Am 19.09.18 um 13:41 schrieb Olli: > On 19.09.18 10:41, Leandro Papi via arch-general wrote: >> The fact that Java 10 replaces Java 9 is a call made by Oracle, as >> described in their roadmap >> (https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/eol-135779.html) >> [...]Java SE 9 was a non‑LTS release and immediately superseded by >> Java SE 10 (also non‑LTS), Java SE 10 in turn is immediately >> superseded by Java SE 11[...] > What you describe here is not “Java” (which is a specification) and also > not OpenJDK but only Oracle JDK. It is a policy of the Oracle JDK > implementation but has nothing to do with Java itself. The OpenJDK > implementation of Java does not use anything like LTS, there will only > be the latest version which is a new one every six month (since > OpenJDK 9). > > Since the Oracle JDK is not in the official Arch Linux repos but only > the OpenJDK there is no need to talk about LTS on this mailing list at > all. > > Regards, > Olli There are LTS releases planned by AdoptOpenJDK, though. For now, Java 8 and Java 11 are declared as supported until at least 2022 [1]. These versions may be of interest for Arch Linux. Regards, Andreas [1]: https://adoptopenjdk.net/support.html
