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Re: JDK 1.8.0_66 is out

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On 10/21/2015 4:49 PM, Eric Douglas wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 20, 2015 at 6:01:35 PM UTC-4, Roedy Green wrote:
>> New JDK is out. Not that exciting. It just has a few minor bug fixes.
>
> Weird.  Oracle has an 8 update 65 and update 66 both on the current release download page, not sure why we'd want to install 65.

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html

states:

Java SE 8u65 / 8u66
Java SE 8u65 includes important security fixes. Oracle strongly 
recommends that all Java SE 8 users upgrade to this release. Java SE 
8u66 is a patch-set update, including all of 8u65 plus additional 
features (described in the release notes).

so you take 65 if you only want the security fixes (less risk
of breaking anything).

I would take 66.

Arne

PS: Oracle has done this for a few releases now.

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JDK 1.8.0_66 is out Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2015-10-20 15:01 -0700
  Re: JDK 1.8.0_66 is out Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 13:49 -0700
    Re: JDK 1.8.0_66 is out Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-10-21 17:56 -0400
  Did they fix timsort? Re: JDK 1.8.0_66 is out j4n bur53 <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2015-10-22 21:49 +0200

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