Re: Java 8u40 released: why?

[paul.szabo () sydney edu au]

Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith () oracle com> wrote (and he should
know!):

> 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

My observation in the past was that Java updates came with the rest
of the "quarterly CPU" cycle. Was that wrong, has something changed?

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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