The new Components comes with an installer for Flash 8, but contains nothing new. A must-have for anyone using Remoting though.
According to the release notes, nothing other than Flash 8 support is added. Then again - Flash Remoting is only about transfering objects back and forth between the client and a server. There's no need to add anything. It just works and it's much faster than XML Sockets.
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