Apparently Adobe made changes to their downloads server

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So it appears that Adobe has made some changes on the fpdownload.adobe.com server. Trying to get the binaries for Flash Player 32.0.0.156 this morning and was presented with a 404 error. Visiting http://fpdownload.adobe.com redirects to the End of Life (EOL) for Adobe Shockwave statement which specifically states:

Effective April 9, 2019, Adobe Shockwave will be discontinued and the Shockwave player for Windows will no longer be available for download.

Either they had an overly-enthusiastic system administrator who purged too much or they are moving to a model where only the most-current versions of their products will be available for general download.

Anyone have more insight they can share? Luckily we keep an archive of all referenced binaries so I was able to just pull it from there, but I’m sure a lot of folks don’t have that luxury.

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Adobe has always removed previous versions of Flash Player from their main download site. The most current version is 32.0.0.171.

You can get the older versions here but slightly repackaged: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html

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Good to know. I’ve never needed it before so it was surprising this morning to see 404’s in my console.