Update your Flash Player (did Adobe flash player just jump fiveversions?)

What's up with the latest update to the Adobe Flash version?
http://i61.tinypic.com/6fsj0o.jpg

Opening my Firefox 34, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu, Canonical 1.0
browser to a flash video today, I got a message to update my flash
version but I was surprised that my current version is 11.2.202.245
yet the new version is a whopping *five* releases later!

Normally an update is just a minor sub-version change, or, if it's
a major update, just one release number; but this is five numbers.

Pressing the "Check Now" button at the Adobe flash check site
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html
It reports:
"Sorry your computer does not have the latest Flash Player installed"
Your version 11.2.202.425
Latest version 16

Did Adobe really jump five versions in one day?

Or, did something else happen that I'm not aware of
(and, if I missed updates, why, or how did I miss that?)

In article ,
Adair Bordon wrote:

What's up with the latest update to the Adobe Flash version?
http://i61.tinypic.com/6fsj0o.jpg

Opening my Firefox 34, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu, Canonical 1.0
browser to a flash video today, I got a message to update my flash
version but I was surprised that my current version is 11.2.202.245
yet the new version is a whopping *five* releases later!

Normally an update is just a minor sub-version change, or, if it's
a major update, just one release number; but this is five numbers.

Pressing the "Check Now" button at the Adobe flash check site
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html
It reports:
"Sorry your computer does not have the latest Flash Player installed"
Your version 11.2.202.425
Latest version 16

Did Adobe really jump five versions in one day?

Or, did something else happen that I'm not aware of
(and, if I missed updates, why, or how did I miss that?)

Either they've been holding off on Linux updates, or you missed them. I
checked my Mac's backups, and I had 15.x until Dec 19, when it upgraded
to 16.x. All the changes since then have been minor vesions.

I didn't search back further to see when 15.x first appeared.

--
Barry Margolin
Arlington, MA

Adair Bordon wrote:

What's up with the latest update to the Adobe Flash version?
http://i61.tinypic.com/6fsj0o.jpg

Opening my Firefox 34, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu, Canonical 1.0
browser to a flash video today, I got a message to update my flash
version but I was surprised that my current version is 11.2.202.245
yet the new version is a whopping *five* releases later!

Normally an update is just a minor sub-version change, or, if it's
a major update, just one release number; but this is five numbers.

Pressing the "Check Now" button at the Adobe flash check site
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html
It reports:
"Sorry your computer does not have the latest Flash Player installed"
Your version 11.2.202.425
Latest version 16

Did Adobe really jump five versions in one day?

Or, did something else happen that I'm not aware of
(and, if I missed updates, why, or how did I miss that?)

From:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/...-versions.html

There was a version 11.2.202.440 released on 1/27/2015 yet there was
previously a version 16.0.0.235 released on 12/9/2014. Note that those
are dev releases so ordering of version releases depends on when changes
where made to each major version. They won't be in version order. They
will be in dev change order. So they've been working on version 16
since early Dec 2014 (well, actually longer ago than that since code has
to get written and reviewed before it gets released). Guess they
decided v16 was stable enough for a public release.

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/...ase_notes.html

I've always found it rude that Adobe deletes the downloaded file right
at the start of running the installer. If there is an error, you have
to download it again if you didn't previously make a local copy of it.

In article , Adair Bordon
wrote:

What's up with the latest update to the Adobe Flash version?
http://i61.tinypic.com/6fsj0o.jpg

Opening my Firefox 34, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu, Canonical 1.0
browser to a flash video today, I got a message to update my flash
version but I was surprised that my current version is 11.2.202.245
yet the new version is a whopping *five* releases later!

you haven't updated in a very long time.

Normally an update is just a minor sub-version change, or, if it's
a major update, just one release number; but this is five numbers.

it was a minor sub-version change. only the 4th number of the set
changed.

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 19:07:02 +0000, Adair Bordon wrote:

What's up with the latest update to the Adobe Flash version?
http://i61.tinypic.com/6fsj0o.jpg

Opening my Firefox 34, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu, Canonical 1.0 browser
to a flash video today, I got a message to update my flash version but I
was surprised that my current version is 11.2.202.245 yet the new
version is a whopping *five* releases later!

