Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.swapon.de!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: what's new of JDK 1.7 u 71 compared to jdk1.7.0_11? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 09:36:18 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:36:05 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="bd4e1cba8d8592bec5d5ed9e4537fbfd"; logging-data="1433"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+xF7Cvut+ItOrp3GCGRjUe" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:lAIIPx5OYvDxdWwiW+HQGebkjb0= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:30538 On 12/11/2014 9:18 AM, John wrote: > Recently, our company has updated SDK > from > jdk1.7.0_11/ > to > JDK 1.7 u 71 > > I am wondering what's new. Is anything worthwhile? According to https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/release_dates.xml ... a few of the notable differences are that you're no longer vulnerable to http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2013-0422-1896849.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/alert-cve-2013-1493-1915081.html > We just develop standalone Java applications. ... so the two cited vulnerabilities are of little interest to you. Nonetheless, catching up on two years' worth of fixes and things is probably worth doing. See also https://www.java.com/en/download/faq/release7_changes.xml -- esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid "Don't be afraid of work. Make work afraid of you." -- TLM