For Those of You Affected by the Alpha of AIR Expiring

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I just caught this on the Adobe forums, but wanted to post it here as well in case anyone was searching the blogosphere and got bit by the Alpha version of AIR expiring. This is a letter from the product managers:

It has come to the Adobe AIR team’s attention that a few AIR developers were affected by today’s expiration of the Alpha version of Adobe AIR released on March 19, 2007. We regret any inconvenience that the timeout may have was caused anyone especially our earliest adopters. For that we apologize.

In the future, we will strive to do a better job at communicating these dates to the community. The best place to find this information about expiration dates is on our FAQ:
http://labs.adobe.com/wiki/index.php/AIR:Developer_FAQ#Does_the_Adobe_AIR_runtime_have_an_expiration_date_or_timeout.3F

Our intent was to encourage developers to move to the latest version of the runtime to take advantage of new features and capabilities. We intentionally removed the Alpha version download from our website after Beta1 was released so that AIR developers would begin transitioning their applications over to the Beta which included dozens of new features and bug fixes. However, it appears that some developers that kept building on top of the Alpha were surprised to discover that it would not launch today.

Moving forward, we highly recommend that AIR developers move their applications to the latest version of the runtime as soon as it’s made available. Until we officially launch 1.0, you should expect that new versions of the runtime will have new capabilities and bug fixes.

If you encounter any difficulties with migrating from one version to another we want to support you, so please send us any issues.

IMPORTANT: If you review the FAQ, you’ll see that Adobe AIR Beta 1 will timeout after December 11th, 2007. When the next version of Adobe AIR is released, we will provide detailed steps on how to migrate over your applications. As previously stated, you should plan on updating your applications as soon as the next version is released.

Please feel free to respond to this thread if you have questions or thoughts you’d like to share.

Thank you,
- Rob and Luis

Product Managers, Adobe AIR
http://www.adobe.com/go/wish/

[tags]Adobe AIR[/tags]

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  • http://www.fsoft.com Gary Funk

    I wish Adobe would have taken into account that beta 1 of AIR doesn’t work with roaming profiles. So now, I can’t run the alpha, and I can’t run the beat as it’s breaks, so I’m stuck until beta 2 comes out, which could be weeks or months away.

  • http://blog.digitalbackcountry.com Ryan Stewart

    Hey Gary, we’ve got a beta coming in the next couple of days. Monday in fact, during our MAX conference. So you won’t have to wait tha long!