG-XR support:
  
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• Support for the JPEG-XR advanced image compression standard (International Standard ISO/IEC 29199-2) provides more efficient compression than JPEG, enables both lossy and lossless compression support, and adds support for alpha channel transparency.
  
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• High-efficiency SWF compression support:
  
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• Take advantage of LZMA compression to reduce SWF file sizes by up to 40%, enabling users to benefit from richer experiences with shorter download times and reduced bandwidth consumption.
  
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• New removeChildren API:
  
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• DisplayObjectContainer now implements a removeChildren API allowing developers to quickly remove all of a container's children using a single API call.
  
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• New MovieClip property:
  
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• Take advantage of the new MovieClip.isPlaying property, which returns the MovieClip's current playing state.
  
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• Version 11.1.102.64:
  
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• Security enhancements.

Review last updated: 21/01/13