Java for Mac OS X 10.4 Release 5 available

[Posted February 15th]

Apple has released Java for Mac OS X 10.4 Release 5, which provides the following enhancements:

• Adds support for the latest Daylight Saving Time (DST) and time zone information as of January 8, 2007
• Delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 and Java 1.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 and later.
• Updates J2SE 5.0 to version 1.5.0_07, Java 1.4 to version 1.4.2_12 and improves SWT compatibility for J2SE 5.0.
• Improves reliability of the SWT_AWT bridge implementation first released in the SWT Compatibility Libraries for Release 4, and is now installed as a standard part of J2SE 5.0.

The update is available as a 83 MB standalone download.

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