Ashutosh Sharma

Adobe AIR 1.5.3 is now available for download. This release fixes some critical bugs. For a complete list of changes and bug fixes, please see the release notes.

With this release, application authors now need to specify a publisherID in the application descriptor for updating applications. (For new 1.5.3 applications, this is not required.) This release also fixes the AIR application installer crash on Linux systems using AMD Phenom processors. Also, AIR will now now honor the system's default browser on Linux.

As always, please feel free to report a bug/feature request, or to discuss any issues you might be having.

Flex Builder Linux is a plugin-only version of the Flex Builder that you can use to build Flex applications on Linux. An updated version of the plugin is now available for download on Adobe Labs.

Do note that you need to uninstall any previous installation of Flex Builder Linux - you can run the shell script ~/Adobe_Flex_Builder_Linux/Uninstall\ Adobe_Flex_Builder_Linux/Uninstall_Adobe_Flex_Builder_Linux to perform the uninstallation.

To install the update, download flexbuilder_linux_install_a5_112409.bin, make it executable:

chmod +x flexbuilder_linux_install_a5_112409.bin

and execute it:

./flexbuilder_linux_install_a5_112409.bin

You need eclipse 3.3.x and Sun JRE 1.5.x (or newer). To launch Flex Builder Linux, you can run the script ~/Adobe_Flex_Builder_Linux/Adobe_Flex_builder.sh. More details are available in the release notes.

This plugin has an updated expiration date and includes AIR 1.5.2.

We're pleased to announce the availability of Adobe AIR 2 Beta on Adobe Labs. The Runtime and SDK are available for download on all supported platforms - Windows, Mac and Linux.

AIR 2 includes several highly-requested features. Some of the prominent features of AIR 2 are:

• Server sockets
• Open documents with the user's default application
• Microphone data access
• .rpm and .deb packages for Linux
• Launch native executables
• USB mass storage device detection
• Global Error Handling
• UDP sockets
• TLS/SSL sockets
• DNS lookup
• Packaging an AIR application in a native installer
• Database transaction savepoints
• Screen reader support (Windows only)
• Printing enhancements
• Increased maximum size of NativeWindow
• Multi-touch events (Windows only)

For a detailed list of features and system requirements, please see the AIR 2 release notes.

Together with AIR 2, Flash Player 10.1 is also now available. For more details, please see the complete list of features.

As always, please let us know if you run into any issues.

Tomas Laurinavičius has posted an amazing list of 22 very useful AIR applications at sixrevisions.com to help people in their design and image editing tasks.

Here's the article: http://sixrevisions.com/tools/22-awesome-adobe-air-applications-for-designers/. Go ahead and check it out (and remember to Digg/Tweet about it if you like it).

Since these are AIR applications, they should work on Win, Mac and Linux. (Do let us know if any of them do not work on a specific platform.)

Adobe AIR 1.5.2 is now available for download. This is a minor release - for a complete list of API changes and bug fixes, please see the release notes.

This release is focused on making the runtime more robust and secure. As always, please feel free to report a bug/feature request, or to discuss any issues you might be having.