Adobe Confirms That It’ll Kill Flash at the End of the Year

[Tsing]

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Flash has had a good run, but Adobe has confirmed that it’ll be terminating the decades-old multimedia software platform this year, on December 31. This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who remembers the company’s initial announcement from July 2017, which listed a 2020 date for Flash’s dismissal, but the new end-of-life (EOL) statement published this week does serve to remind internet historians and data hoarders to finish (or begin) their backups of classic .swf content (e.g., Flash games on Newgrounds).



“As previously announced in July 2017, Adobe will stop distributing and updating Flash Player after December 31, 2020 (‘EOL Date’),” wrote Adobe. “We made this announcement in collaboration with several of our technology partners –...

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[Riccochet]

Someone better tell Cisco. I don't think they got the memo.