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Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.228 for Windows Macintosh and Linux

Adobe Flash Player 11.2.202.228 for Windows Macintosh and Linux

This new version includes:

  • Drivers gating for hardware acceleration relaxed — Previously, the hardware accelerated content was gated to 1/1/2009, however, we have relaxed the driver gating to 1/1/2008
  • Throttling event — This release introduces a new ThrottleEvent. A ThrottleEvent is now dispatched by the stage when the Flash Player throttles, pauses or resumes content
  • Mouse lock, relative mouse coordinates, right and middle click events — Create immersive, panoramic games with infinite scrolling to enable new classes of content, including first-person games
  • Multithreaded video decoding (Windows, Mac OS, and Linux) — The video decoding pipeline is now fully multithreaded. This feature should improve the overall performance on all platforms. Note that this feature is a significant architecture change required for other future improvements
  • Flash Player background updates (Windows) — New versions of the runtimes can now be delivered more effectively to the end user with this enhanced updating mechanism (Background update is only available in the release versions of Flash Player)

Please visit http://www.adobe.com to download this latest release

Watchguard XTM Firewall UTM Device – Cannot browse some sites and logs report GAV job open failed (failed to connect to scand at scand)

Cannot browse some sites and logs report GAV job open failed (failed to connect to scand at scand)

You may find that you cannot access or browse some websites when you are using a Watchguard XTM Firewall or UTM device and the GAV (gateway antivirus) is enabled.  When you review the appliance logs you see the following event logged GAV job open failed (failed to connect to scand at scand).  In this instance the anti-virus proces or component of the XTM device has probably crashed or stopped responding.

Resolution/Workaround:

You might be able to permantently resolve this issue by upgrading to a newer XTM OS i.e. 11.4.2 to 11.5.2 or you may simply need to apply the latest CSP release for the XTM OS build you are using i.e. 11.4.2 CSP9 (Service Pack).  Newer OS releases and Service Packs often included fixes for these sorts of GAV issue.

A workaround would be to schedule a reboot of your Watchguard XTM appliance, this will reset the GAV (gateway antivirus) and should allow pages to load correctly again.

Adobe Flash Player 11.2 Beta for Windows and Mac OS X

You can download and trial the beta release of Adobe Flash Player 11.2 using the following link

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer11-2.html

This beta release introduces multi-threaded video decoding and Flash Player background updates