![]() ![]() _Hence, do not use this, even though it is the most popular, unless you really know what you are doing_. The day the source repo has a new major version is the day the old OpenJDK version is no longer supported regardless of LTS. * Oracle's OpenJDK - this is a free release for developers that does not engage in LTS anything. ![]() The concept of a long-term version applies partly to the actual commercial license (in that _all_ versions enjoy long support, with LTS versions longer) - and doesn't apply at all to the dev release, in that the day a new release of OpenJDK (the source repo) shows up is the day the dev release of the previous version ceases to be supported. * Oracle JDK - this is a _commercial_ offering, for all versions, though there is a 'developer release' that costs nothing, but _only_ for the most recent version. In practice every packaging that makes a distinction between support duration follows oracle's LTS schedule. In theory this is a made up thing that only applies to one of the 2 packagings oracle releases. Some versions are blessed by oracle as 'LTS' - Long Term Support. Some _do_ add tweaks (generally, in the form of backports of security patches) but they either don't or these tweaks are in such exotic areas you are extremely unlikely to run into them. They are all effectively identical, in that it's just a different party running the build script and sticking it on their website. ![]() Lets call that a 'packaging' of the OpenJDK project. Make some arrangement about keeping it up to date (which may involve putting in the license click-through: Hey, you're on your own). Anybody can 'package' it - compile it, wrap an installer around it, put that on a website. OpenJDK (the repo) is source code, not something ready-to-install or distributable on its own. It also refers to a 'packaging' - more on that later. One of the things it refers to is an open source repository. ![]()
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