LTS for public releases (original) (raw)

Kyle Moore moorek at gmail.com
Tue Nov 7 18:37:52 UTC 2017

Hi everyone.

I was following the thread "Impact of six month releases" and was left scratching my head after something pointed out by Kim Jensen's post. Specifically, the Java SE Support Roadmap page: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

The releases under "Java SE Public Updates" don't explicitly mention any LTS releases, though these are clearly called out in the support roadmap on the second table.

Call me crazy, but is the implication here that releases of Java SE will not be publicly supported longer than six months? In the open-source community, I struggle with the issues mentioned earlier about backwards compatibility.

If I read and understood the roadmap correctly, the potential for churn and compatibility issues created by the lack of a public LTS release is deeply concerning.

-- Kyle Moore http://gosu-lang.org/ http://manifold.systems/

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