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Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.
Yep, the new rapid-release schedule. Java 8 (grandfathered) and 11 are the current LTS branches, both of which cease getting any kind of support (read: security fixes) in 2024. Java 17 will be the next LTS.
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Yeah, although depending on what you’re working on, you’d probably be interested mainly in the LTS releases. We’re bundling an OpenJDK 11 with our product and while I’ll definitely play around with v14, I think we’ll only upgrade once v17 LTS is out.
Why would you want to use OpenJDK 11 instead of 13/14? I'm using 8 because it's the latest version working with Windows XP, but other than that, I don't understand why would anyone avoid latest stable version.
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Yep, the new rapid-release schedule. Java 8 (grandfathered) and 11 are the current LTS branches, both of which cease getting any kind of support (read: security fixes) in 2024. Java 17 will be the next LTS.
It seems to be a trend in software that has existed for a while to exponentially increase version numbers (see also: Firefox).
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Yep, the new rapid-release schedule. Java 8 (grandfathered) and 11 are the current LTS branches, both of which cease getting any kind of support (read: security fixes) in 2024. Java 17 will be the next LTS.
It seems to be a trend in software that has existed for a while to exponentially increase version numbers (see also: Firefox).
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Yeah, although depending on what you’re working on, you’d probably be interested mainly in the LTS releases. We’re bundling an OpenJDK 11 with our product and while I’ll definitely play around with v14, I think we’ll only upgrade once v17 LTS is out.
Why would you want to use OpenJDK 11 instead of 13/14? I'm using 8 because it's the latest version working with Windows XP, but other than that, I don't understand why would anyone avoid latest stable version.
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Why would you want to use OpenJDK 11 instead of 13/14? I'm using 8 because it's the latest version working with Windows XP, but other than that, I don't understand why would anyone avoid latest stable version.
OpenJDK 11 is a LTS release, 13/14 are not.
Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.
After that there was no effort to upgrade to all subsequent versions, to this point.
Wow, I'm still using JDK 1.8. I thought I was way behind until I looked up the release schedule: apparently they're pushing out two (major) releases a year now.
Well, Java 8 was released 6 years ago and is basically EOL now. We migrated to Java 11 during the fall and finally most third party libraries we use seems to work fully in Java 11.
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Yeah, although depending on what you’re working on, you’d probably be interested mainly in the LTS releases. We’re bundling an OpenJDK 11 with our product and while I’ll definitely play around with v14, I think we’ll only upgrade once v17 LTS is out.
Why would you want to use OpenJDK 11 instead of 13/14? I'm using 8 because it's the latest version working with Windows XP, but other than that, I don't understand why would anyone avoid latest stable version.
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OpenJDK 11 is a LTS release, 13/14 are not.
That's not really an answer. I understand that some people want to freeze in time and having problems jumping from 11 to 17 version, but I don't understand why do they want that. Is there any compatibility issues preventing use of Java 13, for example? I understand that migration path for Java 9 was not very clear because of modules, but that's not the case for Java 11.