Flash player 8 is alrady new for many of us but Macromedia anounces Flash Player 8.5 today that focused to the code aspects. So we all know that Flash player 8 focused on the visual improvements of the flash, 8.5 will have all of these features with new Actionscript 3 language which will have faster code runtime (5-10x ) with using low memory and and added new technologies for error catching at runtime and compile time.
Some Features of AS 3.0 :
E4X
Regular Expressions - Pattern Matching
Binary Sockets - Flash will talk many protocols
Updated Event Model