I found another post on the OpenJDK mailing list to explain more clearly. http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2018-August/001841.html
This further confirms that vendors who have forked OpenJDK might support it but not OpenJDK itself. On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 7:57 PM Ashwanth Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Taking the notes from GoCD stance ( > https://www.gocd.org/2019/05/21/official-stance-on-java/) and looking at > IntelliJ blog post ( > https://blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2018/09/using-java-11-in-production-important-things-to-know/), > and OpenJDK releases page (https://jdk.java.net/archive/) and assuming my > understanding is correct, > > It seems like you get LTS support only for paid version of Oracle JDK not > for the OpenJDK variants. > > On Wed, Jun 2, 2021, 7:39 PM Jason Smyth <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Based on what I read in this recent thread >> <https://groups.google.com/g/go-cd/c/GeH97RQAcQg>, it seems GoCD only >> supports Java v >= (latest-2), regardless of Long-Term Support status of >> any releases. >> >> This would seem to indicate that even though Java 11 is the most recent >> LTS version and the next LTS version will not be until Java 17, GoCD has >> already dropped support for Java 11 because Java 14 (not LTS) and 15 (not >> LTS) have already been released, so (latest-2) is now 13. >> >> This will effectively force all GoCD users to either go long periods of >> time without updating GoCD (i.e. do not run any versions of GoCD that >> support neither v11 nor v17) or switch to non-LTS versions of Java. Since >> non-LTS versions of Java are only supported for 6 months until the next >> version is released, this then forces all GoCD users to major Java version >> updates every 6 months if they want to run only supported versions. >> >> Am I missing something here? Why does GoCD not support the latest LTS >> version of Java? Why support Java 13 (support ended more than a year ago in >> March 2020) but not 11 (supported until at least 2024)? Is it just too much >> work to test such an "old" version? >> >> Sorry if this is not the right place to raise this but it didn't seem >> appropriate to raise a GitHub Issue at this point. I would love to hear >> other people's thoughts on this. >> >> Regards, >> Jason Smyth >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "go-cd" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/f64f8a9e-587a-498b-9c90-3af4ae23dc46n%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/f64f8a9e-587a-498b-9c90-3af4ae23dc46n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "go-cd" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/go-cd/CAD9m7Cx9nx1tC%3DusFa5ZHYULGPK%3D2VNe8Niq98HzbcMZH3LV4Q%40mail.gmail.com.
