Release Notes | Flash Player 11.6 for Windows 8

March 12th, 2013. Welcome to Adobe® Flash Player® 11.6 for Windows 8 . This is a monthly scheduled update to the original February 12th, 2013 release. This release provides support for Metro style IE and IE10 on the Desktop.

• Flash Player for Windows 8 (ActiveX) 11.6.602.180

• Flash Player crash due to integer overflow(3475889)
  

• Memory intrinics: To enable memory intrinics two changes are required:
  • Produce the memory op codes by changing the compiler
  • Expose the appropriate APIs through playeglobal.swc to leverage these opcodes

• ActionScript Workers
• LZMA support for bytearray
• StageVideo attachCamera
• Compressed texture with alpha support for Stage3D
• DXT encoding
• URL DiskStreamAPI
• Graphics Data Query
• Improved permissions UI for full screen keyboard access

X86

• (Modern only) Printing is not available (3154368)
• (Modern only) Flash bookmarks (aka Flash Anchors) are not available
• (Modern only) The following touch APIs are not supported: pan, rotate, swipe, zoom, press and tap, two finger tap (3167196) 

ARM

• (Modern & Classic) Video goes to blank/black screen after pinch zoom (3315988,3326085)
• (Modern & Classic) Performance degradation when moving mouse rapidly (3316711)
• (Modern & Classic) Number of Stage3D instances that can be instantiated are limited(Hardware restriction)

ActionScript Workers

• With the introduction of Workers to ActionScript and the Flash Runtime, Flash Developers can now offload certain tasks like high-latency operations and long-running computations to "Background Workers".  These Background Workers run concurrently in order to leverage more machine resources and avoid things like UI freezes. 

LZMA support for bytearray

• In addition to zlib compression of ByteArray, we are introducing an additional compression type based on LZMA to compress data inside a ByteArray through ByteArray.compress() and ByteArray.uncompress().

StageVideo attachCamera/Camera improvements 

• This feature exposes a new method on StageVideo objects that allows the Actionscript code to direct the video stream from the camera to a StageVideo object thus leveraging the GPU for rendering instead of the rasterizer. This allows the player to be much faster when processing a video stream from the camera when GPU acceleration is available.

DXT Encoding

• This feature enables encoding of uncompressed textures into the DXT format during runtime, so that the texture can be uploaded to the GPU as a compressed DXT texture

Graphics Data Query

This feature allows you to query any DisplayObject and get a representation of it through GraphicsData objects. This is very useful to serialize/deserialize a DisplayObject, create custom exporters (spritesheets, SVG, etc.).

For more details about this feature: http://www.bytearray.org/?p=4893

Found a bug? Please submit a bug to the Flash Player bug database.

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