What's more, the Gala project page is still alive and kicking with a release date expected 'following the release of Flash Player 10.1.' We'll just have to be patient, we suppose. Update: Sorry folks - contrary to reports, it doesn't look like the Gala hardware acceleration code was secretly included in the OS X build, as we just tried it on a new MacBook Pro and the graphics didn't switch over to the discrete chip. The update patches a vulnerability found by Adobe earlier in the week.

Let us know how it goes in comments, yeah? Adobe on Thursday made Flash Player 10.1 available for public release and download.

We're curious to see if the various issues with Broadcom Crystal HD netbooks have been resolved in this final version, and Mac users will have to wait for the 'Gala' update to see any hardware-powered boost on their systems, but it's nice to finally see Adobe ship this thing. Adobe Flash Player 10.1 will be the first of its kind to support the full package of Flash services and will come for most of the mobile and desktop OS - Windows Mobile, Palm webOS, Android.

If you're anything like us, you've been running 10.1 since it hit Release Candidate status a couple months ago, but if you've held off the upgrade brings some much-needed hardware acceleration to the mix, as well as other assorted performance enhancements and improvements. Check your current Adobe Flash Player: What version are you running now What’s New in Flash Player 11 Flash Player 11. Well look at that - Adobe's now officially serving up Flash Player 10.1 on its download pages. When a scan is run that includes Flash Execution, AppScan Standard makes a change to one of the Flash 10.1 files.

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