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Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03

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From	Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org>
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Subject	Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03
Date	17 Oct 2012 12:18:51 GMT
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Fredrik Jonson wrote:
 
>  It seems that Oracle have reserved odd releases solely for security
>  updates, while feature releases are even numbered. [...] I haven't seen
>  this policy stated authoritively publicly anywhere, but the pattern of
>  changes in the three updates of jdk 7 sure seems to support it.

Interestingly the hypothesis above has now been publicly documented by Oracle:

 "Change to Java SE 7 and Java SE 6 Update Release Numbers

  [...] To date all Critical Patch Updates (CPUs) for Java 7 have been odd
  numbers (JDK 7 Update 1, i.e. 7u1, 7u3, 7u5, etc.), while limited update
  releases have been even numbers (7u2, 7u4, 7u6, etc.)."

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/java-update-release-numbers-change-1836624.html

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Fredrik Jonson

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Re: new JDK released 1.7.0_03 Fredrik Jonson <fredrik@jonson.org> - 2012-10-17 12:18 +0000
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