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Message-Id: <201503040123.t241N5VE006686@como.maths.usyd.edu.au>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 12:23:05 +1100
From: paul.szabo@...ney.edu.au
To: fulldisclosure@...lists.org
Subject: [FD] Java 8u40 released: why?

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@...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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