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Despite the page title, this page is for the Java 2 Standard Edition Runtime Environment, rather than the full-blown Java or Java Software Developer Kit / SDK. This is more commonly known as the Java Runtime Environment or JRE. The JRE provides an ability for programs written in the Java programming language to be launched from a web page and run in a web browser. There Derivative JREs are many variations on Sun's (now Oracle's) JREavailable from various organisations, such as IBM, in particular this page however is for the Oracle Java Runtime Environment, previously known as the Sun Java Runtime Environment.
For security reasons you are encouraged to upgrade to the latest 'Security Baseline', which is the last released version with security fixes, which may not be the latest released version as updates are released without security fixes. Bug Fixes of the Update Release Notes under each release: http://java.sun.com/javase/6/webnotes/ReleaseNotes.html. However, if you're running JRE 6 Update 10 or onwards and haven't disabled automatic updates then JRE should automatically be downloading and installing updates.