Back in August Adobe reversed its decision to stop offering an NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux and promised that version 23 would come Penguinistas' way real soon now.
At the time the decision was greeted with surprise, because Adobe had not thought to update Flash for Linux since 2012's version 11.2. But the company decided that Linux users deserved a security upgrade to the infamously hole-ridden product.
It turns out the company fibbed, because it's now delivered version 24 of the plugin to Linux users, making this a thirteen-version jump between releases*.
That's the same version number offered to Windows and Mac users, but the new Linux version lacks features found on those other platforms. Linux users willing to put up with almost-certainly-insecure** will therefore have to put up with missing 3D acceleration from GPUs.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Saturday December 31 2016, @02:26PM
Is there yet a workable solution for authoring and playing vector animations that involves no Adobe products?
(Score: 2) by art guerrilla on Saturday December 31 2016, @02:59PM
teevee ?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @04:38PM
Well, there is Gnash, which despite not having a release in over four years is still seeing some development: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnash.git/log/ [gnu.org]