Agreed. I am not sure how big a change this is but it seems to me that after Oracle took over Java they have been getting into the bad habit of putting fairly b

Agreed. I am not sure how big a change this is but it seems to me that after Oracle took over Java they have been getting into the bad habit of putting fairly big changes in an "update" only ticking up the minor version after the silly underscore (eg. update 20 is version 1.8.0_20-b26). For example the changes in applet security policies killed thousands of perfectly legit applications that had been running for years - all in an automated rolled out update.