Adobe stops updating Flash Player at the end of 2020 to stop updating and distributing Flash Player

ByMarco Paköeningrat

Once proud of the interactive content format as a males,Open standardAdobe Flash, which is finishing its role by the appearance of technologies HTML5, WebGL, WebAssembly, and so forth, declared that Adobe, the developer, will finally abolish it in 2020.

We'll stop updating & distributing Flash Player by the end of 2020. More about our plans & a look at what's next:https://t.co/P925Dozz6kPic.twitter.com/4Ss82ZfdeI

- Adobe (@ Adobe)July 25, 2017

Flash & amp; The Future of Interactive Content | Adobe
https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html


The origin of FlashFutureWave Software"FutureSplash Animator" software. Macromedia, which had Shockwave of multimedia data playback technology in the same way, acquired this company in 1996 and became the name "Macromedia Flash". After Adobe acquired Macromedia in 2005, Adobe Flash It became.

It is widely used in the production of interactive contents including music playback and animation, and since it was adopted as a movie playback format on YouTube, it has been widely used as a streaming playback format.

However, in recent years, open standard technologies such as HTML5, WebGL, WebAssembly have expanded, and YouTube also changed the standard playback format to HTML5.

YouTube announces that it will initialize movie playback in HTML5 instead of Flash - GIGAZINE


Even major web browsers have integrated these open standards technologies directly.

For this reason, Adobe is working with Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, etc. to move forward towards abolishing Flash,Flash Player update stopped & discontinued at the end of 2020And the policy to make a recommendation for transition to the new open format.

Support is continued until 2020, providing regular security patches and adding required functions for major operating systems and web browsers.