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Quoting Lightspark’s homepage:

Lightspark is an LGPLv3 licensed Flash player and browser plugin written in C++/C that runs on Linux. It aims to support Adobe’s newer Flash formats and AVM2 virtual machine.

Lightspark 0.6.0.1 version; changelog:

* Enable RTMP support by default, requires librtmp
* Fixed support for IEventDispatcher implementation pattern
* Improved serialization robustness
* Improved matrix handling
* Implement string and namespace pooling to reduce memory consumption
* Proper support for private namespaces
* Improved support for fonts
* Support LLVM 3.1
* Fix full volume issue when PulseAudio flat volumes are enabled
* Initial support for AIR desktop applications
* Support for http://www.bbc.co.uk video player

Download RPMs for Fedora 17: here

Lightspark 0.5.7 version; this is the changelog:

Version 0.5.7:

* Fixed a few memory leaks
* Improved support for BitmapData::draw
* Support for BitmapData::copyPixels
* Support for soft masking
* Support for memory usage profiling (massif compatible)

Currently exist some bugs that prevent a correct “flash experience” in some website; they are listed below

YouTube – Partially supported
Vimeo – No supported  (817462)
Grooveshark – Almost fully supported (823340)
TED – No supported (823243)
Google maps Streetview – Partially supported (673385)
Dailymotion – No supported (653579)
BBC News – No supported (602805)
SVT Play – No supported (653579)
Slideshare – No supported (730555) moved on to html5

RPMs for Fedora

I have just compiled Lightspark-0.5.7 rpms for Fedora 17, Fedora 16 and Fedora 15. You can find them here.