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Re: Java 8u40 released: why?
From: James Hodgkinson <yaleman () ricetek net>
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 07:47:47 +1000
Maybe the major change is that they’re including the Ask toolbar in all releases now, not just the windows one? :) The unwelcome Ask extension shows up as part of the installer if a Mac user downloads Java 8 Update 40 for the Mac. In my tests on a Mac running that latest release of OS X, the installer added an app to the current browser, Chrome version 41 … James On 7 March 2015 at 7:39:32 am, Guy Dawson (g.dawson () crossflight com) wrote: 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 _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
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- Java 8u40 released: why? paul . szabo (Mar 04)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? Gsunde Orangen (Mar 05)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? Guy Dawson (Mar 06)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? paul . szabo (Mar 06)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? Alan Coopersmith (Mar 07)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? paul . szabo (Mar 07)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? Alan Coopersmith (Mar 07)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? paul . szabo (Mar 06)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? Alexander Burke (Mar 07)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? James Hodgkinson (Mar 07)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? Nick FitzGerald (Mar 07)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? James Hodgkinson (Mar 09)
- Re: Java 8u40 released: why? Dave Warren (Mar 09)