How do you find out if a bug has been fixed?

[Mickey Segal]

The bug “Intermittently only some components refresh” at http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=8014369 shown at http://www.segal.org/java/refresh4/ seems fixed in JRE 8 early release build 90.  

 

In general, how does one learn a bug is fixed?  I was impressed with the level of interest shown in this bug by people at Oracle so I’ve been checking the JRE 8 early release builds and pleased to see that it seems to have gotten fixed so quickly.  Is that the only way one finds out a bug is fixed?  The Sun bug page still lists it as unresolved.

 

I’ll ask one of our users who has the problem worse than others check to see if the bug is gone for him too.  Presumably he has a slower computer and ran into the timing problem worse than others.  When the fix comes out in JRE 7, does he switch back to JRE 7 by removing all Java versions and installing the latest version of 7?