Silverlight 5.1.20513.0 is now available for download

Microsoft has released a new update version (5.1.20513.0) of  Silverlight. This update includes functional, performance, reliability and security improvements.

Details
Silverlight is a powerful development tool for creating engaging, interactive user experiences for web and mobile applications. Silverlight is a free plug-in, powered by the .NET framework and compatible with multiple browsers, devices and operating systems, bringing a new level of interactivity wherever the web works.

Silverlight 5 introduces more than 40 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications with desktop features in the browser, dramatic video quality and performance improvements, and features that improve developer productivity.

What's new in Silverlight 5.1.20513.0?
Silverlight 5.1.20513.0 includes functional, performance, reliability and security improvements and are backward compatible with web applications built using previous versions of Silverlight.
  • Fixes security issues described in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: 2814124 MS13-022: Vulnerability in Silverlight could allow remote code execution: March 12, 2013.
  • Fixes an issue where core CLR files were versioned as 5.0, and the System.Environment.Version public API reported the Silverlight framework version as 5.0. With this fix, all CLR and Silverlight files now have a major and minor file version of 5.1, and Environment.Version reports 5.1 as the framework version.
  • Fixes an issue where certain buffered web requests can cause a crash of the Silverlight plugin on Mac OS X.
  • Enables Silverlight application exception handling on future releases of Mac OS X.

Download Silverlight
The links in this section correspond to files available for this download. Download the files appropriate for you.

For end user: Refer to the Silverlight Installation page.

For developer: Refer to the Silverlight Tools page.

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Media Format Extensibility
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Perspective 3D Graphics
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Source:
Microsoft Silverlight

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