May 13, 2011 12:01 GMT  ·  By

The stable build of Adobe Flash Player 10.3 has been released. It's been baking for the past few months and curious users or developers have been able to see what Flash Player 10.3 has in store. Now, the latest update to the popular plugin is available on all desktop platforms and Android.

As has been previewed, Adobe Flash Player 10.3 comes with several new major features as well as security and privacy enhancements.

"We’re excited to announce that Flash Player 10.3 is now available for Android, Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Flash Player 10.3 improves stability, enhances security and user privacy protection, and provides new desktop video and audio capabilities for enterprises and developers," Adobe announced.

One feature touted by Adobe that interests publishers the most is Media Measurements. The tool enables websites serving videos to keep track of views and other analytics data.

"Media Measurement for Flash Player allows companies to get real-time, aggregated reporting of how their video content is distributed, what their audience's reach is, and how much video is played. Mobile support will be available in an upcoming release," Adobe added.

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 also introduces echo cancellation to the list of technologies aimed at improving voice quality for communication.

Along with voice activity detection, noise suppression and automatic gain control, the aim is to compensate for poor hardware or noisy conditions and make Flash applications which incorporate voice chat more competitive with dedicated desktop apps.

The latest Flash update also adds some security and privacy enhancements. Flash Player 10.3 now enables browsers to incorporate controls for local storage objects (LSO). Users of Mozilla Firefox 4, Chrome 11, IE8 and experimental Safari builds can now set their policy for LSO from the browsers' settings dialog.

Adobe Flash Player 10.3 for Windows is available for download here. Adobe Flash Player 10.3 for Mac is available for download here. Adobe Flash Player 10.3 for Linux is available for download here.