Robert Christenses announced yesterday, on the official Adobe AIR Team Blog, the release of version 1.5.1 for their Adobe AIR runtime environment. Besides fixing several bugs, this new version introduces two new APIs. The first, called Capabilities.cpuArchitecture, returns, as a string, the processor architecture of the machine it is installed on. The other is InvokeEvent.reason and will benefit those who build AIR applications that start automatically. Basically, this new API can indicate if an application was manually or automatically launched at login.

Before this version, Adobe AIR couldn't distinguish between these two cases, leading to some strange behaviors. Oliver Goldman, a member of the Adobe AIR Engineering Team, explains the importance of this new feature: "[...] In the login case, applications often want to avoid opening new windows. In all other cases, they generally want to make sure they do open a new window. Starting with AIR 1.5.1, the InvokeEvent class contains a new property, "reason", that distinguishes between these two cases. It has two possible values: "standard" and "login". These are, I hope, self-explanatory."

Some of the bugfixes that apply to the Linux version are:

· A crash that occurred if ATOK was set as the current IME and the keyboard focus was moved onto a password field was fixed;
· A drag and drop failure in the Orbitzoom application was fixed;
· A bug that was preventing the uploading of large images from the clipboard to ImageSharkUploader app was resolved;
· A crash that occurred in curl when trying to load PDFs from secure servers was fixed;
· The runtime uninstaller that didn't show icons for application names or IDs written with upper case characters was fixed;
· A bug that was destroying the context menu right after creating a windowed SWF file with Flash Player 10 was fixed;
· The images are now displayed in the client area for the QuickLoader app;
· The "Always Allow" button now works in SSL certificate dialogs;
· Globalsign certificates are now available in the code-signing certificate store;
· Images and videos can now load in the Fanbase app;
· The AIR runtime/application can now be installed through badge in Fedora 10 and openSUSE 10.3.

Download Adobe AIR 1.5.1 right now from Softpedia.

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