This might be old news, but last time I looked, Java2 version 1.4.0x was the latest and 1.4.1 was still in beta.

Well, I loaded http://java.sun.com today and was surprised to see that Java2 v1.4.1 is not only "GA" (final, non-beta version) but also with a _01 release level.

Get java 1.4.1_01 here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.1/

According to the docs, over 2000 bugs were fixed compared to the 1.4.0 release (!! this is good news but also does mean the 1.4.0 was hella buggy!!). They also promise better performance due to the addition of two new "garbage collection" routines into the VM.

-------quoted from release notes--------------
As the first maintenance release to J2SE 1.4.0, over 2000 bug fixes were integrated in J2SE 1.4.1.

Additionally, changes and improvements have been made in the following areas:

* Compiler and Class File Format Changes.
* Javadoc
* AWT
* SWING
* Java Naming and Directory InterfaceTM API
* Networking
* RMI
* Internationalization
* Security
* Kerberos Service and DNS Name Lookup
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I can't wait to install this into all my win9x systems along with the updated java plugin (which also promises bugfixes) for my browser of choice (Netscape 7.0 / Mozilla)

I will test 1.4.1_01 with the latest greatest Phex and report back.

(after testing the buggy 1.4.0 release, I inmediatelly removed that VM release and went back to 1.3.x, but now that I see so many bugfixes in 1.4.1, I'm tempted to test it again