LTS for public releases (original) (raw)

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Thu Nov 9 19:10:03 UTC 2017

On 09/11/17 17:20, Kim Jensen wrote:

But, and here it comes... The announcement from Oracle stated that Java 8 is EOL in September 2018, Java 9 is EOL in March 2018.

That's Oracle's proprietary binary release of Java 8. OpenJDK 8 will go on after that.

First LTS release is coming in September 2018, and as Short term releases only have support for 6 months, it means that there will be a period of 0 months to complete migrating from Java 8 to Java 18.9LTS. Migrating to Java 9 & Java 18.3 is not something our customers are willing to pay for, as it means 3 migrations rather than 1. And as we have seem, Java 8 to Java 9 is not a trivial upgrade. Loads of libraries are not working and I still have not seen what Java EE vendors will support or not.

So, simply put. Is it possible to get a word, that there will be a transition period from Java 8 to Java 18.9LTS, so it is possible to migrate without our customers loosing support ?

https://access.redhat.com/articles/1299013

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