Java SE 15 is a LTS release?

[Alex Buckley]

Long Term Support (LTS) is a commercial concept, unrelated to the JCP or 
to OpenJDK.

Some releases of the Oracle JDK are LTS releases, which means that 
Oracle offers many years of updates and support for those releases to 
customers who purchase a Java SE Subscription from Oracle (see 
https://www.oracle.com/java/java-se-subscription.html).

Oracle JDK 8 is an LTS release, as is Oracle JDK 11. In contrast:

- Oracle's OpenJDK binaries at jdk.java.net are not LTS releases.
- The Java SE Platform itself does not have LTS releases.
- The JDK Project in OpenJDK, which implements the Java SE Platform, 
does not have LTS releases.

Some organizations offer Java 8 and Java 11 binaries built from the JDK 
Updates Project in OpenJDK. The actual maintenance of the Java 8 and 
Java 11 codebases in the JDK Updates Project is overseen by engineers 
from Red Hat. Although the result is a stream of _updates_ for Java 8 
and Java 11 binaries, this is not _support_, and the term is not 
guaranteed to be long.

Alex

On 9/22/2020 12:14 PM, Ron Tlaib wrote:
> Slightly curious since I glanced at the thread [1].
> The FinRel Spec page from the thread quite astonishingly has no information in this regard. [2]
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> [1] the thread - https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/java-se-spec-observers/2020-September/000178.html
> [2] https://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iris/se/15/spec/fr/java-se-15-fr-spec-01/
> [3] FinRel Spec -> Final Release Specification