As I understand, Oracle is moving its Oracle JDK to a feature release every 6 months and a Oracle JDK LTS every 3 years or so. Oracle JDK will no longer be free after January 2019. It seems that OpenJDK is also moving to a 6 months release cycle.
My questions are:
- How is Oracle JDK and OpenJDK keeping up with the Java Specifications if feature releases are released so often?
- Will OpenJDK also adopt the LTS as a reference implementation to match the Java Specifications? [Answer, yes. See here: "Oracle and the OpenJDK community are moving to a Long Term Support (LTS) release model plus a new class of “Feature” releases."
Thanks!