> If you want security/bug fixes, you'll need to upgrade your application to the new JDK every 6 months. For a team like ours (~8) people, it's simply not viable for us to be in a state of continual upgrading.
You need to upgrade to a new JDK every couple of months if you want to stay secure even if you stay on LTS. You are simply assuming that upgrading to patches is easier than upgrading to feature releases. I don't believe this is true, certainly not over a long duration.
The new feature releases are time-based and were originally meant to be called 18.3, 18.9, 19.3 etc. Don't be confused by the fact that eventually people preferred the Chrome-like version naming scheme to mean that the new feature releases are major ones; they are not. In fact, the probability that your application would break by a patch release and by a feature release is not all that different.
We want the feature release process to be gradual and cheapest overall. The LTS path is meant for those who for some reason need a less gradual process than either the feature releases or the old model.
Of course, as an Oracle employee, I value your business, and I hope you choose to buy our support (that includes more than patches) even if you switch to the gradual update process.
You need to upgrade to a new JDK every couple of months if you want to stay secure even if you stay on LTS. You are simply assuming that upgrading to patches is easier than upgrading to feature releases. I don't believe this is true, certainly not over a long duration.
The new feature releases are time-based and were originally meant to be called 18.3, 18.9, 19.3 etc. Don't be confused by the fact that eventually people preferred the Chrome-like version naming scheme to mean that the new feature releases are major ones; they are not. In fact, the probability that your application would break by a patch release and by a feature release is not all that different.
We want the feature release process to be gradual and cheapest overall. The LTS path is meant for those who for some reason need a less gradual process than either the feature releases or the old model.
Of course, as an Oracle employee, I value your business, and I hope you choose to buy our support (that includes more than patches) even if you switch to the gradual update process.