14 DAY TRIAL // After patching a security hole in its latest stable Flash Player update, Adobe Systems rolled out a new beta version of the runtime environment.
Adobe Flash Player 13.0.0.130 is available for both Mac and Windows and delivers new Stage3D texture wrapping modes.
The company explains that “Currently you can set the wrapping mode of a texture to either clamp or repeat. Using the repeat option will repeat the texture on both the U and V axis.”
“However, in some use cases, you might only want to repeat the texture on only one axis, either u or v. This is now possible with two new parameters: REPEAT_U_CLAMP_V and CLAMP_U_REPEAT_V,” Adobe adds.
Another new feature in Flash Player 13.0.0.130 Beta is Stage3D Anti-Aliasing for Render texture.
Again, the development team does its best to explain the changes to the tester crowd, noting that “Anti-Aliasing is a useful technology to improve image quality.”
“We've now implemented hardware based Multisampling Anti-Aliasing (MSAA) on desktop platforms. To enable this please set the level from 0 to 4 in Context3D's setRenderToTexture(),” Adobe says.
Finally, the update fixes some issues that are not detailed in the changelog. The Beta, as its name implies, is mainly released for testing purposes.
As usual, you can download the latest Adobe Flash versions at the links below. For productivity purposes, use the latest Stable build.
Security firm FireEye explains the reason why Flash Player 12.0.0.70 Stable was released yesterday.
A vulnerability in the platform described as a “threat actor” reportedly “seeks out and compromises websites of organizations related to international security policy, defense topics, and other non-profit sociocultural issues.”
“This actor also has early access to a number of zero-day exploits, including Flash and Java, and deploys a variety of malware families on compromised systems,” the firm said.