There was no fanfare, in fact it's not even linked to from the JDK 1.5 documentation, but
the third edition of the Java Language Specification is available for "maintenance review".
I only found it because I wondered if a new version of the JLS had been produced for 1.5, and went out looking for it. The changes are only "proposed" changes - it is odd that they didn't go final with the release of...