Where do I get version 3.4

Question

I have to admit that I do feel rather stupid right now, but I knew that I used favorites in Adobe (Community) Help before, and this was one thing that made the Adobe help system somewhat bearable. But I had to upgrade to a new computer (hardware problems) and now I cannot find this feature any more. I managed to start my old computer and started help there and much to my astonishment I saw that I have/had 3.4.0973 installed there.
I tried everything (Checking for updates manually, deinstalling and reinstalling, googled and searched forums and blogs searched adobe labs etc.) but I cannot find a way to update.
There are even Instructions on how to use 3.4 in adobe blogs
http://blogs.adobe.com/tcs/2011/01/history-favorites-and-one-click-bookmarking-in-the-adob e-community-help-client.html
but I'm stuck with 3.3 as others are. Still I cannot recall how I came into possession of 3.4 on my old machine.
Please someone help I really need at least a somewhat better help-system. (It still was slow under 3.4 and not organized to my liking and the contents could really be more inspired.... But every little bit helps.)

Answer 1

Hi:  I sincerely apologize for the lack of communication on this.  Here's the short story:  version 3.5 will be released very, very soon -- possibly as early as next week.  This update will be an auto-update and will feature a number of enhancements and performance improvements.
Here's the long story:  we released version 3.4 in December but had to pull the release after 24 hours due to server-side architectural issues. In 3.4, we attempted improve performance by consolidating a number of disparate webservice calls into a single call at start-up. However, we soon ran into a serious issue with the webservice that required that we provision a new server cluster and rework various parts of the server-side services. Note: 3.4 itself was not an issue however, various webservices like commenting, rating, and related links were not available. So ... after much back-n-forth with our IT dept. and *extensive* testing, we are now very close to re-releasing the udpate.  However, the team felt strongly that, given the amount of time that has lapsed, that we should try to deliver more value by including additional enhancements and feature requests. The biggest change in 3.5 is that we have removed the "Local Content update" dialog box -- we have moved the notification to the footer and the home screen and will download the content as a background process.  We got numerous complaints from users that the current workflow was too disruptive and that we should simply 'get out of the way and let users get to the content as quickly as possible.'  We have implemented similar improvements to the application update process itself (i.e. no more annoying/confusing dialog boxes) so future udpates to the app itself will be as unobtrusive as possible.  There are number of other enhancements on the way as well...
As I said, we are very very close to release - and I *sincerely* apologize for the lack of communication/status on 3.4.  I will post an announcement here as soon as  3.5 is released along with complete release notes and details on all of the fixes, enhancements, etc.
Sincerely,
Mark Nichoson
Product Manager
Adobe Community Help