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

mark.reinhold at oracle.com mark.reinhold at oracle.com
Thu Aug 23 16:56:13 UTC 2018

2018/8/23 6:24:36 -0700, Jack Shirazi <jacks at fasterj.com>:

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.

Correct, assuming that this happens within six months of the release of JDK 12.

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.

As Andrew noted earlier in this thread, a good number of individuals and organizations appear to be interested in working on OpenJDK LTS releases, but there are no specific plans as yet. Stay tuned.

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