Adobe AIR

Can it use any more CPU? Please use more CPU, Adobe I trust you can do it!

Although Adobe advertises the system requirements for AIR 31.0.0.96 as "Mac OS X v10.10 or later," the installer allows installation on a system running OS X 10.7.5.

The version downloaded from this website never goes beyond "installing" Downloaded it twice and tried 2 different Macs. Success with a download from Adobe directly. The software itself, does what it needs to.

As of Tuesday, 2015-08-11, Adobe AIR is now up to version 18.0.0.199. The update includes 35 security patches. Adobe considers this update to be 'Critical'.

Whenever Adobe Flash is updated, keep an eye out for an AIR update as well, because Flash is incorporated into AIR. Adobe does a lousy job informing people about AIR updates, not even bothering to post on the AIR download page what is the latest version. You literally have to download the most current version and check out the Installer to learn what version you're installing. That's both lazy and stupid of Adobe. :-P

Adobe AIR 14.0.0.178 was actually released on August 12, 2014 alongside Flash 14.0.0.176. It was updated specifically because AIR incorporates Flash. The Flash update included CRITICAL security patches. From Adobe's Security Bulletin: http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-18.html "These updates resolve memory leakage vulnerabilities that could be used to bypass memory address randomization (CVE-2014-0540, CVE-2014-0542, CVE-2014-0543, CVE-2014-0544, CVE-2014-0545). "These updates resolve a security bypass vulnerability (CVE-2014-0541). "These updates resolve a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to code execution (CVE-2014-0538)." You can look up the CVE reports at: http://cve.mitre.org/find/index.html

This is a link to an old version of Air. Anyone minding the store?

Att. MacUpdate: Current stable version is 3.7.0.1860.

When is Adobe going to update with a stable version of Air and Flash?

Blargh. I know this is not a *big* deal, but it frustrates me that the attention to detail and problematic culture of Adobe are evident from even this changelog item above: "On OS X, some fonts do not rending properly when viewing Flash content in the Google Chrome browser (3506958)" Having been part of Adobe beta cycles and testing for many years, I am just more and more frustrated with this company and it's directions. Even after offering many suggestions that would help tremendously, it seems that they are oblivious to outside influence and correctional suggestions.