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A comment on Oracle’s Java 11 trap. Parent comment

Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by maaaats on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:26AM (#18075185)
Why do you have to "keep updating every 6 months"? Lots of projects stuck on java6, 7 or 8 without updating for years.
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Re:Oracle’s Java 11 trap by Cthulhu_ on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @08:46AM (#18075348)
That's probably a misconception based on the new Oracle JDK release and support cycles; new release every 6 months, at which point support for the -1 version is immediately stopped (unless you have a commercial license or something). This LTS version is probably different (hence the name LTS), but it's also commercial.

Anyway it's a misconception because it only applies to the Oracle JDK, OpenJDK still follows a different support structure I believe.

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