Updating to the latest version of Flash CS4 using the Adobe Updater

by Peter deHaan on December 3, 2008

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Curious if a newer version of Flash CS4 is available? Thankfully updating is easy due to the Adobe Updater application! To launch the updater from Flash CS4, select Help > Updates from the main menu. The Adobe Updater application will search for updates to all your Adobe CS4 products and give you a nice list of updates to your installed programs.

If you haven’t already updated to the latest version of Flash CS4 (10.0.1), you’ll see an option under the Adobe Flash CS4 folder saying “Adobe AIR 1.5 Update for Adobe Flash CS4 Professional (10.0.1)”:

The Adobe AIR 1.5 Updater for Flash CS4 Professional (10.0.1) software delivers the ability to publish to the most recent version of the Adobe AIR runtime. Adobe AIR 1.5 adds support for Adobe Flash Player 10 and new language support including Polish, Turkish, Czech, Swedish, and Dutch.
IMPORTANT: For all languages EXCEPT English, Spanish, or French, users must perform an additional step to complete this update. For more detail, please read this technote. (http://www.adobe.com/go/kb407415).

Select the appropriate available updates from the Adobe Updater and click the Download and Install Updates button to begin the process.

After installing the update to Flash, the version should be 10,0,1,545 (10.0.1). The original, shipping version of Flash CS4 was 10,0,0,544 (10.0.0).
To determine which version of the Flash Authoring IDE you currently have installed, check out “Using JSFL to determine which build of the Flash Authoring program you have installed”, or simply run this JSFL command:

alert(fl.version);

Tip: Adobe Flash CS4 Professional updates can also be downloaded from the Adobe Flash Support Center at http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/downloads.html

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