Flash MX 2004 7.0.1 Updater Released

 
Oct 15, 2003
November 10 - Macromedia announced the immediate release of a new updater to Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004. This update contains lots of bug fixes (about 250 of them, according to Lucian Beebe, Flash Product Manager for Macromedia), stability and performance improvements, and a tremendous amount of additional documentation.

Besides three megabytes of new in-product help, users will be glad to know that there are hundreds of pages of documentation on the JavaScript API included in the product. This is a previously undocumented extensibility layer that was built into the product when it was first released.

Beebe emphasizes that this updater is a patch rather than a full release of Flash, and as such, is free to customers with a license for Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004. The Flash MX 2004 7.0.1 updater is available at http://www.macromedia.com/go/updates/.

New, updated trial versions of Flash MX 2004 and Flash MX Professional 2004 are also available for download today, and customers with previously expired trial versions will be able to try the new versions with a special serial number available at http://www.macromedia.com/go/tryfmx2004/.

Macromedia has also made improvements to their website, enhancing the Flash developer center by breaking it down into five sub-categories that users most often visit: data integration, Screens, video, Version 2 Components, and ActionScript 2.0. The developer center is available at http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/flash.

Beebe also reveals that Macromedia is planning a series of new components and improvements for Flash that will be released sometime over the next thirty days. These include:

  • Some new Remoting components that Macromedia will work on. They will announce plans for these components soon.
  • The ability for Flash MX 2004, Flash MX Professional 2004 and the Flash Player 7 to recognize components that run on Flash MX
  • Flash communication server components updates for Flash MX 2004, Flash MX Professional 2004 and the Flash Player 7. These will also be coming soon.
In addition, the Developer Resource Kits (DRKs) 1-4 will be updated so that they work with Flash MX 2004, Flash MX Professional 2004 and Flash Player 7. This new update will be out as DRK 5, and will be free to those who bought the previous four DRKs.

Installing the Updater: What You Should Know

All English product users who have installed Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004, or who will install until November 15th, will need to download the updater. This includes full product, NFR versions and evaluation copies. When installing the updater, do not, at any time, uninstall your current copy of Flash MX 2004. You should simply install it as a patch over the copy you have on your system. From today (November 11th) on, installs of Flash MX 2004 or Flash MX Professional 2004 on Macromedia's site will contain the updater as part of the download. Boxed editions of the software that ship out after November 15th will also include the updater. If you are in doubt as to what version of the software you carry, check out the version number. If it says 7.0.1, you've got the updater included. (Non-English versions of the product may have a different version number, as some of them are being rolled right into the product on release.) If it says 7.0, you should go to http://www.macromedia.com/go/updates/ and download the updater immediately.

For more information on this new updater, see:

Flash Product Page

Flash Developer Center

What's New in Flash 2004?

What's New in Flash 2004 FAQ


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