To Avoid Confusion: Oracle's Confusing New Java Numbering Scheme

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twofishy writes "'To avoid the confusion caused by renumbering releases,' Oracle has announced that it is adopting a new numbering scheme for JDK 5.0, JDK 6 and JDK 7. 'The next Limited Update for JDK 7 will be numbered 7u40, and the next 3 CPUs after that will be numbered 7u45, 7u51, and 7u55." The vendor notes that a more elegant solution would require the changing of the version numbering scheme to accommodate different kinds of changes (for example by using 7u44-2 ). However this cannot be implemented outside of a major release, since doing so might break existing code that parses version strings (possibly including the Java auto-update system)" Here's Oracle's announcement. http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=To+Avoid+Confusion%3A+Oracle's+Confusi ng+New+Java+Numbering+Scheme%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.l y%2F10LhxhV) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F13%2F05%2F14%2F1251206%2Fto-avoid-confusion-oracles-confusing-new-java-numbering-scheme%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dface book) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/05/14/1251206/to-avoid-confusion-oracles-confusing-new-java-numbering-scheme?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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