MacOS – Why do the versions of Java differ

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If I brew --config, I see

#...
Java: 1.8.0_60

which is what my my OS X Java Control Panel reported until I recently updated. Now the control panel reports the new version

Java 8 Update 65

but brew --config continues to report the old one.

Why do these two versions of Java differ? I haven't explicitly installed a different Java with Homebrew, and had always thought that Homebrew was reporting the version of he one Java I'm aware of: the one I installed when Java notified be of an update.

Best Answer

Accoding to the Java 8 JRE documentation

Installing a JRE from Oracle will not update java -version symlinks or add java to your path. To be able to do this, you need to install the JDK.

To solve this problem, you have to install the JDK.

One easy way to do it is with Homebrew-Cask :

brew cask install java

If you already installed a previous java version via Homebrew Cask :

brew cask reinstall java
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