Following a number of reports of new zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java browser plug-in, Oracle has today released an emergency update to Java 7 as Apple updates Java SE 6 to version 1.6.0_43 ...

With the latest release of the JDK, Oracle has embarked upon a new Java versioning scheme. There has always been a disconnect between the branding of the Java product and the version of the underlying ...

It might look like another minor Java update, but its much more than that. Wikipedia has a handy Java version history, if you'd like to see what went before.

You can check which Java version is on your Mac to see if you have the most up-to-date Java running, or you can check on the Java website.