# Adobe News - Flash Player MEGA update, AIR ex Apollo, Flex 3 Beta

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**Created:** [June 11, 2007, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adobe-news-flash-player-mega-update-air-ex-apollo-flex-3-beta/228744 "2007-06-11T08:39:31Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 11, 2007, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adobe-news-flash-player-mega-update-air-ex-apollo-flex-3-beta/228744/1 "2007-06-11T08:39:31Z")

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We have very, VERY good news from Adobe.

**Flash Player 9** have update introducing for the first time GPU acceleration in player, mipmap for bitmaps, multi-threading on vector renderer and bitmap filters and video decoding, using of multi-core CPUs . GPU processing is not too big implementation, only for full-screen video but hey, this is starting a path which will surely lead us to Flash Player 10 having numerous incredible, long-waited features.  
[LEFT]Feature list on [http://www.kaourantin.net/2007/06/flash-player-update-3-beta-1.html](http://www.kaourantin.net/2007/06/flash-player-update-3-beta-1.html)

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\*\*AIR \*\*- ex Apollo - as it was announced by Adobe, Apollo recieved new name, AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime). Also, **beta version** is released. HTML & Javascript becamed first class citizens  
You can download runtime from  
[URL=“[http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html](http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html)”][http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html](http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air.html)

SDK is available from  
[http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/airsdk.html](http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/airsdk.html)

**Flex 3 Beta** is released. Good news because there is lot of improvements. Some of them are :  
for developers[LIST]  
[_] [LEFT]Faster compilation, compiler class caching[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]Deeper language intelligence for AS3/MXML/CSS[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]Refactoring (Renaming: Method,Class,Variable)[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]Code Search[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]Code Outline[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]Memory Profiling, Performance Profiling, Profiling Live Memory Data[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]Enhanced Module support[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]Multiple SDK support.[/LEFT]  
[/LIST]for designers[LIST]  
[_] [LEFT]Skin Importer[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]Design View Zoom/Pan[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]ItemRenderers in Design View[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]Advanced constraints[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]CS3 integration[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]CSS Outline[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]CSS Design View[/LEFT]  
[_] [LEFT]many Flex 3 SDK style/skinning enhancements.[/LEFT]  
[/LIST][LEFT]you can download Flex 3 Builder Beta from [http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder3/](http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/flexbuilder3/)  
Flex 3 SDK beta from  
[http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/sdk/flex3sdk.html[/LEFT]](http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flex/sdk/flex3sdk.html%5B/LEFT%5D)  
[LEFT]This is all great news. Adobe is on fire ![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/3178/17b05a832e5a7272.gif)

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