Adobe Flash: Notice of Deprecation in Service Pack 22

Nikki Cameron

Adobe have advised that Flash will not longer be supported or updated by the end of 2020. 

Please refer to Adobe's official announcement at Flash & The Future of Interactive Content Blog​, which contains further information and links to posts from all browser vendors.
As of Service Pack 22, Blackbaud Internet Solutions will deprecate the Flash Player part, and it will be removed from the list of available part types. This means that no new instances of this part type can be created. Existing pages using the Flash Player part will display a yellow banner indicating that the part has been deprecated.  Blackbaud encourages clients to review current industry best practices and standards, particularly HTML5 and refresh/redesign pages currently using Flash Player accordingly.

 

Ashley Culley

Thanks for the news, Nikki.


Is there a plan for removing the Flash player from other BBIS parts that seem to try to load it (e.g. Forms)? Are these being updated too?

Nikki Cameron

 To clarify; everywhere in the application Flash was being used, it has been replaced with HTML5. E.g. Image Library and Files Upload.