Chromium and Pepper Flash:
Yesterday, there was
a new Flash from Adobe. The second time in November, and this time Google accompanies it with an update of their Chrome browser (version 39.0.2171.71) which contains the new PepperFlash plugin. I extracted that plugin from the Chrome binaries and put it into an updated chromium-pepperflash-plugin package for Slackware 14.1 and -current.. Because of the new Chrome release, there’s also a new release of Chromium’s “stable channel” meaning an updated Chromium package for Slackware is on its way as well. You can read more on Google’s Chrome blog.
The new version of the PepperFlash plugin is 15.0.0.239. Test the success of your package upgrade on Adobe’s “About Flash” page (remember to close your Chromium browser before applying the upgrade).
Linux Flash:
I also packaged the “legacy” Flash player pligin for Linux, aka the NPAPI plugin for Mozilla-compatible browsers. Adobe’s monthly security bulletin has all the information. The new version for my Linux flashplayer-plugin package is 11.2.202.424.
As an aside, it is interesting to read that Google has delayed the “depreciation of NPAPI” from their Chrome/Chromium browser. In our Linux versions of Chrome/Chromium, all support for NPAPI has already been removed in the summer of this year, but despite Google’s claim with statistics showing that the usage of NPAPI has been on a steady decline, they seem to have enough opposition from the Windows camp that their original plan (eradicate NPAPI from Chrome at the end of 2014) is not coming to pass. All of that is irrelevant to us Linux users, so anyway, who cares?
Pipelight with Windows Flash:
For my pipelight package, you can easily update the Windows plugins it installed for you earlier (including the Windows Flash player if you use that) by running (as root) the script:
# pipelight-plugin --update
A new package is not required therefore.
Eric
Nice one Eric. Glad to see you could get these to us so quickly. Much appreciated as always.
Thanks Eric. To keep your workload manageable, Salix also packages the flash-plugin 11, perhaps leave it up to them and focus on Chromium (plus the other important stuff you do of course)?
The flash plugins are a mere re-packaging of binaries, and do not require much time at all. On the other hand they are important security fixes to who ever has installed them, so I will keep on maintaining them. I never said I would drop packages from my repository by the way. Not until they stop compiling on Slackware.