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Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 13:21:49 +1100
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: alan.coopersmith@...cle.com
Cc: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: Re: [FD] Java 8u40 released: why?

Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@...cle.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@...hs.usyd.edu.au   http://www.maths.usyd.edu.au/u/psz/
School of Mathematics and Statistics   University of Sydney    Australia

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