Yes, I know about LTS releases. But upgrade time from one LTS to another LTS is only 3-4 months. Check [1]. For JDK8 for people using it for commercial purpose,

Yes, I know about LTS releases. But upgrade time from one LTS to another LTS is only 3-4 months. Check [1]. For JDK8 for people using it for commercial purpose, the updates will stop in Jan. 2019 only after 4 months since new JDK 11 LTS release. According to Wikipedia [2] same period for JDK 7 to JDK 8 was 1 year. Also on the same Wikipedia page, you can see how many bugfixes JDK 8 received in that 1 year. So JDK8 to JDK 11 release is also going to be a little bit risky as people will need to depend only on 3-4 months stability reports to upgrade their production deployments to JDK 11. [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history