Over 2700 bugs were fixed in J2SE 1.4.2. This article tells you about the most important ones, as well as about the long-awaited upgrades to the user interface, toolset, and look-and-feel. There’s also support for Active-X Bridge and Linux ALSA!
Also note that Sun is monitoring how much traffic they get from their RSS feeds. Observe the following URL: http://servlet.java.sun.com/logRedirect/rss_java_highlights-PARTNER/http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/releases/j2se1.4.2/.
I wonder if someone has to justify the bandwidth that their RSS feeds consume. I hope not, but it wouldn’t suprise me.