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Adobe Flash Alternative, Lightspark 0.7.0, Is Released with Tons of Improvements

A lot of new features and fixes were implemented in the last version of Lightspark

Oct 29, 2012 13:47 GMT  ·  By
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Lightspark, an LGPLv3 licensed Flash player and browser plugin written in C++/C that runs on Linux and that aims to support Adobe's newer Flash formats and AVM2 virtual machine, is now at version 0.7.0.

After good months of development, the developers of Lightspark have returned with a new version, featuring numerous improvements.

Highlights of Lightspark 0.7.0:

• LZMA compressed SWFs, requiring liblzma, is now supported; • BitmapData support has been improved; • Virtual machine performance and memory consumption have been improved; • ActionScript compatibility has been improved; • The XML support has been improved; • Experimental support for bytecode optimization at runtime has been vastly improved; • ExternalInterface (browser integration) support has been added; • Performance of JPEG loading has been improved.

Check out the official announcement for a complete list of changes and updates. Download Lightspark 0.7.0 right now from Softpedia.