Its the official new name for Tiger. They've dropped the "1." part of 1.5.0 and kept the 5.0.
Press release here.
I've known this is coming for months, but I don't really know what it means yet. I believe it is driven by marketing. But does it have more legs than the "Java 2" fiasco? In 6 months will we be talking about Java 5 or Java 1.5? Time will tell, I guess. But I'll have to decide before then what to call it in Java in a Nutshell
