For Java SE Universal subscription, Oracle has also granted free use for up to 50,000 processors (Oracle defined processors). This would mostly apply to server deployments.

Java 7 SE will no longer get extended support, users need to adapt to version 8 “Community support will end when Java 7 reaches the end of service on July 29, 2022.

Apple has recently released a couple of Java updates for OS X 10.6, 10.7, and 10.8 that bring its in-house supported Java runtime (Java SE 6) up to the latest version issued by Oracle.

LONDON, UK, May. 18, 2015 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces the availability of Java SE 8 for the MIPS architecture. This new release is part of an ongoing collaboration between Imagination ...

The latest Critical Patch Update (CPU) from Oracle, published today, addresses 397 security vulnerabilities across the company's product suite, including 15 patches for Java SE. Taken together, the Q2 ...

Oracle shipped Java SE 7 Update 15 on Feb. 19, bundling patches released Feb. 1 in an emergency update fixing five other flaws. The next regularly scheduled update is April 16.

Oracle’s changes mean that more developers are looking into using OpenJDK, which is a free and open-source implementation of Java SE, although it lacks some of Oracle’s proprietary add-ons.

"As a result, two new security vulnerabilities (51 and 52) were spotted in a recent version of Java SE 7 code and they were reported to Oracle today (along with a working Proof of Concept code)." ...

Java for OS X 2013-003 delivers improved security, reliability, and compatibility by updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_45. On systems that have not already installed Java for OS X 2012-006, this update ...

The security tools came with the latest tweaks to Java SE 6, which Oracle stopped supporting in February but which Apple still provides updates for, and Java SE 7, which is still maintained by Oracle.