Applications in the SAS® 9.4 platform – as well as many SAS® solutions that are based on SAS 9.3 and SAS 9.4 – used Adobe Flash Player to provide interactive user interfaces. Adobe announced that it intends to move its Flash technology to end-of- life status, and it will cease to update and distribute the Flash Player at the end of 2020. Most browser vendors already included security warnings for users of Flash content, disabled Flash by default in 2019, and are expected to remove support for Flash completely in 2020 to match the end-of-life direction that is stated by Adobe
When? Adobe will continue issuing regular Flash Player security patches, maintain OS and browser compatibility and add features and capabilities as determined by Adobe through the end of 2020.
Adobe will be removing Flash Player download pages from its site and Flash-based content will be blocked from running in Adobe Flash Player after the EOL Date.Adobe always recommends using the latest, supported and up to date software. Customers should not use Flash Player after the EOL Date since it will not be supported by Adobe.