NOTE (28/09/08): Bug #272286 must be resolved in order for this update to work with nspluginwrapper, and ia32-libs must be verified to contain the necessary libraries for 64-bit users.
I am requesting a FFe for Adobe Flash 10 RC2 (10.0.12.10).
Current version in Intrepid: Flash 10 beta 2 (release history of Flash 10: beta 1, beta 2, rc1, rc2).
Rationale:
a) This version incorporates many bugfixes, improved performance & stability.
b) We *must* update the Flash plugin, as the preview versions of Flash 10 are *not* archived (i.e. beta 1, 2, and
rc1 will not be available, so the package will fail to install).
c) Beta 2 was considered for many as the *worst* version of Flash 10, due to severe performance issues. This has been fixed since rc1.
d) Stephen Hermann and Alexander Sack have released updates to ia32-libs and nspluginwrapper to ensure this update works correctly (due to depends on new external libraries).
Caveats: we will require an SRU when Flash 10 is final, but is necessary work due to the closed-source nature of the product, and concerns for vulnerability issues, etc.
You can find the proposed debdiff in comment #27, compliant to FFe guidelines. Debdiff is trivial, with changes to md5sums, filenames and paths, and bumped dependency verson on nspluginwrapper to 1.1.0-0ubuntu2.
Changelog (Known Issues & Fixed Issues), from: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer10/releasenotes.html#fixed
Known Issues
* For Linux, Flash Player 10 only supports browsers that are supported by each specific distribution of Linux. There are issues unrelated to Flash Player that can occur if a user installs a browser that is not supported on that Linux distribution. (For example, at the time this was written, Firefox 3 was not officially supported by Ubuntu 7.)
* 3D Effects:
o Components don’t work properly with 3D Effects.
o 2.5D or 3D objects do not print correctly to PDF nor to hardware printer. (232562)
* Color Management: The ability to read source profiles is not included in this feature, by design. Comments or questions can be posted to the Flash Player 10 Forum.
* GPU Compositing and GPU Blitting:
o Issues may occur with unsupported drivers.
o Hardware acceleration does not currently optimize the Alpha, Erase, Invert & Subtract blendmodes and vectors for GPU compositing.
o For Linux, the hardware acceleration feature will not work if you are using a compositing window manager (compiz). In this case, Flash Player 10 Beta will always fall back to software. If you would like to test Flash Player 10 Beta on Linux, please disable your compositing window manager.
* Dynamic Streaming: An intended future release of Adobe Flash Media Server is required to use this feature. If you are interested in being part of the private prerelease program, please send an email to <email address hidden> with your contact details.
* RTMFP:
o An intended future release of Adobe Flash Media Server is required to use this feature. If you are interested in being part of the private prerelease program, please send an email to <email address hidden> with your contact details.
* Speex:
o An intended future release of Adobe Flash Media Server is required to use this feature. If you are interested in being part of the private prerelease program, please send an email to <email address hidden> with your contact details.
o Live audio does not work on Mac when audio capture is 96 kHz. (221951)
* Acrobat Connect Pro meeting will not install the Acrobat Connect Add-in if running in FP10. Workaround: install FP 9.0.124, then install Connect Add-in, then upgrade to FP10.
Fixed Issues
* Many Linux camera issues have been fixed. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
* Linux full-screen optimizations have been made. Please report any additional issues you encounter.
* startDrag() does not work when movie clip is 3D. (216415)
* LiveCycle WorkSpace cannot log in using Flash Player 10 Beta. (223394) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
* Vector printing on Macs works now!
* New Text Engine: Vector Printing isn't currently enabled.
* Custom Filters and Effects:
o Mac PPC: Color distortions may appear when applying a Shader. ShaderJob returns unexpected values for some Pixel Bender functions.
o Linux: Shader Jobs may return NaN instead of an expected Number value.
* Drawing API: Strokes are not visible on paths drawn with drawTriangles or GraphicsTrianglePaths. The lineShaderStyle is not implemented in Flash Player 10 Beta.
* Context Menu: The new AS3 Clipboard is currently only working for Mac and Windows. It is not yet working for the Unix players.
* Uploading images using Photoshop Express does not work with Flash Player 10 Beta. (1786882) WORKAROUND: Use Flash Player 9.0.124.0.
* Dynamic Streaming:
o A crash when switching between videos of different resolutions has been fixed.
o A new Play Status event when switching between streams now actually happens: NetStream.Play.TransitionComplete.
* RTMFP:
o Changing NetStream.BufferTime on the subscriber side of P2P connection, causes video to stop and possible crash
o No NetStream onStatus messages received when using NetStream.pause(), NetStream.resume() or NetStream.togglePause() for P2P connection
o Intermittent crashes/hangs when subscribing/unsubscribing multiple times to P2P NetStream.
o peerStreams array includes null streams in some cases.
* Speex:
o Disconnect and re-connect network on Mac publisher causes sending garbled audio with USB audio devices. (227185)
o Speex audio may deteriorate when computer is overloaded. (222082)
o Peer-to-peer Nellymoser may incur in quality degradation when packets are lost. (222469)
o Soundtransform for Speex does not work in loopback mode
o Linux-specific issues:
+ Flash Player 10 hangs when subscribing to a live audio stream. (222283)
+ Linux subscriber receives deteriorated audio for about 20 seconds when switching from Nellymoser to Speex codec. (222306)
+ Linux Subscriber P2P only: When Nellymoser audio is attached, the video plays slowly on the subscriber side. (222851)
* Video playback issues on PPC Macs have been resolved.
For the impatient of you :-)
The flashplugin 10 RC package is available in PPA, for Hardy am Intrepid:
https:/