Flash:History

Macromedia

 * 1996 Flash 4: Programming via a series of drop down menus
 * 1997 FutureSplash
 * 2000 Flash 5: ActionScript 1.0
 * 2004 Flash 7 (MX 2004):
 * 2006 Flash 8

Adobe

 * 2007 Flash 9 (CS3): Creative Studio is used to indicate that Flash is bundled with other Adobe applications. Action Script 3.0
 * 2008 Flash 10 (CS4): Updated version. Some new features.
 * 2010 Flash 11 (CS5): Updated version. New features include TLF text engine, Font embedding, Spring properties for the bone tool, code snippets, code hinting, AIR.
 * 2011 Flash 11.5 (CS5.5):
 * 2012 Flash 12 (CS6):

Wikipedia(2009) contains a discussion of the history of Flash.