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If that you have to be secure on the net, it’s best that you simply keep your entire extensions upgraded. Flash Player is not any exception as its does occasionally fall to zero day attacks and other exploits. While continuously upgrading to the newest version is the perfect plan of action, that’s not exactly feasible in an enterprise environment. That’s where Flash Player extend support is available in.

Adobe announced on Wednesday that Flash Player extended support shall be upgrading from version 11.7 to version 13 on May 13. On that day, enterprise and IT customers who use extended support releases will find version 13 on Adobe’s distribution channel.

So, what’s the advantage of using the extended support release? Rather than having to evolve to new features with every generation, extended support versions of Flash Player don’t include any new features of bug fixes. These releases focus exclusively on security fixes so enterprise customers can ensure each of the computers on their network stay secure without needing to introduce new features every few weeks.

Of course, enterprise and IT managers should probably want to start testing Flash Player 13 now before rolling it out to everybody to confirm everything works. For that, Adobe offers a Flash Player 13 beta on their Website. You could grab it here.

As an aside, it’ll be noted that the extended support release of Flash Player has finally moved to the recent numbering scheme Adobe adopted back in November of last year. Not more will Adobe use minor numbers, like 11.x, when touching on updates as each updated version of Flash Player will now have a pleasing whole number for each update. In other words, Flash Player 13 becomes Flash Player 14 in preference to something like 13.2.

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