Adobe has released the beta version of its Flash Player 10 code name ‘Astro‘. Flash Player 10 public beta is now available for download for Windows, Mac and Linux.

Some great new features for web developers added to Flash Player 10 include:

• Support for 3D rendering effects
• New drawing APIs
• Adobe Pixel Blender Filters
• New text rendering engine
• Graphics acceleration

Flash Player is generally the most popular internet explorer enahncing software. As it is in beta, so bugs are expected. There’s no date mentioned for final release.