{"id":178510,"date":"2016-09-06T09:13:12","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T07:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=178510"},"modified":"2016-09-06T09:15:20","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T07:15:20","slug":"adobe-resurrects-flash-for-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/178510-adobe-resurrects-flash-for-linux.html","title":{"rendered":"Adobe resurrects Flash for Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has updated the\u00a0Linux NPAPI Flash Player, moving it &#8220;in\u00a0sync with the modern release branch&#8221; &#8211; currently version 23.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe said the\u00a0NPAPI version of the player was held\u00a0at 11.2 for the past four years, with only security fixes pushed through.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have done this significant change to improve security and provide additional mitigation to the Linux community,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/flashplayer\/2016\/08\/beta-news-flash-player-npapi-for-linux.html#sthash.v7X1usH7.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>said Adobe<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adobe previously said the\u00a0NPAPI Linux releases would stop in 2017, but this was no longer the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once we have performed sufficient testing and received community feedback, we will release both NPAPI and PPAPI Linux builds with their major version numbers in sync and on a regular basis.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Flash<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/175459-chrome-will-start-to-block-flash.html\">Chrome will start to block Flash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/172834-simple-graph-shows-why-flash-should-die.html\">Simple graph shows why Flash should die<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adobe has updated the Linux NPAPI Flash Player, moving it &#8220;in sync with the modern release branch&#8221; &#8211; currently version 23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":132086,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[36,2556,2558,1799],"class_list":["post-178510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-active","tag-adobe","tag-flash","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178514,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178510\/revisions\/178514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}