![]() Java 6 version 35 can be downloaded from Apple's website for OS X Snow Leopard and Lion. If Apple follows past practice, it will continue to update a small group of homegrown and third-party components - iTunes, Java, QuickTime and Safari - in Snow Leopard for several months. Although Snow Leopard still powers about a third of all Macs, Apple has likely halted security updates for that edition. Today's Java patch was the first Apple update for OS X Snow Leopard since June 12. The OS X patches for the three Java 7 flaws, then, were produced by Oracle and shipped last week alongside the fixes for the Windows version of Java 7. ![]() ![]() However, Apple is not responsible for Java 7 the company handed back control of the software to Oracle in 2010. ![]() Apple was required to provide the defense-in-depth update because it still maintains Java 6, which it bundled with 2009's OS X Snow Leopard and offered to users running 2011's Lion as an optional download when they encountered a Java applet on the Web.
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