Java 8u40 includes adware on OS X for the first time ever: http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-extends-its-adware-bundling-to-include-java-for-macs/
Sorry for the poor quality of the link; I don't have time to find a better one. — Alex El 06/03/2015, a les 21:02, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au va escriure: >>> 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. > > Thanks, Paul > > Paul Szabo p...@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/ _______________________________________________ Sent through the Full Disclosure mailing list https://nmap.org/mailman/listinfo/fulldisclosure Web Archives & RSS: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/
