JRE 1.5.0 Update 8 Gone From java.com
I was in the process of informing my users to update to 1.5.0_08 to fix a particularing annoying bug. On Thursday the java.com site presented Update 8 as the most current version but yesterday (Monday, August 28) the site presented Update 6!
I know I can get Update 8 from the developer site but now I'm wondering if it got pulled from java.com due to bugs.
What happened? Java got downgraded? Anybody know what the status of Update 8 is?
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TomMca] at [2007-10-3 3:47:10]
I reported a serious Windows issue a few days ago -- this would be a good reason not to update to _08. Take a look at http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6462383. I'm not sure if _06 is affected by the same bug, but do know for sure that _02 and _05 are not, and _07 also has a memory problem, but the behaviour is not the same as _08.
I also filed a critical bug - not on the bug parade yet.
The bottom line is that update 08 changes the meaning of EST to not include daylight savings time. PST is unchanged. This breaks all our Applets which rely on EST to be NYSE-time...
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=764827&tstart=0
> > I reported a serious Windows issue a few days ago
> > this would be a good reason not to update to _08.
>
> Ah, that would explain it.
No, it would not. If you read the bug report, the evaluator says the bug is present in all 1.5 releases, and even in 1.4. And of course, the release is available at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.
It's available, but it's not available from auto update anymore.
Here is the whole history:
- Update 08 was recommended by Sun to fix security issues
- Update 08 was available via auto-update around August 21. I don't know how long it was available, maybe a week? Would really like to know that.
- Update 08 was presumably also available from the main java download site (not the dev site you rever to), eg the site you get when you type "download java" into Google.
- Update 08 was then pulled and now the main java site and the auto update present update 06 as the latest and greatest.
So there must be some bad problem with both 07 and 08.
I am hoping 08 doesn't get back out again to the general public any time soon because the time zone bug causes a HUGE headache for us. We would have to release emergency-fix releases for all our products immediately.
