It does not seem to be uncommon to recommend staying away from the non-LTS releases. It is probably not only up to you whether or not your software supports the

It does not seem to be uncommon to recommend staying away from the non-LTS releases. It is probably not only up to you whether or not your software supports the next JDK release; all your tooling and libraries need to do so as well. See http://blog.joda.org/2018/02/java-9-has-six-weeks-to-live.html http://blog.joda.org/2018/02/java-9-has-six-weeks-to-live.ht... for more insight.