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> now there are new long term releases faster than we can test them Aren't they every 2-3 years?

• DarkmSparks 5y ago
  now yes. fixing what isnt broken isnt high on the list of things to do.
  • rualca 5y ago
    > fixing what isnt broken isnt high on the list of things to do. It's hardly reasonable to try to pin the blame of not wanting to maintain software as a stability issue with a newer LTS release of the JDK. It's perfectly fine if you make the call to stick with JDK8 forever, but that's a personal call.
• quantified 5y ago
  They’re pretty well spaced out.
  • DarkmSparks 5y ago
    used to be. java 6 (previously widely deployed jvm) was 2006 java 8 (current widely deployed jvm) was 2014 now, 7 years later, we are on java 17 and the most significant thing to change is to break most everything that worked in 2014, and promotional material dare not mention java 8... In fact "widely deployed" doesnt cut it for java 6, pretty much every pc, windows linux and mac had a solid java 6 deployment. java 17 has a lot to live up to.