Path: csiph.com!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!peer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post01.iad.highwinds-media.com!fx07.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Wayne User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: new JDK versions References: <8qtsk9t7id2pv6dl56ugepkshhldq8a61t@4ax.com> In-Reply-To: <8qtsk9t7id2pv6dl56ugepkshhldq8a61t@4ax.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2014 03:14:52 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 23:15:09 -0400 X-Received-Bytes: 1888 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1884928739 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:28113 On 4/16/2014 8:29 AM, Roedy Green wrote: > JDK 1.8.0_05 and 1.7.0_55 are out. > > see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jdk.html > http://mindprod.com/jgloss/jre.html > for hints on installing if you can't do it in your sleep my now. > I'd be cautious before installing 8U5. While downloading, I was reading the release notes for JDK 8U5, and saw the new feature on the Jar manifest attribute. The link to works, but one you start reading that page, it appears to have been hacked/corrupted by someone, scrambling the text. For example: "The Applicacation-Name aexte tmpts tbin tund. This attribute is used to determine seconis listed in the Lh2>lot presentsed. If neither that is snt into vide awhen the JAR file plicationcode> ain a different than the JNLP fileg isHTML page that startscationcodf the JARfiles ais presin the e Apbuted," I'm going to wait a bit before updating, to see what (if anything) happens. I'm nervous lately about hacked websites. (I wrote to Oracle, but received no reply.) -- Wayne