[jeroenhd]

The JVM world is slow and extremely careful. If there's a chance something that once works breaks, it'll take many years before the change is applied by default.

Many JVM users can make huge performance gains by switching the GC to a better once and by toggling all kinds of options.

[zaphirplane]

That would be the LTS track. A change has no effect on the LTS version which is supported for a long time