Flash Player 8.5 Public Beta

It's that time of year again - a new major release of the Flash Player is coming up and Adobe ask us to test our existing content to check that it does not break with the new player. Got a new MacBook? A native player for that just arrived as well.

This is certainly the time for new Flash Players. Macromedia today initiated a Public Beta of Flash Player 8.5. This is not the same as a public rollout of the player, but rather to check that all things are done right in this new version. If any of your content breaks or look odd, Adobe really wants to know. Fixing bugs now are easy, but once the 8.5 player starts spreading it'll be much harder to fix anything.

The new Flash Player is actually two players rolled into one. It contains two Virtual Machines (VM). The first will play back all the current content with Flash versions up to Flash 8 and Actionscript 2. The other VM will play back content authored as Actionscript 3 using Flex 2. A Public Beta rollout usually means that the final player is just one or two months away (if Adobe follows the shedule formerly used by Macromedia).

Got a new Intel based MacBook? Now there's a universal binary of Flash Player 8 for OS X as well in testing. This will fix fixed the 'blue text' issue, along with the alpha blending bug in the non-native Player.
Click here to download/test Flash Player 8.5 Beta

 

 

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