Normally an update is just a minor sub-version change, or, if it's a
major update, just one release number; but this is five numbers.

Pressing the "Check Now" button at the Adobe flash check site
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html It reports:
"Sorry your computer does not have the latest Flash Player installed"
Your version 11.2.202.425 Latest version 16

Did Adobe really jump five versions in one day?

Or, did something else happen that I'm not aware of (and, if I missed
updates, why, or how did I miss that?)

The latest version is 16 - for Mac and MS. Adobe says that "11.2 will be
the last version to target Linux as a supported platform."

nospam wrote, on Thu, 29 Jan 2015 15:26:16 -0500:

you haven't updated in a very long time.

That's the issue.
I'm sure I have updated recently (within a month or two).

In fact, I reinstalled the *latest* flashplayer, and it's
NOT the version 16!

$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
x-ttcidfont-conf ttf-xfree86-nonfree xfs
The following packages will be upgraded:
flashplugin-installer
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 115 not upgraded.
Need to get 6,918 B of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/multiverse flashplugin-installer amd64 11.2.202.440ubuntu0.14.04.1 [6,918 B]
Fetched 6,918 B in 0s (26.3 kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 306401 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../flashplugin-installer_11.2.202.440ubuntu0.14.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.440ubuntu0.14.04.1) over (11.2.202.425ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...
Processing triggers for update-notifier-common (0.154.1ubuntu1) ...
flashplugin-installer: downloading http://archive.canonical.com/pool/pa...40.orig.tar.gz
Installing from local file /tmp/tmpW2gZ5Q.gz
Flash Plugin installed.
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.440ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...

So, the latest flashplayer must be 11.2.102.440 and not 16.

ray carter wrote, on Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:32:16 +0000:

The latest version is 16 - for Mac and MS. Adobe says that "11.2 will be
the last version to target Linux as a supported platform."

That explains why updating again still shows up as 11.2.
$ sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
Setting up flashplugin-installer (11.2.202.440ubuntu0.14.04.1) ...

I think the problem was actually the Firefox version because,
I just updated that, and things seem to be back to where they we

$ sudo apt-get install firefox
$ firefox --version

(process:3228): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_slice_set_config: assertion 'sys_page_size == 0' failed
Mozilla Firefox 35.0.1

So, I guess it was the firefox version but the error had said
it was the plugin version. Very odd.

In article , ray carter
wrote:

The latest version is 16 - for Mac and MS. Adobe says that "11.2 will be
the last version to target Linux as a supported platform."

linux users are about to be pwned.

Adair Bordon wrote:
What's up with the latest update to the Adobe Flash version?
http://i61.tinypic.com/6fsj0o.jpg

Opening my Firefox 34, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu, Canonical 1.0
browser to a flash video today, I got a message to update my flash
version but I was surprised that my current version is 11.2.202.245
yet the new version is a whopping *five* releases later!

Normally an update is just a minor sub-version change, or, if it's
a major update, just one release number; but this is five numbers.

Pressing the "Check Now" button at the Adobe flash check site
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html
It reports:
"Sorry your computer does not have the latest Flash Player installed"
Your version 11.2.202.425
Latest version 16

Did Adobe really jump five versions in one day?

Or, did something else happen that I'm not aware of
(and, if I missed updates, why, or how did I miss that?)

Actually, Adobe did announce somewhere on their site,
that the Flash numbering scheme had changed. But whatever
the new scheme was, it didn't "stick" with me, so I can't tell
you what it means. The release numbers seem to have
accelerated for no good reason, and they're also not necessarily
aligned from one platform to the next.

If I had to sum up the new scheme, "meaningless" comes to mind :-(

You can use the Flash test page here, to display your
current Flash version, as well as a table of "latest release
versus OS" at the bottom of the page.

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Paul

On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:27:59 -0500, nospam wrote:

In article , ray carter
wrote:

The latest version is 16 - for Mac and MS. Adobe says that "11.2 will
be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform."

linux users are about to be pwned.

wrong.

