Adobe has published the final scheduled update for its Flash Player plugin.<\/p>\n
The only exception is mainland China, which uses a separate version of the software and therefore has a different update release schedule.<\/p>\n
Adobe will stop supporting its Flash Player from 31 December 2020, and will actively block Flash content from running on 12 January 2021.<\/p>\n
“Today marks the final scheduled release of Flash Player for all regions outside of Mainland China,” confirmed Adobe in its latest release notes<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n “We want to take a moment to thank all of our customers and developers who have used and created amazing Flash Player content over the last two decades.”<\/p>\n “We are proud that Flash had a crucial role in evolving web content across animation, interactivity, audio, and video. We are excited to help lead the next era of digital experiences.”<\/p>\n Adobe “strongly recommended” users immediately uninstall Flash Player from their computers to protect their systems.<\/p>\n “Uninstalling Flash Player will help secure your system since Adobe does not intend to issue Flash Player updates or security patches after the EOL date,” it said.<\/p>\n It added that some users will continue to be shown reminders from Adobe that they should uninstall Flash Player.<\/p>\n These users can use the Flash Player EOL General Information<\/strong><\/a> page for more details – including how to uninstall Flash Player manually.<\/p>\n Adobe said that the decision to kill Flash Player is based on the fact that other open standards – including HTML5, WebGL, and WebAssembly – have continually matured and are now viable alternatives for Flash content.<\/p>\n “Also, major browser vendors are integrating these open standards into their browsers and deprecating most other plug-ins (like Flash Player),” said Adobe.<\/p>\n It said that the retirement of Adobe Flash was coordinated with several top browser vendors and it provided three years notice regarding the retirement of the tool.<\/p>\n Adobe has published the final scheduled update for its Flash Player plugin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":132072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2556,68032],"class_list":["post-379672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-adobe","tag-adobe-flash-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379672"}],"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\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379782,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379672\/revisions\/379782"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Why Adobe is killing Flash Player<\/h3>\n
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