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Basically there's six month feature releases but every five or six releases there's going to be an LTS release. Most companies use the LTS releases. Next big LTS release is later this year.

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If you mention LTS you have to mention also vendor that provides it.

Without it the only LTS is current java version: 16 right now and 17 in 6 months.

Huh? There's like several LTS vendors: Oracle, Amazon, and Azul to name a few.

Yes, but when someone mentions LTS many think ów like Ubuntu LTS or like Linux kernel LTS versions - that is free of charge long support.

And many Java devs employers don't pay for LTS.

So ad 1 and 1 and you get a false claim that any java 11 version is an LTS, which is not true.

LTS stands for long term support. Nobody provides that for java 16

OpenJDK provides that for 6 months. And then 6 months for a 17, and so on.

That's not "long term".

Don't look at version string, bu think java version "LATEST“. This will always have the bes support.

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