Security updates are still being put out for Linux. Also, many Linux
users, like myself, use Google Chrome, with its built in pepperflash
player that is the same release number as Adobe Flash.

In alt.os.linux Adair Bordon wrote:
my current version is 11.2.202.245
yet the new version is a whopping *five* releases later!

Adobe doesn't upgrade flash-player for Linux anymore, so 11.2 is the
LAST versio, although minor updates (security and bug-fixes are still
released).
So although there is a 16.0 release, you would have to run M$-Windows
or Mac OS/X for it to be installable.
Google Chrome has a "pepperflash" that also is newer, but only works
_with_ chrome or chromium-based browsers, it has a different API.

For Linux/Firefox (and Seamonkey or Opera) 11.2.202 _is_ the last
version, although it now does have a minor update .440 available.

Paul wrote, on Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:39:58 -0500:

You can use the Flash test page here, to display your
current Flash version, as well as a table of "latest release
versus OS" at the bottom of the page.

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

That web page was interesting, so thanks for providing it.
According to that web page, I had the right version all along.
I think it was a false error, that actually, apparently, as far
as I can tell anyway, was resolved by updating the Firefox version!

Anyway, here's the table on that web page for others to check the
version of their Flash Player:

Windows
- Firefox, Mozilla - NPAPI 16.0.0.296
- Chrome (embedded), Opera, Chromium-based browsers - PPAPI 16.0.0.296
- Internet Explorer (Windows 8.x) - ActiveX 16.0.0.296
- Internet Explorer - ActiveX 16.0.0.296

Macintosh
- OS X Firefox, Safari - NPAPI 16.0.0.296
- Chrome (embedded), Opera, Chromium-based browsers - PPAPI 16.0.0.296

Linux
- Mozilla, Firefox - NPAPI (Extended Support Release) 11.2.202.440
- Chrome (embedded), Chromium-based browsers - PPAPI 16.0.0.296
- Solaris Flash Player 11.2.202.223 is the last supported Flash Player version for Solaris. 11.2.202.22

Eef Hartman wrote, on Thu, 29 Jan 2015 22:24:27 +0000:

Adobe doesn't upgrade flash-player for Linux anymore, so 11.2 is the
LAST version

I see now that Linux is on 11.
Is there anything in the later versions that matters?
Or, is it just like so much other software where there isn't anything
worth mentioning in the later releases?

In alt.os.linux Adair Bordon wrote:
Opening my Firefox 34, Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu, Canonical 1.0
browser to a flash video today, I got a message to update my flash
version

BTW: that message didn't come from firefox, but from the specific
website, which - probably through javascript - checked the flash
version used and is TOO MS/Apple oriented to know that the version
it wants doesn't exist for Linux/Unix/Android
(yes, Android flash isn't supported either anymore, last one was 11.1).

This has been true since 2012/13, flash 11.3 was first released on
6/08/2012 as the first one NOT to have a Linux version;
the final update release of Flash Player for the Android operating
system was on September 10, 2013.
Acrobat Reader for Linux/Unix is also not supported/updated anymore,
the last one was 9.5.5, released on 05/14/2013

Did Adobe really jump five versions in one day?

No, in the last 2.5 years, since Linux upgrades stopped.

PS: all dates from the Adobe website.

On 2015-01-29, sctvguy1 wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 16:27:59 -0500, nospam wrote:

In article , ray carter
wrote:

The latest version is 16 - for Mac and MS. Adobe says that "11.2 will
be the last version to target Linux as a supported platform."

linux users are about to be pwned.

wrong.

Well, not really. A security update is not a feature update, and many of
the sites using flash use features from the newer flash.

Security updates are still being put out for Linux. Also, many Linux
users, like myself, use Google Chrome, with its built in pepperflash
player that is the same release number as Adobe Flash.
While it may be the same number it is not the same thing. In particular
the Adobe DRM which many of the TV networks use to distribute their
shows is NOT supported by Pepper flash, or anything else on Linux that I
know of.