Re: [FD] Java 8u40 released: why?

Java 8u40 includes adware on OS X for the first time ever: http://ift.tt/1B6ZPqc Sorry for the poor quality of the link; I don't have time to find a better one. — Alex El 06/03/2015, a les 21:02, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au va escriure: >>> I notice that Java (JDK, JRE) update 8u40 has been released. >>> Though >>> http://ift.tt/iqBXhF >>> says "this release includes important security fixes" ... >> >> My reading of the first WWW page is that only Java SE 7 u75/76 contains >> security fixes and that there are no security fixes in Java SE 8 u40. > > Yes, they changed the wording since I wrote that! Noting that 7u75/76 > are not new now, but were released in January. > > Seems that 8u40 is simply a useability release; previous must have been > very bad, unusual that Oracle would release out-of-band. > > Thanks, Paul > > Paul Szabo psz@maths.usyd.edu.au http://ift.tt/1szcIlO > School of Mathematics and Statistics University of Sydney Australia > >



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