Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: new Java 1.8.0_72 Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2016 14:36:44 -0500 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <5e41f67c-f936-44d3-9491-8764d182252a@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ANasIS7Js9OyLQwgloeBLQ.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:33502 On 1/21/2016 10:54 AM, Jan Burse wrote: > The "should only" sounds a little bit frightening to me: > > "Java SE Patch Set Updates (PSU) contain all of fixes in the > corresponding CPU, as well as additional non-critical fixes. Java PSU > releases should only be used if you are being impacted by one of the > additional bugs fixed in that version. The release notes call out the > additional fixes available in Java SE PSU releases." > > http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/cpu-psu-explained-2331472.html Question is whether the "should only" came from engineering or legal. :-) Arne