The latest Flash Player 14 beta builds are now available. Beta builds can be downloaded from labs.adobe.com.
New Features for Flash Player 14:
- Anisotropic Filtering
This new texture sampling filter can enhance the image quality of textures on surfaces that are at oblique viewing angles. There are two ways to enable this feature:
In AGAL, set one of the values – "anisotropic2x", "anisotropic4x", "anisotropic8x", or "anisotropic16x" to the filter option in the sampling instructions. Or call Context3D::setSamplerStateAt with the 3rd parameter "filter" being one of the values defined in Context3DTextureFilter - "ANISOTROPIC2X", "ANISOTROPIC4X", "ANISOTROPIC8X", or "ANISOTROPIC16X"
- New Stage3D "Standard" Profile
Developers can now request this high level profile when creating Context3D. Three new features are available in this profile:
- Multiple render target allows to you to draw geometry to multiple outputs (up to 4) during one drawing
- Floating point texture allows you to create Texture, RectangleTexture and CubeTuxture with the RGBA16F folder.
- AGAL v2 contains these improvements:
- Increased register size
- Partial derivative instructions
- Fragment depth output
- Conditional forward jump
Notable Fixes and Enhancements:
- Multiple stability and security issues
- 3778961: StageVideo with camera doesn't work properly in AIR and Flash Player 14
- 3223393: Windows-7: Firefox Window loses focus every time Flash plugin processes are (re-)launched
Known Issues
- PPAPI Debugger - Chrome incorrectly reports the installed location of the plugin in chrome:plugins
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