JAVA FOR MAC 10.10.3 SOFTWARE

But, Apple are no doubt happy that their customers have to buy some new hardware.Īny lag in going to newer Java versions is not so much developers being slow, but needing to not drop too many users off the tail of ever changing software upgrades. The same thing happened a few years back on the move from JMRI 2.14 to 3.0, and another crop of middle aged Macs were stuck back at 2.14. So, those middle aged machines are now stuck at JMRI 3.10. The move to Java 8 is causing pain for Apple users - some middle aged Macs are stuck on older OSX releases which cannot run newer than Java 6. A lot of JMRI development is on Apple Macs - several of the core software writing team are long term Apple users. In respect of Java versions for JMRI developers, the issue is a mix of compatibility across the users of software (many choose to use older machines in their train rooms), features in the software the developers need, and long term support of the Java release. There may be one or two more tests before JMRI 4.0 comes out, but they will be bug fixes rather than additional features on top of the current test release. It will be near enough the same software as the current 3.11.8 test release. So open source software written by volunteers may well lag. Apple I'd guess will want people using the latest version of Java for security and robustness issues. I suspect the issue is more the version of Java JMRI is written in the Apple compatibility. I wonder what version of Java this is written in? Interesting to hear there is JMRI 4.0 on the horizon.

Java for mac 10.10.3