Adobe announced that there will be no public beta of Flash CS5 Professional, this news was announced the same day that Lee Brimelow has posted his great video showing the sneak peak of Flash CS5 (watch it here) . This is a sad news to many of us, I personally was looking forward to this. The good part is that the final version of Adobes best product will be released earlier. Lee Brimelow on his blog explains why Adobe dropped the public beta release:
Anyone who has worked in software long enough knows that sometimes schedules and priorities change over the course of a project, and that is all that has happened here. This is not some sign that the current build is too unstable or lacking in quality. In fact I have found the current builds to be very solid. The real problem deals with the immense amount of extra work that comes from managing a public beta. There is way more that goes into it besides just posting a build up on labs. The decision was made to cancel the beta because the team needs to focus their entire attention on putting out an awesome release, on time, with solid stability.
There is allot of buzz around this news, some of you came up with really strange conspiracy theory’s, I think the truth is that Adobe wants to focus on the final version, they should because the final release of CS4 wasn’t so good, there was allot of bugs that were fix few month later in the update. We can only hope this wont be the case with CS5.
What do you think about the cancellation of public beta?
Kuba
Well, the decision stung a bit, to be honest, due to the fact that a bunch of us were salivating at the fact that we were going to sink our teeth at developing for the iPhone along with having a bunch of other cool features, but the fact of the matter is that , personally, I rather have a stable final product than a really buggy beta.
Yeah I have the same opinion, I am really looking forward to develop for iPhone but I want my IDE to be stable ;) I heard that the private beta is peaty stable already.
Yeah, from the looks of Lee Brimelows video tutorial, it actually looks pretty good. But I guess all we can really do is just sit tight.
I think that the lack of a public beta hurt CS4?and contributed to a poor product (consequently I’m still on CS3). Let’s hope adobe gets it right this time.