Another new Shockwave version was released this week by Adobe. Once again, the official release notes page for Shockwave 12 only shows 12.2.7.197 as the current version, and provides no details. There was no announcement.

A couple of years ago, Adobe changed the way Flash functionality is built into Shockwave, presumably to beef up Shockwave’s security, which up to that point included older, vulnerable versions of Flash. So it’s possible that these barely-documented Shockwave updates exist primarily to synchronize Shockwave’s security with the current version of Flash.

As usual, if you use a web browser with Shockwave enabled, you should install the new version as soon as possible.