Adobe Flash
Discontinued multimedia platform used to add animation and interactivity to websites
Follow Adobe Flash on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
We include updates on John Kricfalusi, Neil Cicierega, Zach Hadel, Arin Hanson, Edd Gould, The Brothers Chaps, Red Room Curse, ActionScript, Real-Time Messaging Protocol, Alan Becker, Ross O'Donovan, Chris Niosi, Glenn Ligon, SWF, Max Gilardi, Aubrey Ankrum ... and more.
| August 31 2024 |
Ruffle
Support ended for macOS 10.15 version
|
| March 13 2024 |
Ruffle
Support ended for Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 operating systems
|
| 2023 | Joe Phillips created character art for the video game 'OscarWildeCard'. |
| 2023 |
Flashpoint Archive
BlueMaxima stepped down as leader of the Flashpoint Archive project to focus on other projects, including writing a book about the early history of web games.
|
| October 2023 | The Flashpoint Archive collected over 160,000 Flash applications, offering a freely available archive for preservation. |
| August 31 2023 |
Ruffle
Support ended for macOS versions 10.13-10.14
|
| July 2023 |
Ruffle
Neopets announced exploration of using Ruffle to restore broken Flash games and content. Later that month, Ruffle was implemented for a selection of supported Flash games.
|
| August 2022 |
Ruffle
Significant improvement in ActionScript 3.0 support begins, with about 90% of the language and 77% of the API implemented.
|
| 2021 |
Ruffle
Support began for Ruffle on current Windows and macOS versions
|
| 2021 |
Adobe Flash Player
Continued enterprise support for Flash Player through Harman for select platforms.
|
| July 2021 | Microsoft pushed out the Flash Player removal update as a security update, automatically applying it to remaining systems. |
| January 2021 | All major browsers blocked Flash content unconditionally. A built-in kill switch prevented Flash execution after January 12, 2021. |
| January 2021 | Microsoft released optional update KB4577586 to remove Flash Player from Windows. |
| January 2021 |
Adobe Flash Player
Google Chrome blocked the Flash plugin as 'out of date'
|
| January 2021 |
Ruffle
After Adobe Flash Player's official discontinuation, Ruffle emerged as an open-source emulator to preserve and enable viewing of legacy Flash content across websites.
|
| January 20 2021 |
Adobe Flash Player
Chrome version 88 was released, fully removing the Flash plugin from the browser
|
| January 12 2021 |
Ruffle
Adobe blocked Flash Player versions newer than 32.0.0.371 using a kill switch, causing widespread disruption to governmental and educational websites.
|
| January 12 2021 |
Adobe Flash Player
Flash Player versions newer than 32.0.0.371 refused to play Flash content and instead display a static warning message.
|
| January 1 2021 |
Ruffle
Adobe officially ended support for Flash Player.
|
| 2020 |
Ruffle
Coolmath Games announced plans to use technologies like Ruffle to make Flash content playable.
|
| 2020 |
Adobe Flash Player
Final public update for Flash Player for standard Windows and Linux platforms.
|
| 2020 | Released 'Mouth Dreams', the fourth installment in his popular 'Mouth' mashup album series, continuing to push the boundaries of musical remix and internet comedy. |
| 2020 |
Flashpoint Archive
Nitrome removed their games from the Flashpoint Archive, citing plans to remake their games using HTML5 technology.
|
| December 2020 |
Ruffle
Armor Games selected Ruffle as their player for Flash content.
|
| November 2020 | The Internet Archive integrated Ruffle within its Emularity system to emulate Flash games and animations without security vulnerabilities. |
| November 2020 |
Ruffle
Internet Archive announced they would use Ruffle to preserve Flash games and animations, with archivist Jason Scott noting the implementation was quick and straightforward.
|
| October 1 2020 |
Ruffle
First version of Ruffle released for Windows (11 or later) and macOS (12 or later)
|
| March 1 2020 |
Adobe Media Server
Version 5.0.16 was released by Veriskope.
|
| 2019 |
Ruffle
Newgrounds announced sponsorship of Ruffle's development and planned to use it for all Flash content, starting with animations and later interactive games.
|
| February 2019 |
Adobe Media Server
Adobe Systems Incorporated granted Veriskope Inc rights to further develop, resell, and extend distribution of Adobe Media Server software product.
|
| 2017 |
Ruffle
The New York Times began working on archiving old web content and started using Ruffle for preserving Flash content.
|
| 2017 |
Ruffle
Adobe announced the discontinuation of Flash Player support, encouraging migration to HTML5 technology.
|
| 2017 | Released 'Mouth Moods', the third album in his acclaimed 'Mouth' series of mashup albums, further solidifying his reputation as an innovative internet musician. |
| 2017 |
Flashpoint Archive
Ben 'BlueMaxima' Latimore initiated the Flashpoint Archive project, originally as part of a separate project from the Archive Team.
|
| July 2017 | Adobe deprecated Flash and announced its End-Of-Life (EOL) at the end of 2020, ceasing support, distribution, and security updates for Flash Player. |
| 2016 | Development of Shumway ceased. |
| 2016 | Work began on Ruffle, a Flash emulator written in Rust. |
| 2016 | Google shut down the Swiffy application for Flash conversion. |
| 2016 | Joe Phillips contributed as a character artist for the video game 'Escape from Pleasure Planet'. |
| 2016 | Released 'Spirit Phone' album, continuing his independent music career. |
| August 2016 |
Adobe Flash Player
Adobe announced it would resume offering Flash Player for Linux for other browsers, beginning with version 24.
|
| 2015 | Adobe rebranded Flash Professional as Adobe Animate to emphasize expanded support for HTML5 authoring, encouraging content creators to use new web standards. |
| 2014 | Adobe began encouraging Flash developers to transition their works to HTML5 standards, coinciding with early content preservation efforts. |
| 2014 | Google released the Swiffy application to convert Flash applications to HTML5-compatible scripts for mobile device viewing. |
| 2014 | Released 'Mouth Sounds', an experimental mashup album that gained significant internet attention for its creative and humorous audio collages. |
| 2014 | Released 'Mouth Silence', a companion mashup album to 'Mouth Sounds', continuing his unique approach to musical remix and internet comedy. |
| 2013 |
Adobe Flash Player
Adobe reported that over 400 million of more than 1 billion connected desktops were updating to new Flash Player versions within six weeks of release.
|
| October 2013 | Shumway was included by default in the Firefox nightly branch. |
| 2012 | Joe Phillips worked as a character artist on the video game 'My Ex-Boyfriend the Space Tyrant'. |
|
We are only showing the most recent entries for this topic. |
|
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia articles Adobe Flash Player, RTMPDump, Neil Cicierega, Adobe Media Server, Flashpoint Archive, Adobe Flash, Ruffle (software) & Joe Phillips, which are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.