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Re:Java 16 by meddlepal on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:20AM (#26477941)
Basically there's six month feature releases but every five or six releases there's going to be an LTS release. Most companies use the LTS releases. Next big LTS release is later this year.
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Re:Java 16 by krzyk on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @11:57AM (#26478517)
If you mention LTS you have to mention also vendor that provides it.

Without it the only LTS is current java version: 16 right now and 17 in 6 months.

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Re:Java 16 by looperhacks on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:58PM (#26479492)
LTS stands for long term support. Nobody provides that for java 16
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Re:Java 16 by krzyk on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:15PM (#26495638)
OpenJDK provides that for 6 months. And then 6 months for a 17, and so on.
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Re:Java 16 by lensopra on Friday March 19, 2021 @06:25PM (#26518754)
That's not "long term".
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Re:Java 16 by krzyk on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:20AM (#26523411)
Don't look at version string, bu think java version "LATEST“. This will always have the bes support.
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Re:Java 16 by meddlepal on Tuesday March 16, 2021 @12:56PM (#26479446)
Huh? There's like several LTS vendors: Oracle, Amazon, and Azul to name a few.
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Re:Java 16 by krzyk on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:14PM (#26495627)
Yes, but when someone mentions LTS many think ów like Ubuntu LTS or like Linux kernel LTS versions - that is free of charge long support.

And many Java devs employers don't pay for LTS.

So ad 1 and 1 and you get a false claim that any java 11 version is an LTS, which is not true.

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