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

On 03/ 6/15 12:02 PM, paul.szabo@sydney.edu.au wrote: >>> 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. Java 8u40 is a feature release that's been planned for almost a year, not a special out of band bug fix release. http://ift.tt/1KD9pat http://ift.tt/1F6zsjC



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