Opera's latest release addresses the security issue in the Flash Player
(Secunia Advisory 17437).
Opera 8.51 for Windows ships with Macromedia Flash version 7r61.
The release is a recommended security upgrade for Linux/FreeBSD/Solaris
users, because it updates Opera's wrapper script to not run commands
included with URLs passed from other applications (as suggested in
Secunia Advisory 16907).
Users of Mac OS X with Japanese systems will experience improved stability
on pages with Java.