Після пів-року розробки вийшла перша бета-версія вільного програвача роликів Flash. Список змін займає 420 КБ.
Основні зміни:
    - Improved timeline redesign.
    - Action execution order fixes.
    - Keyboard handling improved [1].
    - New classes implemented: System.capabilities (partial), SharedObject, LocalConnection.
    - New opcodes implemented: ActionImplements, Try/Throw.
    - Movieclip.beginGradientFill completes drawing API support.
    - MovieClip._lockroot support added.
    - Implement GET/POST for MovieClip.loadVariables and MovieClip.loadMovie
    - Textfield support improved.
    - Security: configurable sandbox restricts filesystem access by movies.
    - Better support for SWF8.
    - Streaming OGG-contained multimedia (e.g. vorbis/theora or vorbis/dirac), and other free formats.
    - OGL and Cairo renderers much improved.
    - Improvements of the Framebuffer GUI (hide text messages, support Linux  events system, built-in touchscreen calibration, simple keyboard support, better architecture support).
    - SOLdumper utility for reading SOL files ('flash cookies').
    - DumpShm utility finds and dumps Local Connection memory segments.
    - Fullscreen display possible.
    - Extensions for LIRC and DBus.
    - High quality, cross-platform psuedo-randomness using boost random.
    - NPAPI (Mozilla) plugin: keyboard events work, navigation and javascript from within movies.
    - Set and save preferences from the GUI (GTK).
    - Improved stability and robustness with malformed SWFs.
    - Many other bugfixes.
Домашня сторінка: 
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/Завантажити: 
http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnash/0.8.2/