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by krzyk 1924 days ago
Not quite.

LTS doesn't mean anything if you mention just the Java versions.

This is not e.g. Ubuntu LTS.

In java you have different vendors that provide LTS and you need to pay for it.

Oracle, Redhat, etc. provide LTS versions (and those happen to be 8, 11, but don't have to be).

And there is one more sortof LTS: latest java version, because it always gets all the security and other bugfixes. Right now it is Java 16.
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yjftsjthsd-h 1924 days ago
I struggle to imagine any meaningful definition for LTS that includes "tracking latest" except by coincidence (during the window of time when the most recent release is an LTS release).
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krzyk 1923 days ago
Most recent java version is supported for 6 months and then the next one.

Think of Java versions as patch releases for Java 8. There are minor changes between releases.

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yjftsjthsd-h 1923 days ago
Sure, but that's regular releases, not LTS
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krzyk 1920 days ago
What's the difference between LTS and LATEST?

Lack of features? Sorry they added shenandoah in JDK 11, AFTER release.

No code breaking changes? Sorry JDK 8 u2xx broke my code that worked on u6x.

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namibj 1924 days ago
OpenJDK's supported/not-supported classification seems to match and would appear far more reasonable.
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