ADOBE ANNOUNCE: Preparing for upcoming April 2008 Flash Player 9 security update

Flash Player team is doing some 'pre-communication' around
the security changes in the -next- version of Flash Player,
releasing in April 2008.
So we're starting with some blog posts, articles and
technotes so that these changes can spread to the community. There
will likely be more than this by release time as well (and new
communication will come at that time).
Blogs:
Emmy Huang:
http://weblogs.macromedia.com/emmy/
Justin Everett-Church:
http://justin.everett-church.com/
Developer Center articles:
"Preparing for the Flash Player 9 April 2008 Security Update"
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/flash_player9_security_update.html)
Everyone should read and become familiar with the current
article on Flash Player 9.0.115.0's 'phase 1' security changes..
this outlines a lot of what's been changed, and gives you an idea
what to think about for the upcoming April release. "Security
Changes in Flash Player 9" (v9.0.115.0) at
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer9_security.html.
There are a few other articles with specifics about
socketpolicyfile handling coming up, but they’re not quite
done yet..
Specific technotes w/ code:
“Changes in allowScriptAccess default (Flash
Player)”
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403183)
“Authorization header does not work for an HTTP request
(Flash Player)”
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403184)
“Arbitrary headers are not sent from Flash Player to a
remote domain”
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403185)
“Sockets do not function in Flash Player versions later
than 9.0.115.0”
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403186)
“javascript:" URLs no longer function in networking
APIs (Flash Player)”
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb403187)[b
technotes w/ code:

Is there a release date yet? I've had management phoning me
over the weekend panicking that the new player was going live this
weekend. When 9,0,115,0 came out our global financial trading
platform broke due to the socket security changes in release 115.
This time we are prepared (as we already use dynamically generated
socket policy files) although with no access to a beta player we
were unable to test. Unfortunately its just another bit of negative
perception of Flash/Flex that others can use to promote alternative
RIA platforms. I will have a fight on my hands this year to stop us
migrating to Silverlight.
I'm signed up for security alerts from Adobe - is there a
mailing list for Flash Player release date? And why can't I see a
beta version of the new player in order to test?

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