The official release of Flash Player 10 is now available. According to the press release:

Adobe Flash Player 10 builds on the capabilities of the world’s most pervasive application runtime with new support for custom filters and effects, native 3D transformation and animation, advanced audio processing, and GPU hardware acceleration.

Download the full press release (PDF).

I’ll also remind you of the sIFR bug with Flash 10 we mentioned back in July. When you update your Flash Player, make sure to keep said bug in mind.

All those testing the Flash Player 10 beta should go download the new release candidate. The August 11th release will update your player to version 10.0.2.26.

Udpate: 10.0.12.10 was released on September 15th.

The title pretty much says it all. I spent about 10 aggravated minutes today troubleshooting this issue, until I remembered I had updated to the new Flash Player 10 beta last week. As reported:

sIFR 2 uses the same Flash detection that was originally used in its precursor, IFR, back in 2004. Unfortunately this detection script only expected single digit Flash versions, so it fails to detect Flash 10. This has been fixed in sIFR 2.0.6 2.0.7.

Those using sIFR 2 in past or current projects, take this opportunity to update your scripts. Obviously, this isn’t going to be a rampant issue, because sIFR usage is comparatively low. However, I wanted to at least save some of you out there the headache.

An engineer from the Adobe Flash team, Tinic Uro, is reporting that they have found the bottleneck which has plagued the Flash player’s performance on OS X. With the beta release of Flash player 10, speeds are said to be increased by up to three times. Good news for all OS X users.

Flash Player 10 beta can be downloaded from Adobe Labs.