Nick,
Nowhere in the quoted text or my comments did it say it was a forced option,
only that it “appeared” in the update; this thread started with questions as to
whether there was any actual changes with the version bump, and I was offering
a possibility.
James
On 8 March 2015 at
On 2015-03-07 15:00, Nick FitzGerald wrote:
So you did not notice the explanation that this would happen, right
there on the continue the install permission dialog?
The one we can see a screenshot of at, say:
https://grahamcluley.com/2015/03/oracle-java-mac/
Your description rather
Java 8u40 includes adware on OS X for the first time ever:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/oracle-extends-its-adware-bundling-to-include-java-for-macs/
Sorry for the poor quality of the link; I don't have time to find a better one.
— Alex
El 06/03/2015, a les 21:02, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au va
On 03/ 6/15 12:02 PM, paul.sz...@sydney.edu.au wrote:
I notice that Java (JDK, JRE) update 8u40 has been released.
Though
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
says this release includes important security fixes ...
My reading of the first WWW page is that only
Maybe the major change is that they’re including the Ask toolbar in all
releases now, not just the windows one? :)
The unwelcome Ask extension shows up as part of the installer if a Mac user
downloads Java 8 Update 40 for the Mac. In my tests on a Mac running that
latest release of OS X, the
James Hodgkinson wrote:
Maybe the major change is that they're including the Ask toolbar in
all releases now, not just the windows one? :)
Indeed!
The unwelcome Ask extension shows up as part of the installer if a Mac
user downloads Java 8 Update 40 for the Mac. In my tests on a Mac
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote (and he should
know!):
Java 8u40 is a feature release that's been planned for almost a year,
not a special out of band bug fix release.
http://openjdk.java.net/projects/jdk8u/releases/8u40.html
I notice that Java (JDK, JRE) update 8u40 has been released.
Though
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html
says this release includes important security fixes ...
My reading of the first WWW page is that only Java SE 7 u75/76 contains
security fixes and that
I'd be interested in that, too.
In case this out-of-band release is about an important security fix,
then either this is something new (details still to be disclosed).
Or it is associated with CVE-2014-6593 (e.g. incomplete or buggy fix in
the January release)? The detais (named as SKIP-TLS) had
