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Not sure that’s how it works. You don’t really need to update anything. Ubuntu runs on y monthly releases, for instance, and sees plenty of enterprise usage. Th
by sudhirj 9y ago
Not sure that’s how it works. You don’t really need to update anything. Ubuntu runs on y monthly releases, for instance, and sees plenty of enterprise usage. The Linux kernel itself is updated as often, if not more. Google Chrome updates all the time. Ruby does yearly major releases, as do other languages. Go does six months, I think.
Teams in charge of software release whenever they want or can, clients are free to use whatever version whenever they want.
The problems only happen with breaking changes - and I haven’t seen a single case of Java breaking backwards compatibility (not counting cases where users intentionally used or relied on private implementation details).