Re: Java 8u40 released: why?

[Guy Dawson <g.dawson () crossflight com>]

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.

On 4 March 2015 at 01:23, <paul.szabo () sydney edu au> wrote:

> I notice that Java (JDK, JRE) update 8u40 has been released.
> Though
>   http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
> says "this release includes important security fixes", the release notes
>   http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u40-relnotes-2389089.html
> says the "security baseline" is 1.8.0_31 (unchanged).
> I do not notice any major "useability" issues fixed.
> So: why this out-of-band release?
>
> Thanks, Paul
>
> Paul Szabo   psz () maths usyd edu au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
> School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia
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