Adobe Flash Player 11.8 has been released. This is the first beta release at the time of this writing. Adobe intends to introduce a few enhancements to Flash Player in this release. The most visible feature of this release is the recursive stop on movie feature which we will discuss below.

Let’s go through the features and enhancements in Flash Player 11.8 one by one.

1. Sandboxing enhancements
   This feature adds enhancements to the existing sandbox feature by better addressing application launches in protected mode
2. Recursive stop on MovieClip
   For Flash Player, this feature allows a game developer to effectively pause/stop a running SWF without having to iterate through all of the objects on the DisplayList.
3. Datagram Socket (iOS & Android)
   DatagramSocket APIs are now supported for iOS and Android also.
4. Server Socket (iOS & Android)
   ServerSocket APIs are now supported for iOS and Android also.
5. LZMA SWF support (iOS & Android)
   LZMA compressed swfs can now be packaged for iOS and Android targets and are supported.

These features and enhancements have been documented in the release notes for Flash Player 11.8.

If you are using Windows 8, you will not need to download or update this release of Flash Player. This is because Flash Player 11.8 is not compatible with Windows 8. Windows 8 comes with its own version of Flash Player pre-installed.

Download Links

We are providing direct download links to offline installers of Adobe Flash Player 11.8.

Download Flash Player 11.8 for Firefox, Safari, Chrome and Opera

Download Flash Player 11.8 for Internet Explorer

If you are having any problems with the beta version of Flash Player, you can always revert back by using Flash Player Uninstaller.

Flash Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems.

Adobe has released Flash Player 11.7 and is available for download (offline installers at the end of the article). Please note that if you are using Windows 8, there is no need to download Flash Player 11.7 as it will come as a part of Windows Update process. Here’s a note from Adobe:

The ActiveX Flash Player in this release is not compatible with Windows® 8. Flash Player for Windows® 8 is available as part of the generally available Windows® 8 update

The latest release of Flash Player 11.7 doesn’t seem to add a lot of features on top of Flash Player 11.6. The biggest enhancement is of the protected mode for application launches. This feature is called sandbox.

The complete version information is Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.128 at the time of this writing. You can read more about the system requirements and features included in Flash Player 11.7 in release notes pdf file.

Download links

Download Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.128 Beta for all browsers including Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. (16.6 MB)

Download Adobe Flash Player 11.7.700.128 Beta for Internet Explorer (16.0 MB)

Since Flash 11.7 is still in beta, if you are unsatisfied with the produce, you can use Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller to uninstall Flash Player 11.7 and install Flash Player 11.6 final again.

Flash Player is a cross-platform, browser-based application runtime that provides uncompromised viewing of expressive applications, content, and videos across browsers and operating systems.

Adobe Flash Player 11.6 has been released and is available for download. As we already mentioned in the Flash Player 11.5 article, Adobe is moving towards the rapid beta release cycle. They will be using background update feature. This means that If you have installed Flash Player 11.6 in beta, all subsequent releases will automatically be downloaded and installed on your computer.

Some of the features of Flash Player 11.6 are:

• The full screen permission dialog UI has been moved to the center of the screen and a Cancel button has been added.
• Now developers can read the structure of the display object and vector data at runtime. This will help Flash game developers to use complex sprite sheets at runtime.
• Multiple SWF support has been added to the iOS Flash app.

The complete release notes can be read from here. Please note that the ActiveX installer of Flash Player 11.6 is not yet compatible with Windows 8. You will still need to rely on version 11.5 in Windows 8.

Download Flash Player 11.6 for Windows – for Internet Explorer only (EXE, 15.1 MB)

Download Flash Player 11.6 for Windows – for all other browsers (EXE, 15.7 MB)

Download Flash Player 11.6 for Mac OS X (DMG, 16.1 MB)

Please note that Flash Player 11.6 is still in beta. You should not install it on a production system. We will update this article once the final version is released.

If you run into problems while installing or running Flash Player 11.6, you can easily uninstall Flash Player.

Download Flash Player Uninstaller