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pwillener
pwillener
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January 25, 2015
Question

Flash Player 16.0.0.296 ?

  • January 25, 2015
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Windows 7-SP1

Today I noticed that my Flash Player (both ActiveX and NPAPI) have silently updated to 16.0.0.296, but I cannot find any announcement or Security Bulletin.

Furthermore, the downloads at

and the distribution page still contain the 16.0.0.287 installers.

What is going on?

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    pwillener
    pwillenerAuthor
    Legend
    February 4, 2015

    More to come soon: https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-02.html

    pwillener
    pwillenerAuthor
    Legend
    February 5, 2015

    Flash Player 16.0.0.305 is now available via automatic background update.

    As with the last update, no explicit installer downloads are available yet.

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    February 5, 2015

    Hello,

    All of the other installers should be available now (get.adobe.com/flashplayer, help pages, licensing, etc). Although, for some reason, the version on the Licensing page has not yet been updated.  We are following up on this issue.

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    Maria

    Pancake_Lizard
    Pancake_Lizard
    Participating Frequently
    January 31, 2015

    why are my plug-in's with PAPPI (out-of-Process)?

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    February 2, 2015

    Hi Keaton,


    PPAPI plugins are out-of-process by design.  This is for security reasons, if something happens (i.e. crash, then only that one process is affected, not others.

    You can learn more about the difference between NPAPI and PPAPI here Chromium Blog: The road to safer, more stable, and flashier Flash.

    Google is also work deprecating the NPAPI plugin on Chrome.  Sometime in the future, only the PPAPI plugin will work on Chrome.

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    Maria

    Pancake_Lizard
    Pancake_Lizard
    Participating Frequently
    February 2, 2015

    Hi m_vargas thanks for the reply.

    It seem that Flash version 16.0.0.296 (dubugger) has corrected the native client process.

    Pancake_Lizard
    Pancake_Lizard
    Participating Frequently
    January 30, 2015

    Hello people i like to weigh in here.

    I currently have adobe flash player 16,0,0,296 installed. Adobe - Flash Player (about page). but when i open the flash in a window on my desktop I get this weird lol.

    pwillener
    pwillenerAuthor
    Legend
    January 31, 2015

    What is your Windows version?  What files do you have in

    • C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash ?
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash ?
    R
    RandomReado
    Known Participant
    January 27, 2015

    Release Notes | Flash Player® 16 AIR® 16

    Your release notes page is still referencing 16.0.0.287!

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    January 27, 2015

    Hello,


    The release notes and security bulletin have been updated.

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    Maria

      R
      RandomReado
      Known Participant
      January 27, 2015

      Thank you very much.

      gener7
      Community Expert
      gener7Community Expert
      Community Expert
      January 25, 2015

      Here's what I found out:

      UPDATED: Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player (APSA15-01)

      You probably already know that now.

      Gene

      pwillener
      pwillenerAuthor
      Legend
      January 25, 2015

      Thanks; didn't know that.  I was looking for something like http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-03.html (which is a 404).

      gener7
      Community Expert
      gener7Community Expert
      Community Expert
      January 25, 2015

      I just plugged the version number into Google to get that link, so it might be a good alternative search method if you need to source these things out in a hurry.

      Gene

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