[technology taskforce] Adobe to stop updating & distributing Flash Player by the end of 2020

[Dev Anand Teelucksingh]

"...as open standards like HTML5, WebGL and WebAssembly have matured
over the past several years, most now provide many of the capabilities
and functionalities that plugins pioneered and have become a viable
alternative for content on the web. Over time, we’ve seen helper apps
evolve to become plugins, and more recently, have seen many of these
plugin capabilities get incorporated into open web standards. Today,
most browser vendors are integrating capabilities once provided by
plugins directly into browsers and deprecating plugins.

Given this progress, and in collaboration with several of our
technology partners – including Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and
Mozilla – Adobe is planning to end-of-life Flash. Specifically, we
will stop updating and distributing the Flash Player at the end of
2020 and encourage content creators to migrate any existing Flash
content to these new open formats."

https://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2017/07/adobe-flash-update.html