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Re: Java 8u40 released: why?
From: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith () oracle com>
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2015 14:18:39 -0800
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://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html 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://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/releases/8u40.html https://blogs.oracle.com/thejavatutorials/entry/jdk_8u40_released -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith () oracle com Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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