What's new in Java SE Development Kit 7 Update 51

Jan 15, 2014
  • Bug fixes:
  • Thread contention in the method Beans.IsDesignTime()
  • (tz) Support tzdata2013h
  • Memory leak when GCNotifier uses create_from_platform_dependent_str()
  • Certificate based DRS rule does not work when main jar is in nested resource block or extension
  • Deadlock in caching code launching application with a large number of jars (~100).
  • Properly configured LiveConnect Applets must work even on JREs below the baseline by default
  • ESL not working for JNLP applications without an href
  • Applets don't get loaded and the Firefox crashes under Mac OS X
  • liveconnect dialog is showing the publisher unknown
  • Warning message appears in all the jar files not only the main jar file
  • REGRESSION:NPE exception throws when Java Web start apps fails with no logging
  • com.sun.corba.se.** should be on restricted package list
  • serial version of com.sun.corba.se.spi.orbutil.proxy.CompositeInvocationHandlerImpl changed in 7u45
  • ORB.init fails with SecurityException if properties select the JDK default ORB
  • Need to strip leading zeros in TlsPremasterSecret of DHKeyAgreement
  • XML readers share the same entity expansion counter
  • Revise fix for XML readers share the same entity expansion counter

New in Java SE Development Kit 7 Update 10 (Jan 8, 2013)

  • This release includes enhanced security features for Java applet and webstart applications.

New in Java SE Development Kit 1.5.0 Update 21 (Sep 9, 2009)

  • Many minor bugs were fixed.
  • The Olson time zone data was updated to version 2009l.