On 10 January 2012 13:04, e-letter <inpost at gmail.com> wrote: > Readers, > > Would someone advise whether the distribution of an obsolete version > of java should be reported as a bug; > http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=827 Why is this a bug? The bug comments mention that the latest CentOS 6 has 1.10.4 which is supported by the Icedtea people. I quote from the comments: ---8<------------------------------------ The newest version of IcedTea in CentOS6 (6.2) is 1.10.4: http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/6.2/os/i386/Packages/java-1.6.0-openjdk-1.6.0.0-1.41.1.10.4.el6.i686.rpm ---8<------------------------------------ Thus ypgrade your CentOS to the latest point release as a minimum as suggested in the issue you raised. Again from the issue raised, the following link is pretty enlightening: http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#head-6e2c3746ec45ac3142917466760321e868f43c0e