What does LTS mean for OpenJDK? (original) (raw)

Jack Shirazi jacks at fasterj.com
Thu Aug 23 13:24:36 UTC 2018

Hello Awesome People,

There is (still) a lot of confusion in the community about this. Can I give an example of how I understand this to proceed and please comment if wrong (I appreciate not set in stone, this is just an example of how it seems likely from my understanding atm):

Let's say Java 12 has been released and Oracle announce a security upgrade. Oracle will apply that to their paid-for Oracle Java 11 build, and also to the OpenJDK Java 12 build but NOT the latest OpenJDK Java 11 build. AdoptOpenJDK will also NOT backport that to the OpenJDK Java 11 build. However the jdk11u project WILL backport that to the OpenJDK Java 11 build, and AdoptOpenJDK will then support that Java 11 upgraded version because it will continue to support Java 11, so that upgraded OpenJDK Java 11 build will then be available (somewhere) for public consumption.

Cheers, Jack

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